Berserk
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
Fun and Fancy Free
Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.
Midori harukani
Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doesn't know about. Ever since he moved up to the research laboratory in Hokkaido, Ruriko hasn't heard from him. The only thing that reminded her of his warmth was the green music box that he’d left behind for her. She longed to reunite with her father. The little box played music that lifted her spirits, to a place where everything was perfect.
Zou Zou
Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
Circus of the Dead
A sadistic group of clowns kidnap an unsuspecting man and his daughters, forcing him to play a deadly game in order to save his family.
Prater
Vienna’s Prater is an amusement park and a desire machine. No mechanical invention, no novel idea or sensational innovation could escape incorporation into the Prater. The diverse story-telling in Ulrike Ottinger’s film “Prater” transforms this place of sensations into a modern cinema of attractions. The Prater’s history from the beginning to the present is told by its protagonists and those who have documented it, including contemporary cinematic images of the Prater, interviews with carnies, commentary by Austrians and visitors from abroad, film quotes, and photographic and written documentary materials. The meaning of the Prater, its status as a place of technological innovation, and its role as a cultural medium are reflected in texts by Elfriede Jelinek, Josef von Sternberg, Erich Kästner and Elias Canetti, as well as in music devoted to this amusement venue throughout the course of its history.
The Chimp
Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. The circus can't pay them their wages so they are given a gorilla and a flea circus as payment. Bedlam ensues.
The Wing or The Thigh?
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, he decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into Albert Duvivier, one of his former employees. He comes to realise that he has ignored the important things in his life.
Pinocchio: A True Story
Young Pinocchio runs away from his genius creator Jepetto. Accompanied by his horse Tibalt, he aims to see the world while joining the traveling circus ran by hustler Modjafocco.
Bogus
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
An Apology to Elephants
Elephants are among the most majestic and intelligent creatures on Earth--but for hundreds of years, they have suffered at the hands of humans. Narrated by Lily Tomlin, this documentary short traces our long history with elephants and explores the many problems that arise when they are brought to live in captivity in zoos and circuses.
Parade
For his final film, Jacques Tati takes his camera to the circus, where the director himself serves as master of ceremonies. Though it features many spectacles, including clowns, jugglers, acrobats, contortionists, and more, Parade also focuses on the spectators, making this stripped-down work a testament to the communion between audience and entertainment.
Cirque du Soleil: Amaluna
Amaluna invites the audience to a mysterious island governed by Goddesses and guided by the cycles of the moon. Their queen, Prospera, directs her daughter’s coming-of-age ceremony in a rite that honours femininity, renewal, rebirth and balance which marks the passing of these insights and values from one generation to the next. In the wake of a storm caused by Prospera, a group of young men lands on the island, triggering an epic, emotional story of love between Prospera’s daughter and a brave young suitor. But theirs is a love that will be put to the test. The couple must face numerous demanding trials and overcome daunting setbacks before they can achieve mutual trust, faith and harmony.
Man on a Tightrope
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.
Circus Kid
The Pickle Family Circus was founded by Lorenzo Pisoni's parents in 1974. The film documents the spirit, the lunacy, the daring, the danger and the dynamics of growing up in a circus family.
Vampire Circus
After a spate of murders, the villagers of Schtettel kill the depraved perpetrator, Count Mitterhouse. Fifteen years later the Circus of Nights appeared in the plague-ridden village and its performers include Mitterhouse's mistress, children and cousins. They have come to Schtettel to fulfil the Count's last words, an evil, vicious curse of death and destruction on those who participated in his impaling. The children of Schtettel become the targets for a brutal and devastating revenge as the Vampire Circus rehearses for its most deadly performance.
The Unknown
On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.
Oz the Great and Powerful
Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
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Jim O'Connolly
Director
Geoffrey Keen
as
Commissioner Dalby
Diana Dors
as
Matilda
Dinah Shore
as
Dinah Shore - Narrator
Clarence Nash
as
Donald Duck / Cat
James MacDonald
as
Lumpjaw
Umetsugu Inoue
Director
Masumi Okada
as
Prince of Moon
Ruriko Asaoka
as
Ruriko
Mie Kitahara
as
Swan
Kenjirô Uemura
as
Tazawa
Yvette Lebon
as
Claire
Roger Blin
as
Le témoin du meurtre
Ethelreda Leopold
as
Blonde at Party
Irving Bacon
as
Jailer
Minerva Urecal
as
Screaming Spinster at Circus
Tiffani Fest
as
Rose
Roger Edwards
as
T.C.
Chanel Ryan
as
Tiffany Johnson
Baldwin Cooke
as
Bit Part
Jack Hill
as
Circus Audience Member
Harry Harvey
as
Circus Worker
Ann Zacharias
as
Marguerite #2 - la secrétaire intérimaire
Jacques Mathou
as
(uncredited)
Jean-Paul Belmondo
as
Sam Lion
Lio
as
Yvette, 1ère femme de Sam
Tom Kenny
as
Geppetto
Pauly Shore
as
Pinocchio
Jon Heder
as
Tybalt
Haley Joel Osment
as
Albert Franklin
Jackie Richardson
as
Babysitter
Eugene Osment
as
Bus-station street-person
Whoopi Goldberg
as
Harriet Franklin
Lily Tomlin
as
Self - Narrator
Dominique Lavanant
as
(uncredited)
Cameron Mitchell
as
Joe Vosdek
Fredric March
as
Karel Cernik
Terry Moore
as
Tereza Cernik
Gloria Grahame
as
Zama Cernik
Bill Irwin
as
Self
Robert Young
Director
Thorley Walters
as
Burgermeister
Lynne Frederick
as
Dora Mueller
Robin Sachs
as
Heinrich
David de Keyser
as
Mitterhaus's Curse
Lon Chaney
as
Alonzo
Norman Kerry
as
Malabar
Sam Raimi
Director
Rachel Weisz
as
Evanora
Joey King
as
Girl in Wheelchair / China Girl
James Franco
as
Oz
Mila Kunis
as
Theodora
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