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51. Captive Wild Woman (1943)
Passed | 61 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Carradine, Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone, Lloyd Corrigan
Votes: 1,044
52. Variety (1925)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap ... See full summary »
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti, Warwick Ward
Votes: 1,408 | Gross: $0.71M
53. 4 Devils (1928)
Passed | 100 min | Drama
Four orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Mary Duncan, Charles Morton, Barry Norton
54. Alegría (1999)
PG | 94 min | Drama, Romance, Fantasy
The acclaimed Canadian performance troupe Cirque de Soleil, which combines acrobatics, magic, music, and theater into spectacular stage productions, brings one of their most popular shows to the screen.
Director: Franco Dragone | Stars: René Bazinet, Frank Langella, Mako, Julie Cox
Votes: 585
55. Seven Murders for Scotland Yard (1972)
R | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In this version of the famous story of the London serial killer, Jack not only likes to kill prostitutes but he is a cannibal as well.
Director: José Luis Madrid | Stars: Paul Naschy, Patricia Loran, Renzo Marignano, Orchidea De Santis
Votes: 355
56. The Trap (2007)
20 min | Short, Drama
Maggie's friends have planned a surprise birthday party (despite it being a month away). During the party, Maggie realizes there's more to it than that.
Director: Rita Wilson | Stars: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gregory Butler, Camilla Belle, Gia Carides
Votes: 170
57. Bear's Kiss (2002)
101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human.
Director: Sergei Bodrov | Stars: Rebecka Liljeberg, Joachim Król, Sergey Bodrov, Keith Allen
Votes: 973
58. The Circus (1936)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Musical
In the mid-1930s, circus actress Marion Dixon flees the United States with her young black son. Arriving with an original attraction in the USSR, she finds friends here and decides to stay forever.
Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Isidor Simkov | Stars: Lyubov Orlova, Yevgeniya Melnikova, Vladimir Volodin, Sergey Stolyarov
Votes: 735
59. Preciosa (1998– )
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A humble crippled girl who dreams of becoming a circus star falls in love with the doctor who is engaged to her half-sister. The Angel Clown, the circus clowns, and other circus folks look ... See full summary »
Stars: Nailea Norvind, Irán Castillo, Mauricio Islas, Francisco Gattorno
Votes: 64
60. El robo más grande jamás contado (2002)
105 min | Comedy
Four criminals plan to steal Picasso's Guernica painting.
Director: Daniel Monzón | Stars: Antonio Resines, Neus Asensi, Manuel Manquiña, Javier Aller
Votes: 497
61. Il est plus facile pour un chameau... (2003)
110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures ... See full summary »
Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Chiara Mastroianni, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Denis Podalydès
Votes: 901 | Gross: $0.02M
62. Comrade Kim Goes Flying (2012)
81 min | Comedy, Romance
A female coal miner in communist Korea aspires to be an acrobat in a circus.
Directors: Nicholas Bonner, Anja Daelemans, Gwang Hun Kim | Stars: Jong-sim Han, Chung-guk Pak, Ri Yong Ho, Son-nam Kim
Votes: 325
63. Innocence Unprotected (1968)
75 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Documentary about the famous Serbian athlete and movie enthusiast who made a feature film during the Nazi occupation of Belgrade and had some problems after the liberation because of that.
