Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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.

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

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

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.

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

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

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe.

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...

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop.

A father shoots his son dead because, lured by the offer of a watch, he revealed to the police where his father had hidden smugglers who had come to...

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

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.

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.

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

"Danse excentrique" (Gaumont #587) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be...

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 shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.