Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

A piano entices anyone who comes near.

A living statue causes trouble for unsuspecting bystanders.

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...

Three wartime friends, two wealthy, and one poor, reunite at an upscale dinner party. Things take a turn when the poor man is accused of stealing...

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.

Noble born Mignon is stolen by a band of gypsies as a child. Her mother dies from grief and her father, unhinged by the double blow, gives up his...

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

The melodrama where there's a mad inventor with a pretty daughter and where the rich hero buys the worthless invention, telling the girl and her...

Remake of the 1895 by the Lumière Brothers. A similar scene is filmed from a different angle, and a young man has replaced the prankster child.

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...

Serpentine dance.

A man mistakes a woman's blown kisses as being directed at him. When he comes over to call on her, she attempts to shoo him away, but must hide him...

"Wild Bill" Gray is a renegade and a wife-beater. He is about to start on some expedition of crime and his wife implores him to stay at home. She...

The kids of a game-keeper get into a chase with rifles.

An alcoholic is inadvertently sewn into a mattress.

The head of the family, in search of money, dons the clothes left by the village priest. He commits a terrible deed, and later, the priest learns of...

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