20 best movies like Elephant (2003)


List of the best movies like Elephant (2003): Seven in Heaven, Zero Day, Jamie Marks Is Dead, Afterschool, King Jack, Rope, Mindscape, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, 7 Boxes, We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

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Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
CountryUSA

Sixteen year old Jude discovers each and every one of his fears is true.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryUSA

Two troubled adolescents chronicle the events that ultimately lead up to a terrifying assault on their school.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrefantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

No one seemed to care about Jamie Marks until after his death. Hoping to find the love and friendship he never had in life, Jamie’s ghost visits former classmate Adam McCormick, drawing him into the bleak world between the living and the dead.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama, detective
CountryUSA

A prep-school student accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, adventure
CountryUSA

Growing up in a rural town filled with violent delinquents, Jack has learned to do what it takes to survive, despite having an oblivious mother and no father. After his aunt falls ill and a younger cousin comes to stay with him, the hardened 15-year-old discovers the importance of friendship, family, and looking for happiness even in the most desolate of circumstances.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:20

Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySpain, USA
Duration01:39

A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
Duration01:23

A teenager's attempts to bring a brilliant surgeon into his dysfunctional family take an unexpected turn.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
CountryParaguay, Spain
Duration01:45

Víctor receives an unusual proposal, to carry 7 boxes of unknown content through the Market Number 4 but things get complicated along the way.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

In Shirleyville, Vermont, during the sixties, sisters Merricat and Constance, along with their ailing uncle Julian, confined to a wheelchair, live isolated in a big mansion located on the hill overlooking the town, tormented by the memories of a family tragedy occurred six years ago. The arrival of cousin Charles will threaten the fragile equilibrium of their minds, haunted by madness, fear and superstition.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

    A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:08

    Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    is a story about elite high school seniors, the top 1%, who are prepared to go to extremes to get into prestigious universities. A student who has ranked number one at an esteemed school dies in a remote mountain. Finding out why and the ultimate impact of his death make up the bulk of this thriller’s elaborate narrative, whose shocking conclusion could lead us to comment, “We’ve seen a devil.” Despite a structure that freely weaves together past and present, and a cast of appealing actors including Lee David, Gung Jun and Kim Kkot-bi, the most remarkable thing about the film is the theme itself. It touches on and raises the critical issue of the demands of Korea’s education system, which are becoming more extreme and competitive by the day.

    Markimdb: 3.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    Six young adults struggle with their personal demons while staying at a secluded mansion during a dark and stormy night where a seemingly innocent game of 'taboo' brings out their inter-most secrets which soon leads to murder.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, Romania, USA
    Duration01:23

    Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:34

    Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryAustralia

    Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantastic, action, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    A group of students become trapped inside a mysterious cave where they discover time passes differently underground than on the surface.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, family, detective
    CountryUSA

    Spy School is the story of a twelve year old boy known for telling tall tales who overhears a plot to kidnap the President's daughter. When he goes public with his story, no one believes him, and he is forced to save her on his own.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, but Milly finds a friend in Eric, her autistic next door neighbor. Eric has a fascination with flight, and as the story progresses, he exerts an enthralling force of change on all those around him.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Sweden, South Africa
    Duration01:42

    After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA

    A marine biologist, an insurance salesman and a teenage boy find their lives changed when a new and often dangerous sea life species emerges, while the government tries to keep the affair under wraps.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA

    A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another. Inspired by true events.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:31

      Kat Connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve, disappears. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, Brock, for the loss. But as time passes, Kat begins to come to grips with how deeply Eve's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, she finds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it...

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama, adventure, family
      CountryNetherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, Spain, France
      Duration01:35

      Nono, a Dutch kid lacking two days being thirteen, runs away from problems at home and, disguised as a girl, takes up with the world's cleverest thief, who unbeknownst to Nono, may hold the bizarre key to his true identity.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:59

      A young camgirl discovers that she’s inexplicably been replaced on her site with an exact replica of herself.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama
      CountryGeorgia, Germany, France
      Duration01:42

      Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath because the town alcoholic is accused of the murder. Tom and Huck go through several adventures trying to retrieve evidence.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:43

      Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Norway, Canada
      Duration01:28

      High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the mysterious Polaroid vintage camera she stumbles upon, but it doesn't take long to discover that those who have their picture taken meet a tragic end. Bird and her friends must survive one more night as they race to solve the mystery of the haunted Polaroid before it kills them all.

      Markimdb: 3.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      People disappear every year out in the snow--but this year, something is adding to the body count. Jim and his research team study the Canadian Lynx every year. This year, he has to take his rebelling 16 year-old daughter, Emmy, with him. But the lynx are missing. As Jim and his team try to find why, something stalks them--a predator no prey can escape.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:27

      Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:06

      Alan, Red, and Smitty spend high summer on the Jersey Shore roving the boardwalk and getting into trouble. But the discovery of good old fashioned treasure sets the friends on an escalating course of suspicion and violence in this atmospheric thriller.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genredrama, adventure, family, detective
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:33

      Two teen girls, one from the city, one from the country, try to find the hidden gold of Bear Mountain learning about friendship, loyalty and courage on the way.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:48

      Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life-dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge-he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues-and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he knew.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, Russia
      Duration02:21

      Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genredrama, adventure
      CountryUSA

      Greta's dad Tom is moving the family cross-country in a dented station wagon, promising a California paradise to his kids. All that's missing is Mom.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama
      CountryTurkey, France, Germany, Qatar
      Duration01:58

      In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore
      Duration02:52

      A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Israel, France

      Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn Lebanon back to their home.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryFrance

      Pierre Hoffman joins a prestigious school as a substitute teacher and soon notices, among some of his students, an unjustified hostility and a spark of violence in their eyes. Is it because the unspeakable tragedy they have just experienced? Is it because they seem to be extraordinarily gifted children? Is it because they have lost all hope for the future? From curiosity to obsession, Pierre will try to unlock their secret.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      A mother and her daughter confront the intimidation of teen peer pressure and the emotionally brutalizing social rituals of high school.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA

      As two teen prodigies try to master the art of time travel, a tragic police shooting sends them on a series of dangerous trips to the past.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:21

      Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by everyone around her. Enticed by flesh, she retreats into her own fantasies and hopes to become a great surgeon - that is, if she doesn't go insane first.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genredrama, detective
      CountryUSA

      A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      A dark comedy about four self-absorbed twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:47

      A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, drama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:23

      Jeffrey Dahmer struggles with a difficult family life as a young boy. During his teenage years he slowly transforms, edging closer to the serial killer he becomes.




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