Highest-Rated Movies about 'Circus Performer'

Big Fish (2003), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), The Walk (2015), Saboteur (1942), Toby Tyler (1960), Water for Elephants (2011), Trapeze (1956) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Circus Performer movies.

#16. The Big Circus (1959)

Storyline: After splitting with his longtime business partner, Hank Whirling is about to take his big top circus on tour. He manages to get a loan and some investment money but has to take on one of their employees, Randy Sherman, to keep an eye on the finances. Sherman immediately hires a new press agent, Helen Harrison, over Hank's objections. After a series of accidents, they soon realize that they have a saboteur in the company. With financial problems increasing, Whirling looks to take the the show to New York City before his former partner Jules Borman can get his circus there. He realizes that he'll need a lot of publicity and trapeze and high wire artist Zach Colino agrees to walk the wire across Niagara Falls. After the circus train is sabotaged - killing Zach's wife and several others - they race to Niagara Falls to complete the high wire act but Zach may not be up it. The saboteur working for Borman bides his time and is planning another death.—garykmcd

Plot Keywords: romantic rivalry, circus, press agent, trapeze, redheaded woman, bank loan, falling from height ...

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#17. Polly of the Circus (1932)

Storyline: When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates, they fall in love with each other and secretly marry. But when the truth leaks out , John's congregation rebels at having a circus woman as their minister's wife, and he is fired. Polly decides to leave John in hopes of giving back to him the calling that means so much to him. But fate steps in and rearranges all plans.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

Plot Keywords: character name as title, accident, church, self sacrifice, circus performer, trapeze artist, alcoholic ...

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#18. Circus World (1964)

Storyline: In the early years of the 20th century, Matt Masters takes his rambling Wild West Show to Europe. His decision is prompted by his desire to find Lili Alfredo, who disappeared fourteen years earlier following the death of her husband, The Flying Alfredo. At the time it was believed that Alfredo dived to his death deliberately when he realized his wife loved Matt and not him. Toni, a beautiful trapeze performer, raised by Matt is actually Lili's daughter, and she is in love with Steve McCabe, one of the stars on Matt's show. Doing their first show in Barcelona, aboard a ship, the ship keels over and Matt loses his show. Now broke, he leaves for Paris with Toni, Steve and his long-time friend, Cap Carson, to seek a job with Colonel Purdy's Wild West Show. But a year later, Matt has rebuilt his own show. First to be signed is a remarkable 12-year-old wire-walker named Giovana, and her guardian, Tojo the Clown, whose real named is Aldo Alfredo, formerly of the Flying Alfredos. Continuing his search for Lili, Matt's show plays Brussels, Vienna, Prague, Copenhagen, Rome, Milan, and finally Madrid, where Lili is part of the audience.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: circus, austria, belgium, brussels belgium, cigarette smoking, finland, france ...

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#19. The Pleasure of Your Company (2006)

Storyline: This is a comedy that shows us that love has nothing to do with perfection. After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best friend, he spontaneously proposes to a dissatisfied waitress named Katie and an innocent dare evolves into the kind of love that they both have been looking for all along.

Plot Keywords: blonde, woman in bra and panties, girl in bra and panties, black panties, black bra, black bra and panties, wedding ring ...

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#20. A Tale of Five Women (1951)

Storyline: An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>

Plot Keywords: identity, circus performer, evidence, france, germany, german, italian ...

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#21. Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)

Storyline: The Russians need help in dealing with the Mafia and so they seek help with the veterans of the Police Academy (1984). They head off to Moscow, in order to find evidence against Konstantine Konali, who marketed a computer game that everyone in the world is playing. With a sequel to the game he wants to put backdoors in all computer systems on which it gets installed, thus providing access to the police and other government systems.

Plot Keywords: russia, female nudity, bare breasts, police academy, cleavage, scantily clad female, panties ...

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