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...

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...

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

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

A boy spreads glue all over town.

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

A woman shows off her trained dogs.

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...

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin...

A dog runs away with a length of sausage. Chaos erupts as the butcher chasing the dog collides with bystanders who angrily follow.

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

A group of kids play in a stream.