Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.

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

Alice Guy-Blaché's third film for Gaumont.

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

The Professor will not allow his daughter to marry a non-musician, but Billy, her would-be suitor, cannot play a single note. When he is about to...

A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other.

Early short film by Emile Cohl

A hypnotist tricks his patients.

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

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop.

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

Bob Burton is a misogynist who spends time with other men who share his views, but Bob's friends play a role when he shows that he's not completely...

Charlotte Baker is drugged and taken to a brothel by Paul, her fiance, who in reality is a pimp. To find her, Charlotte's family contacts the...

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.

Bank official Hanlin Davis is ruined in the stock market. Desperate, he fails to rob the bank but kills someone in the attempt. His wife Thora goes...

Scene of the last supper.

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

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

Serpentine dance.