Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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...

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop.

A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other.

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.

A group of kids play in a stream.

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

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

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

A pretty maid is out walking and encounters a series of military men, starting with a private, who lose her to higher ranks.

A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.

The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.

A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe.

Mixed Pets is an early Alice Guy Blaché comedy about misunderstandings that arise when a new husband refuses to buy his new wife a dog and the...

A compellation of many silent films from all over the world, given music and sound design.

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

Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and...