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

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

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

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...

Vinnie, Colonel Beggs' daughter, complains to her father that Lieutenant Sterling is paying her unwelcome attentions. The Colonel assures his...

A boy spreads glue all over town.

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.

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.

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

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

Remake of the 1895 by the Lumière Brothers. A similar scene is filmed from a different angle, and a young man has replaced the prankster child.

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

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe.

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

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

A group of kids play in a stream.