Cast: Georges Méliès

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Georges Méliès. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


A Trip to the Moon (S)

1902 · Movie · 14 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès · Bleuette Bernon · Henri Delannoy · Jeanne d'Alcy

Synopsis A Trip to the Moon (S) (1902) follows a group of ambitious astronomers who embark on an extraordinary journey to the Moon. Led by their determined professor, they build a spacecraft and launch themselves into space using a giant cannon....

Max

7.7

21K votes

7.7

21K votes

An Impossible Voyage (S)

1904 · Movie · 24 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Synopsis 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.

Max

6.8

840 votes

6.8

840 votes

The Devilish Tenant (S)

1909 · Movie · 6 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès · André Méliès

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

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Four Heads Are Better Than One (S)

1898 · Movie · 1 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Synopsis 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 throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head,...

Max

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

The Conquest of the Pole

1912 · Movie · 33 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès · Fernande Albany

Synopsis Scientists from all over the world are meeting to discuss the best way to reach the North Pole. Professor Maboul demonstrates for them the innovative equipment that he has designed for the purpose. When everything is ready, Maboul and several...

6.6

324 votes

6.6

324 votes

The Man with the Rubber Head (S)

1901 · Movie · 2 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Synopsis A chemist in his laboratory places upon a table his own head, alive; then fixing upon his head a rubber tube with a pair of bellows, he begins to blow with all his might. Immediately the head increases in size...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

The Melomaniac (S)

1903 · Movie · 2 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

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

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

The One Man Band (S)

1900 · Movie · 1 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Synopsis A band-leader assembles an orchestra by mystifying means.

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

Fairyland: A Kingdom of Fairies (S)

1903 · Movie · 16 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès · Bleuette Bernon

Synopsis 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. A rescue...

6.3

336 votes

6.3

336 votes

A Trip to the Moon (S)

1898 · Movie · 3 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Synopsis "In the opening of this film is seen the astronomer intently poring over his books. Suddenly, in a cloud of smoke, Satan appears and surprises the astronomer. At the command of the Fairy Queen, who suddenly appears, Satan vanishes; she...

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

Hamlet (S)

1907 · Movie · 10 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Synopsis The celebrated Georges Méliès, pioneering French movie maker, put himself in this film as Hamlet in the graveyard scene. This film is currently presumed lost.

6.3

29 votes

6.3

29 votes

The Black Devil (S)

1905 · Movie · 4 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Synopsis An imp cavorts in the empty bedroom of an inn. It hides in the bureau as the innkeeper and his family escort an important guest into the room. As the guest places his coat in the bureau, the imp pops...

6.2

811 votes

6.2

811 votes

Going to Bed Under Difficulties (S)

1900 · Movie · 2 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Synopsis A traveler puts up at an inn. He hangs his overcoat and hat upon a peg in his room, but he finds, instantly, that his clothes are on his back again. He takes off his coat a second time, but...

6.2

662 votes

6.2

662 votes

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Synopsis An astronomer of age, wealth, and erudition conducts classes in his home. His students are not always respectful, and he suffers their pranks and high jinks. Then, at noon, everything darkens and the astronomer hurries upstairs to his telescope. It...

6.1

559 votes

6.1

559 votes

A Nightmare (S)

1896 · Movie · 1 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Synopsis A man sleeps fitfully then dreams that a lovely woman is sitting at the foot of his bed. He reaches to embrace her and she becomes a minstrel, then Pierrot. The clown gestures to the moon that becomes huge and...

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

Bluebeard (S)

1901 · Movie · 9 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès · Jeanne d'Alcy · Bleuette Bernon

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

6.0

520 votes

6.0

520 votes

Baron Munchausen's Dream (S)

1911 · Movie · 11 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Synopsis After an evening of excessive wining and dining Baron Munchausen must be helped to bed by his servants. Once asleep, he has bizarre and frightening dreams.

5.9

198 votes

5.9

198 votes

Le chevalier mystère (S)

1899 · Movie · 2 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Synopsis The conjurer appears at a blackboard and shows the head of a knight on it. He seizes the picture of the head, removes it from the blackboard, and it turns into life and bows and smiles apparently with a body...

5.9

241 votes

5.9

241 votes