Topic: Clowns
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Joker
2019 · Movie · 121 min. · United States
Direction Todd Phillips
Cast Joaquin Phoenix · Robert De Niro · Zazie Beetz · Frances Conroy
Plot Year 1981. In Gotham City, mentally-troubled Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) works as a clown-for-hire and lives with his mother, Penny. Arthur, whose motivation in life is to make people laugh,...
8.0
62K votes
8.0
62K votes
The Wrestler and the Clown
1957 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Boris Barnet · Konstantin Yudin
Cast Stanislav Chekan · Aleksandr Mikhailov · Yuri Medvedev · Iya Arepina
7.6
34 votes
7.6
34 votes
He Who Gets Slapped
1924 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Victor Sjöström
Cast Lon Chaney · Norma Shearer · John Gilbert · Tully Marshall
Plot Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He...
7.5
590 votes
7.5
590 votes
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
1928 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Herbert Brenon
Cast Lon Chaney · Bernard Siegel · Loretta Young · Cissy Fitzgerald
Plot A professional clown and a self-indulgent count learn to help each other with their problems, but then become romantic rivals.
7.2
127 votes
7.2
127 votes
In the Presence of a Clown (TV)
1997 · Movie · 119 min. · Sweden
Direction Ingmar Bergman
Cast Börje Ahlstedt · Marie Richardson · Erland Josephson · Peter Stormare
Plot Inventor Carl Åkerblom is 54, as rosy-cheeked as a child, an admirer of Franz Schubert--and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala. He has attempted to...
7.1
499 votes
7.1
499 votes
The Clowns (TV)
1970 · Documentary · 92 min. · Italy
Direction Federico Fellini
Cast Anita Ekberg · Fanfulla · Riccardo Billi · Tino Scotti
Plot I clowns (also known as The Clowns) is a 1970 television film by Federico Fellini about the human fascination with clowns and circuses. It was made for TV, the Italian...
6.9
560 votes
6.9
560 votes
The Clown
1926 · Movie · 128 min. · Denmark
Direction A.W. Sandberg
Cast Gösta Ekman · Karina Bell · Maurice de Féraudy · Robert Schmidt
6.9
28 votes
6.9
28 votes
Bingo: The King of the Mornings
2017 · Movie · 113 min. · Brazil
Direction Daniel Rezende
Cast Vladimir Brichta · Emanuelle Araújo · Raul Barreto · Pedro Bial
Plot Augusto is an artist looking for his place under the spotlight, following the footsteps of his mother, a stage artist in the 50's. Restless in his search for applause, he...
6.5
42 votes
6.5
42 votes
El pallasso i el Führer (TV)
2007 · Movie · 93 min. · Spain
Direction Eduard Cortés
Cast Ferran Rañé · Manel Barceló · Jordi Martínez · Pere Arquillué
Plot The German occupation of Denmark found Charlie Rivel and his family performing in Copenhagen. The Hitler regime forced him to return to Berlin to honour the contracts he had signed...
6.5
286 votes
6.5
286 votes
Marcelino, el mejor payaso del mundo
2020 · Documentary · 83 min. · Spain
Direction Germán Roda
Cast Pepe Viyuela · Alberto Castrillo Ferrer · Laura Gómez-Lacueva · Salomé Jiménez
6.4
101 votes
6.4
101 votes
It
2017 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Andy Muschietti
Cast Bill Skarsgård · Jaeden Martell · Sophia Lillis · Finn Wolfhard
Plot In the Town of Derry, the local kids are disappearing one by one, leaving behind bloody remains. In a place known as 'The Barrens', a group of seven kids are...
6.4
33K votes
6.4
33K votes
American Horror Story: Freak Show (TV Miniseries)
2014 · Series · 50 min. · United States
Direction Ryan Murphy · Brad Falchuk · Alfonso Gomez-Rejon · Michael Uppendahl
Cast Jessica Lange · Sarah Paulson · Evan Peters · Michael Chiklis
Plot TV Miniseries (2014-2015). 13 Episodes. Set in Jupiter, Florida, in 1950. “Freak Show” finds Jessica Lange playing a German ex-pat who is managing one of the last freak shows in...
6.3
7K votes
6.3
7K votes
A Day in the Life of a Clown (S)
1946 · Movie · 18 min. · France
Direction Jean-Pierre Melville
6.2
116 votes
6.2
116 votes
Terrifier (S)
2011 · Movie · 20 min. · United States
Direction Damien Leone
Cast Marie Maser · Mike Giannelli · Jennifer Castellano · Michael Chmiel
Plot After witnessing a brutal murder on Halloween night, a young woman becomes the next target of a maniacal entity.
6.0
31 votes
6.0
31 votes
It (TV)
1990 · Movie · 192 min. · United States
Direction Tommy Lee Wallace
Cast Richard Thomas · John Ritter · Annette O'Toole · Harry Anderson
Plot Derry, Maine is a quiet town, terrorized every 30 years by a horror known only as "It". The only victims of "It" are children. Through the form of a clown...
5.8
18K votes
5.8
18K votes
The Clown
2011 · Movie · 88 min. · Brazil
Direction Selton Mello
Cast Selton Mello · Paulo José · Tonico Pereira · Giselle Motta
Plot Father and son work as clownsBenjamim (Selton Mello) and Valdemar (Paulo José) in a circus in the Brazilian countryside. Benjamin decides to follow a different path and meets several people...
5.8
306 votes
5.8
306 votes
Terrifier 2
2022 · Movie · 138 min. · United States
Direction Damien Leone
Cast David Howard Thornton · Lauren LaVera · Elliott Fullam · Sarah Voigt
Plot After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to Miles County where he must hunt down and destroy a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween...
5.7
3K votes
5.7
3K votes
It: Chapter Two
2019 · Movie · 169 min. · United States
Direction Andy Muschietti
Cast Jessica Chastain · James McAvoy · Isaiah Mustafa · James Ransone
Plot Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back.
5.7
15K votes
5.7
15K votes
Guillaume Tell et le clown (S)
1898 · Movie · 1 min. · France
Direction Georges Méliès
Cast Georges Méliès
Plot The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and clay head on...
5.6
224 votes
5.6
224 votes
The Last Circus
2010 · Movie · 107 min. · Spain
Direction Álex de la Iglesia
Cast Carlos Areces · Antonio de la Torre · Carolina Bang · Santiago Segura
Plot Year 1937. The circus monkeys scream wildly inside their cage while, outside, men kill and die in another circus: the Spanish Civil War. The Stupid Clown, recruited against his will...
5.6
41K votes
5.6
41K votes