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Movies Like Elsa

If you liked Elsa, a drama movie directed by ole hansen, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Being Flynn

    Being Flynn (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.

  2. 2Poor Cow

    Poor Cow (1967)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Joy lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age, she marries and has a child–with an abusive thief who quickly ends up incarcerated. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to…

  3. 3The Brutalist

    The Brutalist (2024)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are…

  4. 4Cardboard Boxer

    Cardboard Boxer (2016)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.

  5. 5Mammal

    Mammal (2016)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the…

  6. 6A Most Violent Year

    A Most Violent Year (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and…

  7. 7The Pursuit of Happyness

    The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama

    A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

  8. 8The Road

    The Road (2009)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones and, when the snow falls, it is gray. Their…

  9. 9Daddy Longlegs

    Daddy Longlegs (2010)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment…

  10. 10Same Kind of Different as Me

    Same Kind of Different as Me (2017)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.

  11. 11Night Always Comes

    Night Always Comes (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Facing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000.

  12. 12Advantageous

    Advantageous (2015)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world.

  13. 13Wakefield

    Wakefield (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.

  14. 14Stuart: A Life Backwards

    Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.

  15. 15The Killing

    The Killing (1956)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George…

  16. 16The Place Beyond the Pines

    The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

  17. 17Surviving the Game

    Surviving the Game (1994)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey.

  18. 18Shelter

    Shelter (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.

  19. 19Charm City Kings

    Charm City Kings (2020)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama

    Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds…

  20. 20Heaven Knows What

    Heaven Knows What (2015)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.

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