fete foraine / coney

Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.

Roscoe tries to dump his wife so he can enjoy the beach attractions. Buster arrives with Alice, who is taken away from him by Al, who loses her to Roscoe. Bathing beauties and Keystone Kops abound.

A group of classic storybook monsters and their children run a Carnival and Jazz Club on Coney Island. Starring Aaron Jackson, Kimilee Bryant, Desiree Velez, Sheri Austin Lahris, Jesse Taylor, Jessica Rawls and Afton Reed.

A touching and humorous story about a man who gets cold feet, leaving his bride at the altar. On return to mend their relationship, he finds she is engaged to another man.

A group of cones living on Coney Island navigate the world of relationships, careers, and dreams all while planning to leave the island behind for brighter futures.

A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer views of Dreamland and Luna Park.

Tammany Burke, young owner of a giant roller coaster, is fighting heavy odds against a syndicate led by financial baron Hughey Cooper. Assisted by his sweetheart, Joan, and her father, Jingles Wellman, formerly a clown, Burke prepares for a sabotage of his machine by syndicate hirelings. In the midst of a great battle the riot squad arrives to arrest the troublemakers, and Burke and his sweetheart are left in happy possession of their roller coaster.

Two young men (Jon Cryer, Rick Stear) who have been friends since early childhood decide to go on a trip to find a third friend (Rafael Baez) who has long since disappeared. Stories they have heard indicate that the friend has been seen in an apparently rambling, incoherent state at Coney Island. Their trip leads them to a number of adventures involving the otherworld-like life at the Park and revelations related to their own pasts including the death of one's sister, a failed past relationship, financial failings, and alcoholism.

Handball is the ultimate city game. Played at the highest level, it can be both beautiful and brutal -- one player describes it as 'like boxing, except with a ball.' For more than 50 years, the National One Wall Handball Championship has been played at the Seaside Courts in Coney Island. One Wall follows the most talented athletes you've never heard of as they vie for the coveted title in 2011, from Tyree Bastidas, the young, handsome reigning champ, to handball legend Joe Durso, the player everyone loves to hate. The fight for immortality in an obscure sport makes for compelling drama, while the shtick on and off the court (this is Brooklyn, after all) makes for great comedy -- it's material David Mamet or Woody Allen would be only too happy to lift.

A documentary on the American photographer who specialized in capturing black and white images of New York City's beach world of Coney Island.

Enter the bizarre world of Scott Baker, master of the Bally stage at Coney Island's Sideshows by the Seashore. Watch Scott as he performs his most outrageous sideshow routines and talks in depth about his life and the sideshow. The film also features fellow Coney Island sideshow performers as well as Coney Island personalities. It

Behind the curtain of New York's seductive burlesque scene.

Coney Island, once called 'the world's playground,' has seen better days. This monumental documentary focuses on the key characters involved in the biggest redevelopment plan ever to visit the area. Seaside salvation or Brooklyn boondoggle? History will decide but this film is the first draft.

A married farmer falls under the spell of a sophisticated woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles, and downfalls.

An aging movie star uncertain of his future teams up with a top ballerina to headline a new Broadway musical, but the pretentiously artistic goals of its director threaten to change it beyond recognition.

A woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.

A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

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

A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

After an elderly maid is murdered, opinions are manipulated, evidence is planted, violence erupts, and panic ensues.

Melrose's circus is being threatened by his competitor, who's angry that Melrose has outmanuevered him in bookings; what he doesn't know is that the competitor has also planted a saboteur who creates accidents in hopes of reducing the value of the circus. Meanwhile, he's also hired a beautiful young woman as the magician's assistant, with eyes toward more - but he realizes that, as a midget, she won't have him.