Movies like The Elephant

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The Elephant (2010)
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The Elephant (2010)
Original name: Slon
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: (Russian with English subtitles) The show is under way in the circus arena. But there is agitation behind the curtain: the audience's darling, Bodhi the elephant has fallen ill. The next morning a trailer arrives to pick Bodhi up. But his sad ride with driver Zarezin and the sweet circus girl Bonnie turns into a wondrous journey full of unexpected twists and joyous encounters...
Plot: circus, driver, on the road, girl, forgiveness, elephant, hopes
Place: paris france

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Most similar movies to The Elephant

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and road movie films with plots about hopes, on the road, family relations, girl, self discovery, friendship and society mostly in Drama, Adventure and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Elephant: Clowning Around (1992), Patagonia (2010), Trapeze Girl (1967), See You (1988), Travelers and Magicians (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Clowning Around (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 183 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: independent film
Plot: clown, circus, runaway, foster home, eiffel tower paris
Place: australia, paris france
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95%
 6.6
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Patagonia (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Argentina, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women - one looking for her past, the other for her future. The film inter-cuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the Welsh springtime and the other east to west through ...
Style: road movie, touching, atmospheric, sincere, uplifting ...
Plot: desert, couples, last wish, self discovery, on the road, elderly, love affair, crumbling marriage, redemption, family problems, society, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, wales, latin america, europe, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 7.2
 15
Trapeze Girl (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Story: A Shaw Brothers Circus Drama about a Trapeze Girl
Plot: love triangle, jealousy, circus, fame, clown, acrobatics, tightrope
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 5.8
 16
See You (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 174 min.
Story: Even while having tremendous technology, now have a funeral shop walk picking up the car was retired in the desert Honma (Ken Takakura) is invited from the team DANKAI which declined to Paris-Dakar Rally, the team because of the publicity to ...
Plot: race, rally, racing, car race, car racing, motor sport, auto racing
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Travelers and Magicians (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Bhutan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young government official, named Dondup, who is smitten with America (he even has a denim gho) dreams of escaping there while stuck in a beautiful but isolated village. He hopes to connect in the U.S. with a visa out of the country. He misses the ...
Style: road movie, serious, captivating, atmospheric, spiritual ...
Plot: buddhism, road trip, magic, monk, storytelling, self discovery, introspection, friendship, clergy, culture clash, on the road, buddhist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tibet
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The Short History of the Long Road (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nola grew up living on a van with her father, Clint; two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past and her new destination.
Style: road movie, talky, realistic, sentimental, touching
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, mother daughter estrangement, father daughter relationship, road trip, unlikely friendships, parent child relationship, life philosophy, teenage life, self discovery, adolescence vs adulthood, hopes, single father ...
Place: albuquerque new mexico, new mexico
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73%
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Up & Away (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This is a story about two homeless brothers (Zana, 7) and (Dana, 10) who live on the edge of survival. In the beginning of the story they catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema. Zana and Dana decide that they want ...
Style: road movie, realistic, sincere, serious, independent film ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, kurd, homeless, survival, coming of age, hopes, siblings relations, family relations, life is a bitch, dictatorship, follow your dream, child ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: kurdistan, middle east, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Tomorrow Will Be Better (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Three Russian street kids, who live on their wits in a train station, take off to the countryside hoping to make it across the border to a better life in Poland. They are alternately looking for tenderness and pushing it away because they sense that ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot: boy, youth, friendship, leaving home, young heroes, self discovery, obsessive quest, on the road, optimism, hopes, starting over, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Zoo (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Martina, eleven, lives with her father, a zoo-keeper. One day she meets a 15 years old Slavic and they become friends...
Plot: zoo, gypsy, friend, father, elephant, police, friendship, young
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, he decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: starting over, midlife crisis, circus, parents and children, hopes, family relations, father daughter relationship, time travel, orphan, hotel, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: africa, singapore, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Hope (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 86 min.
Story: On his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating
Plot: survival, on the road, fall in love, rescue, starting over, hopes, love and romance, danger, immigrant, desert, follow your dream, chance meeting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nigeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 3.6
 204
Jungle Erotic (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Young women have an adventure in the African jungle - where they are harassed by gentle men, and wild monkeys.
Style: erotic, independent film
Plot: jungle, nudity, bare butt, trauma, sex on a sofa, erotica, bare breasts, female nudity, chase, girl, rape, flashback ...
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Thin Yellow Line (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five men are hired to paint the yellow line the road between two villages in Mexico forgotten. Aboard an old pickup truck, initiated the work of more than two hundred kilometers of asphalt and yellow paint to be completed in less than a fortnight
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, existential, art film ...
Plot: workplace, on the road, working class, social problems, coworker, workplace situations, society, co worker co worker relationship, death
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Roads to Koktebel (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's sister.
Style: psychological, sentimental, touching, atmospheric, road movie ...
Plot: boy, on the road, father son relationship, parents and children, family relations, human nature, hopes, alcohol abuse, family life, coming of age, journey, death of wife ...
Place: russia, moscow russia, ukraine, black sea, crimea
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.7
