Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku (1990)
This is the story of Bardock, the father of Goku.
Bardock, Son Goku's father, is a low-ranking Saiyan soldier who was given the power to see into the future by the last remaining alien on a planet he just destroyed. He witnesses the destruction of his race and must now do his best to stop Frieza's impending massacre.
In Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “saiyan war”. The story fights on E8/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing war, empire, destiny, survival, power.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)E8/E13 · rare rung · destiny, power
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)E8/E13 · rare rung · power, war
The Blackout (2019)E8/E13 · rare rung · power, survival
Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018)E8/E13 · rare rung · power, survival
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016)E8/E13 · rare rung · destiny, power
Battle for Terra (2007)E8/E13 · rare rung · survival, warSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · power, war
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · power, survival
Priest (2011)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · survival, war
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)E6/E11 · rare rung · survival, war
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010)E6/E11 · rare rung · power, war
Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)E6/E11 · rare rung · survival, warAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Thor: The Dark World (2013)consciousness in aliens · nine‑realm cosmos
Independence Day (1996)consciousness in aliens · global alien invasion
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)consciousness in aliens · heroic alliance vs alien empire
The 5th Wave (2016)consciousness in aliens · alien invasion
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013)consciousness in aliens · divine martial realm
Masters of the Universe (1987)consciousness in aliens · interdimensional fantasy warSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)consciousness carried elsewhere · destiny, power
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)consciousness in machines · power, survival
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)consciousness in machines · power, survival
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)consciousness in animals · power, survival
BloodRayne (2005)consciousness in monsters · power, survival
Saint Seiya Heaven Chapter: Overture (2004)consciousness carried elsewhere · destiny, powerSame people
Shared director or cast.
Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge (1991)dir. Mitsuo Hashimoto
Dream 9 Toriko x One Piece x Dragon Ball Z Super Collaboration Special!! (2013)dir. Mitsuo Hashimoto
Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon (1995)dir. Mitsuo Hashimoto
Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018)Masako Nozawa
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' (2015)Masako Nozawa
Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock (2011)Masako Nozawa