Long métrage original

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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Moscou à New-York (Moscow on the Hudson)

Title Moscou à New-York (Moscow on the Hudson)
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The Moscow circus troupe comes to NY city on tour. While his clown friend, who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to seek political asylum, cops out, sax player Vladimir Ivanoff runs from his Soviet controllers in a big department store. Chased by both KGB and FBI, and protected by a security guard, he falls in love with a sales assistant…

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Intervista

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A Japanese-television crew show up interview Fellini as he attempts to film an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s America, and are treated to his fanciful recollections of his early days in the movie industry. Il Maestro takes the viewer behind the scenes at Cinecittà.

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Clownhouse

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Just before Halloween, three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their identities.

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Killer Klowns from Outer Space (Les Clowns tueurs venus d'ailleurs)

Title Killer Klowns from Outer Space (Les Clowns tueurs venus d'ailleurs)
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A meteorite full of bloodthirsty clowns crashes on Earth. The band of malevolent clowns then begins to kill all townsfolk with lethal jokes.

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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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The Traveling Circus (Troupe de cirque ambulant or Ganh xiec rong)

Title The Traveling Circus (Troupe de cirque ambulant or Ganh xiec rong)
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A little traveling circus arrives in a Vietnam’s central highlands. The artists bring in the magic and illusion of entertainment, and take advantage of townsfolk’s gullibility to sow seeds of doubt and disarray in their minds.

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Santa Sangre

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A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother — the leader of a strange religious cult — and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes ‘her arms’.

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