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1. The Greatest Showman (2017)
PG | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.
Director: Michael Gracey | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya
Votes: 311,556 | Gross: $174.34M
2. Big Fish (2003)
PG-13 | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange
Votes: 458,946 | Gross: $66.26M
3. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
PG-13 | 134 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Gellert Grindelwald plans to raise an army of wizards to rule over non-magical beings. In response, Newt Scamander's former professor, Albus Dumbledore, seeks his help to stop him.
Director: David Yates | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Johnny Depp
Votes: 308,845 | Gross: $159.56M
4. Chicken Run (2000)
G | 84 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners.
Directors: Peter Lord, Nick Park | Stars: Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Phil Daniels, Lynn Ferguson
Votes: 212,287 | Gross: $106.83M
5. Water for Elephants (2011)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Romance
Jacob takes a job as an animal caretaker in a traveling circus. There he meets Marlena, a beautiful circus performer. Their shared compassion for a special elephant Rosie leads to love, but Marlena's cruel husband stands in their way.
Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider
Votes: 120,411 | Gross: $58.71M
6. Dumbo (1941)
G | 64 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.
Directors: Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen, John Elliotte | Stars: Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, Herman Bing, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 142,097 | Gross: $1.60M
7. Dumbo (2019)
PG | 112 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green
Votes: 82,541 | Gross: $114.77M
8. The Tin Drum (1979)
R | 142 min | Drama, War
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Katharina Thalbach
Votes: 25,755
9. We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
G | 72 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A time traveling scientist goes back to prehistoric times and feeds dinosaurs a magic cereal that increases their intelligence - next they land in modern New York City for a series of comic adventures.
Directors: Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells, Dick Zondag, Ralph Zondag | Stars: John Goodman, Charles Fleischer, Blaze Berdahl, Rhea Perlman
Votes: 16,073 | Gross: $9.32M
10. The Wild (2006)
G | 82 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
An adolescent lion is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa. Now running free, his zoo pals must put aside their differences to help bring him back.
Director: Steve 'Spaz' Williams | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo
Votes: 27,661 | Gross: $37.38M
11. 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: 16,058 | Gross: $36.00M
12. Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green, François Lafarge, Jean-Claude Guilbert
Votes: 22,824 | Gross: $0.04M
13. Pinocchio (2019)
PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Old woodcarver Geppetto's puppet creation, Pinocchio, magically comes to life with dreams of becoming a real boy. Easily led astray, Pinocchio tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Federico Ielapi, Roberto Benigni, Rocco Papaleo, Massimo Ceccherini
Votes: 14,754
14. Animal Crackers (2017)
PG | 105 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A family must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a run-down circus from being taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington.
Directors: Tony Bancroft, Scott Christian Sava, Jaime Maestro | Stars: Emily Blunt, Danny DeVito, John Krasinski, Ian McKellen
Votes: 4,017
15. Limelight (1952)
G | 137 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find purpose and hope in their lives.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton
Votes: 22,140 | Gross: $1.00M
16. The Circus (1928)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Al Ernest Garcia, Harry Crocker
Votes: 36,057
17. Circus of Horrors (1960)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Horror
Dr. Rossiter, a plastic surgeon wanted by the police, flees to France and under an assumed name acquires, by murder, a run-down circus. His first recruit is a woman criminal. He transforms her face by surgery and trains her.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 2,400
18. Big Top Scooby-Doo! (2012 Video)
Not Rated | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Scooby-Doo and the gang go on vacation to Atlantic City, but they get involved in a mystery at a circus.
Director: Ben Jones | Stars: Frank Welker, Mindy Cohn, Grey Griffin, Matthew Lillard
Votes: 2,137
19. Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Åke Grönberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman, Anders Ek
Votes: 7,381
20. Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004)
G | 74 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Worried that he costs too much to feed, Clifford runs away to join a carnival act and help win a lifetime supply of Tummy Yummies.
Directors: Robert C. Ramirez, Steve Trenbirth | Stars: John Ritter, Cree Summer, Kel Mitchell, Wayne Brady
Votes: 1,070 | Gross: $2.92M
21. 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: 1,471
22. The Fantasticks (2000)
PG | 86 min | Musical, Romance
A mysterious fair that comes to a small community in the countryside could make real the illusions of two teenagers.
Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Joel Grey, Barnard Hughes, Jean Louisa Kelly, Joey McIntyre
Votes: 1,433 | Gross: $0.04M
23. Ulysses (1967)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama
James Joyce's masterpiece incarnated: The story of two seperated Dublin wanderers, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, struggling to control their personal lives.
Director: Joseph Strick | Stars: Milo O'Shea, Barbara Jefford, Maurice Roëves, T.P. McKenna
Votes: 979
24. Finale (I) (2018)
100 min | Horror, Mystery
During the night of the biggest sports final of the year, two girls working in a gas station experience strange incidents. Is it just staged pranks or is it something of a more aggressive intent?
Director: Søren Juul Petersen | Stars: Anne Bergfeld, Karin Michelsen, Damon Younger, Kristoffer Fabricius
Votes: 763
25. 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: 1,194
26. Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)
Approved | 72 min | Mystery
While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, George Brasno, Olive Brasno
Votes: 1,806
27. 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: 931
28. The Amazing Dobermans (1976)
PG | 96 min | Family, Comedy, Crime
An ex-con man and his five trained Dobermans help a Treasury Dept. agent stop a racketeer and his gang.
