Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès (December 8, 1861 - January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. One of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures,... Read full bio →
Le locataire diabolique
A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.
Hydrothérapie fantastique
Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.
Pauvre John ou Les aventures d'un buveur de whiskey
John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the site of a ruin where he starts having hallucinations.
Le tunnel sous La Manche ou Le cauchemar franco-anglais
The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.
Ali Barbouyou et Ali Bouf à l'huile
The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then picks up as the painter goes haywire and sends the assistant into the painting.
Les quatre cents farces du diable
Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventuly experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he takes one of them down to hell and roasts him on a spit.
La fée Carabosse ou le poignard fatal
A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch's revenge, and saves the beautiful princess.
Le palais des mille et une nuits
A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs of ancient Araby.
Sorcellerie culinaire
A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.
Les cartes vivantes
Le voyage à travers l'impossible
Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
Le royaume des fées
At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon returns, summons some of her servants, and carries off the princess.
Le revenant
Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.
Le portrait spirituel
A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.
Le parapluie fantastique
The scene is similar to that seen at Coney Island, where a number of shows are constantly going on.
Le mélomane
The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.
La lanterne magique
Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends, they open up the lantern to reveal a group of dancing girls inside - and this is only the first of the indications that this lantern really is magical.
Illusions funambulesques
Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.
Éruption volcanique à la Martinique
This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place during the eruption are plain to be seen.
Le voyage dans la lune
A Trip to The Moon is a science fiction film from the French film pioneer Georges Méliès from the year 1902 about a trip to the moon. The film was the first film with a self-contained plot and was the beginning of the Science Fiction genre.
Le petit chaperon rouge
In a bakery in the French countryside, Father Latourte, his wife, and their staff are busy with customers, pastries, and baked goods of all kinds. The Latourtes' young daughter, called Red Riding Hood, reads by the firelight until her parents leave for a moment.
L'homme à la tête en caoutchouc
A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
Barbe-bleue
A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
L'Impressionniste fin de siècle
A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.
Cendrillon
A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets the Prince - but will she remember to leave before the magic runs out? Méliès based the art direction on engravings by Gustave Doré.
The Cave of the Demons
A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances.
Le manoir du diable
In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of interloping cavaliers.
Escamotage d'une dame au théâtre Robert Houdin
Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.