Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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...

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 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...

Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.

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

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...

Peggy Wilson has recently become an orphan and a ward of the Waston family. She’s also inherited the late Robert Wilson’s vast fortune,...

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

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...

Inspired by a Robert W. Service poem, the story concerns a Parisian demimonde named Lucille who becomes the model of an aspiring artist named Robert....

Financier Mark Harrold is responsible for the financial ruin and subsequent suicide of Stanton. Following his death, Stanton's daughter Margaret,...

A day prior to embarking on a European trip with his cousin Artie. Greg, a recent college graduate receives a once in a lifetime opportunity granted...

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 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...

Based on the opéra comique of the same name, the film follows the exploits of Italian brigand Fra Diavolo.

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

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

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

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