Fantastic Movies about Elephants

List of the best science fiction films about Elephants, selected by visitors to our site: The Incredible Shrinking Man, Sexmission, Kin-dza-dza!, Open Your Eyes, Cabbage Soup, Planet of the Apes, The Hunt for the Hidden Relic, A Short Stay in Switzerland, Sunshine, Journey to the Center of the Earth.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:21

While on a boating trip, Scott Carey is exposed to a radioactive cloud. Nothing seems amiss at first, but several months later Scott realizes that he's shrunk in height by several inches. He sees a doctor, who admits that he's baffled. As Scott continues to shrink, decreasing to three feet tall, he becomes bitter, and lashes out at his wife, Louise. He begins to fear a cure will never be found -- since even as he becomes a national sensation, he's still shrinking.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure
CountryPoland, Czechoslovakia
Duration02:01

Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, World War III breaks out and life has been wiped off the surface of Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.

Markimdb: 8
Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration02:15

The story takes place on the desert planet "Pluke" in the "Kin-dza-dza" galaxy, where two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other ("Uncle Vova", a gruff construction foreman from Moscow, and "The Fiddler", a student from Georgia) are stranded due to an accidental encounter with an alien teleportation device. The movie describes their long quest to find a way back home.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryIsrael, Spain, France, Italy
Duration01:57

A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
CountryFrance

2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

Markimdb: 8
Genrefantastic, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, detective
CountryGermany
Duration03:02

STEFFEN VOGT, aged around 25, is helping out at a German archeological excavation in Israel when he finds a 2,000-year-old skeleton holding the instructions for a video camera dating from the year 2003. The bones also show traces of the present day. His theory of a time-traveler who made a video of Jesus is laughed at by everyone, however, including SHARON, an attractive Israeli woman he adores. Although no one appears to believe him, his find certainly seems to have generated interest: Steffen is attacked shortly afterwards in his hotel room by strange men; then he discovers that the German embassy and the secret service are after him; and when his friend DAN is murdered, he goes into hiding.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, biography, sport
CountryUnited Kingdom

Just after losing her husband to a similar condition, Dr Anne Turner is diagnosed with a fatal neurological condition. So she plans to end her life herself. Based on a true story.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantastic, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:47

Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantastic, fantasy, melodrama, adventure, family
CountryUSA
Duration02:12

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantastic, action, adventure, family
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that Hammond has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrefantastic, drama, detective
CountryArgentina

A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight. But he is ordered to treat the patient according to institutional procedure.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantastic, comedy, crime
CountryAustralia

Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills and, with Frank's help, Malcom turns to a life of crime.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantastic, drama
CountryJapan
Duration01:56

In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the drastic reduction of men, the gender roles have become reversed in Japan. Woman become the dominant members of society and males are sought out for the ability to produce children. A young man named Unoshin Mizuno (Kazunari Ninomiya) hopes to marry childhood sweetheart Onobu (Maki Horikita), but due to class differences realizes this is almost impossible. To raise his social status and also save his poor family, Unoshin Mizuno enters the Ohoku (inner chambers of the Shugun's castle) and attempts to vie among 3,000 other men for the affection of the female shogun. What Unoshin Mizuno quickly learns about the Ohoku is that the men there are all beautiful, but highly ambitious and conniving. In this environment, the 7th shogun Tokugawa passes away and the new shogun Yoshimune Tokugawa (Kou Shibasaki) takes the thrown and enters the Ohoku.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, family, military
CountryNetherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany

Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part of a childrens' crusade, on their way to rescue Jeruzalem. During the trip Dolf finds out the danger is not coming from outside the crusade, but from within.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:59

    Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    Science fiction drama about a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics where humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. The young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel, yet he is determined to infiltrate the GATTACA space program.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration02:06

    Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.

    Genrefantastic, drama
    Duration02:26

    A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:18

    Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    Spike Jonze’s debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters it’s mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountrySouth Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada
    Duration01:52

      Aliens land in South Africa and, with their ship totally disabled, have no way home. Years later, after living in a slum and wearing out their welcome the 'Non-Humans' are being moved to a new tent city overseen by Multi-National United (MNU).

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration01:38

      Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrefantastic, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      An astronaut doctor Ivan Hood and his fellow astronaut Kelly return from their mission in space to find the world has been taken over by aliens. Now Dr. Ivan Hood and Kelly must lead a revolution to free the human slaves from their alien masters.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, family, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony escape to witch mountain, while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

      A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration02:10

      An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, fantasy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

        Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inflicted during his lifesaving heroics. The agent's idea of imprisoning the antihero to make the world miss him proves successful, but will Hancock stick to his new sense of purpose or slip back into old habits?

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:21

        For high schooler Aaron Corbett, turning 18 means becoming not just a man but a nephilim, too -- half human, half angel, with supernatural abilities.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:25

        Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:25

        Airwolf is capable of supersonic speeds, invisible to radar and armed with ultra state-of-the-art hardware. Airwolf is the most awesome aerial weapon ever developed. When the helicopter is stolen by Libyan mercenaries, Michael Archangel, Project director for the CIA, enlists the help of Vietnam veteran Stringfellow Hawke and his closest friend Dominic Santini, to attempt to recover the Airwolf. The mission throws them into the midst of Middle Eastern violence and destruction, where they come face to face with danger, romance and intrigue in their battle to re-possess the deadliest aerial weapon ever used.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrefantastic, action, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:57

        A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:47

          Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genrefantastic, action, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, USA
          Duration02:05

          Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:19

          A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA, West Germany, United Kingdom
          Duration01:48

          A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrefantastic, fantasy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:58

          An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:53

          A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryCanada, USA
          Duration01:30

          Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:04

          After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also shepherding to safety his son, trapped in New York after the city is overwhelmed by the start of the new big freeze.

          MoviesList