Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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 hypnotist tricks his patients.

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

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 four-year-old saves the day.

During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade.

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

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.

A rich man rewards a tramp for defending him from muggers with a large sum of money in the form of a single bank note. Nobody can cash the big bill...

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

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

A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.

Soldiers ambush a house.

"Danse excentrique" (Gaumont #587) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be...

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...

The story involves a man who goes to a gambling den regardless of the protestations of his wife. He is extremely lucky and his luck attracts...

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.

A remake for the US market of Alice Guy's Les Résultats du féminisme. The film is considered to be lost.

Felix Mayol performs a song, in colour.

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