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1. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
PG | 118 min | Action, Adventure
In 1935, Indiana Jones is tasked by Indian villagers with reclaiming a rock stolen from them by a secret cult beneath the catacombs of an ancient palace.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri
Votes: 536,007 | Gross: $179.87M
2. Hatari! (1962)
Approved | 157 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos before the arrival of a female wildlife photographer threatens to change their ways.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Wayne, Elsa Martinelli, Hardy Krüger, Red Buttons
Votes: 14,286 | Gross: $14.00M
3. Water for Elephants (2011)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Romance
Jacob takes a job as an animal caretaker in a traveling circus. There he meets Marlena, a beautiful circus performer. Their shared compassion for a special elephant Rosie leads to love, but Marlena's cruel husband stands in their way.
Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider
Votes: 120,478 | Gross: $58.71M
4. Maya (1966)
91 min | Adventure, Family
An American boy runs away in the Indian jungle after a fight with his father.
Director: John Berry | Stars: Clint Walker, Jay North, I.S. Johar, Sajid Khan
Votes: 413
5. Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)
PG | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
To keep the loyalty of a village during the Vietnam war, a U.S. Army officer and his unit struggle to deliver it a live elephant.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Danny Glover, Ray Liotta, Denis Leary, Doug E. Doug
Votes: 9,717 | Gross: $24.70M
6. The Last Circus (2010)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A young trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang, Manuel Tallafé
Votes: 15,242 | Gross: $0.04M
7. Larger Than Life (1996)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Family
A motivational speaker discovers that the inheritance his father left for him is in the form of an elephant.
Director: Howard Franklin | Stars: Bill Murray, Matthew McConaughey, Jerry Adler, Richard Alan Baker
Votes: 7,842 | Gross: $8.29M
8. The Roots of Heaven (1958)
Not Rated | 126 min | Adventure, Drama
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist ecologist starts a campaign of public awareness to help save the African elephants from extinction.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Errol Flynn, Juliette Gréco, Trevor Howard, Eddie Albert
Votes: 1,136
9. Saving Flora (2018)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Family
Flora is a circus elephant who can no longer perform her tricks. The night before she's scheduled to be euthanized, the circus owner's 14-year old daughter, Dawn, sneaks Flora from the ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Drury Taylor | Stars: Jenna Ortega, Martin Martinez, David Arquette, Leonor Varela
Votes: 737
10. An Elephant's Journey (2017)
PG | 87 min | Adventure
A lost orphan boy and a giant elephant team up to take down an elephant poaching syndicate.
Director: Richard Boddington | Stars: Elizabeth Hurley, Sam Ashe Arnold, Tertius Meintjes, Hlomla Dandala
Votes: 636
11. The Great Elephant Escape (1995 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Adventure
Matt Cunningham is a thirteen-year-old whiz kid from Los Angeles who's completely absorbed by his laptop computer. Preferring his travels on the information highway, Matt is dismayed to ... See full summary »
Director: George Miller | Stars: Stephanie Zimbalist, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Leo Burmester, Adetokumboh M'Cormack
Votes: 173
12. Elephant Boy (1937)
Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.
Directors: Robert J. Flaherty, Zoltan Korda | Stars: Sabu, W.E. Holloway, Walter Hudd, Allan Jeayes
Votes: 852
13. Sophie & Sheba (II) (2010)
PG | 100 min | Family
A seventeen year old girl growing up in the zoo her family operates, focuses on her love of ballet and animals. Her parents are forced to sell Sheba the elephant to a traveling circus in ... See full summary »
Director: Leif Bristow | Stars: John Rhys-Davies, Erica Durance, Augustus Prew, Deborah Kara Unger
Votes: 324
14. Le monde selon Tippi (1997 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary
Tippie Degré was born in Namibia, to wildlife photographer-filmmaker parents and was raised in the bush for the first ten years of her life in Southern Africa.
