Georges Méliès Movies

Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture.

A sorcerer turns a small egg into a bigger one and keeps repeating this trick until the egg is large enough to do other things including delivering...

A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.

A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!

A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.

By designs of St. Hubert, patron saint of the hunt, a humble woodcutter is brought to a sumptuous palace and offered riches, which he despises.

A high nobleman finds himself in the Temple of the Sun, where he meets Mascarille, who proposes himself as a juggler. After extracting from the...

French silent film by Georges Méliès, considered lost.

A prestidigitator orders his assistant to bring a cabinet, which is displayed piece by piece to the audience. Two gentlemen are then introduced; they...

An impoverished father, with his young son and daughter, begs for food in a marketplace. When a merchant angrily turns them away, their plight...

“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks...

The Count de Cagliostro, who occupies his spare time in working magic, has invited one of his friends to be present at an exhibition which has for...

"The Bath" is a flip book remake of After the Ball (Après le Bal) made in the late 1800s.

A photographer has an accident which not only screws up his lab but dumps a great deal of debris into the street below, causing general chaos.

The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in...

Méliès appears as a court jester (a “triboulet” in French). He pulls 18th century noblemen out of a trunk and arranges them...

Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of...

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.