Screenplay: Georges Méliès

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Georges Méliès. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


A Trip to the Moon (S)

1902 · Movie · 14 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

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

Plot Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow: Six brave astronomers plan a voyage from Earth to the Moon. They build a space capsule in the shape of a bullet and...

Max

7.7

21K votes

7.7

21K votes

An Impossible Voyage (S)

1904 · Movie · 24 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Plot 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

Four Heads Are Better Than One (S)

1898 · Movie · 1 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Plot 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...

Max

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

The Fat and the Lean Wrestling Match (S)

1900 · Movie · 2 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Jeanne d'Alcy

Plot An extremely lean man and an extremely fat man are engaged in a wrestling match.

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

The Conquest of the Pole

1912 · Movie · 33 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès · Fernande Albany

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

The Melomaniac (S)

1903 · Movie · 2 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Plot 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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot "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...

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

The Black Devil (S)

1905 · Movie · 4 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Plot 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...

6.2

811 votes

6.2

811 votes

Paris to Monte Carlo (S)

1905 · Movie · 10 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Fernande Albany · Henry Fragson · Félix Galipaux

Plot A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man...

6.1

108 votes

6.1

108 votes

An Extraordinary Dislocation (S)

1901 · Movie · 2 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast André Deed

Plot Several body parts of a dancing clown float away from his body and come back again.

6.0

162 votes

6.0

162 votes

Les incendiaires (S)

1906 · Movie · 7 min. · France

6.0

62 votes

6.0

62 votes

6.0

386 votes

A Nightmare (S)

1896 · Movie · 1 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Georges Méliès

Plot 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....

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

Plot 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

The House of the Devil (S)

1896 · Movie · 3 min. · France

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Jeanne d'Alcy · Georges Méliès

Plot A bat flies into an ancient castle and transforms itself into Mephistopheles himself. Producing a cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a young girl and various supernatural creatures, one of which brandishes...

5.8

1K votes

5.8

1K votes

Direction Georges Méliès

Cast Jeanne d'Alcy · Georges Méliès

Plot An elegantly dressed man enters through a stage door onto a set with decorated back screen, a chair and small table. He brings a well-dressed women through the door, spreads...

5.8

872 votes

5.8

872 votes