Across the universe

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows across the universe

poster Seeing the World

Seeing the World

In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe after winning a local contest. He takes them on a tour of Naples, Pompeii, Rome, the Vatican, Venice, Lon…

poster The Wonderful Living Fan

The Wonderful Living Fan

As a conjurer awaits an audience, a procession announces the arrival of a royal representative, carried in a sedan chair, to see him. The conjurer then has a large box brought in. It is opened, revealing …

poster Más allá del silencio

Más allá del silencio

Secret military operations in Antarctica's frozen wasteland uncover mind-blowing evidence of an ancient underground kingdom inhabited by powerful extraterrestrial beings who have been monitoring humanity'…

poster Young Sherlocks

Young Sherlocks

The Mystic J.J.J.'s challenge Ernie's bravery; he spins a tale of saving a rich young girl from kidnappers and of creating a utopia called Freetown.

poster Le Retour d'Ulysse

Le Retour d'Ulysse

11mn - History, Adventure

When Troy has fallen and Ulysses sets sail for home, his ships are driven to different lands, where his adventures are numerous, keeping him away from his native land for ten years. As time rolls on witho…

poster Elastic Transformation

Elastic Transformation

1mn - Fantasy, Comedy

A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.

poster Jack the Giant Killer

Jack the Giant Killer

7mn - Animation

Jack is trying to impress Susie with his ambition to visit the Land of the Giants. She watches as he demonstrates the strength with which he will conquer the giant. Then we see the cat and dog loading up …

poster Captain Grogg in a Balloon

Captain Grogg in a Balloon

11mn - Animation

A man draws Captain Grogg on a hot air balloon flight.

poster Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

78mn - Sci-Fi, Short

In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid co…

poster Civilization

Civilization

Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenger ship during wartime. His submarine is sunk in the following fracas. In the spirit world, Christ commen…

Hoax

80mn - Horror, Sci-Fi

Don't get carried away 🛸 Four YouTubers enter Dorset's New Forest to camp overnight in order to study alien phenomena.

poster The Dark Mist

The Dark Mist

101mn - Action, Adventure, Fantasy

With the future of the world hanging in the balance, one fearless hero's quest to solve "The Riddle of the Chosen". As the Lord Protector makes his way through a land of magic and mystery, his allies grow…

poster The '?' Motorist

The '?' Motorist

3mn - Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comedy

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

poster The Mystic Swing

The Mystic Swing

The professor shows his power to Mephisto by mysteriously placing a young lady in a swing. Mephisto then shows his power by making the young lady disappear from the swing, to the surprise of the professor…

poster Music, Forward!

Music, Forward!

3mn - Fantasy, Comedy

“Music Forward!” is the order given by a lady in Colonial costume, and in march a group of five musicians, working industriously at their instruments. The directress stands them in a row, and taking the h…

poster The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon

The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon

9mn - Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an …

poster An Extraordinary Dislocation

An Extraordinary Dislocation

2mn - Comedy, Fantasy

A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.

poster Escape 2120

Escape 2120

A detached orphan teen escapes to the future in suspended animation, but when he arrives at a natural utopia, he must evade a lynch mob convinced that he's the prophesied Devil's Child.

poster The Return

The Return

86mn - Mystery, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange cattle mutilati…

poster Sherlock Holmes Baffled

Sherlock Holmes Baffled

1mn - Crime, Fantasy, Mystery

Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears.

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