Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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

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.

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

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

Actuality film of miners entering a mine.

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe.

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 wonderful midwife helps a rich couple pick out a baby from her cabbage patch.

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...

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

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

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

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.

A group of kids play in a stream.

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