Innocence has a power evil cannot imagine.

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
Pan's Labyrinth keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, authority, resistance, innocence, choice.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The BFG (2016)E8/E11 · authority, prejudice
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)E8/E11 · authority, choice
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)E8/E11 · authority, prejudice
Day Watch (2006)E8/E11 · authority, prejudice
True Legend (2010)E8/E11 · authority, prejudice
Concrete Utopia (2023)E8/E11 · authority, prejudiceThe same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)E9/E14 · rare rung · authority, choice
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)E9/E12 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Escape from L.A. (1996)E9/E12 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
District 9 (2009)E9/E10 · authority, prejudice
Life of Brian (1979)E9/E10 · authority, prejudiceShared director or cast.