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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A Night in the Show

The drunk gentleman Mr. Pest goes to the music-hall.


Wie ich Detektiv wurde

Joe Debb tells anyone who would listen how much he loves


Eine verfolgte Unschuld

An old man loves a maid whom he considers an artist.


The Circus of Death (The Masque of Life)

The daughter of circus director Wolfson falls in love wit


Cirkus Fjollinski

A circus director is trying to get Pelle Jöns to stop smo


A circus romance (Babette of the Ballyhoo, Linette of the Carnival)

A circus dancer named Babette is told by her mother and f


The Rainbow Princess

A circus owner, Pop Blodgett, closely controls Hope'


Krazy kat and ignatz mouse at the circus

Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse go to the circus.


The Clown

A big-hearted sad clown helps a damsel in distress.


Polly of the circus (I)

When Polly Fisher gets hurt while performing a trapeze ac


Under the top

Jimmie, a small-town boy, visits a traveling circus which


The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

In a town fair, around 1830, Dr.


Flip's circus

A circus owner named Flip performs with a dinosaur.


The Whirlwind of Passion

Circus day

Toby Tyler, a little boy, runs away from his abusive uncl


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