Space Travel
see all genres ›"I want to be an astronaut when I grow up!" Right. Another dream, bitterly dashed against the jagged rocks of cruel reality. However, since Méliès in the medium's earliest days, movies have been eager to put us in the weightless capsule's pilot seat and send us off to the farthest reaches of the universe. Or at the least to the moon, which is a cheaper getaway.
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Genres / Science Fiction / Space Travel
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Chariots of the Gods
"Fifty million stars in our galaxy have the potential of supporting life forms capable of traveling to other planets," says world-renowned authority Erich von Daniken, whose film version of his best-selling book, CHARIOTS OF THE GODS, gives stunning visual proof that some form of life from outer space...Start your free trial to watch -
The Craven Sluck
An unhappy housewife seeks solace in the arms of a stranger in this underground film from Mike Kuchar. Adele (Floraine Connors) loathes her husband and fantasizes about starring in a movie called THE CRAVEN SLUCK. Bumping into a dashing suitor while out walking her dog, Adele thinks she may have finally...Start your free trial to watch -
The Crawling Hand
A manned rocket returning from the Moon is invaded by an alien life force that possesses the astronaut, maintains control of his disembodied hand after a California beach crash-landing and then imposes its will on a local medical student (Rod Lauren). Veteran players Kent Taylor, Richard Arlen, Alan Hale...Start your free trial to watch
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Dancing on the Moon
The opening shot echoes the Georges Méliès classic A TRIP TO THE MOON. But, in the case of this Fleischer Studios cartoon, the moon-bound rocket is the “Honeymoon Express.” A zoologically diverse assortment of newlyweds dance their way to a space vacation (except Mr. Cat is left playing solitaire when he...Start your free trial to watch -
Dark Star
In the mid twenty-first century, mankind has reached a point in its technological advances to enable colonization of the far reaches of the universe. DARK STAR is a futuristic scout ship traveling far in advance of colony ships. Armed with Exponential Thermosteller Bombs, it prowls the darkest reaches of space on a mission to...Start your free trial to watch -
The Eclipse
Subtitled "The Courtship of the Sun and Moon," Georges Méliès' buoyant interpretation of the scientific method can be seen as a sister film to his more famous A TRIP TO THE MOON. A fabulously attired professor instructs his pupils on the principles of a lunar eclipse but the professor can hardly believe his eyes when he sees...Start your free trial to watch
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An Excursion to the Moon
Georges Méliès' best known film, A TRIP TO THE MOON, is inspired by Jules Verne's "From Earth to the Moon" and H.G. Wells' "First Men on the Moon." In 1908, Segundo de Chomón was originally hired to prepare Spanish titles for the Pathé films sold in Spain. Proving adept at every possible camera trick, he...Start your free trial to watch -
Horror of the Blood Monsters
Cinematic recycling doesn't come any more gloriously cheesy than this 1970 Al Adamson drive-in wonder. The director (of DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN and SATAN'S SADISTS fame) and his producer Sam Sherman purchased rights to a caveman fantasy feature from the Philippines that had decent dinosaurs and other...Start your free trial to watch
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Interkosmos
In the 1970s, the East Germans had a secret plan to establish Communist colonies on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. These fabricated details are the grist for writer/director Jim Finn's first feature, an exceptional mockumentary that chronicles the cosmonaut era from an alternate universe replete with musical numbers and...Start your free trial to watch -
Interplanetary Revolution
“Warriors of the Revolution: Save Martian Workers Enslaved by Capitalism!” With that we’re launched into an exotic blend of Bolshevik ideology and H.G. Wells science fiction, made in the forward-looking year of Lenin’s death. The film’s futurist collage generates a riot of geometric forms and political...Start your free trial to watch -
Le orme
A fascinating, little-known, beautifully enigmatic European mix of giallo psychological suspense and science fiction. The excellent Florinda Bolkan plays Alice, a neurotic, sexually repressed career woman who travels to a picturesque yet somehow disturbing historic Italian village for reasons she refuses to make entirely...Start your free trial to watch
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Renowned as a holiday cult classic, SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS tells the story of the depressed children of Mars (one played by an eight year old Pia Zadora) who can only be brought out of their funk through the jolly cheer of Old St. Nick. So the Martian leaders travel to Earth and kidnap two local...Start your free trial to watch -
Sneak Attack
SNEAK ATTACK is both spiffy sci-fi pastiche and a thrilling exercise in synchronicity. Eric Henry, Syd Garon and Rodney Ascher follow the incessant cues of DJ Qbert’s turntablism, integrating samples as dialog and working the image into the cartoon equivalent of break-dancing.Start your free trial to watch
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Spanish Clair de Lune
A jealous scene at a cantina takes an unexpected turn when the spurned lover’s suicide leap is intercepted by a UFO. Émile Cohl borrows liberally from Georges Méliès’s classic A TRIP TO THE MOON (1902) but his fantasy of celestial redemption is full of irreverent touches.Start your free trial to watch -
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
Two gentle astronauts develop feelings for one another as they drift into deep space. Though they know they’ll never again see their rotten spouses back on Earth, the sanctity of their marriage vows keeps them apart. Beyond the surreal nightmares and insect insurrections, Phil Mulloy’s short lampoons the...Start your free trial to watch -
A Trip to the Moon
Every frame of A TRIP TO THE MOON is brimming with invention. It remains the best known of Georges Méliès’s hundreds of fantasy films, in no small part for its extraordinary image of a rocket crashing into the Man in the Moon, an emblem for the magic of cinema. Méliès himself stars as an iconoclastic...Start your free trial to watch




