Topic: Circus

Direction James Parrott

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Bobby Burns · Baldwin Cooke

Plot In lieu of back wages, the defunct circus that Stanley and Oliver have been working for pay them off with a flea circus and a trained chimpanzee named "Ethel." Unfortunately,...

Direction Nunzia De Stefano

Cast Virginia Apicella · Pietra Montecorvino · Rosy Franzese · Pietro Ragusa

Plot The seventeen-year-old from whom the film takes its title is at the center of the story: stubborn, minute and unripe, she grew up with her grandmother Nanà, Aunt Lucia and...

Direction Andrew Adamson

Cast Matt Gillanders · Dallas Barnett · Lutz Halbhubner · Sophia Elisabeth

Plot Written and directed by Andrew Adamson ("Shrek," "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe"), and executive produced by James Cameron ("Titanic", "Avatar"), the 3D film event...

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Nanni Moretti · Margherita Buy · Mathieu Amalric · Silvio Orlando

Plot A movie director struggles with his relationship with his family, and with his latest movie, about the impact on the Italian Communist Party of the USSR invasion of Hungary in...

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Burt Lancaster · Tony Curtis · Gina Lollobrigida · Katy Jurado

Plot Former circus aerialist Burt Lancaster was the logical choice to star in the Technicolor drama Trapeze. Lancaster plays a crippled acrobat, disabled after attempting to perform a dangerous triple mid-air...

Direction Guillermo del Toro

Cast Bradley Cooper · Rooney Mara · Cate Blanchett · Toni Collette

Plot This tale of seduction and treachery follows a former carnival worker (Bradley Cooper) as he teams up with a psychiatrist to con millionaires... A remake of the 1947 film.

Direction Michael Kidd

Cast Danny Kaye · Pier Angeli · Salvatore Baccaloni · Robert Coote

Plot Downtrodden but creative English school-teacher Andrew Larabee (Danny Kaye) on archeological trip discovers joys of love and circus life with acrobat Selena Gallini (Pier Angeli).

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Michèle Morgan · Raf Vallone · Marthe Mercadier · Jean Gaven

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Hannelore Hoger · Sigi Graue · Alfred Edel · Bernd Höltz

Plot The film is made in a collage style, featuring newsreels and quotations from philosophers alongside the story of a failing circus whose owner, Leni (Hannelore Hoger), must decide whether her...

Direction Tod Browning

Cast John Gilbert · Renée Adorée · Lionel Barrymore · Edward Connelly

Direction Gabriele Mainetti

Cast Claudio Santamaria · Aurora Giovinazzo · Pietro Castellitto · Giancarlo Martini

Plot Matilde, Cencio, Fulvio and Mario are family when the 2nd world war hits Rome. Israel, the owner of their circus, disappears in the attempt to find a getaway overseas for...

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...

Direction José Bohr

Cast Eugenio Retes · Pepe Guixé · Elsa Villa · Gerardo Grez

Direction Juan Rodrigáñez

Cast Lola Rubio · Jorge Dutor · Gianfranco Poddighe · Katrin Memmer

Plot A circus troupe arrives at a town in Castile where they set up their tent. They devise changes in the style of their show because they wish to change the...

Direction Tizza Covi · Rainer Frimmel

Cast Tairo Caroli · Wendy Weber · Arthur Robin · Lilly Robin

Plot The young lion tamer Tairo is unhappy with his present life situation. He uses the loss of his talisman to make a trip through Italy searching for the man who...

Direction Roschdy Zem

Cast Omar Sy · James Thiérrée · Clotilde Hesme · Olivier Gourmet

Plot The history of the clown Chocolate, the first black circus artist in France, which has a great success in the late 19th century.

Direction Francis Lawrence

Cast Reese Witherspoon · Robert Pattinson · Christoph Waltz · James Frain

Plot After losing his parents in a car accident, young veterinary school student Jacob meets and falls in love with Marlena, a star performer in a circus of a bygone era....

Direction George Marshall

Cast Tony Curtis · Janet Leigh · Torin Thatcher · Angela Clarke

Plot A romanticized version of the life and times of the legendary escape artist , Harry Houdini. Chronicles his early beginnings in show business as a dime museum performer, to his...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Beby · Maïss

Direction Igor Legarreta · Emilio Pérez Pérez

Cast Emilio Gavira · Aníbal Tártalo · Esperanza De la Vega · David Becerra

Plot The remains of an ancient circus can still be seen on the outskirts of a big city.