Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

A young girl is trying to live an honest life in a crooked city. Caught up with a crook that might be the son of a millionaire and other crooked...

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

"Wild Bill" Gray is a renegade and a wife-beater. He is about to start on some expedition of crime and his wife implores him to stay at home. She...

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

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

A rich man rewards a tramp for defending him from muggers with a large sum of money in the form of a single bank note. Nobody can cash the big bill...

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

The Professor will not allow his daughter to marry a non-musician, but Billy, her would-be suitor, cannot play a single note. When he is about to...

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

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

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...

An alcoholic is inadvertently sewn into a mattress.

A dog runs away with a length of sausage. Chaos erupts as the butcher chasing the dog collides with bystanders who angrily follow.

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

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.

The story involves a man who goes to a gambling den regardless of the protestations of his wife. He is extremely lucky and his luck attracts...

Behind-the-scenes footage showing Alice Guy directing an early sound film.

Soldiers ambush a house.

Starring 'Les Omers' as a bunch of bricklayers causing trouble for the local cops.