Filmography

The Circus Filmography is the product of collaboration between students and teacher-researchers from the Department Cinema, Theatre and Live Performance at the Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 University. It is a continuously updated website that is open to contributions, listing all films – fictions, animated films, documentaries, series, etc. – devoted to circus or alluding to it.

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Daisy clover (Inside Daisy Clover)

15-year-old tomboy Daisy Clover dreams of being a Hollywo


Le Plus grand cirque du monde (Circus World)

Circus owner Matt Masters takes his show on a European to


Les Pas du tigres (A Tiger Walks)

A mistreated Bengal tiger named Raja escapes from a trave


The Ape Woman (La donna scimmia/ Le Mari de la femme à barbe)

A modest Napolitan guy meets a young woman with excessive


Fifi la plume

A burglar seeks refuge in the circus to escape the police


Le Cirque du Dr Lao (7 Faces of Dr. Lao)

A mysterious circus comes to a Western town bearing wonde


Road to the stage (Tchanaparh depi krkes)

Famous Soviet Armenian clown Leonid Yengibarov stars in t


Huit et demi (8½)

Famous Soviet Armenian clown Leonid Yengibarov stars in t


L'Enfant du cirque (Il figlio del circo) (II)

Young Rocco is abused by his drunken father and neglected


(Billy Rose's Jumbo) La Plus belle fille du monde, ou Jumbo, la sensation du cirque

A Debt-ridden circus is saved by an well-meaning but inep


(Carnival of souls) Le Carnaval des âmes

In a two-car competition, the women’s car plunges into a


(Night tide) Marée nocturne

A young sailor falls in love with a woman performing as a


The Big show (II)

Greedy family members engage in bitter infighting over th


Striped Trip (La Croisière tigrée)

Soviet cruise shop « Evgeni Onegin » is carrying cages wi


Life is a circus

Ailing circus artists discover a magic lamp and decide to


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