Circuses & Carnivals
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    Movies

    Big Fish (2003)

    A young journalist (Billy Crudup) searches for the truth behind the tall tales told by his ailing...

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    Movies

    Circus of Fear

    A Scotland Yard inspector (Leo Genn) suspects a lion tamer (Christopher Lee), ringmaster (Heinz...

  • Dance With Me Henry picture
    Movies

    Dance With Me Henry (1956)

    Children help an amusement-park owner (Lou Costello) and his buddy (Bud Abbott) get out of trouble...

  • Circus World picture
    Movies

    Circus World (1964)

    A former aerialist performer returns to the circus to watch her now-grown daughter perform.

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    Movies

    Carnivale (1999)

    A group of kids enter a mysterious amusement park and encounter a girl named Milly, who doesn't age....

  • Clifford's Really Big Movie picture
    Movies

    Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004)

    A gigantic red dog (John Ritter) leaves home and becomes the main attraction at a traveling circus....

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    Movies

    Hellbent (2005)

    A scythe-wielding killer stalks gay men (Dylan Fergus, Bryan Kirkwood, Hank Harris) during West...

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    Movies

    Roustabout (1964)

    A singing motorcycle bum (Elvis Presley) joins a woman's (Barbara Stanwyck) carnival and romances...

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    Movies

    The Circus

    The little tramp (Charlie Chaplin) joins a circus, befriends a bareback rider (Merna Kennedy) and...

  • Big Top Pee-Wee picture
    Movies

    Big Top Pee-Wee (1988)

    Childlike Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) falls for a circus star (Valeria Golino) whose troupe is...

  • You Can't Cheat an Honest Man picture
    Movies

    You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

    The owner (W.C. Fields) of a circus plays Cupid for his daughter (Constance Moore) and his...

  • Four Devils picture
    Movies

    Four Devils

    The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children...

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    Movies

    Street Angel (1928)

    Fox's follow-up to Seventh Heaven, The Street Angel reunited stars Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor...

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    Movies

    Wings of Desire (1988)

    An angel falls in love for a circus performer and wishes to become human.

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    Movies

    Trapeze (1956)

    Two aerialists (Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis) and a tumbler (Gina Lollobrigida) form a...

  • Something Wicked This Way Comes picture
    Movies

    Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

    In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.

  • Laugh, Clown, Laugh picture
    Movies

    Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)

    A circus clown (Lon Chaney) adopts an orphan (Loretta Young), then falls in love with her when she...

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    People

    Nick Cravat

    Diminutive New York native Nick Cravat spent his first two decades in show business as a circus and...

  • The First of May picture
    Movies

    The First of May

    An unwanted boy and a forgotten old lady run away to join the circus and in the process find home.

  • I Don't Want to Talk About It picture
    Movies

    I Don't Want to Talk About It (1994)

    Set in Argentina in the late 1930s, an aging bachelor falls in love with an adolescent dwarf,...

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    Movies

    Carny (1980)

    A teenage waitress (Jodie Foster) runs off with a barker (Robbie Robertson) and a sideshow hustler...

  • Werckmeister Harmoniak picture
    Movies

    Werckmeister Harmoniak (2001)

    In a small Hungarian village, during a freezing winter, a small circus comes to town, promising an...

  • Sawdust and Tinsel picture
    Movies

    Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)

    The owner and ring master of a traveling circus leaves his mistress to try to get back together with...

  • Capricious Summer picture
    Movies

    Capricious Summer (1968)

    Three middle-aged men find themselves lusting after the same woman, the beautiful assistant to an...

  • A Tiger Walks picture
    Movies

    A Tiger Walks (1964)

    After a dangerous tiger turns on its trainer and escapes from the circus, a small town in Texas...

  • Lili picture
    Movies

    Lili (1953)

    A French teen (Leslie Caron) joins a carnival and meets a lying magician (Jean-Pierre Aumont) and a...

  • Man on a Tightrope picture
    Movies

    Man on a Tightrope

    Members (Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame) of a family circus stage a bold parade to...

  • When Zachary Beaver Came to Town picture
    Movies

    When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (2005)

    Two friends (Jonathan Lipnicki, Cody Linley) try to help an obese boy (Sasha Neulinger) who is part...

  • Night Tide picture
    Movies

    Night Tide (1963)

    A sailor (Dennis Hopper) falls in love with a sideshow mermaid (Linda Lawson) who believes she...

  • Carnival Story picture
    Movies

    Carnival Story (1954)

    A German woman (Anne Baxter) joins a U.S. carnival in Munich and becomes a high-dive star.