Topic: Circus

Direction Tod Browning

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

Synopsis 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, until Hans maintains her love is genuine.

Direction Robert Wiene

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

Synopsis The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) is a German Expressionist silent film that follows Francis as he recounts a haunting tale. In a small German town, the mysterious Dr. Caligari arrives with a somnambulist named Cesare, who awakens only under...

Direction Charles Chaplin

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

Synopsis In The Circus (1928), Charlie Chaplin stars as a tramp who stumbles into a struggling circus and unwittingly becomes the star attraction due to his comedic mishaps. As he falls for the ringmaster's daughter, a rival performer complicates matters. The...

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

Synopsis 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 hidden talents who is taken in by the carnival, and...

Direction Tod Browning

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

Synopsis 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 is a perfectly armed thief, with the unique distinction of...

Direction Joshua Weigel

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

Synopsis The Butterfly Circus (S) (2009) is a short film set during the Great Depression. It follows a traveling circus that brings hope and wonder to struggling communities. The story centers on Will, a man born without limbs, who is discovered...

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

Synopsis 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 falls in love with another circus performer, and those who...

Direction David Mallet

Direction Dominic Champagne · Nick Morris

Direction Edmund Goulding

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

Synopsis 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 eccentric people of all possible varieties interact on a daily...

Direction Ewald André Dupont

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

Synopsis 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 own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. But he...

Direction Max Ophüls

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

Synopsis 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 Shuji Terayama

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

Direction Ingmar Bergman

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

Direction Linh Viet

Cast Thé Anh · Son Bac · Khuong Be · Ngan Thai