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Keep Going (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Sybille, a divorced mother, can't stand watching her teenage son Samuel slip into a violent and meaningless life. She is also struggling with her own demons, past and present. As a last resort, she takes Samuel on a long journey across ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, road movie
Plot: hopes, mother son relationship, nature, family relations, travel, family problems, social problems, wildlife, lifestyle, hiking, camping trip
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.1
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The Lion (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are ...
Style: romantic drama
Plot: jungle, lion, lost world, safari, youth, explorer, wilderness, human animal relationship, stepfather, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, husband wife relationship, girl ...
Place: africa, kenya, east africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, serious, road movie ...
Plot: on the road, starting over, friendship, wartime life, society, life is a bitch, human nature, escapades, totalitarianism, political unrest, magic realism, cinema ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: brazil, northeast brazil, germany, latin america, europe
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Natural Sciences (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story: In a rural school in the middle of the mountains, a girl who is starting to become a woman feels the profound need to discover her true identity. She does not know who her father is and she is determined to find him, but her mother does not approve ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: family relations, obsessive quest, self discovery, on the road, family problems, hopes, youth, teachers and students, parents and children, coming of age, search for father, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The Double Steps (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fiction inspired by the novelistic biography of the painter and writer Francois Augiéras. The artist covered with paints a military bunker in the desert, and let it sink into the sand so no one could find it until the XXI century. The search ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, contemplative
Plot: desert, obsessive quest, treasure hunt, on the road, escapades, landscape, biopic, performer's life, artists and showbiz, escape, voice over narration, narration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.6
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Elisa (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she ...
Style: anthology, contemplative, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: girl, older man younger woman relationship, children, family affairs, thief, search for father, intimacy, father daughter relationship, bare breasts, sexual initiation, urban setting, family problems ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, brittany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Powwow Highway (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Buddy Red Bow is struggling, in the face of persecution, by greedy developers and political in-fighting, to keep his nation on a Montana Cheyenne Reservation financially solvent and independent. Philbert, a simple-minded friend of Buddy's, ...
Style: road movie, independent film, psychedelic, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: native american, native, road trip, indians, magic, indigenous people, friendship, on the road, journey, tribe, nature, american indian ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: montana, south dakota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting, feel good ...
Plot: world war one, aviation, pilot, aerial combat, stuntman, travel, fighter plane, biopic, great war, jazz, flying, interwar period ...
Time: year 1975, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: nebraska, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Big Ceremonial (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Fantasy is a favourite theme for directors, since it enables them to give vent to diabolical situations with unlimited licence. This film is of this category. It is the story of a jealous and protective mother who allows her son only home-made dolls ...
Plot: boy, night, domineering mother, surrealism, murder, girl, love, first sexual experience, thief, victim, young
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.
Style: feel good, touching, emotional, semi serious
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: aging, youth, animal, runaway, motorcycle, camp, camping trip, camping, child, grief, wildlife, family relations ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.1
 8K
I Am David (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy (Ben Tibber) who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, uplifting, tense ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: boy, self discovery, friendship, coming of age, rescue, children, hopes, human spirit, danger, courage, boyhood, holocaust ...
Time: year 2003, 1950s, year 1951, post world war two, year 1952
Place: denmark, switzerland, italy, europe, greece ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Tbilisi-Paris-Tbilisi (1980)
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Tbilisi in the beginning of the 20th century . Emigrants who moved from Tbilisi to Paris for various reasons cannot resist the feeling of nostalgia and decide to return to their homeland by air balloon .
Place: caucasus, paris france, france, tbilisi, soviet union
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45%
Easy Rider: The Ride Back (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In this revisionist drama, the film delves into the family lineage of Wyatt Williams, the character made famous by Peter Fonda in the original Easy Rider Movie. Centering around the Williams family, and their internal family struggles throughout the ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, psychedelic, independent film ...
Plot: motorcycle, biker, father son relationship, world war two veteran, patriotism, dysfunctional family, road trip, family relations, family problems, estrangement, buddies, haunted by the past ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 20th century, 60s, 21st century
Place: usa, mexico, california, arizona, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.0
 12K
One Week (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to ...
Style: road movie, realistic, meditative, bad ending, philosophical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: motorcycle, road trip, travel, self discovery, terminal illness, cancer, on the road, solitude, depression, beautiful scenery, coming of age, love story ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, ontario canada, pacific ocean, british columbia, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.5
 147
Africa (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: While in South Africa a troubled fashion model must struggle to survive after a car accident leaves her stranded in the African bush. When she wakes up, she fights her way through the wilderness, struggling to survive the harsh conditions.
Plot: jungle, worry, dinner party, fashion model, fashion, lion, model, wilderness, elephant, cobra, manager, boyfriend ...
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.8
 281
One Mile Above (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shuhao is a 24 year old Taiwanese university graduate. His older brother Shuwei, whom he has idolized since childhood, dies on a bicycle ride to Lhasa. He decides to complete Shuwei's journey, hoping to prove himself through this challenging ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, captivating, road movie
Plot: mountain, cycling, last wish, direction and purpose, on the road, self discovery, dead brother, danger, escapades, wilderness, mountaineer, mountaineering ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tibet, asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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