Movies like Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants (2011) is a romance movie directed by Francis Lawrence. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Me Before You (2016)
★ 7.9 · 13,659 votes · Drama, Romance
Lou Clark, a directionless 26-year-old from the English countryside, takes a job at the local castle as a caregiver and companion to a wealthy young banker, Will Traynor. Wheelchair-bound from an accident two years prior, the once adventurous Will has all but given up — that is until Lou determines to show him that life is worth living.
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2. It Ends with Us (2024)
★ 6.9 · 2,065 votes · Drama, Romance
When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.
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3. The Best of Me (2014)
★ 7.5 · 2,762 votes · Drama, Romance
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
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4. Great Expectations (2012)
★ 6.4 · 361 votes · Drama, Romance
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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5. Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
★ 7.0 · 1,138 votes · Drama, Romance
In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.
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6. The Way We Were (1973)
★ 7.0 · 532 votes · Drama, Romance
Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.
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7. One Day (2011)
★ 7.4 · 4,645 votes · Drama, Romance
After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.
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