Circus Movies

The curtains of a theatre open onto a smaller puppet theatre presided over by Marianne. The ringmaster waves her baton at three shadowy acrobats that...

Joe Bonomo played circus acrobat Welles "Red" Landow, Louise Lorraine was the heroine, tightrope artist Trixie Tremaine, and such studio stalwarts as...

The end of the XIX century. Petya, an eight-year orphan who has been cast in training German acrobat Karl Becker, who curses and beatings would...

A portrait of a traveling circus.

Casper the Friendly Ghost helps Spunky the Donkey find a useful job.

When the circus arrives they put the lion's cage right over Bugs' rabbit hole.

A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a...

Aspiring stage actress Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.

Mary Miles Minter is the title character. Pat (Minter) is a little orphan who has been raised around the circus. Her foster father is Toto the clown...

Seven men, after getting acquainted in prison and finding out that all of their lives have been affected by the same con man, decide to raid the...

Reconciliation becomes possible between a gay circus trainer and his mom when he and his husband adopt a student.

A 1986 set of three French clay animation shorts: The Multi-Coloured Little Circus and The Two Little Nightwalkers, both by Jacques Remy-Girerd, and...

Drama set around a circus at Blackpool. A clown loves a young housekeeper and saves her from a fire caused by a jealous lion tamer.

A boy travels from Chaco to Buenos Aires taking with him an elephant that saved from a circus.

Bugs Bunny is hired to perform in Colonel Korny's Circus alongside Bruno the Magnificent, the Slobokian Acrobatic Bear, but Bruno doesn't want to...

After causing his friend's death, an animal trainer marries the man's daughter to atone.

Dud imagines himself as a daring circus performer (which would certainly impress Mamie.)

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and followed their lives for a year. The artists, from...

Director George Sherman's 1959 circus drama stars Michael Callan as a cocky aerialist causing romantic problems under the Big Top.