Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

A bullfighter dances with a woman.

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 father shoots his son dead because, lured by the offer of a watch, he revealed to the police where his father had hidden smugglers who had come to...

Short film by Alice Guy about a Western love triangle.

A group of kids play in a stream.

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

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

Norma, a dancer, receives many presents from admirers. Among them she finds a peculiar looking box, out of which spring several poisonous snakes....

A spoof of Sherlock Holmes. Directed by Alice Guy-Blache for Solax Film Company.

The head of the family, in search of money, dons the clothes left by the village priest. He commits a terrible deed, and later, the priest learns of...

the Grim Reaper takes a beloved child, prompting a cafe owner to reform a drunkard, whose family's plight touches him, leading to a change of heart...

Persis Cabot, the daughter of a multi-millionaire meets young officer Harvey Forbes and falls in love but cannot marry him because of her...

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other. The director of this film is not credited in any contemporary catalogues...

Little May, the rose of the ranch, is kidnapped.

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

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

"Les Fredaines de Pierrette" is the collective name of four short films of 20 meters each ("Arrivée de Pierrette et de Pierrot",...