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List of Steampunk Movies

Started by Goby, January 04, 2009, 08:28:14 AM

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Goby

Here it is a list of movies that are steampunk or have prominent steamy elements in them, please keep suggesting more and the list is always growing.

List A-L:
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20,000 leages under the sea (1916)
20,000 leages under the sea (1954)
20,000 leages under the sea (1985)
20,000 leages under the sea (1997)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (1993)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai across the 8th Dimension (1984)
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1986)
Arcadia of my Youth (1982)
Around the world in 80 days (2004)
Atlantis: Milo's Return (2003)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
The African Queen (1951)
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Black Cat White Cat (1998)
Brazil (1985)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)[French]
Brothers grimm (2005)
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
Casshern (2004)
Castle in the Sky (1986)
City of Ember (2008)
The City of Lost Children (1995)[French]
Chitty-chitty Bang-Bang (1968)
Coraline (2009)
Cronos (1993)
Dark City (1998)
Delicatessen (1981)[French]
Doctor Dolittle (1967)
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1957)[Czech]
The Fall (2006)
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
The First Great Train Robbery (1979)
First men on the moon (1964)
Five Weeks In A Balloon (1962)
Franklyn (2008)
From Hell (2001)
Galaxy Express 999 (1979)
The Golden Compass (2007)
Hellboy (2004)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
The Hindenberg (1975)
Howl's Moving castle (2004)
Igor (2008)
The Illusionist (2006)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Jack Of All Trades (2000)
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967)
Labyrinth (1963)
Labyrinth (1986)
League of Extraodinary Gentlemen (2003)
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989)
The Lost World (1925)


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Mary Poppins (1964)
Mary Reilly (1996)
Master of the World (1961)
Mirror Mask (2005)
The Mysterious Geographical Explorations of Jasper Morello (2005)
Metropolis (1927)[German]
Metropolis (2001)
Mouse Hunt (1997)
The Mummy Returns (2001)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Neverwhere (1996)
Perfect creature (2006)
The Prestige (2006)
Professor Dantes and the Severin Conundrum (2008)
Prometheus Triumphant: A Fugue in the Key of Flesh (2009)
Queen Emeraldis (1998)
Return to Oz (1985)
Robot Carnival (1987)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Stardust (2007)
Steamboy (2004)
Series of unfortunate events (2004)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Time After Time (1979)
The Time Machine (1960)
The Time Machine (2002)
Tinman (2007)
Treasure Planet (2002)
Van Hellsing (2004)
Vidocq (2001)
Voyagers! (1982)
Wild Wild West (1999)
The Yellow Submarine (1968)
Young Einstein (1988)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Zeppelin (1971)
Zulu (1964)


If you disagree with any of the movies being on the list feel free to post why.

Ladies & Gentlemen, grab your raygun and pop some popcorn...
At the Mountains of Madness

--Goby--

GypsyGurl

Suggest to add - City of Ember (2008)
"If you'll release restrain me, whatever you ask for ransom, you'll get it I promise you." What Princess Buttercup (The Princess Bride) SHOULD have said...

Cornelius Sagan

Perfect creature (2006) UK-New Zealand

H. MacHinery

I don't get Equilibrium and The Day the Earth Stood Still (TDTESS, hereafter)

Can someone defend those as SP?

Atterton

I´d imagine Equilibrium is on there because some airships are seen in it. Some people have low standards. I don´t see how a movie about two hallucinating school girls who kill their parents fit either.
Resurrectionist and freelance surgeon.

Grayweather

weird I have about 90% of those movies in my collection. lol

I would also add (if we are setting the bar low)
The Brothers Grimm
12 monkeys
(almost any Terry Gilian Movie)

Dax

I personally don't see Tank Girl, Buckaroo Banzai, or Dark City as being particulary SP. 

Here's a link to the essentials list on Aether Emporium.  http://etheremporium.pbwiki.com/Steampunk%20Essentials.  I'm working on an update, and will post it soon for comment.  In the meantime, any suggestions would be appreciated.
Blackadder: A man may fight for many things. His country, his friends, his principles, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn.

Frau Tankgerhausen

I think all Hellboy-films would fit perfectly. :)
Plastic parts and glue,
doing everything I can do,
to build the steambears.<3

....How hyu gun get him to do dat?

