The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity

Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa...

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

A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.

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

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the...

A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

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,...

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...

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

Prague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a wealthy noblewoman whom he has saved from drowning.

A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.