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...

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...

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...

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...

It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?

Based on the opéra comique of the same name, the film follows the exploits of Italian brigand Fra Diavolo.

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.

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

A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.

Peggy Wilson has recently become an orphan and a ward of the Waston family. She’s also inherited the late Robert Wilson’s vast fortune,...

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

A father who is determined his daughter should marry a count leading the boyfriend to dress up as the count to thwart his plans.

Short film by Alice Guy about a Western love triangle.

The Professor will not allow his daughter to marry a non-musician, but Billy, her would-be suitor, cannot play a single note. When he is about to...

A grenadier had come to see his lover, a servant in the homes of wealthy bourgeois people. Hearing a noise, he is afraid of the masters and allows...

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

A dog runs away with a length of sausage. Chaos erupts as the butcher chasing the dog collides with bystanders who angrily follow.

An abused young woman finds safety and love in the arms of a famous novelist.