Director: Christian Crye | Star: Tippi Degre
Votes: 89
15. The Boy Who Stole the Elephant (1970 TV Movie)
95 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A frontier huckster, Colonel Ryder, and a young orphan, Davey, operate a travelling tent show. They are loaned an elephant by an old friend, Molly, who is also a rival circus owner. Davey ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Caffey | Stars: David Wayne, June Havoc, Dabbs Greer, Parley Baer
Votes: 30
16. Pop Aye (2017)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand, in search of the farm where they grew up together.
Director: Kirsten Tan | Stars: Penpak Sirikul, Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Paveena Poungsiri, Chainarong Phokaew
Votes: 1,125 | Gross: $0.08M
17. The Impossible Elephant (2001)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Family
The lonely boy who magically got the elephant he wished for from a falling star.
Director: Martin Wood | Stars: Mia Sara, Nicholas Lea, Mark Rendall, Alex Doduk
Votes: 178
18. Ava's Magical Adventure (1994)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Ava is a 10-year-old girl who runs away from home with her best friend, Nellie, a 2-ton circus elephant. They are pursued by everyone from the police to the circus' owner.
Directors: Patrick Dempsey, Rocky Parker | Stars: Michael J. Anderson, Kaye Ballard, Priscilla Barnes, Mitchel Barrett
Votes: 80
19. Malaika (1998)
PG | 93 min | Adventure, Family
An African elephant wanders into the lives of four wide-eyed children and all pandemonium breaks loose.
Director: Marina Martins | Stars: John Laughlin, R.D. Call, Lee Purcell, Keli Daniels
Votes: 133
20. Taffy and the Jungle Hunter (1965)
65 min | Adventure, Family
A hunter, who captures wild animals for zoos, takes his young son and the boy's widowed governess on his latest expedition. The boy and his pet chimp, in company with a baby elephant his ... See full summary »
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Jacques Bergerac, Robert DoQui, Shary Marshall, Manuel Padilla Jr.
Votes: 23
21.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant: Part 1
(1970)
Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A boy working in a struggling circus troupe develops a great rapport with an elephant on loan from a more successful circus.
Director: Michael Caffey | Stars: David Wayne, June Havoc, Dabbs Greer, Parley Baer
Votes: 35
22.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Old Sheba
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
After Hoss injures traveling circus wrestler, Bearcat Sampson, during an exhibition match, Hoss and 'manager' Little Joe agree that Hoss will take the Bearcat's place in the ring while he ... See full summary »
Director: John Florea | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 114
23.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
Runaway on the Rogue River
(1974)
Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A trainer who is transporting circus elephants by truck when he gets a flat tire. After unloading the elephants to work on the truck, one simply wanders away.
Stars: Willie Aames, Denis Arndt, Slim Pickens
24.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
The Boy Who Stole the Elephant: Part 2
(1970)
Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Davey learns his boss has just bet the elephant in a card game and lost, and so he decides to return it to its rightful owner hundreds of miles away.
Director: Michael Caffey | Stars: David Wayne, June Havoc, Dabbs Greer, Parley Baer
Votes: 14
25.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Arizona Midnight
(1973)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A very short man rides in on a Giant Horse into Dodge and offers $50 to any man who will take care of him from midnight to dawn tonight, the first light of the full moon, when he will turn into a "Were-Elephant."
Director: Irving J. Moore | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 162
26.
The Wild Thornberrys (1998–2004)
Episode:
Forget Me Not
(2000)
TV-Y7 | 24 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When the Thornberrys visit Nigel's friend Jomo, they search for an elephant, Rebecca, that Nigel saved twenty years ago. As the family attends to an elephant stuck in a mudhole, Eliza bonds... See full summary »
Director: Mark Risley | Stars: Lacey Chabert, Jodi Carlisle, Tim Curry, Flea
Votes: 52
27.
Hawaii Five-0 (2010–2020)
Episode:
Ka Haunaele
(2016)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The team discovers that the prototype for a high-tech body armor suit has been stolen, and Jerry finds out that his sister is involved with the release of an elephant that is still on the loose.
Director: Jerry Levine | Stars: Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim, Grace Park
Votes: 488