Although set in the future, I would put this movie on the list of steampunk. If you have not seen this movie yet then you are missing out. This movie is based on the first book of four in the Book of Ember series. There is a dystopian society that is the last humans on earth. They live in an underground shelter/city called ember that gets its electricity from a giant water wheel. The generator that converts the power is starting to fail and no one knows how to fix it. A teenage girl and boy, Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow, must find a way out before the blackouts turn into perpetual darkness.
this movie has steampunk attributes because of three main things:
1. the city is powered from a hydroelectric generator.
2. the young man, Doon Harrow works in the water works part of the city. So you get to see a lot of corridors that have all the pipes of the city.
3. the society has some advanced things but they are required to be run either by plugging them into the nearest outlet or having a small generator running by the user pedaling it.
The last point is the main one that I like. When anyone wants to use a lamp or flashlight they will plug it into an outlet because batteries don't exist because they would be long gone. An old phone answering machine is powered by pedaling a small generator. In Doon's house there is a small robot that is plugged into the wall (in the movie they don't tell what the job of this robot is). At one point there is a transport machine that is used by Doon and Lina it too runs from pedal power.
Here is a link if you are interested in watching this movie: http://viooz.co/movies/2129-city-of-ember-2008.html
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