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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Seabiscuit (Pur sang: la légende de Seabiscuit)

Entrepreneur Charles Howard owns unlikely racehorse Seabi


Monte Walsh (Le Dernier cow-boy)

An aging cowboy faces the final days of the Wild West era


Carnivàle (La Caravane de l’étrange)

During the Great Depression, an Oklahoma farm boy who joi


Big Fish

A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction


Lone Hero

An actor in a Wild West show must become a mythical Weste


Bear's kiss (Der Kuss Des Bären or Le Baiser de l'ours)

A fairy-tale like love story between young circus artist


Ocean's Eleven

Danny Ocean and his eleven accomplices, all con or ex-con


Blood moon (Wolf girl)

Teenage girl Tara has a disease and hair growing all over


Behind the Sun (Avril brisé or Abril Despedaçado)

Set in 1910, in the Brazilian badlands.


Werckmeister harmóniák (Les Harmonies Werckmeister)

Hungary during Communist times.


Gladiator

In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcu Aurelius thro


Sideshow (III) (Le cirque des horreurs)

A group of teenagers visit a traveling carnival and encou


The first of may (Une amie pour la vie)

Its title derived from a circus term describing an inexpe


The Clown Smiles (Le Sourire du clown)

Weary old Russian clown Ian, adrift in a wretched hotel,


P.T. Barnum

Biopic of great showman and promoter Phineas Taylor Barnu


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