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

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 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...

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...

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

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

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

A short film about a dirigible.

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 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...

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

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.

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

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

A wonderful midwife helps a rich couple pick out a baby from her cabbage patch.

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 hypnotist tricks his patients.

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