20 best movies like Elephant (2019)


List of the best movies like Elephant (2019): With Left Hand Only, A Friend of the Deceased, The Marathon of Desires, Thawed Carp, Petersburg: Only for Love, Mistress America, Graphomafia, The End of a Great Era, Two Days, Horoscope for Good Luck.

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Markimdb: 4.4
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryRussia
Duration02:02

A successful sculptor and life-loving womanizer Max has never had a serious relationship in his life, until... his right hand gets possessed by the spirit of a young woman who hates his guts. While trying to get out of this predicament, the two strikingly different people are forced to share a body and a life.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance, Ukraine
Duration01:40

Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryRussia

Hoping to change her life, Marina, a small town girl, embarks on a journey to a life coaching event. But an unexpected delay at a St. Petersburg airport sends her on a 24 hour comedic spree, which may ultimately provide her with the key to her happiness.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryRussia
Duration02:08

Elena Mihailovna, having worked all her life in the only school of a provincial town, lives modestly in retirement. Unexpectedly she learns of a fatal diagnosis, which can at any moment end her life. Instead of an unbearable anticipation, she resolutely begins the preparation for her own death, in order to simplify the procedure for her son. She has not seen her only son for over five years because he worrks in the capital. Oleg is constantly busy, and he does not have time for his lonely mother. At the same time with all the new problems, the heroine receives as a gift a huge carp, which changes her life.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:37

Petersburg. A Selfie comprises seven novellas about the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Russia, shot by female directors. The film tells a story of a real, living and breathing city, rather than a mythical phantasm. Each novella tells its own story about love and loneliness, luck and hope.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:30

Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. Mistress America is a comedy about dream-chasing, score-settling, makeshift families, and cat-stealing.

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Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration02:23

Contemporary Moscow. A publisher hires a band of hack writers to kill a famous author so she can steal his book. They find that committing a murder in real life is not quite as simple as writing about one in a thriller novel.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryRussia
Duration02:06

Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryRussia
Duration01:30

A two days from the life of Pyotr Drozdov, a highly ranked official from Moscow, which he spends with young museum employee Masha.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryRussia
Duration02:03

Max falls into the hands of a "happy" horoscope, which he must follow for 30 days, performing all its insane orders to obtain previously unavailable beauty and success. But one day Max's horoscope is replaced...

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
CountryRussia
Duration01:52

A funny musical story about a most popular Russian TV show "The Voice" and it's participants.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration02:13

There's two great loves in Anya's life, her athlete boyfriend Zhenya and food. Zhenya is not happy how Anya has been gaining weight due to her eating habits and decides to dump her. But Anya doesn't want to give up and decides to get rid of excess weight with the help of Nikolai, an overweight man obsessed with the healthy living.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryRussia
Duration02:01

Unlucky lawyer pretends to be a disabled to get a job in the top corporation, which decides to dispossess the Disabled club of its building. Now the lawyer needs to choose between career and a girl from the Disabled club

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration02:06

How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition, betrayals and secrets feed the story of this extraordinary couple, as they experience both the large and small moments of the last century's history.

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Genrecomedy
CountryRussia

The crazy comedy "City Day" tells about one day in the life of the inhabitants of the provincial Lyubyakino. Celebrating the City Day, people did not notice that the president himself had planned the working trip through the town. Sudden news plunges everyone into shock and creates chaos: the mayor, the district police officer, the priest and other heroes from this place, lost in the outback, forgotten by God and progress, must, in the shortest possible time, bring the city, actively celebrating, as the last time, into a decent look, in a hurry to mask the problems from the view from the guarded cortege and to depict that this is a place of high culture of everyday life.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:40

Masha Smirnova is a young girl who came to Moscow to conquer the big city. Here she finds a way to make all here wishes come true. But for other people this way is not so pleasant, sometimes even painful.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia

Artyom, a young adventurer, meets Felix - the once legendary art thief, who was called "Number One". The "Old School" and the newcomer decide to crank up the scam of the century - to steal one of the most expensive paintings of our time - "N 1" by Mark Rothko from the gallery owned by the ex-wife of Felix and her new husband. By chance, Artem meets Marina and falls in love with her. And she turns out to be an investigator and really wants to catch Felix red-handed.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, family
CountryRussia
Duration01:20

The hero of Mikhail Galustyan, known in our world as KarlOson, lives in a magical and colorful world of metrics - chubby flying big-ear humanoids one meter tall, whose mission - to help kids. Metrics can show themselves to children, but are forced to carefully hide the fact of their existence from boring adults.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:25

On New Year Eve a girl with a scythe is going through winter Moscow. Who is she looking for?..

