Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...

Sam the white-washer pines for the affluent Lindy, but she has dumped him in favor of another. Sam finds a large sum of money, and goes to New York...

The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances...

A day prior to embarking on a European trip with his cousin Artie. Greg, a recent college graduate receives a once in a lifetime opportunity granted...

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost or never existed. Copies...

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

It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the...

Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.

In this story the hero is haunted by a beautiful young woman who tries to stab him to death with a knife. This fantasy recurs on each of his...

A married couple, suspecting one another of infidelity, decide to "live separately together."

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

A piano entices anyone who comes near.

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.

Actuality film of miners entering a mine.

Impressionism and expression of a view, Mavy uses fragments of the ocean landscapes of Alice Guy's studies through fluctuations of bright nuances and...

Charlotte Baker is drugged and taken to a brothel by Paul, her fiance, who in reality is a pimp. To find her, Charlotte's family contacts the...

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French...

When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.