Alice Guy-Blaché Movies

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for...

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

A government agent who buys horses runs into trouble in Mexico.

Old Joel Smith is charged with murder in the first degree. At the trial he pleads in opposition to his own lawyers. He explains that he is now too...

A fighting couple gets interrupted by the landlady.

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city. Gaston Breteau filmed the original film in early 1898 for Lumiére, and also the...

"Danse fantaisiste" (Gaumont #589) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be...

A young man of high social position sacrifices his home and family for a girl of the stage. Cast off by his family, the young man finds that he is...

Early Gaumont dance film frequently attributed, but not confirmed, to Alice Guy. A young Basque man and his companion sketch various Basque dance...

Felix Mayol performs a song, in colour.

"Danse serpentine" (Gaumont #588) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be...

Modern Americans think that the movies learned to talk in 1927 when Al Jolson opened his mouth in THE JAZZ SINGER, but sound pictures had a much...

Despite his younger sister's remonstrances, a precocious schoolboy wants to smoke a cigarette he stole from his father. But he is soon punished for...

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

Two mediocre detectives try and catch a notorious pickpocket. Meanwhile, an innocent man is mistaken for the pickpocket and is forced to put on a...

At a large factory, the workers decide to strike. Although the leader of the workers believes his boss is treating them unfairly, the strike movement...

The story involves a man who goes to a gambling den regardless of the protestations of his wife. He is extremely lucky and his luck attracts...

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