I see that it's running in Northern America right now (in limited release) so I recommand the animated movie
April And The Extraordinary World.



It seems it is released both in its french-voiced version and its english-voiced version.
It's a fun mainstream adventure movie with steampunk and fun science.
It's Hergé meats Miyazaki, even graphically (it's Tintin meats
Sherlock Hound).
With a hint of Edgar P. Jacob.
It is based on Jacques Tardi's work, a multiple awards comics artist.
Back to 1870, Emperor Napoleon III wants a serum of invincibility for his soldiers to start a war against Prussia. A scientist named Gustave Franklin is working on it, experimenting on animals. The serum gives an unexpected result : animals are not invincible but they can talk. Angry, Napoleon III orders the killing of some "guinea pigs". Things go wrong, the laboratory explodes and Napoleon III dies. His dynasty goes on, renounces the franco-prussian war and shifts the course of History.
From that date, the leading scientists of the whole planet are being mysteriously abducted one afer the other.
Scientific progress stalls.
The world gets stuck in the coal / steam mecanical era.
When coal ressources are exhausted, trees (charcoal) become the most wanted natural ressource.
A war is brewing between the French Empire and the American League for the control of canadian wood ressources as local ressources are exhausted. France, UK and Germany ally.
The scientists who have not been abducted yet are hunted by the Empire to enlist for the preparation of the war.
This is where the plot starts.
In 1931, scientists Prosper and Paul Franklin are hiding from both the Empire's police and the mysterious abducters, and pursuing the work of their father and grandfather Gustave.
But running away from Inspector Pizzoni, Paul and his wife disapear after the cable car they are in is targeted by a mysterious cloud and explodes, leaving their 8yo daughter April behind them, alone.
10 years later, April is a lonely but fearless and independant girl, hiding in a giant napoleonic statue with her talking cat Darwin. She pursues her parents' work as a cure for Darwin's old age but is followed by a police informant and rats with camera goggles. So when she finally succeeds, danger is coming quick.
The art is lovely, the animation is lovely, the story is great.
You have Napoleon V, Victoria II, a giant bridge over the Channel, Paris-Berlin transcontinental cable car with a main station located between twin Eiffel Towers, an hilarious talking male cat (who is "anatomically correct" when he shows his backside

, the same way that japanese can draw cats in anime), the ultimate serum, goggled rats and pigeons, individual and bicycled aerostats, flying machines, walking machines, a house in a hangar which is sooooo Miyazaki, a Javert-like policeman, a fun grandpa, a smart and romantic petty thief and an audacious heroine.
What more do you want ?
