Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "bearded-woman"

1. Kingpin (1996)

PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy, Sport

A star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches.

Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Bill Murray, Vanessa Angel

Votes: 91,163 | Gross: $24.94M

2. Carnivàle (2003–2005)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

During the Great Depression, an Oklahoma farm boy and a charismatic minister learn that they are key players in a proxy war being fought between Heaven and Hell.

Stars: Michael J. Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Clancy Brown, Debra Christofferson

Votes: 46,902

3. Dirty Work (1998)

PG-13 | 82 min | Comedy

A loser finds success in the revenge-for-hire business.

Director: Bob Saget | Stars: Norm MacDonald, Jack Warden, Artie Lange, Traylor Howard

Votes: 30,198 | Gross: $9.98M

4. Freaks (1932)

Not Rated | 64 min | Drama, Horror

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates

Votes: 50,659 | Gross: $0.63M

5. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

Not Rated | 132 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Toby, a disillusioned film director, is pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.

Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: José Luis Ferrer, Ismael Fritschi, Juan López-Tagle, Adam Driver

Votes: 22,205 | Gross: $0.39M

6. Saboteur (1942)

Passed | 109 min | Thriller, War

A young man accused of sabotage goes on the run to prove his innocence.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter

Votes: 28,004

7. Cecil B. Demented (2000)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage filmmakers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.

Director: John Waters | Stars: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier

Votes: 16,663 | Gross: $1.28M

8. Carny (1980)

R | 107 min | Drama

Tired of her dull job as a waitress, Donna decides to join two carnival hustlers and see what life in their field is like.

Director: Robert Kaylor | Stars: Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson, Meg Foster

Votes: 2,444

9. 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: 10,158 | Gross: $15.12M

10. Human Nature (2001)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

A woman is in love with a man in love with another woman, and all three have designs on a young man raised as an ape.

Director: Michel Gondry | Stars: Tim Robbins, Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans, Ken Magee

Votes: 18,981 | Gross: $0.70M

11. Wolf Girl (2001)

R | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Tara Talbot (Victoria Sanchez) is afflicted with the rare genetic condition known as hypertrichosis - she is covered head to toe in hair. She lives her life in Harley Dune's (Tim Curry's) ... See full summary »

Director: Thom Fitzgerald | Stars: Shelby Fenner, Shawn Ashmore, Tony Denman, Nate Dushku

Votes: 1,043

12. Berserk (1967)

Approved | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A scheming circus owner finds her authority challenged when a vicious killer targets the show.

Director: Jim O'Connolly | Stars: Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors, Michael Gough

Votes: 2,661

13. 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: 15,239 | Gross: $0.04M

14. Popeye the Sailor (1933)

Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Popeye begins his movie career by singing his theme song, demonstrating his strength at a carnival, dancing the hula with Betty Boop, pummeling Bluto, eating his spinach, and saving Olive Oyl from certain doom on the railroad tracks.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel | Stars: William Costello, William Pennell, Bonnie Poe, Mae Questel

Votes: 1,911

15. The Similars (2015)

89 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

On the rainy night of October 2, 1968, eight characters waiting on a remote bus station for a bus heading to Mexico City start experiencing a strange phenomenon.

Director: Isaac Ezban | Stars: Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Fernando Becerril, Humberto Busto

Votes: 4,368

16. The Conjugal Bed (1963)

Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama

A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.

Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Marina Vlady, Walter Giller, Linda Sini

Votes: 809

17. Entr'acte (1924)

22 min | Short

An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.

Director: René Clair | Stars: Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp

Votes: 4,197

18. The Museum of Wonders (2010)

99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

When the beautiful dancer Salome learns that the dwarf circus owner Marcel has just received an inheritance, she marries the lovesick, diminutive performer, all the while planning to steal ... See full summary »

Director: Domiziano Cristopharo | Stars: Francesco Venditti, Fabiano Lioi, Valentina Mio, Elda Alvigini

Votes: 112

19. The Countess of Baton Rouge (1997)

94 min | Comedy, Romance

Montreal film-maker Rex Prince travels to Louisiana to search for his first love Paula Paul, the Countess of the title: the loveliest bearded lady ever to grace a circus sideshow. To win ... See full summary »

Director: André Forcier | Stars: Robin Aubert, Geneviève Brouillette, Isabel Richer, David Boutin

Votes: 152

20. Una pareja... distinta (1974)

104 min | Drama

Zoraida is a single mother and bearded woman in a circus, while Charly works in transvestite shows. Together they will live a difficult and unusual love story.

Director: José María Forqué | Stars: Lina Morgan, José Luis López Vázquez, Ismael Merlo, Manuel Díaz González

Votes: 37

21. Give or Take an Inch (2003)

Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Drama

When their lesbian sister announces that she's going to have a sex change operation, her southern family has to make some attitude adjustments.

