The best Georges Méliès’s comedy movies
Today we present the best Georges Méliès’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Georges Méliès’s movies.
The Impossible Voyage
7.5/10
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.
The Man with the Rubber Head
7.1/10
A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
The Four Troublesome Heads
7.5/10
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, and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a third time. You then see all three of his heads, which are exact duplicates, upon the table at one time, while the conjurer again stands before the audience with his head perfectly intact, singing in unison with the three heads upon the table. He closes the picture by bowing himself from the stage.
The One-Man Band
7/10
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, then rises and sits in the next chair. As the cymbal player sits down, a drummer appears in the second chair, and then likewise moves on to the third chair. In this way, an entire band is soon formed, and is then ready to perform.
The Diabolic Tenant
7.2/10
A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.
The Melomaniac
6.8/10
The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.
A Terrible Night
5.7/10
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.
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
6.4/10
In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an old astronomer begins to teach a class of young men, all armed with telescopes, about the art of scrutinising an imminent eclipse. When a mechanical clock strikes twelve, all the young men rush to the windows and fix their telescopes on the heavens.
The Black Imp
7/10
A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.
The Merry Frolics of Satan
6.8/10
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.
The Infernal Cakewalk
6.1/10
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.
Whimsical Illusions
6.3/10
In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assistant.
Apparitions
5.7/10
Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.
Between Calais and Dover
5.4/10
A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.
The Hilarious Posters
6.2/10
A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.
The Untameable Whiskers
6.2/10
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)
The Prince of Magicians
6.5/10
A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.
The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match
6.9/10
A series of fantastical wrestling matches.
Extraordinary Illusions
5.8/10
Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.
Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
5.5/10
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 parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from behind it. The dog becomes a woman, then a masked man appears. The conjurer sits them each on a box a few feet apart: suddenly the woman and man have changed places. The disappearing and the transfers continue in front of a simple backdrop.
