Circus Movies

A portrait of a traveling circus.

Tairo, a young lion-tamer, is unhappy. Losing his lucky charm gives him a reason to set off for a journey across Italy in search of Arthur Robin, a...

Hurvinek cannot go to a circus because he injured himself when sliding down the stair rail. He daydreams that he is an acrobat riding a scooter and...

From the slow waitings for opening of the big top to the loneliness in the dressing room backstage, Abuhadba follows the life of a small circus in...

"When I Grow Up" follows the imagination of a young boy's dreams for his future.

Of the films that Psilander made at Nordisk during the first two years it is the film Dødsspring til Hest fra Cirkuskuplen (The Great Circus...

A dedicated detective must find out who comitted murder on a weird circus. There are three suspects: a cynical clown, a scary magician's assistant...

A story of the world's first female tiger trainer who claimed her love for her tigers was so great she wanted to die in the ring. Raised in poverty...

Short dramatised documentary showing the ups and downs of daily life on a circus farm. “The only light comes from the flames of the funeral...

The Moșilor Fair is an exercise by a student director who used his film before he had managed to finalize the originally planned movie. The...

Jack Haley joins the circus.

The Giver Gives to Give is a black and white silent film starring a clown in search of a stage, an audience, a friend.

A young boy is taken by a train on a mysterious journey. BAFTA-winning 14 minute adaptation of H.R. Millar's 1927 book, Dreamland Express.

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vacant lot, the troupe parades through the grand...

A clown leaves the circus where he performed for many years. Accompanied by his nephew and white puddle Arto, he starts performing street shows to...

Once upon a time, a door opened and two worlds collided. Dreams clashed with reality. The mundane mixed with the marvelous. It was no longer possible...

Father-and-son lion tamers, Rabbas and Léo share a mistress - Rosita, the " lovely bitch " of the film's title. She is as wild as their...

A gypsy performer and friend flee the circus troop they work for and find an old house to take refuge. Little do they realize that the house is...