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First Men in the Moon meets the definition, although you will suffer a powerful urge to blind yourself with knitting needles while watching it. Seems to be a common failing of the genre, at least on film.
IMHO, David Lynch’s *Dune *has a pseudo-Steampunk aesthetic.
Number One on the Wikipedia list is The Fabulous World of Jules Verne. I saw it in a theater not long after its original release & have never forgotten it.
I’d like to mention a TV series: The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Not much “steampunky” urban grime, but it does feature Weird Science in the Victorian Age. Plus some SF, lots of wit & Bruce Campbell!
Wow, there is a **Mutant Chronicles **movie…
Most adaptations of of Wells or Verne would qualify as Steampunk. The 1954 version of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” is both a good movie and “Steampunk” (God, I hate that term).
Myazaki had several truly good animes where the steampunk part was really important, like “Laputa” (dont, really dont watch Otomo’s “Steamboy”, while it is exactly a Steampunk movie, it is so fucking bad. Something even more underlined by the very good end title sequence reminding everyone what Steamboy could have been and failed at - a Vernian Spider-Man).
(I note that, on the wikipedia Steampunk list, they put Time After Time, it’s not really a steampunk movie but it’s definitely a movie to watch)
Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire qualifies. It’s not very good, but the setting’s right. (Maybe it’d help to watch the DVD with another audio language track, and no subtitles.)
Ah. That’s the Czech version of Robur the Conqueror I mentioned. Definitely recommended.
Perfect Creature is an obscure New Zealand Vampire movie with a few steampunk elements. It’s very flawed, but worth watching.
Howl’s Moving Castle. One of my all time favorite films. You can’t go wrong with Miyazaki anyway.
Surprised no one’s mentioned 9 yet - the animated one by Timur Beckmambetov.
Not the best (seems to be a trend) but it’s fun to watch, and a nice line between steampunk and dieselpunk. Also post-apocalyptic, so it just hits all the highlights.
Sky Captain to me is really borderline. I enjoy it, but it’s more a retro celebration than a true steampunk movie. It’s like The Rocketeer - great fun, but not exactly in the genre.
Some people have even classified Metropolis as various forms of punk (usually Diesel) but I don’t know that I agree with them entirely.
You all are awesome! Thanks for the great suggestions. We have seen some of these but there are some we have not seen yet and are looking forward to. Again, thanks!
So what would that animated movie Robots be–atompunk?
Unfortunately, most Steampunk films are dire, especially those made to be deliberately Steampunk.
The films (such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang) which were made before “Steampunk” was defined are better examples of the genre, although they do miss that self-conscious playing with Victorian tropes that good Steampunk stories achieve.
Sherlock Holmes has been mentioned, but for my money Young Sherlock Holmes (not mentioned in the Wikipedia article) was more steampunk, especially with the flying machine.
There is also some in *Hellboy *
Here is a Wikipedia list.
I’ll second the suggestion of The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
It was a fantastic show and it’s tragedy it only lasted one season.
Castle in the Sky (anime also, and a Miyazaki film).
I’ll call it DAMN good!
“Riddick” has a certain steampunk-ish look to it in certain respects, mostly the look of the Necrom machines and spacecraft. In every other respect it is not steampunk, except of course, in not being all that good a movie.
I can’t believe we’re 39 posts in and nobody’s mentioned Wild Wild West yet!
And while it’s not really any kind of 'punk, I’d like to recommend Galaxy Express 999. They are taking an interstellar trip. By train. Somehow it works. From the same people who made Space Battleship Yamato, of course.
And another suggestion for The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.