Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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...

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

Peggy Wilson has recently become an orphan and a ward of the Waston family. She’s also inherited the late Robert Wilson’s vast fortune,...

Noble born Mignon is stolen by a band of gypsies as a child. Her mother dies from grief and her father, unhinged by the double blow, gives up his...

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.

This is a compilation of some of the films that Alice Guy filmed in Spain from mid-October to the end of November, 1905 (catalogue numbers 1371 to...

A rich man rewards a tramp for defending him from muggers with a large sum of money in the form of a single bank note. Nobody can cash the big bill...

An early Kinora demonstration film.

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

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.

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

The Mannings are a professional couple--she is a doctor, he is a lawyer--who are so absorbed in their careers that they have little time for their...

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...

Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...

Three wartime friends, two wealthy, and one poor, reunite at an upscale dinner party. Things take a turn when the poor man is accused of stealing...

Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.

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.