Películas de Georges Méliès

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon....

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes...

A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side...

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and...

A sleeping apartment of a friend who retires for the night. The rays of the moon are shining upon the bed through the window. He is suddenly awakened...

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

Mephistopheles demands that Faust kill Marguerite.

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.

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

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...

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 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...

A Jew who mocked Jesus on the cross is visited by a devil and an angel.

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...

A look back at the life, style and influences of the famed filmmaker Georges Méliès and an examination of his role in the story of...

A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost.

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...

As a conjurer awaits an audience, a procession announces the arrival of a royal representative, carried in a sedan chair, to see him. The conjurer...

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

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...

Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a...

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

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...

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the "cake-walk." He has brought back with him two noted...

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

A weary clock-maker dozes off in a chair. While he is asleep, three women suddenly appear in the midst of his shop. They proceed to show the sleeping...

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open...

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

A magician's hat offers many surprises.

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return...

With godly entrapments, Zeus appears on the horizon, engages Hermes as an audience, and tries to throw some thunderbolts. They fizzle. Hephaestus...

In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while...

A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his...

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies...

A boy is led into the frame by two nursemaids who give him a big ball to play with. For the remainder of the film heads appear and disappear, stage...

It's late in the evening, and the ballet master's bed has been prepared for him. But he cannot take his mind off of his work, and instead of going to...

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.

A human skeleton is placed upon a table by an attendant. When the attendant leaves the room the skeleton begins kicking his legs and throwing his...

Here we have an old scholar/alchemist brooding over a book, challenged by the devil, and going through the familiar sorcery to create a woman by...

The title is vital, since the bulk of the action consists of a well-dressed man magically producing a series of items to furnish a bare room,...

A compilation of three short trick films by Georges Méliès: El melómano (1903) (The Melomaniac aka The Music Lover)(1903), El...

A magician explores two halves of his self: The Dwarf and the Giant.

A box of valued jewels is placed inside the tomb of Delphi. A thief breaks into the tomb and steals it, but soon the ghost of Delphi appears and puts...

Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and...

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a...

A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.

Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

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...

The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges...

The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth....

At the beginning of the scene Romeo in his gondola sings to Juliet a sentimental song, then goes away. Hardly has he departed when the colonnade...

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

A very simple gag film as a young lady substitutes herself for a dummy in order to play a practical joke on an artist.

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by...

A peddler of "the best glue" sets up his outdoor stall. A crowd gathers for a demonstration. As he gives his pitch, two observant cops decide drive...

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The...

A magician makes a woman appear and disappear.

Lost in the streets of Paris, Georges Méliès is looking everywhere for the Salle Pleyel. On the wall he sees an enormous Gala poster...

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...

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the...

A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.

In a wizard's cavern, a series of magic tricks are performed..

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...

The staff of an inn play a cruel trick on a guest.

One of the last films Georges Méliès made. By now, he was under contract for his former rival Pathé, where he made a few of his...

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,...

The film, a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows a fisherman, Yves, who dreams of traveling by submarine...

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 man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

Two men in a cave perform magic.

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the...

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

Méliès' granddaughter presents an exploration of his work, showcasing 15 of his best known films.

An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his...

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and...

A magic trick is performed with a long plank with two pots built into it, both with holes in the bottom. Pretty girls are part of the magic.

The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Conjuring...

A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there's no coal to heat the pathetic little stove, mother is sick, father...

Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic...

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

This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the entertainment...

A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès...

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...

As scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these...

A prince gets the help of a fairy to aid in his conflict with a wizard.

The Merchant, the Farrier, and the Roman accompany a mysterious woman into a magical cave full of terrors and wonders.

A conjuror appears to demonstrate a lady with three heads.

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated...

The scene takes place in front of a barrack, where a young soldier is on duty --most laughable and comical

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he...

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

A magic show.

A young boy's adventure takes him to the domain of the Genie of the Cathedral Bell, where he finds a fortune to enrich his family. The film is...