Circus Movies

Cirque du Soleil presents VOLTA – an inspiring story about the freedom to choose and the thrill of blazing your own trail.

A first love is corrupted as a man recalls his affair with a beautiful circus contortionist in this stop-motion animation of wooden mannequins.

Bluto is the ringmaster; Popeye is the star attraction. Bluto covets Popeye's assistant Olive. Popeye sticks his head in a lion's mouth, but Bluto has...

Two brothers - one a priest, one a career criminal - find bloody salvation in a mysterious underground carnival.

The hard-working owner of a circus, Euríspides Chamorro (Eugenio Retes),goes to Santiago in search of his son, a medical student, but finds to his su...

Alexander Calder created and performed one of the most important and beloved works, his miniature circus (1926-1931). More than twenty years later Jea...

Vairitosky is an immortal artist. His act consists of dying in different ways, and then magically resurrected. The public is impatient, wants to see V...

At the height of the Great Depression, the showman of a renowned circus leads his troupe through the devastated American landscape, lifting the spirit...

A triangle drama involving a female circus owner's favor has consequences. Paula Busch, the grande dame of German circus, depicts a story from the wor...

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

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

Trnka brings to life a surrealist circus of tightrope-walking fish, musical monkeys, balancing bears, and high-flying acrobatics in this whimsical fea...

Based on the 40th Annual Carnival of the Toronto Skating Club.

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, becomes...

When the Newsboys inherit a minor league circus on the verge of bankruptcy, they formulate a plan to put on one final show.

A portrait of a traveling circus.

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 pyre that...

The arrival of a travelling circus sends ripples through the inhabitants of a remote Keralan village.