Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

A hapless man tries to get undressed only to find himself magically layered in even more clothes.

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

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

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.

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.

A piano entices anyone who comes near.

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

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