Movies

An adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

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

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

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

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

Four black minstrels turn into white clowns and back again when they hit or kick each other.

An actor tries to get to a show on time. Many mishaps along the way.

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just...

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

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

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

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

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

Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his...

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.

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...