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 early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the...

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...

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

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

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...

The Vampire is a surviving 1915 silent film drama directed by Alice Guy and starring Olga Petrova. It is one of Petrova's and Guy's few surviving...

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

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

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

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

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

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

After the success of his painting "The Empress," artist DeBaudry (William Morse) takes his model, Nedra (Doris Kenyon), to a roadhouse and,...

A spoof of Sherlock Holmes. Directed by Alice Guy-Blache for Solax Film Company.

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

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...