Movies: Clown

A sadder than sad story about a fun-loving optimist whose interest in comedy performance is despised by both his family and his wealthy future in-laws, Li’s tragic-comedy follows the 50-year-old father (Bao) as he maintains a dignified façade after l...

Cute one-trick doggie show. The backdrop is beautifully detailed, yet the illusion of depth is humorously broken by the balloon bouncing off the set....

A pioneering effort in bringing shadow puppetry to the cinema....

Céleste Noménoé, a provincial actor, comes to Paris for an inheritance. He also gets a part in a movie. The managers of a music-hall notice him. He takes the stage name of Grock....

A clown, and a lion tamer, escape from the travelling circus to live a free life in the forest....

Scenes from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera with Canio, the clown, introducing actors who are seen in pantomime while the operatic voices are heard off-screen. Canio discovers his wife has been unfaithful but carries on with his performance....

Max and Dave Fliescher are eating hot dogs in their animation studio and begin drawing. The hot dog becomes a "real" dog, and it and Ko-Ko the Clown alarmingly end up inside a Gas Chamber....

After a hideous crime in a mansion by the forest, where a group of young people was found murdered, a suspicious clown tries to prove his innocence to the investigator that found him covered in blood....

Amelie, a young woman who finds herself engulfed in unresolved grief, adds a new object to her collection that leaves her torn between nightmare and reality....

A clown recalls the days when he first joined the Cole Brothers circus and discusses how the Greatest Show on Earth has changed. He reminisces about the circus train, pre-show preparations, the performers and the big show....

Four black minstrels turn into white clowns and back again when they hit or kick each other....

A man with a strange occupation kidnaps a woman he met at a party and tries to convince her to fall in love with him....

Ko-Ko the Clown and his dog Fitz walk into a building where levers that control various aspects of the Earth are located. After Fitz presses a particular lever, the world goes topsy-turvy and out-of-control. Note that this cartoon contains strobe fl...

João is a lonely boy living in the outback. No friends, no mother, and no bond with his father, he finds a chance to overcome his fears and a possibility to fit in when a small circus arrives in town....

Clown work. Features a noise soundtrack by Dead Bait, Anthony Boobier....

Pervo, Twitch, Splat and Humpty live their lives 24/7 as clowns .. and they're also in a rock band called Coulrophobia. Watch what happens as they are followed for a week by a small TV crew?...

In the late hours of Halloween, a mother and her young daughter are haunted by a terrifying clown that lives in their tv....

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Malcolm McGregor joins the circus and falls in love with Olive Borden but his life changes when he finds out he is a titled Lord....

An "Out of the Inkwell" cartoon featuring Ko-Ko the Clown....