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...

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...

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

During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade.

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 stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

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 piano entices anyone who comes near.

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...

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

A woman shows off her trained dogs.

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin...

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.

"This funny individual will make you laugh until your sides ache. He is funny in all his actions, yet when he puts on his shoes you can imagine the...

A young girl is trying to live an honest life in a crooked city. Caught up with a crook that might be the son of a millionaire and other crooked...

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

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

Serpentine dance.

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...

Soldiers ambush a house.