If you loved Water for Elephants, try Red Sparrow

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Water for Elephants

2011 · dir. Francis Lawrence

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Red Sparrow

2018 · dir. Francis Lawrence

What they share

Both films are directed by Francis Lawrence. If that's the register that drew you to Water for Elephants, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Red Sparrow is

The Bolshoi’s frozen stone steps at dawn. Ice crackles under ballet shoes turned cold. A torn ligament ends one life, offers another. Sparrow School’s mirrored halls swallow her whole. Memory and muscle become knives, silence becomes seduction. A genre hybrid drifts between noir and train wreck, efficiently.

If you loved Water for Elephants, try Red Sparrow

Water for Elephants

Red Sparrow

What they share

What Red Sparrow is

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