Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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

A pregnant young heiress discovers her suitor is already married. She decides to marry a struggling lawyer to protect her reputation.

A hapless man tries to get undressed only to find himself magically layered in even more clothes. There is no credited director for this film. Modern...

A suffragette gets her husband drunk, leading to an escalating parade of mishaps as more people get drunk on their "lime juice."

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.

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

When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.

Dranem performs "Five O'Clock Tea" for Alice Guy.

Proud old Major Neal disowns his only child, a beautiful girl, because he considers her marriage a misalliance. Years pass. The old major becomes a...

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

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 magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man.

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

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.

A short film about a dirigible.