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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Freakshow

Freakshow portrays a gang of thieves working as security


100 Tears

A psycho killer dressed as a clown has been striking terr


Sortie de clown

Undertaker Lucien spends all his free time entertaining s


Papurika (Paprika)

In the near future, a revolutionary new psychotherapy tre


Olsen et sa bande au cirque (Olsenbanden Junior på cirkus)

Egon and his friends go up against the plans of the orpha


Little big top

An aging out of work clown is back in his small hometown,


Free Jimmy (Slipp Jimmy Fri)

The sorty of four dull mobsters, Roy Arnie, Odd, Gaz and


Whispering moon (Das Flüstern Des Mondes)

In a dystopia future world we follow a gay couple, Jannis


Strange Circus (Kimyô na sâkasu)

12-year-old Mitsuko is regularly locked in a cello and fo


Mirrormask

15-year-old Helena works in her family’s circus.


Trax

The story of little creatures living in the circus world.


Knetter (Cinglées)

9-year-old Bonnie lives with her single mother Lis and he


Firecracker

A tale of murder, in small-town Kansas.


Bye Bye Blackbird

The tragic tale of a love-struck young man, Josef, who jo


Two Brothers (Deux frères)

Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity


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