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...

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...

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

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

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...

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 biodoc about the first female filmmaker and her relative disappearance from the history of cinema.

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

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.

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 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...

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

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

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

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

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

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