Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

Two policemen are required to dress as women to catch pickpockets.

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for Alice Guy.

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

A short film about a dirigible.

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...

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

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

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...

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

Actuality film of miners entering a mine.

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.

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

When Kitty's family adopts a homeless dog they couldn't guess how much it would be of help in her fathers detective work.

Vinnie, Colonel Beggs' daughter, complains to her father that Lieutenant Sterling is paying her unwelcome attentions. The Colonel assures his...

A father who is determined his daughter should marry a count leading the boyfriend to dress up as the count to thwart his plans.

This is a compilation of some of the films that Alice Guy filmed in Spain from mid-October to the end of November, 1905 (catalogue numbers 1371 to...

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

Fantastic Flowers is a compilation of short silent films produced between 1906 and 1920, displaying amazing colours that were applied to each frame...

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...