Limelight (1952), He Who Gets Slapped (1924), Delicatessen (1991), Dumbo (1941), Tangos: The Exile of Gardel (1985), What a Way to Go! (1964), The Meyerowitz Stories (2017), Merry Andrew (1958) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Clown movies.
Storyline: Chaplin's final American film tells the story of a fading music hall comedian's effort to help a despondent ballet dancer learn both to walk and feel confident about life again. The highlight of the film is the classic duet with Chaplin's only real artistic film comedy rival, Buster Keaton.—Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
Plot Keywords: clown, dancer, composer, theater owner, amusing, melodramatic, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He falls in love with another circus performer, and those who betrayed him enter his life yet again.—Robert Tonsing <rtonsing@ti.com>
Plot Keywords: clown, circus performer, partner, baron, wife, brooding, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Centered on a post-apocalyptic society where food is scrarce and used as currency. In an apartment building with a delicatessen on the ground floor. The owner of the eatery also owns the apartment building and is in need of a new maintenance man since the prior one "mysteriously" disappeared. A former clown applies for the job and the butcher's intent is to have him work for as little as possible, and then serve him to odd tenants who pay the butcher in grain. The clown and butcher's daughter fall in love and she tries to foil her father's plans by contacting the "troglodytes", a grain eating sub-group of society who live entirely underground.
Plot Keywords: butcher, clown, daughter, tenant, charming, dreamy, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs. Jumbo, veteran of the circus, but the newborn is ridiculed because of his truly enormous ears and dubbed "Dumbo". After being separated from his mother, Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown acts; it is up to his only friend, a mouse, to assist Dumbo to achieve his full potential.
Plot Keywords: elephant, mouse, clown, crow, charming, emotional, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the sorrow of exile, a group of Argentinians in Paris seek solace and connection to their culture by staging a set of tangos. The film alternates between their vibrant rehearsals and their circumscribed lives in low-rent apartments, underemployed, fitfully communicating with families back home, trying to make do with what they hope are only temporary arrangements in a foreign land.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: dancer, singer, clown, ghost, playful, passionate, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: widow, psychiatrist, millionaire, husband, artist, clown, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An estranged family gathers together in New York City for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
Plot Keywords: clown, victim, killer, child, friend, sibling, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Downtrodden but creative English school-teacher (Danny Kaye) on archeological trip discovers joys of love and circus life with acrobat (Pier Angeli).—<Nicholas.palmer@chbs.mhs.ciba.com>
Plot Keywords: teacher, clown, fiancée, acrobat, farmer, amusing, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A small and insignificant bookkeeper, Kleinman, is awoken one night by his neighbors who wants his help to track down a strangler who has been killing people all over town. The citizens form vigilance committees, but when Kleinman has dressed, his neighbors have disappeared. Meanwhile a circus has come to town. Irmy and Paul are two of the artists. After a fight, Irmy leaves the circus in the middle of the night. Eventually she meets Kleinman, scared and alone.
Plot Keywords: bookkeeper, vigilante, clown, landlady, strangler, madcap, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground. Subplots involve the secret past of Buttons the Clown and the efforts of racketeers to move in on the game concessions. Let the show begin!
Plot Keywords: circus performer, clown, manager, girlfriend, trapeze artist, thrilling, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eleven-year-old Cory (Dan Byrd) is a foster child nobody wants. Carlotta (Academy Award-nominee Julie Harris) is an elderly woman the world has forgotten.
Plot Keywords: orphan, old woman, circus owner, circus performer, clown, audience, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: hostage, customer, thief, bank employee, clown, gripping, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1937, Spain is in the midst of the brutal Spanish Civil War. A "Happy" circus clown is interrupted mid-performance and forcibly recruited by a militia. Still in his costume, he is handed a machete and led into battle against National soldiers, where he single handedly massacres an entire platoon. Fast forward to 1973, the tail end of the Franco regime. Javier, the son of the clown, dreams of following in his father's career footsteps, but has seen too much tragedy in his life-he's simply not funny and is only equipped to play the role of the Sad Clown. He finds work in a circus where he befriends an outlandish cast of characters, but as the Sad Clown he must take the abuse of the brutish Happy Clown Sergio, who humiliates Javier daily in the name of entertainment. It is here that he meets Natalia, a gorgeous acrobat, and abused wife of Sergio. Javier falls deeply in love with Natalia and tries to rescue her from her cruel and violent husband, unleashing Sergio's jealousy. But Natalia ...
Plot Keywords: clown, rival, amusing, melodramatic, circus, spain, spanish civil war ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Blackie tracks down a wrongly convicted prisoner who escapes during a Christmas magic show.
Plot Keywords: reformed criminal, police officer, convict, dancer, clown, musician, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1993. Overachieving college student Jason Moss, fascinated by serial crime, decides to write his criminology class term paper on John Wayne Gacy, who is on death row and scheduled to be executed in six months time. Jason's criminology professor, Mr. Harris, will only allow Jason to write his paper on Gacy if Jason can come up with a fresh angle, as he himself believes the topic of serial killers is already overexposed. After writing Gacy a nondescript letter and receiving a questionnaire from Gacy in return, Jason believes the fresh angle would be truly to get inside Gacy's head, specifically to learn what makes him tick, by presenting himself in subsequent correspondence to Gacy as Gacy's "type", i.e. a vulnerable young man from a dysfunctional family and thus who is possibly at risk. Despite the advice that he needs to watch out for cunning Gacy, Jason is certain he can outsmart the serial criminal at his own game. Things take an unexpected turn for Jason when he starts receiving telephone calls from Gacy, who was able to find out his number. As Jason feels he has to do further field work based on things that Gacy wants him to report back on, Jason may find that he is not as well equipped emotionally to handle the situation than he first believed, potentially leading to serious consequences both for himself and those around him.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: college student, serial killer, clown, disturbing, correspondence, arrest, motivation ...
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