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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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 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.

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

Soldiers ambush a house.

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

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

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

A father who is determined his daughter should marry a count leading the boyfriend to dress up as the count to thwart his plans.

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

A married couple, suspecting one another of infidelity, decide to "live separately together."