Water for Elephants (2011)

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15 Similar Movies To Water for Elephants (2011)

A senior citizen by the name of Jacob Jankowski, who has become separated from the other residents of his nursing home, is found by the proprietor of a circus, Charlie O’Brien. Jacob admits that he once worked in the circus industry and that he was present during one of the most infamous accidents that occurred in the circus industry.

Jacob was a student at Cornell University studying veterinary medicine in 1931 when he received the devastating news that both of his parents had been murdered in an automobile accident. Jacob was 23 years old at the time. In the midst of the Great Depression, and after the bank has foreclosed on the family home, he climbs on a passing circus train.

Similar Movies to Water for Elephants (2011)

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1: The Age of Innocence (1993)


In the 1870s, New York City was home to the genteel lawyer Newland Archer, who was engaged to be married to the upstanding young lady May Welland. After a disastrous marriage to a dissolute Polish Count, May's cousin, the American heiress Countess Ellen Olenska, has returned to New York. May is May's best friend. She is initially shunned by society, and nasty rumors are spread about her, but as May's family bravely stands by the countess, she is eventually embraced…

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2: The End of the Affair (1999)


The film is narrated by the author Maurice Bendrix, who is seen at the beginning of the story writing a book with the statement "This is a journal of hate." In 1946, during a stormy night in London, Maurice Bendrix had a fortuitous encounter with Henry Miles, the husband of Maurice's ex-mistress, Sarah, who abruptly ended their romance two years earlier. Henry Miles was married to Sarah when Maurice and Sarah's affair came to an end. The passion that Bendrix…

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3: Romeo + Juliet (1996)


The Capulets and the Montagues are two competing corporate dynasties in the city of Verona Beach. The younger relatives of Fulgencio and Gloria Capulet as well as Ted and Caroline Montague are the ones who are most affected by the enmity of the older generation. The city is thrown into disarray as a result of a gunfight between the Montague family, led by Benvolio, Romeo's cousin, and the Capulet family, led by Tybalt, Juliet's cousin. Being that this is the…

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4: The Great Gatsby (2000)


A young bond salesman named Nick Carraway rents a cottage on Long Island, New York, close to the estate of the affluent and reclusive Jay Gatsby. Carraway's story is told in The Great Gatsby. Nick gets to know Gatsby, who before he went off to serve in World War I was a poor guy whose name was Gatz. Daisy, a stunning young woman who came from an affluent family, became Gatsby's love interest. Even though Daisy was already married to…

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5: The Painted Veil (2006)


An ardent and bookish bacteriologist named Walter Fane takes a short vacation to London in the early 1920s. While there, he meets Kitty Garstin, a London socialite, and is immediately captivated by her. After she says yes ("just to go as far away from [her] mother as possible") to his proposal, the happy couple travels to Venice for their honeymoon. They make their way to Walter's medical post in Shanghai, which is located in a government lab, and there they…

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6: The Bridges of Madison County (1995)


In the current day, Michael and Carolyn Johnson, who are now adults, travel to the Iowa farm where their mother, Francesca, lived until she passed away not long ago in order to settle her estate. They are taken aback when they find that Francesca wanted to have her body burned and her ashes spread from Roseman Covered Bridge rather than being laid to rest next to her late husband, Richard. Similar Movies to The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

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7: Moulin Rouge! (2001)


In the year 1900, Christian, a young writer who is grieving over the recent passing of the woman he loves, begins composing their story on the typewriter he keeps in his apartment in Paris. One year earlier, he travels to the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris with the intention of becoming involved in the Bohemian movement. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and his band of performers are at that very moment writing a play titled Spectacular Spectacular when he unexpectedly runs into them.…

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8: The Great Gatsby (1974)


Nick Carraway, a writer, navigates his boat across the harbor and into East Egg to visit his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom at their estate there. While he was there, he learned that Tom's marriage to Daisy was in turmoil and that Tom was having an affair with a woman in New York. Daisy was unaware of Tom's affair. Nick resides in a quaint cottage in West Egg, and his neighbor is a mysterious tycoon by the name of…

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9: Me Before You (2016)


Lou Clark has a wide range of knowledge. She is aware of the number of steps that must be taken to get from the bus stop to her house. She knows that working at The Buttered Bun tea shop is something she enjoys, and she is also aware that she may not love her boyfriend, Patrick. Lou does not realize that she is on the verge of being fired from her job, nor does she realize that being aware of…

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10: The Notebook


A resident named Duke, played by James Garner, reads a love story to an older woman named Gena Rowlands, who has dementia and memory loss. The setting is a nursing home. Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams), a wealthy teenager who is 17 years old at the time, is vacationing in Seabrook during the late 1930s. At a carnival, a local laborer named Noah Calhoun, played by Ryan Gosling, meets Allie, and the two quickly fall in love with one another. One…

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11: One Day


Over the course of twenty years, the film follows Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley on the same day, 15 July, which is St. Swithin's day. On the evening of July 15, 1988, after Dexter and Emma have both graduated from the University of Edinburgh, they spend the night together as friends and make the decision to "simply be friends." A year later, Dexter offers Emma assistance in relocating to London so that she might pursue a career as a writer.…

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12: Anna Karenina


Anna Karenina, a lady of the aristocratic class, embarks on a journey from Saint Petersburg to Moscow in 1874 in Imperial Russia. Her goal is to prevent the dissolution of her brother Prince Oblonsky's marriage to his housemaid, with whom he had been having an affair. Anna Karenina and her husband, Count Alexei Karenin, share a son, but their marriage is emotionally distant. At the train station, Anna makes the acquaintance of Count Vronsky, a cavalry officer, and the two…

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13: The Duchess


In 1774, at the height of the Georgian period, when she married the Duke, Georgiana Spencer became the Duchess of Devonshire. The Georgian period was characterized by a period of fashion, decadence, and political change. She was vivacious and adored by the general public, but she found her marriage to be a disappointment very quickly. This disappointment was defined by her obligation to produce a male heir, as well as the Duke's philandering and callous indifference to her. She forms…

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