Aventure

French

Striped Trip (La Croisière tigrée)

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Soviet cruise shop « Evgeni Onegin » is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet circus. One loose monkey unlocks all the cages, letting all the big cats out. Fortunately, young, joyful and fanciful canteen employee Marianne is onboard and to everyone’s astonishment, she will manage to take the situation under control…

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The Mighty Gorga

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A circus owner and a female trapper trek into the African jungle to capture a giant gorilla for his circus.

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The Valley of Gwangi (La Vallée de Gwangi)

Title The Valley of Gwangi (La Vallée de Gwangi)
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A group of cowboys capture a Tyrannosaurus Rex living in the Forbidden Valley. Their expedition leader hands the animal over to a Mexican circus. But his victim, called the Gwangi, turns out to have an aversion to being shown in public and manages to break loose…

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The Great Waldo Pepper (La Kermesse des aigles)

Title The Great Waldo Pepper (La Kermesse des aigles)
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A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed, eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film depicting the dogfights in the Great War.

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Dumbo

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A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.

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Dumbo

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Les enfants de Holt Farrier, ex-artiste de cirque chargé de s’occuper d’un éléphanteau dont les oreilles démesurées sont la risée du public, découvrent que ce dernier sait voler...

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Mr. Too Little

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With her poodle dog Mr. Too Little, young Mindy is a circus performer. Mr. Too Big is a tiger, trained by Mindy's mother. The head of the circus is an angry man who has trained dogs and is mad at Mindy as she took Mr. Too Little away as a pet even though the dog was one of the most intelligent and talented ever. Many Circus acts perform during the movie. The police get involved when first, Mr. Too Little runs away, then there is an accident and Mr. Too Big escapes from the circus.

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Bronco Billy

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An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.

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Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté

Title Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté
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Sam Lion, a foundling raised in the circus, becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. Reaching fifty he becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, and decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into Albert Duvivier, one of his former employees. He comes to realize that he has ignored the important things in his life.

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