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Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:25

Having found her husband with a mistress, 40-year-old Inna put the unfaithful spouse out the door. At the same time, her neighbor Rimma, who lives a floor above, came from the village sister Alevtina. She is determined to find her husband in the city. Rimma gives the idea to call a man from the service "Husband for an hour" and specially breaks the faucet in his kitchen.

Markimdb: 4
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration02:17

Four friends from the first movie are back in the saddle. This time they're not only returning to the big sex world but also helping the state on the important mission.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryRussia
Duration01:49

The fates of two people - adult and teenager - are crossing paths when both of them are on a crossroads of their lives.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryRussia
Duration01:27

The story of the daring romance Solovyov Sevastyanov G., ctupivshem by the call of blood on the path of the valiant Russian robbery. And while the security forces led by a secret agent trying to close H7 gang Nightingale the Robber, he, with his drive and mischief, restores fairness in my native land. But sooner or later every "Tale" comes to an end ...

Markimdb: 3.5
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration02:05

A comedy inspired by legends and myths of Ancient Greece, and by the biographies of the most trendy and popular characters of Moscow’s social Olympus. The film’s hero is a Greek, who decides to repeat Odyssey’s journey but accidentally sails the wrong way. He finds himself in modern Moscow, where he gets acquainted with well-known personalities. These celebrities unselfishly perform incredible nonsense, while the Greek immediately fames himself as a problem-solver. And his advice always works, even if not quite the way the customers want. But the main problem which the Greek must solve is his own. He falls in love with Maria, the wife of Moscow’s “Zeus”. And to conquer her, the Greek must first rescue all the “gods” on the Moscow Olympus.

Markimdb: 3.9
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration02:19

Contemporary Moscow. While riding her bicycle one day, Alyona, a shy librarian, accidentally collides with Liza, a dazzling blonde. When she wakes up in the hospital, she discovers that she and Liza have exchanged bodies.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrecomedy, music
CountryRussia
Duration01:39

For a successful DPS officer time to start a family, but he lives with his mother. When Petia decides to propose Olya marriage, his official car crashes into drunken pop star.

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Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama, short
CountryRussia
Duration00:24

A long time ago, Prometheus was cursed by the God's for bringing fire to mankind. Today, Fedor finds himself in Moscow for the first time and falls in love with Masha.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:19

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 tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryRussia
Duration01:59

Having quarreled with his father Altan goes to work in the North. He will have to spend a month alone on a deserted island. But soon a neighbor appears. He is old Baibal who has come to the island to spend the last days of his life there. He asks Altan to bury him next to his wife. But the guy finds out that long ago the old man’s daughter went missing. He talks the old man into publishing an entertainment blog to find his daughter and put of the man’s death. Every day Altan does his best to stimulate the old man to live another beautiful day.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

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.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryAustria, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration01:36

A "romantic comedy" based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.

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Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryRussia

Student Artem falls in love with a young beauty from the Black Sea. Having lost his head, he drops everything and goes for his beloved to the Russian South, about which he knows nothing. At sea it turns out that the beautiful Ksyusha is already being looked after by two serious local competitors - a handsome sailor and a daring policeman. It seems that the naive student simply has no chance. Even the help of his new friends seems to only get in the way. But our hero is not going to give up: it means war!

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Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryRussia
Duration02:25

Four stories about Saint Petersburg through the eyes of ordinary guys who have seen a lot on their path, but have not betrayed themselves. The film casts famous Russian hip-hop band KASTA.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryRussia

Romantic John the Fool and his friend Foal set out on a series of unpredictable adventures in different magical worlds. The two buddies will have to outsmart an evil tyrant king, catch the firebird, and find John’s true love.

Markimdb: 1.5
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia

Kakha fell for the beautiful Sophia, but in order to get to her heart, he needed to overtake the brand new BMW Ruslan on his “penny” and score a friendship with Sergo. What will Kakh choose - love or friendship?

