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.
Jacques Tati, Michèle Brabo, Karl Kossmayer, Pierre Brama, Pia Colombo, Johnny Lonn, Jan Swahn, Bertil Berglund, Moniqa Sunnerberg, Dominique Lavanant, Michael Mansson, Jan Nygren

Jo, a young woman and street circus artist, discovers the work of the professional clowns of “Nez pour Rire”. Quickly - perhaps too quickly - entering the association, she found herself at the hospital in contact with children, sick people, caregivers and families, to whom these clowns tirelessly try to bring joy and comfort. .
2024

Overcoming bullies and his own loser mentality, 10-year-old Bernie Dingledorf must destroy Dr. Chuckles’s diabolical Laugh Generator before it sends the world into uncontrollable fits of laughter.
2021

Autumn 1937. On her wedding night Miss Betty locks herself in her room. She is joined by three men: her husband, her lover and her butler - and looks like things begin to heat up.
2016

Neil Patrick Harris hosts a variety show that features stand-up comedy, magic acts, juggling, sword-swallowers, puppets, ventriloquists and trapeze artists. Taped at Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival in July 2015.
2016

Seven men, after getting acquainted in prison and finding out that all of their lives have been affected by the same con man, decide to raid the fraudster's life savings.
2014

Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.
2009

Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.
2006

It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.
1999

On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.
1998

When the Newsboys inherit a minor league circus on the verge of bankruptcy, they formulate a plan to put on one final show.
1996

An evil circus owner chases a chimp and his friends through Africa. Not necessarily 'Dyn-O-Mite!', but this silly monkey business is decent family fun.
1987
It's director Oberholzer's sixtieth birthday. His wife and daughter Anna receive the guests who are invited to the feast, with a dish of pike as the main course. But suddenly, the celebration turns sour at the appearance of an unexpected guest - namely Oberholzer's brother Alois, the black sheep of the family, who disappeared years ago. As it turns out, Alois has since changed his name to "Obolski" and become ringmaster of a major circus. Him and his wife Iduna quickly threaten the morals and standards of the bourgeois party, and they proceed to turn the boring proceedings into a turbulent circus show. Fortunately, after much confusion, the story ends happily - altough the pike has burned black in the oven!
1981
Incredible comedy about the adventures of Oleg Popov, the Sun Clown
1979

Agron is a circus clown who is hassled by the circus animals. Shemshedin thinks they should send these animals away, and so many hilarious situations ensue.
1977

1974

Bugs Bunny is hired to perform in Colonel Korny's Circus alongside Bruno the Magnificent, the Slobokian Acrobatic Bear, but Bruno doesn't want to share the limelight.
1951

The Our Gang kids put on a circus in the barn to raise money to help Porky's family pay the rent and avoid getting evicted.
1939

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.
1939

Elmer O'Dare fancies himself an expert circus performer.
1934

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
1928