Director: Dusan Makavejev | Stars: Dragoljub Aleksic, Bratoljub Gligorijevic, Vera Jovanovic, Ana Milosavljevic
Votes: 896
64. Duniya Meri Jeb Mein (1979)
139 min | Action, Thriller
A student in a prestigious college, Vishal Khanna believes he lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his businessman brother, Karan. Vishal meets with and falls in love with Neeta, the only ... See full summary »
Director: Tinnu Anand | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Ranjeet Bedi
Votes: 95
65. The Dark Tower (1943)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
A struggling circus finds salvation in the form of an exciting new twist on their high-wire act.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Ben Lyon, Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Herbert Lom
Votes: 446
66. Homicide for Three (1948)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
On their honeymoon,a young navy officer and his wife are having difficulties in finding a hotel room in Los Angeles until a lady lends them her suite. There, they receive a mysterious ... See full summary »
Director: George Blair | Stars: Warren Douglas, Audrey Long, Grant Withers, Lloyd Corrigan
Votes: 145
67. Polly of the Circus (1932)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Romance
After a trapeze performer is injured during an accident, she is moved to a minister's house where they both fall in love.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 1,235
68. The Big Cage (1933)
Passed | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Clyde Beatty, Anita Page, Andy Devine, Vince Barnett
Votes: 68
69. Semen, una historia de amor (2005)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
Serafin works at a fertility clinic and doesn't believe in chaos, until Ariadna, a sexy trapezist, wants to have a child from a completely anonymous donor - but all hell breaks loose when ... See full summary »
Directors: Daniela Fejerman, Inés París | Stars: Ernesto Alterio, Leticia Dolera, Héctor Alterio, María Isbert
Votes: 588
70. Gallant Journey (1946)
Passed | 85 min | Biography, Drama, History
This historical drama is a biopic of the U.S. aviation pioneer John J. Montgomery who was the first American to fly a glider in 1883.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Glenn Ford, Janet Blair, Charles Ruggles, Henry Travers
Votes: 290
71. The Circus Queen Murder (1933)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a ... See full summary »
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Donald Cook, Greta Nissen, Ruthelma Stevens
Votes: 338
72. Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)
103 min | Drama
"Neues Kino movie" about life in the circus dome narrated in Brechtian spirit; deceptively illusionist grip is broken violently by aloofness and sweeping subjective tracking shots.
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Hannelore Hoger, Sigi Graue, Alfred Edel, Bernd Höltz
Votes: 464
73. Leningrad: Kolshchik (2017 Music Video)
4 min | Short, Action, Comedy
Going on in reverse this music video reveals step by step a bizarre chain reaction of catastrophic events in an ordinary Russian circus.
Director: Ilya Naishuller | Stars: Leningrad, Aleksei Velikotnyi, Anna Baranovskaya, Alena Ermolaeva
Votes: 365
74. Circus Girl (1937)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Trapeze artist Kay Rogers marries aerial-act member Charles Jerome, who immediately become jealous of fellow-trapeze artist Bob McAvoy, and sets out to kill him through a series of staged ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: June Travis, Robert Livingston, Donald Cook, Betty Compson
Votes: 58
75. O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935)
Passed | 87 min | Drama
A one-armed circus animal tamer regains his son and the confidence he lost along with his wife.
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, George 'Spanky' McFarland, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 212
76. The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Popeye comes to ask Olive out, but finds she's gone off with the title character. Popeye goes to the circus (ringmaster Wimpy) looking for her, to find she's part of the act; an aerial battle ensues.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky | Stars: Charles Carver, William Costello, Lou Fleischer, William Pennell
Votes: 362
78. 3-Ring Marriage (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Drama
All three rings are filled in this film, the first FFM trans adult entertainment film to be shown in cinema.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, Lawford Davidson, Yola d'Avril
Votes: 31
79. Spartacus & Cassandra (2014)
80 min | Documentary
Spartacus and Cassandra, the children of two homeless Roma, have been taken in by the young street worker Camille. In her little community she helps homeless and poor children and performs ... See full summary »
Director: Ioanis Nuguet | Stars: Cassandra Dumitru, Spartacus Ursu, Camille Brisson, Lamina Dumitru
Votes: 114
80. Trigger, Jr. (1950)
Passed | 68 min | Western
Evil Grant Withers lets a killer horse loose to ruin valuable horses on nearby ranches. He hopes to shake down the ranchers for his "protection". Roy tracks down the bad guys, but is ... See full summary »
Director: William Witney | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dale Evans, Pat Brady
Votes: 244
81. Saltimbanco (1997 TV Special)
56 min | Family, Musical
Saltimbanco is a celebration of life where more than 50 performers defy gravity and dazzle with their artistry.
Director: Jacques Payette | Stars: Dimitri A. Arnaoutov, René Bazinet, Ann Bernard, Pawel Biegaj
Votes: 304
82. La venenosa (1949)
113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Miguel Morayta | Stars: Armando Calvo, Gloria Marín, Issa Morante, Rafael Alcayde
Votes: 9
83. Magic Journeys (1982)
16 min | Fantasy, Short
Children are shown in a series of dream and fantasy sequences, with imagery (such as a kite soaring out of the screen) designed to take advantage of the 3-D format.
