Georges Méliès Movies

Faust and his love Marguerite are sentenced to Hell where they are showed the torture that awaits.

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the...

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

Showing Pygmalion at work in his studio on the statue of Galatea, who, on being completed, comes to life. He attempts to clasp her to his arms, when...

A science fantasy film that deals with an extraordinary race to the north pole by rival parties of balloonists. Based on the novel "The Adventures of...

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

A walk through the life and work of the brilliant French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861-1938), pioneer of special and visual effects.

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he...

Shows hobbies of people who do an ordinary job in the day. Made for New York Fair.

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into...

Mephistopheles demands that Faust kill Marguerite.

Gugusse, a clown, is both astounded and bewildered upon seeing the mechanical movements of an automaton.

A woman climbs out of bed and lifts her nightdress to search for a flea. Reconstructed from a late 1800s flip book

There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip. Then there's this wizard in...

A lost film. Georges Méliès also directed a film entitled Faust aux enfers in 1903 that is frequently confused with this one, but it...