Circus Movies

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.

Encompassing three hugely popular double acts, The Crazy Gang were one of Britain's best-loved, most enduring variety troupes – their antics...

Set over a two-decade period in a tiny Central European village, this drama not only chronicles a couple's tragic star-crossed love, it also serves...

The circus group performs at the Shanfa Circus when a huge load of bombs crash on the stage and the performers try to find a home to live and get...

A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds out about it AND that his son isn't really his,...

A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.

Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy...

Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman,...

Mystery writer Mickey Spillane tries to help Clyde Beatty deal with a plot to sabotage his circus.

A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.

Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's death. With the help of her publicist boyfriend Jim,...

When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.

A circus owner and a lady trapper trek into the African jungle to capture a giant gorilla for his circus.

Woody Woodpecker visits the circus. Singing "I Went to the Animal Fair," he strolls through a tiger's cage. As Woody looks at a rhinoceros, the...

For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native lands, on show as entertainment, just like...

In 1913, Carl is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Spurned by his circumstance, Carl rejects God and resumes his fast...

"Don't pity me, just give me money." A smart little girl, Suzu, for the sake of her beloved sick mother, has no choice but to attempt all ways to...

The feature-length documentary Fakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and France. This circus art origin show is presented...