Films like The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme fantasy / adventure, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) poster
1. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012) poster
2. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 12012

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013) poster
3. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 22013

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2011) poster
4. Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos2011

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection (2019) poster
5. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection2019

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) poster
6. Transformers: Dark of the Moon2011

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

Knowing (2009) poster
7. Knowing2009

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) poster
8. Pokémon Detective Pikachu2019

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) poster
9. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones2002

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) poster
10. Transformers: Age of Extinction2014

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) poster
11. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets2017

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Jupiter Ascending (2015) poster
12. Jupiter Ascending2015

Keeps the world-sized stakes and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

These are The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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