Circus Movies

Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and aficionados, this four-hour mini-series follows the r...

A renowned circus dog is the only one left behind after her traveling show leaves town. In a stroke of luck, she is found by Billy, a kid from the cit...

Five disparate youths, lost on a road trip to the location of the infamous 'mangrove slasher,' end up being pursued by a cadre of cannibal clowns.

A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, with two fanciful "instincts" guiding him as swooping...

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

In one of the occupied European cities, the commandant of the garrison gathers a troupe of circus performers. Coming from different countries, they ar...

The story of the famous high-wire patriarch Karl Wallenda and how he gets his first circus job in 1920's Germany performing handstands on the high-wir...

Fandango is the director of a traveling circus. He brings with him a handful of artists who have to stick together to succeed, but there is a clear co...

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of power ov...

When Sue Bixby becomes his new boss, stagecoach robber Talbot reforms and goes after her rustled cattle.

Jack Haley joins the circus.

Icarus is the main character of Varekai, who falls to the ground, breaking his legs as he does. He is suddenly in a strange, new world full of creatur...

Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...

Poppy Valentine, a young circus performer who has grown up in her family's traveling circus, has never dreamed of what life would be like outside of i...

Jonny Wilken is an ageing lion trainer in a circus. He is in love with his younger colleague Jutta Sarris. On her wedding day, Jutta's favorite Bengal...

The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus.

A sadistic group of clowns kidnap an unsuspecting man and his daughters, forcing him to play a deadly game in order to save his family.

In this three-act operetta by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán, a dashing and mysterious circus performer is hired by a disappointed suitor of Princ...