Comédie

French

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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Shadows and Fog (Ombres et brouillard)

Title Shadows and Fog (Ombres et brouillard)
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In the Twenties, in a middle-European city. Cowardly clerk Kleinman is awakened in the middle of the night by a vigilante group who want him to help capture a serial killer on the loose. Between dreams and reality, a reflection upon death both amusing and serious.

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Cirkus Ildebrand

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In the old fire station of Miss Mirabella, Sarah, Maria and Morten have found a place for their children's circus. Unfortunately, building speculators have kept an eye on the house and are trying their best to get Mirabella's property.

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La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge

Title La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge
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Montreal film-maker Rex Prince travels to Louisiana to search for his first love Paula Paul, the Countess of the title: the loveliest bearded lady ever to grace a circus sideshow. To win her love he takes on the job of Human Cannonball…

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Free Jimmy (Slipp Jimmy Fri)

Title Free Jimmy (Slipp Jimmy Fri)
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The sorty of four dull mobsters, Roy Arnie, Odd, Gaz and Flea uprooted from their mean city streets to work with ringmaster Stromowski in a third-rate Russian traveling circus. The star attraction is Jimmy, an elephant kept happy on a cocktail of drugs. Roy Arnie has a dream of one day running his own circus and the key to his dream is Jimmy. But on the opening night, a bungled attempt to give Jimmy his drugs causes widespread panic. Jimmy escapes and so begins a mad cap cross-country road-trip to find Jimmy before he goes cold turkey…

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Little big top

Title Little big top
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An aging out of work clown is back in his small hometown, resigned to spend the rest of his days in a drunken stupor. But his passion for clowning is reawakened by the local amateur circus and his smile returns.

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Magique

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Betty and her 10-year-old son Tommy, who never knew his father, live in an isolated farm. Tommy would love bring a smile to his sad mother. One day he learns that a circus comes to town, but is not allowed to plant the tent, for lack of regular documents. Tommy manages to convince his mom to host the circus on their land and will gradually discover the joyful life of entertainers.

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