Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.

A pretty maid is out walking and encounters a series of military men, starting with a private, who lose her to higher ranks.

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...

Bank official Hanlin Davis is ruined in the stock market. Desperate, he fails to rob the bank but kills someone in the attempt. His wife Thora goes...

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...

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...

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.

"Danse fantaisiste" (Gaumont #589) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be...

Young Martha Redmond, a poor girl from a small town, leaves to find a singing career in New York City. She doesn't find success as a singer, but...

Short film by Alice Guy about a Western love triangle.

The Mannings are a professional couple--she is a doctor, he is a lawyer--who are so absorbed in their careers that they have little time for their...

A runaway barrel wreaks havoc all over the city.

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

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...

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

Heroine Stella is not a "tigress" at all, but instead a loving wife and mother. All this changes when the despotic and rapacious Governor of Euturia,...

Alice Guy-Blaché's third film for Gaumont.

Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and...