6 Best Circus and Carnival Movies

An ambitious carnival worker rises through the ranks of a traveling sideshow before his scheming leads to his downfall.

An ambitious dreamer builds a sensational circus that celebrates society's outcasts and misfits.

A veterinary student joins a traveling circus during the Depression and falls for its star performer.

A circus sideshow's tight-knit performers take brutal revenge on a conniving trapeze artist.

A young circus elephant mocked for his oversized ears discovers they let him fly.

A hapless tramp becomes an unlikely circus star after accidentally proving to be the funniest act in the show.