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1. The Fabelmans (2022)
PG-13 | 151 min | Drama
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Michelle Williams, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch
Votes: 117,539
2. 13 Ghosts (1960)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery
A family inherits what proves to be a haunted house, but a special pair of goggles allows them to see their ghostly tormentors.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner, Rosemary DeCamp
Votes: 7,309 | Gross: $3.27M
3. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Passed | 152 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde
Votes: 16,089 | Gross: $36.00M
4. Big Top Pee-wee (1988)
PG | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Pee-wee Herman is now a small-town farmer with a fiancée, but when a traveling circus comes to town, he finds himself falling for the trapeze artist.
Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: Paul Reubens, Penelope Ann Miller, Kris Kristofferson, Valeria Golino
Votes: 10,170 | Gross: $15.12M
5. The Last Circus (2010)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A young trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang, Manuel Tallafé
Votes: 15,252 | Gross: $0.04M
6. I'm No Angel (1933)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold
Votes: 3,988 | Gross: $6.21M
7. The Night Before Christmas (1941)
Passed | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Well, a mouse *is* stirring... And he's having fun playing with the toys, until he mistakes Tom for a stuffed toy and wakes him up.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Rudolf Ising | Stars: The Boswell Sisters, Connee Boswell, Martha Boswell, Vet Boswell
Votes: 2,411
8. The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A young woman with a difficult past is sentenced for a murder she didn't commit, but revealing the truth could hurt people she loves.
Director: Phil Goldstone | Stars: Zita Johann, John Miljan, Alan Dinehart, Paul Cavanagh
Votes: 786
9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Mark Twain's 1851 story about two runaway friends, a fostered white boy and an escaped black slave, who sailed on a raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom and adventure.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Tony Randall, Eddie Hodges, Archie Moore, Patty McCormack
Votes: 1,600
10. Man on a Tightrope (1953)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, Thriller
A Czech circus owner/clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 1,845
11. The Miracle (1991)
R | 97 min | Drama
The two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild stories about them. One day they observe ... See full summary »
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Beverly D'Angelo, Donal McCann, Niall Byrne, Lorraine Pilkington
Votes: 788 | Gross: $0.84M
12. Psycho-Circus (1966)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
Directors: Werner Jacobs, John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache
Votes: 1,474
13. Africa Screams (1949)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck
Votes: 4,069
14. The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Romance
After local grocery clerk rescues a baby from an escaped lion, a circus owner builds him into an attraction but balks when he falls in love with his sister.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney, Eddie Albert, Joan Leslie
Votes: 1,228
15. Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
Approved | 123 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A debt-ridden circus is saved by a well-meaning but inept publicity man.
Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Doris Day, Jimmy Durante, Stephen Boyd, Martha Raye
Votes: 1,734
16. Masquerade (1965)
Not Rated | 102 min | Adventure, Crime, Comedy
The British secret service hire a WWII veteran to voluntarily kidnap and smuggle a 13-year-old Arab prince into Spain. Once there, a gullible American mercenary is hired to protect him, but greed threatens to spoil the operation.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Jack Hawkins, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 568
17. The Great Rupert (1950)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Family
A little squirrel with lots of charm accidentally helps two poor, down-but-NOT-out families overcome their obstacles.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake, Frank Orth
Votes: 1,576
18. Jungle Woman (1944)
Approved | 61 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Paula the ape woman (Acquanetta) is alive and well, and running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher (J. Carrol Naish), also reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Evelyn Ankers, J. Carrol Naish, Samuel S. Hinds, Lois Collier
Votes: 551
19. Roselyne and the Lions (1988)
Not Rated | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Thierry (Gérard Sandoz) drops out of school to apprentice as a lion tamer at the zoo when he meets Roselyne (Isabelle Pasco), who shares his passion. They fall in love and when he loses his... See full summary »
Directors: Jean-Jacques Beineix, Jim Henson | Stars: Isabelle Pasco, Gérard Sandoz, Gabriel Monnet, Philippe Clévenot
Votes: 536
20. Merry Andrew (1958)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Downtrodden but creative English school-teacher (Danny Kaye) on archeological trip discovers joys of love and circus life with acrobat (Pier Angeli).
Director: Michael Kidd | Stars: Danny Kaye, Pier Angeli, Salvatore Baccaloni, Noel Purcell
Votes: 933
21. You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Family
The owner of a debt-ridden circus contends with pursuing bill collectors and sheriffs, and his beloved daughter's relationships with one of his performers and a stuffy but wealthy young man.
Directors: George Marshall, Edward F. Cline | Stars: W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Votes: 1,889
22. 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: 1,043
23. Side Show (1981 TV Movie)
Unrated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A teenage boy runs away from home. He joins the circus but finds out that it's not all what it's cracked up to be. But then the boy becomes a witness to a murder, and he must try to stay out of the killer's way.
Director: William Conrad | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Connie Stevens, William Windom, Barbara Rhoades
Votes: 53
24. Ring of Fear (1954)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Mystery
The Clyde Beatty Circus seems jinxed, falling victim again and again to apparent accidents which are actually the acts of a murderous saboteur. Mystery writer Mickey Spillane comes on the scene to solve the case.
Directors: James Edward Grant, William A. Wellman | Stars: Clyde Beatty, Pat O'Brien, Mickey Spillane, Sean McClory
Votes: 397
25. The Mighty Gorga (1969)
G | 84 min | Adventure, Fantasy
A circus owner and a trapper trek into an African jungle to capture a giant gorilla for his circus.
