Movies like Elephant 2019

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Elephant (2019)
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Elephant (2019)
Original name: Элефант
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 79 min.
Story: In the center of the plot children's writer Valentin Shubin, accustomed to live in seclusion. His books about the elephant Mishka, written in his youth, enjoyed great success both at home and abroad. A series of random events causes a new surge of interest in the personality and creativity of the writer-introvert. Adults and young readers waiting for new books, but Shubin them does not want to write.
Style: crying
Plot: writers, depression, illness, misanthrope, girl man relationship, older man younger woman relationship, weirdo, satire, love hate relationship, eccentricity, talk show host, emptiness, unlikely friendships, opposites attract, heart transplant, police investigation, writing, older man younger woman, love hate, sickness
Place: st. petersburg russia, saint petersburg

Most similar movies to Elephant

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, captivating, psychological and humorous films with plots about satire, writers, writing, eccentricity, depression, weirdo and female nudity mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Elephant: Paper Man (2009), The Creatress (2019), Winter Passing (2005), As Good as It Gets (1997), The Fundamentals of Caring (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Paper Man (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne and a Long Island teen who teaches him a thing or two about growing up, all under the disapproving eye of his long-suffering wife and his ...
Style: touching, tricky, psychological, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: friendship, self discovery, midlife crisis, coming of age, imaginary friend, writers, small town, depression, loneliness, character study, relationships, creativity ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: long island, atlantic ocean, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 4.3
 193
The Creatress (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Young, bestselling author Eryn Bellow concludes her bookstore tour with her agent selling film rights and closing a six figure advance for her follow-up. Headwinds arise as critics get offended by the claims that Eryn is being declared a living ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, satirical, semi serious
Plot: writers, female protagonist, problem, critic, writer's life, satire, female writer, conflict, revenge, direction and purpose, writing
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying ...
Style: erotic, weird
Plot: advertising, female nudity, swing, writers, advertising executive, business, career, mistress, high school reunion, satire, dream, writing ...
Time: year 1967
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Winter Passing (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that ...
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, addiction, writers, eccentricity, character study, complex characters, family relations, homecoming, unlikely friendships, family problems, couple relations, unlikely couple ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, michigan, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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As Good as It Gets (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will ...
Style: feel good, touching, sweet, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family outing
Plot: dog, mental illness, writers, neighbor, friendship, older man younger woman relationship, gay, gender, looking for love, age difference, waitress, misanthrope ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1997
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, maryland, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The Fundamentals of Caring (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the ...
Style: road movie, depressing, sentimental, compassionate, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: road trip, disability, abandoned by father, coming of age, writers, friendship, tragedy, justice, loneliness, depression, redemption, mentor ...
Place: seattle, salt lake city utah, idaho, utah, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 7.4
 221
Tlayucan (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Desperate for the illness of his son, the farmer steals a pearl Eufemio image of St. Lucia in the village church. Some tourists photographed the theft, and Euphemius is about to be lynched by their neighbors. Pearl disappeared swallowed by one of ...
Plot: sick child, peasant, blind man, spinster, small town, miraculous event, satire, church, illness, town, pearl
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
After the Wedding (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Newlywed Diego Diaz heads down to Miami Beach for a few weeks to finish his latest novel, but when he becomes emotionally intimate with a sexy bartender, he and his wife are left to examine the true state of their young marriage.
Plot: hot and sexy, writers, woman, seduction, bartender, unfaithful husband, husband wife relationship, skinny dipping, newlyweds, female nudity, jealous wife, wedding ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Nailcruncher (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen.
Plot: immigrant, eccentricity, weirdo, diplomat, ambassador, treasure
Time: 1930s
Place: geneva switzerland, greece, palestine, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 7.7
 202K
Adaptation. (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A love-lorn script writer grows increasingly desperate in his quest to adapt the book 'The Orchid Thief'.
Style: satirical, absurd, black comedy, mind bending, dark comedy ...
Plot: twins, filmmaking, depression, writer's block, writers, imagination, mentally unstable, loser, existentialism, obsession, siblings relations, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida, new york, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.3
 508
Only Girls (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat. The judge, Carole Rewinsky, does not tell Tina that her elease was only a clerical error. The two find they share things in common other than ...
Style: psychological, captivating, funny, satirical, disturbing ...
Plot: ex convict, female protagonist, police officer, police, unlikely friendships, satire, opposites attract, thief, women
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.9
 856
The Classic (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating
Plot: writer's life, obsession, chase, womanizer, writer's block, publisher, fictional biography, writers, art, biopic, manhood, media ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: finland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story: In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up. This allegory about oppression and conformity was banned in its home country but became an ...
Style: dark comedy, cult classic, mind bending, surreal, psychedelic ...
Plot: surrealism, satire, sisters, renaissance, holocaust, modernism, totalitarian regime, spirituality, sister, picnic, hound dog, symbolism ...
Time: year 1966
Place: eastern europe, balkan, czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Timon of Athens (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.
Plot: shakespeare, literary, morality, generosity, coin, tragic event, beggar, misanthrope, satire, shakespeare play
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of ...
