Movies like Water for Elephants

20 movies like Water for Elephants, ordered by similarity : The Greatest Show on Earth(1952), Dumbo(2019), Saving Flora(2018), Man on a Tightrope(1953), Under the Big Top(1938), The Greatest Showman(2017), The First of May(1998), Circus World(1964), Before Midnight(2013), Carol(2015), Brief Encounter(1945), Ring of Fear(1954) ...

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Water for Elephants

Set in the 1930s, a former veterinary student takes a job in a travelling circus and falls in love with the ringmaster's wife.

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The Greatest Show on Earth

The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.

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Dumbo

A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.

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Saving Flora

Flora is a circus elephant who can no longer perform her tricks. The night before she's scheduled to be euthanized, the circus owner's 14-year old daughter, Dawn, sneaks Flora from the ... See full summary »

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Man on a Tightrope

Czech circus owner-Clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.

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Under the Big Top

A pretty young circus trapeze artist is pushed by her domineering aunt to be the best aerialist in the world. When she begins to fall for one of the two men in her act, her mother ... See full summary »

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The Greatest Showman

Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.

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The First of May

Eleven-year-old Cory (Dan Byrd) is a foster child nobody wants. Carlotta (Academy Award-nominee Julie Harris) is an elderly woman the world has forgotten.

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Circus World

When circus proprietor Matt Masters decides to take his show on a European tour, it is beset by problems, while he searches for Lili, the mother of his adopted daughter, who disappeared years before.

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Before Midnight

We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.

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Carol

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.

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Brief Encounter

Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.

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Ring of Fear

The Clyde Beatty Circus seems jinxed, falling victim again and again to apparent accidents which are actually the acts of a murderous saboteur. Mystery writer Mickey Spillane comes on the scene to solve the case.

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Boys

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Free State

A random act of kindness sparks a forbidden love affair between a white girl and an Indian man during the Apartheid system in South Africa.

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Bear's Kiss

A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human.

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Laila Majnu

Taking the leap out of the classic folklore, the story is set in today's time in Kashmir where Laila Majnu have problems relevant to the youth of today. While dealing with their feuding families a passionate love story unravels.

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Ordinary Love

An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.

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Perfect Understanding

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.

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Rain or Shine

Woman inherits a traveling circus which brings financial difficulties.

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Fireworks

Schoolchildren Norimichi, Yûsuke and Jun'ichi want to know if fireworks look round or flat from the side. They make a plan to find the answer at a fireworks display, while Nazuna schemes to... See full summary »

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