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 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...

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

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

A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.

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

Short film by Alice Guy about a Western love triangle.

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

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...

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

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...

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

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

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

A boy spreads glue all over town.

A Parisian doctor, infatuated with the wife of his benefactor, drugs and kidnaps her, and tries to convince the husband that she is dead. This film...

After the success of his painting "The Empress," artist DeBaudry (William Morse) takes his model, Nedra (Doris Kenyon), to a roadhouse and,...

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

Felix Mayol performs a song, in colour.