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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Pee Wee big’s adventure

Pee-Wee, an overgrown pre-pubescent boy, lives an idyllic


De flyvende djævle (The flying devils)

A family of aerialists dream of accomplishing the Quad, t


Moscou à New-York (Moscow on the Hudson)

The Moscow circus troupe comes to NY city on tour.


Dot and the Smugglers (Dot et les contrebandiers)

A circus owner attempts to capture a mysterious Bunyip, b


Something Wicked This Way Comes (La Foire des ténèbres)

In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its dem


Chapiteau

A professional violin player leaves his routine life and


La Vallée de la mort (Death Valley)

A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend se


When the circus came to town

When the Circus Came to Town chronicles the life of Mary


Sideshow

A teenage boy runs away from home.


The Funhouse (Massacres dans le train fantôme)

Four brazen teenagers spend the night in a carnival funho


The magic screen/ L'écran magique (La vela incantata)

Two brothers simultaneously discover cinema and life in F


Cirkus Casablanca

Film about a couple of traveling entertainers and con-men


Parassolka v Zirke or Parasolka im Zirkus (Parasolka au Cirque )

Parasolka works as a handyman in a traveling circus.


Wosduschenyje Peschechody or Seiltänzer (Zirkusfilm)

The story of a tightrope walker who after an argument wit


Life is a circus, Charlie Brown !

Snoopy joins a circus.


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