Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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

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

Actuality film of miners entering a mine.

Alice Guy directed a now lost phonoscene (film that relied on a chronophone sound recording that the actors in the film lip-synced with) version of...

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

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

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 woman performs the tango.

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...

Dick, a young boy hears wondrous tales of London, where the streets are paved with gold. At night he dreams of the capital. The next day he leaves...

A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.

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

An heiress is saved from the predations of a gang of gentleman crooks by a female detective and her father.

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...

A boy is fishing in a stream when some others see an opportunity for mischief.

A biodoc about the first female filmmaker and her relative disappearance from the history of cinema after directing, producing, and writing more than...

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...