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Bluebeard(1901)

10min | Drama, Horror, Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 26 votes)

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

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Bleuette Bernon, Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès

The Merry Frolics of Satan(1906)

21min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
3.2/5 (with 23 votes)

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 takes one of them down to Hell and roasts him on a spit.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

Sherlock Holmes Baffled(1900)

1min | Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
2.6/5 (with 17 votes)

Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears.

Directed by Arthur Marvin

Rodencia and the Princess Tooth(2012)

G
| 1h 27min | Animation, Adventure
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

A magical adventure begins Once upon a time, within a vast and wild forest there was a fantastic Kingdom called Rodencia, a place where wonderful creatures and powerful wizards lived. It's the story of adventures and love of a small mouse called Edam, a clumsy magician's apprentice and the beautiful and confident mouse Brie, who will have to face many dangerous obstacles in order to obtain the power of the princess's tooth and defeat the troop of rats commanded by the evil Rotex who invades Rodencia (the peaceful kingdom of mice), in order to dominate them and take their treasure. In the middle of the forest; the magic of the light and the darkness, the love and resentment will face together. Edam and Rotex will fight and only one will leave victorious.

Directed by David Bisbano, Mychal Simka - With Miranda Cosgrove, Natalia Rosminati, Ricardo Alanis, Gonzalo Urtizberéa

The X-Ray Fiend(1897)

1min | Comedy, Horror
2.7/5 (with 23 votes)

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895, and Georges Méliès' accidental realisation of the special-effects potential of the jump-cut in 1896.

Directed by George Albert Smith - With Tom Green

The Treasures of Satan(1902)

3min | Horror, Fantasy
2.6/5 (with 13 votes)

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. Satan, who has made his way into the chateau, puts the seven bags in a strong box, and makes with his hands some cabalistic motions. The miser comes into the hall and is greatly astonished to find his fortune missing. He opens the coffer and immediately the bags leap out. He gathers them up and puts them back into the coffer. When he opens it again he finds that they have been transformed into seven young girls, who rush out and chase after him, beating him unmercifully. They shut him up in the coffer from which his gold has vanished. The miser pushes open the lid of the coffer, and to his profound despair finds that both young girls and money have disappeared. (This view is most sensational in its mysterious scenes.) (Star Film Catalog)

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

The Infernal Cakewalk(1903)

5min | Fantasy, Comedy
2.8/5 (with 19 votes)

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 well-known dancers, who start their favorite dance amidst the flames.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

The Untamable Whiskers(1904)

3min | Fantasy, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

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 of the picture, he draws on it a sketch of a novelist. Then, standing in the centre, he causes the living features of his sketch to appear in the place of his own, which is utterly devoid of whiskers. The change is made so mysteriously that the eye cannot notice it until one sees quite another person in the place of the first. Again another sketch is shown on the board, this one being that of a miser; then an English cockney; a comic character; a French policeman, and last of all, the grinning visage of Mephistopheles. It is almost impossible to give this film a more definite description; suffice it to say that it is something entirely new in motion pictures and is sure to please. (Méliès Catalog)

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Living Playing Cards(1905)

3min | Fantasy
3.2/5 (with 20 votes)

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Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

Faust and Mephistopheles(1903)

2min | Fantasy, Horror
2.2/5 (with 9 votes)

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.

Directed by Alice Guy-Blaché

The Magic Lantern(1903)

5min | Fantasy
2.9/5 (with 17 votes)

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.

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Red Spectre(1907)

NR
| 8min | Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.

Directed by Segundo de Chomón, Ferdinand Zecca
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Adventures of William Tell(1898)

1min | Comedy, Fantasy
2.8/5 (with 16 votes)

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and clay head on the statue, thus completing it. He places a large brick on top of the head to make it stick. When he turns his back the statue turns into a living representation of William Tell. (Edison Catalog)

Directed by Georges Méliès

A Moonlight Serenade(1904)

3min | Fantasy, Romance / Love, Comedy
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

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 offers him something better.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

A Fantastical Meal(1900)

1min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

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

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

The Rajah's Dream or The Bewitched Wood(1900)

2min | Fantasy, Comedy
2.7/5 (with 12 votes)

The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.

Directed by Georges Méliès

Wonderful Mirrors(1907)

7min | Comedy, Fantasy
2.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes to life and comes out of the frame and imitates his every action. As soon as he rubs the fluid off the mirror his double disappears. When the servant come in, a little of the fluid is again rubbed on the mirror, and he has the same experience, his reflection stepping out and doing stunts, thereby scaring the poor fellow almost to death. The inventor of the fluid then takes the mirror with him and goes out on the street.

Directed by Segundo de Chomón, Ferdinand Zecca - With Julienne Mathieu

The Impossible Convicts(1906)

3min | Crime, Comedy
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

Four prisoners, in convicts' stripes, march backwards down stairs and, under the watchful eyes of guards, hop backwards into their cells. Later, one overpowers a guard and springs his three pals. But, will they be able to pull off an escape? Other guards come to the aid of their fallen comrade before all four felons can flee. Guards and convicts spring forward and backward out of cells, up and down stairs, and into and out of freedom.

Directed by Billy Bitzer

The Marvellous Wreath(1903)

3min | Fantasy
2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

Le Voleur invisible(1909)

7min | Crime, Fantasy
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the subject, he buys the book and goes home with the intention to test the invisibility formula described by the author….

Directed by Segundo de Chomón

Le voleur invisible(1909)

7min | Crime, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the subject, he buys the book and goes home with the intention to test the invisibility formula described by the author….

Directed by Segundo de Chomón

A Spiritualist Photographer(1903)

2min | Fantasy
2.8/5 (with 12 votes)

A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

Addition and Subtraction(1900)

1min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 13 votes)

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

Directed by Georges Méliès

The Mystical Flame(1903)

2min | Comedy, Fantasy
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

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 handkerchief, after being twirled about a wand, is changed to a napkin, and afterward to a tablecloth. Out of the table cloth comes a servant.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

The Haunted Curiosity Shop(1901)

2min | Fantasy, Horror
2.7/5 (with 10 votes)

An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop.

Directed by Walter R. Booth

Uncle Josh's Nightmare(1900)

2min | Fantasy, Comedy, Horror
2.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing film using a stationary camera much more valuable for its historical, rather than entertainment value.

Directed by Edwin Stanton Porter

The Magician's Cavern(1901)

3min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

Directed by Georges Méliès

Flower Fairy(1905)

1min | Fantasy
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

A little flower film by Gaston Velle.

Directed by Gaston Velle

The Devil's Dance(1904)

3min | Fantasy
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

This is a mesmerising little short that employs a peculiar bird’s eye view of a mischievous devil who dances around, performing strange tricks and making sexy ladies appear out of nowhere. The colourful visual effects are very impressive for the time.

Paper Cock-a-Doodles(1909)

6min | Animation, Fantasy
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.

Directed by Segundo de Chomón - With Julienne Mathieu
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