Alice Guy-Blaché Filmes

A biodoc about the first female filmmaker and her relative disappearance from the history of cinema.

A balding man drinks a whole bottle of hair tonic. The unexpected surplus of hair promises a successful showbiz career for him and his wife.

Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...

Charlotte Baker is drugged and taken to a brothel by Paul, her fiance, who in reality is a pimp. To find her, Charlotte's family contacts the...

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

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...

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

In this story the hero is haunted by a beautiful young woman who tries to stab him to death with a knife. This fantasy recurs on each of his...

Alice Guy-Blaché's third film for Gaumont.

Peggy Wilson has recently become an orphan and a ward of the Waston family. She’s also inherited the late Robert Wilson’s vast fortune,...

Alice Guy experiment with visuals and sound by Félix Mayol.

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

Saharet performs the bolero for Alice Guy.

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

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

The parish priest looks to create a Nativity scene for his church, but his congregation is too poor to afford the statuary dealer's price for a...

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

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.