Director: David L. Hewitt | Stars: Anthony Eisley, Megan Timothy, Scott Brady, Kent Taylor
Votes: 374
26. Fast and Furious (1939)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Rare book dealers Joel and Garda take a summertime jaunt to the seashore where he becomes involved in a beauty pageant as investor and judge - much to her chagrin.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey, Lee Bowman
Votes: 878
27. Striped Trip (1961)
87 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A comedy about tigers and lions running around a cruise ship full of passengers.
Director: Vladimir Fetin | Stars: Aleksey Gribov, Ivan Dmitriev, Margarita Nazarova, Evgeniy Leonov
Votes: 2,670
28. Rain or Shine (1930)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Woman inherits a traveling circus which brings financial difficulties.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Joe Cook, Louise Fazenda, Joan Peers, William Collier Jr.
Votes: 461
29. Sex Circus (1969)
75 min | Drama
A sadistic lion tamer recruits girls for a circus style nightclub.
Director: Tommy Goetz | Stars: Mary Aster, Linda Boyce, Lois Lane, Kim Lewid
30. Hit and Run (1957)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mechanic wants his boss's younger wife for himself, and plans on using a junkyard car to run him over, then dismantling it.
Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Vince Edwards, Dolores Reed
Votes: 580
31. Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (2004 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Ring legends such as The Fabulous Moolah and Gladys "Kill 'Em" Gillem Long provide candid insights into the history of women's professional wrestling.
Director: Ruth Leitman | Stars: Gladys Gillem, John Daly, Mildred Burke, Mae Young
Votes: 344 | Gross: $0.03M
32. 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
33. Hercules Against the Mongols (1963)
Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Drama
Though Genghis Khan eventually sought peace with the West, his death in 1227 AD puts into power his three war-like sons: Sayan, Susdal, and Kin Khan. These sons quickly overrun the city of ... See full summary »
Director: Domenico Paolella | Stars: Mark Forest, José Greci, Maria Grazia Spina, Ken Clark
Votes: 287
34. 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
35. She Made Her Bed (1934)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But, she is a one-man woman, married to the wrong man, but ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Richard Arlen, Sally Eilers, Robert Armstrong, Grace Bradley
Votes: 24
36. 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
37. Only One Night (1939)
TV-PG | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Funfair worker Valdemar is unaware that he is the illegitimate son of rich landowner Colonel Von Brede. The colonel knows, and employs Valdemar as his stable master. The colonel has a young... See full summary »
Director: Gustaf Molander | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Edvin Adolphson, Aino Taube, Olof Sandborg
Votes: 383
38. Caged Fury (1948)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Psycho lion tamer uses the big cats to commit murders.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Richard Denning, Sheila Ryan, Mary Beth Hughes, Buster Crabbe
Votes: 73
39. Rings Around the World (1966)
79 min | Documentary
While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen over the years and the mystique of circus people. He recalls the solo trapeze act of La ... See full summary »
Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Don Ameche, Rudy Cárdenas, Sonny Frankello, Armando Gaona
Votes: 14
40. Fixer Dugan (1939)
Approved | 68 min | Drama
A young girl is orphaned when her mother, a circus aerialist, is killed in a fall. A rival circus informs the sheriff that the girl is an orphan, and she is subsequently placed in an ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Lee Tracy, Virginia Weidler, Peggy Shannon, Bradley Page
Votes: 132
41. Circus Palestina (1998)
83 min | Drama
When a small, run-down circus comes to a Palestinian town, it changes the lives of the West Bank villagers.
Director: Eyal Halfon | Stars: Evgenia Dodina, Yoram Hattab, Amos Lavi, Bassam Zo'amat
Votes: 90
42. The Twelve Chairs (1962)
94 min | Comedy
When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides her jewels in one of... See full summary »
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Enrique Santisteban, Reynaldo Miravalles, René Sánchez, Pilín Vallejo
Votes: 314
43. La tendre ennemie (1936)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Two ghosts attend an engagement party, unseen by the other guests. One ghost, Dupont, is the father of the bride-to-be. He looks back on his marriage to her mother. His wife Annette was ... See full summary »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Simone Berriau, Catherine Fonteney, Laure Diana, Jacqueline Daix
Votes: 272
44. The Lost Jungle (II) (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Adventure
Feature version of the 1934 Mascot serial "The Lost Jungle".
Directors: David Howard, Armand Schaefer | Stars: Clyde Beatty, Cecilia Parker, Syd Saylor, Warner Richmond
Votes: 213
45. The Mouse and the Lion (1953)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Lion, the King of the Jungle, is taking his royal snooze when a mouse comes on a safari to his royal hideaway. The mouse is from Bungling Brothers Circus [us], and his mission is to ... See full summary »
Director: Paul J. Smith | Stars: John T. Smith, Dal McKennon, William Shaw
Votes: 29
46. The Lion Tamer (1934)
9 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Andy agrees to become a circus lion tamer, believing that the "wild animal" he's taming is actually a man wearing an animal skin. However, he soon finds out differently. Complications ensue.
Director: Vernon Stallings | Stars: Charles J. Correll, Freeman F. Gosden
Votes: 75
47. The Bandmaster (1947)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Andy Panda is the conductor of an all-animal circus orchestra.
Director: Dick Lundy
Votes: 96
48. Happy Circus Days (1942)
7 min | Animation, Short
The circus comes to a small boy's town.
Director: Connie Rasinski
Votes: 17
49. The Monkey Talks (1927)
60 min | Drama
A bankrupt circus act plans to revive its fortunes by disguising a diminutive acrobat as a talking chimpanzee. Things go awry when the acrobat falls in love with a beautiful tightrope-walker.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Olive Borden, Jacques Lerner, Don Alvarado, Malcolm Waite
Votes: 73
50. Red Wagon (1933)
107 min | Drama
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Charles Bickford, Raquel Torres, Greta Nissen, Don Alvarado
Votes: 24