Circus

At a tramcar in Copenhagen the piano teacher Magda Vang meets the young man Knud Svane, who falls in love with her. She is invited to spend the summer with him and his parents at the vicarage in Gjerslev. Outside the vicarage a circus troupe passes by, and Magda is saluted by the performer Rudolph Stern. In the night Rudolph climbs a ladder to Magda's bedroom. She tries to flee his advances, but after a hot kiss she surrenders, and runs away with him. Magda is hired as a dancer with Rudolph at the Empire Varieté. When Rudolph fondles a ballet dancer Magda gets furious, and starts a fight in front of the audience. Magda and Rudolph are fired. To earn some money Rudolph forces Magda to play the piano in a band at a garden restaurant. Knud turns up and recognizes her. Incognito he asks her for a private meeting. Magda thinks she is asked to sell her body and refuses, but Rudolph forces her to go. When Rudloph after a while interrupts and finds Magda with Knud, he gets furious and starts to beat her. During the turmoil she grabs a knife and stabs Rudolph in his chest. In her despair she clings to his dead body, and has to be taken away by force.

Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Prof. McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of Judge Foster's friend, falls in love. When Sally is arrested McGargle proves her real parentage.

Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. But he longs for his former glamorous life in the circus. When he meets the orphan Berta-Marie, he falls under her spell and leaves his wife and young son behind. He makes Berta-Marie his partner in a new trapeze number. One day, the famous trapeze artist Artinelli takes note of them and engages them for his trapeze show in Berlin. Their salto mortale becomes an immediate sensation. Calculatedly and cold, Artinelli seduces Berta-Marie and destroys "Boss'" happiness.

The clown Joe Higgins and the circus princess Daisy have grown up together and seem perfect for each other.

A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.

A professional clown and a self-indulgent count learn to help each other with their problems, but then become romantic rivals.

The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.

A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him.

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

The tragic tale of a woman who despite doing good where she can gets punished by society.

In the mid-1930s, circus actress Marion Dixon flees the United States with her young black son. Arriving with an original attraction in the USSR, she finds friends here and decides to stay forever.

Fernand has escaped from prison and finds shelter in the traveling circus Barlay, where his former wife Flora works as a predator trainer. Their son Marcel is an art rider and does not know that Fernand is his father.

The story of the circus family Bohlin.

The Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job.

After a local grocery clerk rescues a baby from an escaped lion, a carnival owner develops him into an attraction but balks after the young man falls in love with his sister.

Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.

A shoemaker joins a circus and falls in love with the circus owner's daughter.

An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.

Harold is a mild-mannered clerk who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle. But then he loses his job, and when he is offered a potent drink at a bar, he goes on a very strange and funny rampage (with a lion in tow).

The former landowner Lüder Lüdersen had to flee East Prussia because of the war and is now working as an administrator for his cousin in Lüneburg.

A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find purpose and hope in their lives.

The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.

A Czech circus owner and clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the Iron Curtain.

The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.