Circus Movies

Once a year, people from different marginalized communities meet together in the woods to delve into the art of circus and have this discipline...

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...

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

On her way to the theater, Vera, star of a Russian vaudeville troupe, is rescued from a falling girder by Eugene Foster, a wealthy broker who...

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

Sketches of a Spanish circus made by Richard Williams in 1953 come to life. Williams began the project at the age of 20 and finished it when he was...

A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship.

Cory is a foster child nobody wants. Carlota is an elderly woman the world has forgotten. Together, they find friendship and family when they join a...

Aunt Neirud was always present at family gatherings. Neirud was big, strong, and worked in the circus. Who was this woman so close to the family and...

An IRA operative escapes to the Americas and teams up with a circus singer to create a popular vaudeville act. When the singer falls for a rebel,...

A young dancer becomes a stunt rider through the patronage of a wealthy man.

Plauto, the clown, tells us the story of the Circo de las Alegrías. Doña Alegría, owner of the Circus is determined that her son...

A young man seems to be dreaming of a reality different from the business he is about to take over and the married life that goes with it; he is...

Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and before long their antics are causing the circus owner...

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...

The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman,...

To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc...

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.