Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

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

A spoof of Sherlock Holmes. Directed by Alice Guy-Blache for Solax Film Company.

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.

A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.

It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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

Cute one-trick doggie show. The backdrop is beautifully detailed, yet the illusion of depth is humorously broken by the balloon bouncing off the set.

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...

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

A boy is fishing in a stream when some others see an opportunity for mischief.

Actuality film of miners entering a mine.

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...

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 group of kids play in a stream.

Soldiers ambush a house.