Director: Lee Friedlander | Stars: Amanda Bearse, Michele Greene, Kacie Stetson, Megan Cavanagh

Votes: 77

22. Jubilo, Jr. (1924)

20 min | Family, Comedy, Short

A young boy, determined to make money enough to buy his mother a birthday present, finds a variety of odd jobs and finally starts up a makeshift circus.

Director: Robert F. McGowan | Stars: Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Mickey Daniels, Allen 'Farina' Hoskins

Votes: 64

23. Carnival Circus (1978)

23 min | Family, Short, Musical

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Director: Nick De Noia | Stars: Kelly Ellen Collins, Alex Paez, John Femia, Ava Haddad

Votes: 26

24. Ko-Ko's Big Sale (1929)

8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Koko the Clown and his dog try to become salesmen.

Director: Dave Fleischer

Votes: 32

25. Ivanhood (1992)

70 min | Comedy

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Director: Paul Ruven | Stars: Christo van Klaveren, Maike Meijer, Odette van der Molen, Fabienne Meershoek

Votes: 14

26. On a violé la femme à barbe! (2008)

18 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi

In the 50's... With the help of his uncle, professor BarbeMolle, and of a bearded woman, Glen -a famous reporter- tries to stop a terrible Martian invasion.

Director: Emmanuel Delabaere | Stars: Jean-Baptiste Charbonnier, Yann Gaborieau, Frédéric Weinling, Nicolas Dubois

27. Blowing Bubbles (2010)

4 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

Bubbles the Clown is choking, night after night, when his performance routine is disrupted by the departure of the Bearded Woman.

Director: Vaughn Juares | Stars: Joseph Andrew Schneider, Vaughn Juares, Nora Montanez

Votes: 85

28. Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (2000–2001)
Episode: The Kingdom of Bones (2001)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A museum curator hires two professors (one being Dr. Joseph Bell) to publicly unwrap an Egyptian mummy, but it proves to be a man's three-week-old corpse.

Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Miles Richardson, Charles Edwards, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Ben Macleod

Votes: 347

29. Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode: Episode #7.6 (2005)

TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama

Sylvia's in a quandary over Aunty Margaret's will stipulation, unaware of Malcolm's gold digging intentions. Buxton enlists Janine's help to get out of lock up. Kerrigan wastes no time exacting revenge on Sister Thomas.

Director: Laurence Moody | Stars: Liz May Brice, Philip McGough, Helen Fraser, Jack Ellis

Votes: 30

30. Bewitched (1964–1972)
Episode: A Safe and Sane Halloween (1967)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Tabitha brings three storybook goblins to life and they go trick-or-treating with them around Morning Glory Circle.

Director: William Asher | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy

Votes: 324

31. Blackadder II (1986)
Episode: Potato (1986)

TV-PG | 27 min | Comedy

Edmund attempts to impress the Queen by embarking on his own voyage of discovery to the New World.

Director: Mandie Fletcher | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Miranda Richardson

Votes: 1,098

32. Married... with Children (1987–1997)
Episode: Kelly Breaks Out (1994)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy

Kelly has a big zit on the day before her commercial for Ice Hole beer and Peg offers her a solution. Her uncle Sticky Wanker's zit removing potion will cure it. Al is ecstatic for her ... See full summary »

Director: Gerry Cohen | Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse, Christina Applegate

Votes: 497

33. Space: 1999 (1975–1977)
Episode: The Taybor (1976)

TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

The expansive Taybor, an intergalactic merchant arrives from hyperspace on his ship, The Emporium. He is offering to sell things to the Alphans. Koenig realizes that if the Taybor sold them... See full summary »

Director: Bob Brooks | Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt

Votes: 227

34. Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode: Food for Thought (1993)

Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

A psychic clown and part-time cook who abuses his assistant and wife learns that she is having an affair with a fire eater and plans to runs off with him.

Director: Rodman Flender | Stars: Ernie Hudson, Joan Chen, John Laughlin, Phil Fondacaro

Votes: 664

35. CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode: Past Imperfect (2007)

TV-14 | 40 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A body of a woman, Emma, in a black party dress is found in a dumpster. Her head is wrapped in packing tape. When the ME examines the body, he finds that her eye lids have been removed. ... See full summary »

Director: Oz Scott | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap

Votes: 321

36. The L Word (2004–2009)
Episode: Leaving Los Angeles (2009)

TV-MA | 54 min | Drama, Romance

Shane and Jenny are still melting over each other; Bette and Tina meet a potential birth mother; Max tries to deal with being pregnant; Alice and Tasha play matchmaker; and Kelly Wentworth (Elizabeth Berkley) may have what Bette needs.

Director: Rose Troche | Stars: Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey, Laurel Holloman, Mia Kirshner

Votes: 178

37. The L Word (2004–2009)
Episode: Lactose Intolerant (2009)

TV-MA | 58 min | Drama, Romance

Jenny throws a baby shower for Max; Bette and Tina hit a roadblock in the adoption process; Bette goes solo to her gallery's opening night celebration; Shane is feeling boxed in by Jenny; Alice starts to feel like three is a crowd.

