Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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...

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...

It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?

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...

During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade.

Impressionism and expression of a view, Mavy uses fragments of the ocean landscapes of Alice Guy's studies through fluctuations of bright nuances and...

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.

Behind-the-scenes footage showing Alice Guy directing an early sound film.

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

A piano entices anyone who comes near.

A woman shows off her trained dogs.

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

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

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