15 Movies Like The Circus Princess
Loved The Circus Princess? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Your Heart Will Be Broken
High school student Polina is saved from bullying at her new school and makes a deal with the main bully Bars: he must pretend to be her boyfriend and protect her, and she must do everything he says. During this game, the couple develops real feelings, but her family and classmates have reasons to separate the lovers.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Circus Princess.

Russian Nymphet: Temptation
A Russian teen turns the tables on her fashion photographer. Suddenly he doesn't like being the one on camera!
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Circus Princess.

You Drive Me Crazy
Alisa moves into a spacious apartment in St. Petersburg, where the mirror starts to malfunction, showing the young lodger a parallel reality of the same apartment. Only it is not Alisa who lives in this parallel reality, but the party animal Ivan. Will the young people be able to recognize true love and will they be able to unite their worlds in order to meet in reality and simply touch each other?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Circus Princess.

About Love
Beautiful Nina lives happily married, as she saw it, with intelligent Alexandr, professor of Sinology. But the debt for the mortgage begins to disturb the relationship of spouses. One day she meets Sergey, the head of the bank where her husband has debt, and so begins their passionate relationships. The story of the relationship with married Sergey hardly promises happiness, but Nina realizes that for the first time she feels true love.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Circus Princess.

Sugar Baby
Love comes without asking. Often not to those, not so and not then. Can a genuine feeling survive when everything started wrong and the whole world is against it? Give up everything or give up? Burn or survive?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Circus Princess.

A Dog Named Palma
The film is inspired by an incredible story of a shepherd dog named Palm who was inadvertently left in the airport by her owner. She befriends nine-year old Nicholas whose mother dies leaving him with a father he barely knows - a pilot who finds the dog at the airport. It's a story of amazing adventures, true friendship and unconditional love.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Circus Princess.

Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures
The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Circus Princess.

Attraction
After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Circus Princess.

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Circus Princess.

The Green Elephant
Two Russian prisoners are abused mentally and physically.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Circus Princess.

I Am Dragon
In the midst of the wedding princess Miroslava is kidnapped by a dragon and carried away into his castle on the remote island. Mira left everything behind in the past - family, friends and groom. Now the only things she had were a stone cage and a mysterious young man named Arman ... but who is he and what is he doing on that island? Miroslava will know the truth too late: loving a dragon will reveal the bitter truth - love is scary.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Circus Princess.

Heart of a Dog
In 1920s Moscow, shortly after the October Revolution, a stray dog named Sharik is taken in by Professor Preobrazhensky, a wealthy and respected surgeon. The professor performs a daring medical experiment on the dog that changes him into a human being. As the newly transformed Sharikov begins to navigate life in the professor’s apartment, his crude behavior and revolutionary ideas turn the household upside down.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Circus Princess.

Guardians
During the Cold War, an organization called "Patriot" created a superhero squad, which includes members of multiple Soviet republics. For years, the heroes had to hide their identities, but, in hard times, they must show themselves again.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Circus Princess.

Battle for Sevastopol
The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Circus Princess.

Escape from Tarkov. Raid.
In the film adaptation by Director Anton Rosenberg, the audience opens the world of the game and the armed conflict that occurred in the Norvinsk region, a special economic zone on the border between Russia and Europe. The main operating parties are two private military companies – USEC and BEAR, commencing fierce battles, including the fights with the remaining gangs in the city called Scavs. The protagonist is in the occupied city of Tarkov, the exits of which are blocked by UN peacekeepers and Russian military troops.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Circus Princess.