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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An original musical screenplay brings to life the story of P.T. Barnum and his creation of "the greatest show on Earth". Rising from nothing, P.T. sets out to make a better life for his family. His creativity and drive take him on an fantastic journey beyond what he or anyone else could have imagined. In the end he creates a magical experience that will be enjoyed and celebrated by generations to come.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Elsa Mars is the proprietor of a troupe of human "curiosities" on a desperate journey of survival in the sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, in 1952. Her menagerie of performers includes a two-headed, telepathic twin, a take-charge bearded lady, a vulnerable strongman, and his three-breasted wife. But strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband. Bonus features included.
7) Trapeze
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A love triangle develops between an injured trapeze artist, his student, and a circus tumbler.
8) La strada
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Fullscreen edizione.
Language
Italiano
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brute circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
On a winding mountain road, Vittorio stops to help Kate, whose car has broken down. After gallantly making the repair, without a single word spoken, he speeds off. When their paths cross again, Vittorio learns that Kate has returned to join her family's traveling circus after leaving under mysterious conditions many years ago. Intrigued by her story, Vittorio stays for the show, and the next one, and little by little is integrated into the circus...
Series
Criterion collection volume 412
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special ed.
Language
Swedish
Description
A relationship between a turn-of-the-century traveling circus owner and his performer girlfriend suddenly changes, when they pull into the town where the owner's wife and children live, whom he hasn't seen in three years.
11) The first of May
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A "First of May" is someone in his first season with a circus. Eleven-year-old Cory is a foster child nobody wants. Carlotta is an elderly woman the world has forgotten. Together, they find friendship and family when they join a traveling circus, and show "what an old has-been and a First of May can do." Meet the excitable circus owner, Boss Ed and a clown who takes Cory under his wing, and Baseball Hall of Famer and 20th century icon Joe DiMaggio...
12) The aerialist
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Jane is an elite cirque performer attempting to hide an injury that threatens her ability to perform, while also trying to keep her family of performers together for one last tour. This narrative drama, set in the dangerous world of aerial acrobatics, wrestles with the price performers pay for a show that must go on, and the tragic decisions they make to pursue their dreams.
13) Lola Montès
Series
Criterion collection volume 503
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
The life of a young woman who was a showgirl, had affairs with kings, became a courtesan, and traveled the world trying to fit in. Charts the course of Montès's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing.
Series
Criterion collection volume 730
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Jour de fête: In this enchanting debut feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village.
Monsieur Hulot's holiday: Monsieur Hulot takes a holiday, at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another.
Mon oncle: A supremely amusing satire of mechanized living and consumer society.
Playtime: A nearly wordless comedy about confusion in an age of...
15) Pierre Etaix
Series
Criterion collection volume 655
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Director-approved special edition.
Language
Français
Description
The following films were influened by Pierre Etaix's experience as a circus acrobat, clown, and by the silent film comedies he adored.
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
Ace of Hearts (75 min.): A romantic rivalry among members of a secret society become even more tense when one of the men is assigned to carry out an assassination.
Laugh, clown, laugh (73 min.): A professional clown and a self-indulgent count learn to help each other with their problems, but then become romantic rivals.
The unknown (63 min.): Alonzo is an armless knife thrower and marksman for a circus, but he's hiding a secret that will lead to...
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