Movies: Alice Guy-Blaché

Heroine Stella is not a "tigress" at all, but instead a loving wife and mother. All this changes when the despotic and rapacious Governor of Euturia, whose sexual overtures have been spurned by Stella, orders that her husband be executed and her chil...

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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 celebrated detective Bob Macauley....

Actuality film of miners entering a mine....

A woman performs the tango....

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids....

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe....

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

A pretty maid is out walking and encounters a series of military men, starting with a private, who lose her to higher ranks....

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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 young daughter Louise, who is left to be raised by their servants. They are shaken out of their single-...

A grenadier had come to see his lover, a servant in the homes of wealthy bourgeois people. Hearing a noise, he is afraid of the masters and allows himself to be locked in a cupboard so as not to be seen. This is a hiding place that will spark many ad...

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When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man....

A gentleman visits a hair consultant for his baldness problems. The latter recommends a new lotion. The gentleman lets himself be convinced and a bellboy is immediately dispatched for the delivery which arrives at the concierge's lodge. The concierge...

A beautiful young girl spontaneously grows flowers outside her window, with the help of a magic watering can....

A woman plans to dress her fiancé as a heroic tramp in order to impress her father, but a real tramp intervenes in his place....

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This is a compilation of some of the films that Alice Guy filmed in Spain from mid-October to the end of November, 1905 (catalogue numbers 1371 to 1384) that were individually released in early 1906....

A wonderful midwife helps a rich couple pick out a baby from her cabbage patch....