Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

Alice Guy-Blaché's third film for Gaumont.

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 boy is fishing in a stream when some others see an opportunity for mischief.

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe.