Topic: Circus

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Wallace Ford · Leila Hyams · Olga Baclanova · Roscoe Ates

Plot The story involves duplicitous trapeze artist Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) seducing sideshow midget Hans (Earles) for his inheritance. Hans’ reluctant friends, the other sideshow attractions, resist allowing her into their clan,...

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Werner Krauss · Conrad Veidt · Friedrich Feher · Lil Dagover

Plot Caligari appears in the town with his marvel Cesare the Somnambulist, a man who has been asleep for 23 years and is now under Caligari’s hypnotic control. Caligari claims that...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Merna Kennedy · Betty Morrisey · Harry Crocker

Plot Charlie's Tramp character finds himself at a circus where he promptly gets chased around by the police who think he is a pickpocket. Running into the big top, he is...

Direction Nick Morris

Direction Mario Janelle

Direction Daniel Knauf · Rodrigo García · Jeremy Podeswa · Jack Bender

Cast Nick Stahl · Clancy Brown · Amy Madigan · Michael J. Anderson

Plot TV Series (2003-2005). 2 Seasons. 24 Episodes. "Carnivale" follows a traveling carnival as it wends its way across the Dust Bowl, focusing on Ben Hawkins, a mysterious 18-year-old fugitive with...

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Lon Chaney · Joan Crawford · Norman Kerry · Nick de Ruiz

Plot Alonzo, one of the star attractions of Zanzi's gypsy circus, is an "armless wonder" who hurls knives with his feet at his attractive assistant Nanon, Zanzi's daughter. In reality, Alonzo...

Direction Joshua Weigel

Cast Eduardo Verastegui · Nick Vujicic · Doug Jones · Matt Allmen

Plot At the height of the Great Depression, the showman of a renowned circus leads his troupe through the devastated American landscape, lifting the spirits of audiences along the way. During...

Direction Boris Barnet · Konstantin Yudin

Cast Stanislav Chekan · Aleksandr Mikhailov · Yuri Medvedev · Iya Arepina

Direction Pierre Étaix

Cast Pierre Étaix · Claudine Auger · Philippe Dionnet · Luce Klein

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...

Direction David Mallet

Direction Dominic Champagne · Nick Morris

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Tyrone Power · Joan Blondell · Coleen Gray · Helen Walker

Plot This relatively little-known film is widely hailed by fans of the macabre. Truly ahead of its time, NIGHTMARE ALLEY is set in the gritty, surrealistic world of traveling carnivals, where...

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Emil Jannings · Maly Delschaft · Lya De Putti · Warwick Ward

Plot The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife...

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Martine Carol · Peter Ustinov · Anton Walbrook · Oskar Werner

Plot The film tells the tragic story of Lola Montès (1821-1861), a great adventurer who becomes the main attraction of a circus after being the lover of various important European men.

Direction Guy Caron · David Mallet

Direction Gooseworx

Plot A woman becomes trapped in a crazy virtual world along with five other humans and they are now subject to the whims of a crazy AI and their own personal...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Yoshio Harada · Isao Kimura · Sen Hara · Kaoru Yachigusa

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Åke Grönberg · Harriet Andersson · Hasse Ekman · Gudrun Brost