Director: Byron Chudnow | Stars: James Franciscus, Barbara Eden, Fred Astaire, Jack Carter
Votes: 437
29. Rayman: The Animated Series (1999–2000)
TV-Y7 | Animation, Action, Adventure
The evil circus owner Rigatoni has enslaved Rayman and his friends, forcing them to work in his traveling circus! Rayman decides they must break free. They soon escape from the villainous ... See full summary »
Stars: Billy West, Carlos Alazraqui, Danny Mann, Emmanuel Garijo
Votes: 108
30. 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: 28
31. TimeSplitters 2 (2002 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Mystery
In 2401, humanity is at war with relentless aliens, TimeSplitters. Space marines Cortez and Hart travel through time to stop the aliens in various spots, including Wild West, zombie-infested Gothic church and Blade Runner-esque future.
Directors: David Doak, Stephen Ellis | Stars: Heidi Andrews, June Andrews, Kevin Bullock, Michelle Bullock
Votes: 845
32. The Chimp (1932)
Passed | 25 min | Short, Comedy
Two bumbling circus performers inadvertently help drive the circus into ruin and then end up in possession of a flea circus and an oversized chimp.
Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Bobby Burns, Baldwin Cooke
Votes: 1,502
33. 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: 1,234
34. Nellie the Elephant (1990–1991)
5 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Tired of performing in the circus and longing for home, Nellie the elephant packs her trunk and begins the journey back to her herd.
Stars: Lulu, Tony Robinson, Tabitha St. Germain
Votes: 64
35. A Modern Hero (1934)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance
Pierre is a handsome young circus rider whose mother has long tolerated his amorous adventures but becomes genuinely concerned when he actually falls in love. She reveals to him that he's ... See full summary »
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Jean Muir, Marjorie Rambeau, Verree Teasdale
Votes: 277
36. 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: 362
37. The Boy Who Stole the Elephant (1970 TV Movie)
95 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A frontier huckster, Colonel Ryder, and a young orphan, Davey, operate a travelling tent show. They are loaned an elephant by an old friend, Molly, who is also a rival circus owner. Davey ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Caffey | Stars: David Wayne, June Havoc, Dabbs Greer, Parley Baer
Votes: 29
38. Shriekshow (2022)
105 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Four friends travel to a supposedly haunted abandoned circus on Halloween and encounter a Ringmaster setting up a sideshow exhibit who proceeds to tell them three terrifying tales.
Director: Brad Twigg | Stars: Felissa Rose, Tuesday Knight, Julie Anne Prescott, Lyon Beckwith
Votes: 266
39. Daredevil Droopy (1951)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Similar in tone to The Chump Champ (1950), but this time Droopy and Spike are in competition for a circus acrobat's job.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Tex Avery, Daws Butler, Shepard Menken
Votes: 538
40. 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: 459
41. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1928)
57 min | Comedy
An overambitious ringmaster is deviously plotting to have his circus' owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over the whole show. However, World War I intervenes and he ... See full summary »
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: W.C. Fields, Louise Fazenda, Chester Conklin, Mack Swain
Votes: 38
42. 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: 361
43. Rölli and the Golden Key (2013)
86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Director: Taavi Vartia | Stars: Allan Tuppurainen, Mikko Leppilampi, Krista Kosonen, Iina Kuustonen
Votes: 221
44. Popeye's 20th Anniversary (1954)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Popeye is being honored for his 20 years of films at a dinner hosted by 'Bob Hope' (several other celebrities are present, like 'Jimmy Durante', 'Bing Crosby', 'Jerry Lewis' and 'Dean Martin... See full summary »
Directors: Izzy Sparber, Al Eugster, Nick Tafuri, Dave Tendlar | Stars: Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Sid Raymond
Votes: 188
45. Depeche Mode: Halo (1990 Music Video)
5 min | Music
"The Strongest Man in the Universe" (Dave Gahan) sings while giving a show with a traveling circus in the middle of nowhere.
Director: Anton Corbijn | Stars: Depeche Mode, Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Andrew Fletcher
Votes: 126
46. 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
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: 94
48. Spangles (1926)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance
Marian Nixon plays the title character, a gorgeous bareback rider with a travelling circus. Spangles falls in love with Dick (Pat O'Malley), a young fugitive from justice who uses the Big Top for a hideout.
Director: Frank O'Connor | Stars: Marian Nixon, Pat O'Malley, Hobart Bosworth, Gladys Brockwell
Votes: 35
49. The Mite Makes Right (1948)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Tom Thumb runs away from home to join the circus.
Directors: Bill Tytla, George Germanetti | Stars: Mae Questel, Sid Raymond, Izzy Sparber, Jackson Beck
Votes: 67
50. Jolly the Clown (1957)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Noveltoon Circus comes to town! Jolly the Clown and Ellsworth the Elephant devise an exceptional but dangerous act for the circus.
Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Al Eugster | Star: Jackson Beck
Votes: 10