The life of a young woman who was a showgirl, had affairs with kings, became a courtesan, and traveled the world trying to fit in. Charts the course of Montès's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing.

The director himself serves as master of ceremonies at a circus. Focusing on the spectators, this stripped down work is a testament to the communion betwen audience and entertainment.

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

Lucien L'hotte is a troubled writer of diminutive size who struggles with the enormous issues of love, lust and morality. Set up near his office is the Urbino Circus, where a pure-hearted trapeze artist, Isis, strikes up a friendship with the outcast Lucien. When an aging opera star, the Countess Paola Bendoni seeks his services, Lucien stages a daring and successful seduction. But unbridled passion turns to deadly rage when Paola eventually rejects...

In addition to circus acts, Tira performs some questionable business maneuvers and takes a job as a lion tamer to escape jail. After Tiras first show catapults her to stardom, she attracts the attention of the wealthy Kirk Lawrence who happens to be engaged. His business partner, Jack Clayton, blows his friends cover and begins a romance with Tira. This time, Tira is in love for real and is devastated when a misunderstanding causes Jack to break off...

A young showgirl has affairs with kings while she travels the world and tries to fit in with society.

A splashy, colorful look at life under the big top that weaves the personal stories of the performers in with the spectacle and color of the circus.

"Circus is a super-powered security force of entertainers with special abilities who keep villains off the streets by serving up justice with a side of razzle-dazzle. Despite their best efforts, a sinister organization named Kafka is gaining power through the world using grotesque monsters to carry out their plots. When Circus saves a mysterious boy from Kafka's grasp, the kid gets swept up in the crime-fighting spectacle--but why was Kafka after...

Jour de fête: In this enchanting debut feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village. Monsieur Hulot's holiday: Monsieur Hulot takes a holiday, at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Mon oncle: A supremely amusing satire of mechanized living and consumer society. Playtime: A nearly wordless comedy about confusion in an age of...