Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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

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

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 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...

A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man.

A gentleman visits a hair consultant for his baldness problems. The latter recommends a new lotion. The gentleman lets himself be convinced and a...

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.

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

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

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

The Vampire is a surviving 1915 silent film drama directed by Alice Guy and starring Olga Petrova. It is one of Petrova's and Guy's few surviving...

A Jewish man is treated poorly by a member of the upper-class. When tragedy strikes, the Jewish man has an opportunity for revenge, but he turns the...

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...

A runaway barrel wreaks havoc all over the city.

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

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

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