City of Lost Children movie 1995A surreal French steam-punk fairy-tale from the warped minds of Delicatessen  creators Jeunet and Caro (1995).

In a latter-day Frankenstein castle - an oil platform at the centre of a minefield - a cloned scientist, Krank, prematurely aged and unable to dream, dispatches a cult of rubber-wearing, mechanically-enhanced Cyclops to kidnap innocent children. The genetically enhanced genius Krank would steal their dreams but gets only their nightmares. Their creator long vanished, Krank lives in exile with his makeshift 'family' of six younger clones, all played by Dominique Pinon, a dwarf bride, Miss Bismuth (Mireille Mosse) and a migraine-afflicted brain in a tank (Irvin, voiced by Jean-Louis Trintignant).

The Cyclops steal the wrong child when they kidnap Denree (Joseph Lucien), the Little Brother of One (favourite movie ugly bloke Ron Perlman, lately of Hellboy), a sailor and carnival strongman. Aided in his pursuit by a nine-year-old ingenue street thief, Miette (Judith Vittet), One chases them through a city mashed together from Dickensian squallor and the dark alleyways of 1930's Parisian noir. Read more of this post