Director: Murray Lerner
Votes: 78
84. Eugenio (1999)
37 min | Animation, Short
Eugenio is a man about fifty with a caring family, work he believes in, a personal routine, and a house in the country. This seems a simple and ordinary profile, but Eugenio is challenged ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Jacques Prunès
Votes: 9
85. The Wrestler and the Clown (1957)
95 min | Drama, Sport
It's a story about two of the most famous russian personages. They become friends, and then go along on the path of glory in parallel.
Directors: Boris Barnet, Konstantin Yudin | Stars: Stanislav Chekan, Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Anatoliy Solovyov, Boris Petker
Votes: 164
86. Clown Princes (1939)
Passed | 11 min | Short, Comedy, Family
The Our Gang kids put on a circus in the barn to raise money to help Porky's family pay the rent and avoid getting evicted.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Darla Hood, Eugene 'Porky' Lee, George 'Spanky' McFarland, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer
Votes: 84
87. Red Wagon (1933)
107 min | Drama
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Charles Bickford, Raquel Torres, Greta Nissen, Don Alvarado
Votes: 24
88. This Is a Living? (1953)
10 min | Short, Comedy
A narrated collection of clips featuring acrobats and stunt performers who earn their living in unusual and exciting ways.
Stars: Alfredo Codona, Lalo Codona, Vera Codona, The Maxellos
Votes: 74
89. Barbette
Drama | Announced
"Barbette" explores the glorious and melancholy life of one of the 20th century's greatest performers - celebrated American trapeze artist Vander Clyde, a.k.a. Barbette.
90. Sombras del circo (1931)
Passed | Drama, Romance
Greta, Nick and Tony are trapeze artists at the Dixon Circus, but Nick, in love with Greta, is jealous of her friendship with Tony.
Director: Adelqui Migliar | Stars: Amelia Muñoz, Tony D'Algy, Félix de Pomés, Miguel Ligero
91. The Circus Show-Up (1932)
Passed | 18 min | Mystery, Short
The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch just as she starts her famed triple ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Sally Blane, Russell Hopton, Paul Nicholson, William Halligan
Votes: 24
92. The Midnight Party (1969)
4 min | Short
A short black and white film where circus performers entertain children.
Director: Joseph Cornell
Votes: 159
93. The Woman for Joe (1955)
91 min | Drama, Romance
A sideshow owner and his main attraction, a midget, fall for the same woman.
Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Diane Cilento, George Baker, Jimmy Karoubi, David Kossoff
Votes: 132
94. Ana, dónde estás? (1987)
16+ | 65 min | Drama
Ana is one. One Ana, divided into two aspects. Two aspects of a woman.
Director: Narcisa Hirsch | Stars: Margarita García Faure, Silvia Estrín, Cecilia Etchegaray, Jean Pierre Reguerraz
95. Carnival Courage (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Romance
The prologue says that in the old days, the strong men were Samson and Hercules, but today it is Willoughby Wren, a little wimp with a magic hat that gives him unusual strength. Willoughby ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Swift | Star: John McLeish
Votes: 23
96. Elf on the Run (2016)
Not Rated | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
A little girl makes an unusual friendship with a spring's goblin.
Director: Agurtzane Intxaurraga | Stars: Aintzane Crujeiras, Anjel Alkain, Loinaz Jauregi, Ramón Zalakain
Votes: 30
97. The Bandmaster (1947)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Andy Panda is the conductor of an all-animal circus orchestra.
Director: Dick Lundy
Votes: 98
98. Christine of the Big Tops (1926)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance
When her circus-performer parents die in an accident, Christine, a young girl, is raised by other circus-performers, including Hagan, a balloon-vender, and Pete Barman as her guardians. ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Pauline Garon, Cullen Landis, Otto Matieson, Robert Graves
99. Happy Circus Days (1942)
7 min | Animation, Short
The circus comes to a small boy's town.
Director: Connie Rasinski
Votes: 17
100. O Violino do João (1944)
106 min | Drama
Director: Bras Alves | Stars: Ada Luftmann, Erico Braga, Emilia D'Oliveira, António Rosa