Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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

A biodoc about the first female filmmaker and her relative disappearance from the history of cinema after directing, producing, and writing more than...

A woman performs the tango.

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

Financier Mark Harrold is responsible for the financial ruin and subsequent suicide of Stanton. Following his death, Stanton's daughter Margaret,...

A poor boy is mistreated by his stepmother when his father isn't present.

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...

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

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

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

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

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow. "L'Hiver: Danse de la neige" is the fourth and last film of the series DANSE DES SAISONS. "Le...

Sam the white-washer pines for the affluent Lindy, but she has dumped him in favor of another. Sam finds a large sum of money, and goes to New York...

An old woman in Frederick, Maryland during the U.S. Civil War displays her American flag in defiance of the armies of Confederate general Thomas J....

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

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