Drame

French

Bye bye Brasil

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Salome, Lorde Cigano and Andorinha are traveling artists traveling the country with the Caravana Rolidei, presenting shows for the poorest who cannot watch television. Accordion player Ciço and his wife Dasdô join them as they head for Altamira, deep into the Amazon.

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Carny

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Tired of her dull job as a waitress, Donna decides to join two carnival hustlers and see what life in their field is like.

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Elephant Man

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A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstruous façade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

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Cirkus Casablanca

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Film about a couple of traveling entertainers and con-men, their problems with jobs, money and women and their efforts to have their little variety show put on. It's hard for them to realize that entertainers of their kind are about to become extinct.

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Sideshow

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A teenage boy runs away from home. He joins the circus but finds out that it's not all what it's cracked up to be. But then the boy becomes a witness to a murder, and he must try to stay out of the killer's way.

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When the circus came to town

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When the Circus Came to Town chronicles the life of Mary Flynn, a woman nearing middle age living in a small town. When the circus comes to town, she realizes nothing will ever change unless she does something different, so she leaves her boring sheltered life to run away and join the circus. While adapting to her new life, she finds herself challenged, and in the end, happy with it.

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Chapiteau

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A professional violin player leaves his routine life and becomes a tractor driver in a traveling circus.

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Zygfryd

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Zygfryd, a handsome, orphaned young circus acrobat with an introspective temperament, is under the protection of circus owner, Waldo, and his wife. A rich intellectual recluse, patron of the arts (and of young artists) stumbles into Zygfryd's heart-stopping act and offers him his friendship. He also opens up his cultural horizons and teaches him to consciously reflect on life. It all ends in tragedy, when the boy finds that the circus life is no longer enough and falls during his act.

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Wings of Desire (Der Himmel Über Berlin or Les ailes du désir)

Title Wings of Desire (Der Himmel Über Berlin or Les ailes du désir)
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Two angels, Daniel and Cassiel, come down from heaven in Berlin. They can mix with humans without being seen… They meet a former angel become human, who feels their presence and passes on his faith in humanity to them. One day Daniel finds his way in a circus and meets highwire artist Marion — a life-changing encounter, since he falls for her… A film about desire and about Berlin, a ‘historic place of truth’.

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