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 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...

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...

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

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 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 piano entices anyone who comes near.

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...

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

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...

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.

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

A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man.

In this story the hero is haunted by a beautiful young woman who tries to stab him to death with a knife. This fantasy recurs on each of his...

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

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 illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.