Style: dark comedy, funny, humorous, talky, cult classic ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, eccentricity, eccentric family, writers, forbidden love, parents and children, deadpan, incest, uptight character, reconciliation, love, satire ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Corona Depression (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A pandemic strikes the world. What does quarantine do to a lonely woman's mind? Follow her from sense to insanity. No filters. Just you, her, and her more and more twisted mind.
Style: absurd, humorous, semi serious, satirical, dramatic
Plot: boredom, social isolation, pandemic, woman, isolation, satire, loneliness, female protagonist, virus, depression, coronavirus
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
When Jeff Tried to Save the World (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Jeff discovers that the bowling alley he manages is being sold, he must do everything he can to save the place he's come to call home.
Style: disturbing, psychological, entertaining, satirical, captivating
Plot: bowling, manager, sport team, problem, depression, problem solving, satire, lifestyle, coping, hunting
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Disclaimer (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Since his sensational arrival at the head of the 20 Hours, Cédric Saint Guérande, known as "CSG" is THE favorite presenter of the French. His insolent audiences stoke the jealousy even within La Grande Chaîne which he is the undisputed ...
Style: satirical, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
Plot: ambition, journalist, rivals, competitor, rivalry, tv host, business competition, media satire, satire, talk show host, social media, ruthlessness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
End of the Road (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After a catatonic episode on a railway station platform, Jacob Horner is taken to "The Farm"...
Style: psychotronic, disturbing, controversial, psychedelic, independent film ...
Plot: counterculture, therapy, age-gap relationship, mad doctor, insanity, abortion, satire, eccentricity, unfaithful, marijuana, weirdo, dark humor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.5
 4K
Some Girl(s) (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On the eve of his wedding, a successful writer travels around the country to meet up with ex-lovers in an attempt to make amends for his wrongdoings.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film, whimsical
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: love and romance, couples, couple relations, on the road, breakup, writers, blonde girl, blonde, girl, conversation, sociology, train ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.3
 126K
Ghost World (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' ...
Style: black comedy, thought provoking, independent film, melancholic, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, age difference, friendship, adolescence, graduation, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, blues, teen angst, best friend, youth ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Huevos rancheros (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two "naughty" comedy episodes with naked women and bodies of water.
Style: anthology
Plot: marriage, female nudity, doctor, small town, wedding, bare breasts, older man younger woman relationship, church, rancher, affair, cowboy, skinny dipping ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.5
 41K
Late Night (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A legendary late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision has unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women ...
Style: humorous, sincere, entertaining, unpredictable, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: talk show host, infidelity, cheating wife, workplace romance, feminism, talk show, adultery, female friendship, journalism, co worker co worker relationship, writers, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2019
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 6.2
 1K
Drunk Bus (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A directionless, young campus bus driver and a punk rock Samoan security guard named Pineapple form an unlikely kinship as they navigate the unpredictable late shift known as the "drunk bus." Together, they break out of their endless loop ...
Style: road movie, disturbing, satirical, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: punk, escapades, friends, unlikely friendships, silly humor, adult humor, driver, friendship, satire, punk rock, masturbation, male masturbation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Carriers Are Waiting (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: black comedy, semi serious, realistic, surreal, humorous ...
Plot: bad father, satire, family relations, journalism, obsession, midlife crisis, parents and children, motorcycle, weirdo, rainstorm, eccentricity, son ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Don't Read This on a Plane (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, Romania, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As novelist Jovana Fey attempts to check into the first hotel of her 3-week European book tour, she learns that her publisher has gone bankrupt. Penniless and stranded, she decides to continue the tour regardless.
Style: semi serious, psychological, thrilling, captivating, funny
Plot: writers, hitchhiking, open relationship, road trip, bankruptcy, female writer, problem, hitchhiker, satire, writer's life, female protagonist, married couple ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.1
 108K
The Rum Diary (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden ...
Style: stylized, sexy, light, surreal, humorous ...
Audience: adult
Plot: journalism, journalist, newspaper, cockfight, writers, alcoholism, eccentricity, gangster, addiction, lifestyle, alcoholic, profanity ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2011, 20th century, year 1960 ...
Place: puerto rico, caribbean, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Listen Up Philip (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to ...
Style: independent film, stylized, atmospheric, surreal, psychological ...
Plot: loneliness, writer's life, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, arrogance, infidelity, solitude, writer's block, self pity, isolation, suicide, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york state, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.4
 1K
Hot Air (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A right-wing talk show host's life takes a sudden turn when his 16-year-old niece comes crashing into his life.
Style: psychological, disturbing, satirical, semi serious, captivating
Plot: talk show host, uncle niece relationship, lifestyle, politics, relationships, niece, lifestyle change, political intrigue, changing lives, satire, tv host, teenage girl ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.4
 164
20 Cigarettes (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Andrey is a young and successful executive at a creative advertising agency in Moscow. That day he smokes a whole pack of cigarettes. Each cigarette is the beginning of a storm of circumstances and conflicts around him increasingly fiercer. His ...
Style: disturbing, semi serious, captivating, satirical
Plot: life, moral dilemma, satire, businessman, threat, sex scene, female nudity, female full frontal nudity, cigarette
Place: moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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