Maravin

#8
May I suggest the movies
- stardust (2007)
- Series of unfortunate events (2004)

neon_suntan


Castle in the Sky / Laputa - lots of steampunkery and some Airship pirates!

Master of the World - Vincent Price does a Capt. Nemo of the Air - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055152/

Vidocq - Strange French steampunkery

Frau Tankgerhausen

Quote from: neon_suntan on January 04, 2009, 07:41:25 PM

Castle in the Sky / Laputa - lots of steampunkery and some Airship pirates!

Master of the World - Vincent Price does a Capt. Nemo of the Air - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055152/

Vidocq - Strange French steampunkery
Oh yes,I just happened to borrow it from Torvald a few days ago and watched it. Very interesting film! :)
Plastic parts and glue,
doing everything I can do,
to build the steambears.<3

....How hyu gun get him to do dat?

Goby

Added the suggestions and pulled Tank Girl and Equallibrium, not sure how they got there. It was late.

Anyhow I must thank Dax for the Link to Aether Emporiums Essentials:
http://etheremporium.pbwiki.com/Steampunk%20Essentials

I will add those and the other ones from the old threads soon.

--Goby--

tenkarasu

Stardust (2007)
Series of unfortunate events (2004)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Treasure Planet (2002)


While I agree with bits and pieces of Stardust - not the whole movie was steampunk, and I don't think that was the intent - the ship was, and the outfits were, but I don't think that was what they were going for;
Agreed with Series, but it wasn't that great of a movie;
Sweeney Todd: YES.  Very gorgeous in all the outfits, the ideas, the general feeling of the movie (save for the singing, ick);
Treasure Planet - classic steampunk + space.  Almost perfect in every way for steampunk (save for the spacey bits) but the book itself was about pirates, and Disney thought why not make it steampunk!  And it worked!
One thing: you didn't include Atlantis, and that's dripping steampunk.

Although random question, is Titan A.E. steampunk?
meredith: why look, mr. vandemaar - if it isn't government man, here from the government!
madeleine: why, yes; the government has sent him, mr. croup!

H. MacHinery

Quote from: Goby on January 04, 2009, 08:49:35 PM
Added the suggestions and pulled Tank Girl and Equallibrium, not sure how they got there. It was late.

I wasn't necessarily saying they weren't - just that I could not see the steaminess.  If someone can provide some good evidence, they could be SP movies.

Anders

Titan A. E., while a decent movie, is not what I'd call steampunk.  Better to classify it in scifi and move on.  If I could find my old VHS copy, I'd give it a whirl, though.

Grayweather

Jim Careys The Grinch has steam punk elements to it.

I think tank girl has Junk Punk elements to it,

Goby

I have been busy, school, the last few days but I am glad to see the responses coming, I took Tank Girl ad equalibrium out becuase they real aren't steampunk, and if a movie is on simply for eyecandy purposes I would prefer to be more steamy eye candy.

added a few more titles, remember they are all up for discussion and review.

--Goby--

Parallax

What was that pre-green lit movie the Star Trek writer told us about at the Comic Con International panel? Has there been any updates on that? I've been away a while. I remember he said Orlando Bloom showed interest in it and it included Harry Houdini and such...

lavenderfae

Stardust is fantasy rather than science fiction, as is, I think, The Golden Compass, yet I find both to be visually inspiring.

mrlyhendrx


Fraulein Flieger

Might I add my newest FilmCrush - Labirynt (Labyrinth) by Jan Lenica. You can see it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1cZiyO-No4
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Nex

Hmm, I'd be tempted to suggest Porco Rosso (1992-Hayao Miyazaki) it is a little late, being set in World War One Italy so it is a personal thing, but I don't really feel the diesel era starts till the 1930's.
The earlier 1910-20s of more experimental aircraft, while not "steam" does for me fit more with the steam era experimentalism.

Parallax

Was The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. in there? Well, I guess its not a movie actually...

Wickerman

"We may have lost the war, but we haven't lost our sense of humor. Even when we lose a lung, a spleen, a bladder, thirty-five feet of small intestine, two legs, and our ability to reproduce all in the name of the south, do we EVER LOSE OUR SENSE OF HUMOR?!"

Marrock