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrecomedy, adventure
CountryRussia
Duration02:41

A police detective is going through different adventures while he is stuck in a little boy body.

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Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
CountryRussia

A saleswoman from the fish store Polina Schukina is going through a difficult life period. By the grace of an extravagant grandmother, she finds herself in the fairy-tale world of princesses, where, as it turns out, everything is subordinated to bureaucracy, and in a lot of echoing corridors and government offices there are queues of girls eager to discover the princess. Pauline has to go through a series of tests that will reveal her personal qualifications in a very competitive profession.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy
CountrySpain

Bea is a successful architect who lives in Barcelona (Catalonia, northeast to Spain) with her boyfriend and boss, Víctor, a CEO of an important company. During a night celebration of an important contract signed to make a skyscraper designed by Bea, in the bar appears the famous TV reporter and anchorwoman Rebecca Ramos, Victor's personal erotic fantasy. Not measuring the consequences of her actions due to the alcohol she drank, Bea makes a meeting between Víctor and Rebecca. When to the next day she wakes up, Víctor proposes to wed Bea and she accepts, but after she arrives to the job, Bea learns about a videotape where Víctor and Rebecca make the love in a car that it's in all TV channels. In front of all CEOs during a full meeting, Bea slaps Víctor and destroys her design, being fired from the job. Looking for a break, she travels her natal coastal town, Santa Clara, just to discover that her rest isn't so easy as it seems: her eccentric, free-spirited and eternal smiling mother ...

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA, Canada

Emily (Faith Ford) misses her daughter Heather (Emma Lahana), who is attending college in Boston. Since her father died, Heather is sensitive to her mom’s dependence on long-standing holiday traditions. This Christmas, Heather has planned a trip to Phoenix with her boyfriend, but tells her mother she is staying on campus to study. After Emily arranges a house-swap with Charles (Tom Cavanagh), an English professor from Boston who wants Washington State’s solitude in order to finish his novel, Emily hops on a flight to Boston to surprise Heather for Christmas. Unaware of the house swap, Emily’s best friend, Faith (Gabrielle Miller) walks in on Charles at Emily’s house and in Boston, Ray, Charles’ brother (Gil Bellows) responds to a 911 call only to find Emily at Charles’ condo. Will Christmas travel calamities lead to cross-country romances? Or have there been one too many surprises already?

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:36

The continuation of a funny adventures of a heroes of "Bitterly!".

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Canada, Australia
Duration01:51

An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrefantastic, comedy
CountryRussia
Duration02:19

Dima, a young realtor, suddenly discovers an appliance which can convert him into any other person in the world...

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryGermany
Duration01:41

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Markimdb: 5.1
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia, Italy
Duration02:08

Giorgio urgently needs to find a job but his only chance is in a Fashion House in Rome so he to pretend being gay in order to succeed in the fashion industry. But suddenly after meeting a Russian girl and falling in love all his fake universe collapses.

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Genrecomedy
CountryRussia

A story about a guy who's working in the Zoo and his adventures.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryRussia

Contemporary Moscow. Danya, a struggling actor, has just lost his girlfriend. His troubles soon multiply when his younger brother Dima shows up at his apartment with a friend who has a bullet in his stomach.

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Genrecomedy
CountryRussia

Director Mitya escapes from the set of the next television series. In this he is helped by the ghost of Marcello Mastroianni. The decision to escape launches a chain of events with the participation of Mitya's family and friends, which can only be unraveled by the answer to the question of what kind of director he wants to be: great, talented, or just normal.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrecomedy, adventure
CountryRussia
Duration02:15

Three unlucky managers are trying to stop their boss and prevent him from stealing company money.

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Genrecomedy
CountryRussia

Capital traffic jams and endless replacement of tiles on the sidewalks, filming of national films and absurd situations with artists, stories from the lives of neighbors and their dogs.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrethriller, comedy, drama
CountryRussia
Duration01:19

Contemporary Moscow. Svyatoslav, a poor boy, falls in love with Asya, a rich girl, and wants to marry her. To support her in the manner in which she is accustomed, he opens an upscale restaurant. But he soon discovers he has a unseen enemy.




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