Director: John Stockwell | Stars: Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey, Laurel Holloman, Mia Kirshner

Votes: 166

38. The L Word (2004–2009)
Episode: Least Likely (2009)

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Romance

Bette and Tina discuss plans for a new life together, but the reappearance of an old acquaintance of Bette's threatens their future; Tasha and Alice seek counseling for their compatibility issues; an old flame sends Helena reeling.

Director: Rose Troche | Stars: Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey, Laurel Holloman, Mia Kirshner

Votes: 175

39. Hunderby (2012–2015)
Episode: Episode #1.5 (2012)

21 min | Comedy

Helene hopes to run away with the Doctor but when his wife, Hestor, overhears she takes decisive action. Dorothy's scheming seems about to pay off when the hunchback John Whiffin arrives at the house.

Director: Tony Dow | Stars: Julia Davis, Alexandra Roach, Alex Macqueen, Rufus Jones

Votes: 23

40. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005– )
Episode: The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6 (2013)

TV-MA | 19 min | Comedy

After creative differences over what constitutes tasteful nudity cause Frank to pull his money out of Lethal Weapon 6 during filming, Mac, Dennis, and Charlie screen their rough footage for... See full summary »

Director: Daniel Attias | Stars: Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson

Votes: 2,412

41. Fugget About It (2012–2021)
Episode: Effin' Neighbors, Eh? (2013)

TV-MA | 22 min | Animation, Comedy, Crime

Jimmy can't stand it when the annoying Hosers next door are given protected status by the Canadian Government.

Director: Richard Weston | Stars: Tony Nappo, Jacqueline Pillon, Chuck Shamata, Emilie-Claire Barlow

Votes: 25

42. American Horror Story (2011– )
Episode: Monsters Among Us (2014)

TV-MA | 61 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

After their mother's murder, conjoined twins Bette and Dot are hired by struggling freak show owner Elsa Mars.

Director: Ryan Murphy | Stars: Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Michael Chiklis, Frances Conroy

Votes: 6,456

43. American Horror Story (2011– )
Episode: Massacres and Matinees (2014)

TV-MA | 53 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

With a killer on the loose, police impose a curfew on Jupiter. Elsa hires a strongman, unaware of his dark past with Ethel.

Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | Stars: Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Michael Chiklis, Frances Conroy

Votes: 4,464

44. American Horror Story (2011– )
Episode: Edward Mordrake: Part 1 (2014)

TV-MA | 57 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Elsa defies superstition to rehearse on Halloween, summoning the spirit of Edward Mordrake and his ghostly band of freaks.

Director: Michael Uppendahl | Stars: Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Michael Chiklis, Frances Conroy

Votes: 4,323

45. American Horror Story (2011– )
Episode: Blood Bath (2014)

TV-MA | 46 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

The freaks mourn the death of one of their own, while Elsa welcomes a new performer. Penny and her new friends get revenge on her father.

Director: Bradley Buecker | Stars: Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Michael Chiklis, Frances Conroy

Votes: 3,713

46. American Horror Story (2011– )
Episode: Pink Cupcakes (2014)

TV-MA | 47 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Stanley makes a plan to abduct and kill the Tattlers. However, Elsa has her own plan for getting rid of the sisters. Meanwhile, Dandy selects his first victim.

Director: Michael Uppendahl | Stars: Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Michael Chiklis, Frances Conroy

Votes: 3,907

47. American Horror Story (2011– )
Episode: Tupperware Party Massacre (2014)

TV-MA | 44 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Jimmy wallows in self-pity, and Dandy sets out to destroy the man who deprived him of the twins. Meanwhile, Desiree meets an old flame, and Elsa and Stanley track the Tattlers.

Director: Loni Peristere | Stars: Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Michael Chiklis, Frances Conroy

Votes: 3,584

48. American Horror Story (2011– )
Episode: Bullseye (2014)

TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Elsa prepares for her television show by bringing out a new act. Meanwhile, Paul pursues romance and the twins settle in to their new home.

Director: Howard Deutch | Stars: Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Michael Chiklis, Frances Conroy

Votes: 3,830

49. American Horror Story (2011– )
Episode: Show Stoppers (2015)

TV-MA | 44 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

The freaks exact poetic justice after learning of Stanley's sins. Maggie tries to make amends with Jimmy, and Dandy tells the Tattlers some troubling information about Chester.

Director: Loni Peristere | Stars: Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Michael Chiklis, Frances Conroy

Votes: 3,776

50. American Horror Story (2011– )
Episode: Curtain Call (2015)

TV-MA | 53 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Dandy prepares for his debut performance. The Tattlers contemplate marriage, while in Hollywood, Elsa discovers she's further from love than ever before.

Director: Bradley Buecker | Stars: Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Michael Chiklis, Frances Conroy

Votes: 4,187