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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Barnaby and Me (1979)
Plot Summary:
In his 1982 book "Where Have I Been? An Autobiography", a sobered-up Sid Caesar admits that by the time he did this film, he was so far-gone because of his prescription drug and alcohol addiction, he has no memory of making this movie, or of even being in Australia.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic
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Trapeze Girl (1967)
Plot Summary:
A Shaw Brothers Circus Drama about a Trapeze Girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
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The Acrobat Bunglers (1981)
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Humble officials, friends Didi, Dedé, Mussum and Zacarias become the great attraction of the circus Bartolo, thanks to its incredible ability to make the public laugh. But success has a price: the opposition of the magician Assis Satan and the greed of the Baron, the owner of the circus. Together, the four friends will have to fight them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 769
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min
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The Elephant (2010)
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(Russian with English subtitles) The show is under way in the circus arena. But there is agitation behind the curtain: the audience's darling, Bodhi the elephant has fallen ill. The next morning a trailer arrives to pick Bodhi up. But his sad ride with driver Zarezin and the sweet circus girl Bonnie turns into a wondrous journey full of unexpected twists and joyous encounters.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min
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The Twelve Chairs (1962)
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When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the treasures he believes rightfully belong to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Comedy
Country: Cuba
Duration: 94 min
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Hard Hats and Potato Nose (1974)
Plot Summary:
A few kids make a circus show for their sick friend, and get in some trouble along the way.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Hungary
Duration: 92 min
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Tbilisi-Paris-Tbilisi (1980)
Plot Summary:
Tbilisi in the beginning of the 20th century . Emigrants who moved from Tbilisi to Paris for various reasons cannot resist the feeling of nostalgia and decide to return to their homeland by air balloon.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
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Cirqo (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two prisoners escape execution by the police and become successful circus clowns in Pinochet's Chile.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min
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The Rascal (1994)
Plot Summary:
Torben's father and farmer Jacob make a trade. Jacob gets a gearbox and Torben's father gets peace: Torben must be at farmer Jacob on the farm the rest of his summer holidays. It was Jacob never have done ...! Absolutely terrific Danish family comedy in the best action-style. Wild bass played by Robert Hansen, known from Anja and Viktor films and family Gregersen. Moreover contributes among other Preben Kristensen, Viggo Summer and Dick Kaysø and many more.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
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Solo for Elephant and Orchestra (1975)
Plot Summary:
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the program of Moscow circus. Mrs Whistler (Iva Janzurová), British associate professor, makes her understood with the animals in their language but the Czech professor Ruzicka (Jirí Sovák), though he is capable of using the animals language, prefers teaching the animals the human language. Ruzicka's friend, the poodle Archibald, speaks "in Human" very well. The scientific dispute ends with a bet - if Ruzicka teaches the circus elephant to sing, Mrs Whistler will eat up her hat.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The First of May (1999)
Plot Summary:
Cory (Dan Byrd) is a foster child nobody wants. Carlotta (Academy Award-nominee Julie Harris) is an elderly woman the world has forgotten. Together, they find friendship and family when they join a traveling circus. Also features Mickey Rooney and Joe DiMaggio, in his last screen appearance.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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All Night Gaming (2016)
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A teenage slacker has only one night to finish a major English assignment, his grades depends on it. He is forced to finish the work over night at a local Internet cafe where he encounters gamers, nocturnal goth-ghouls and drunken Clubbers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
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Bonkers (2005)
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Bonnie, a nine-year-old single child, is part of a family of three living in the Netherlands. They have a love of elephants, passed on by Bonnie's grandfather's grandfather who worked on a game reserve in Africa, and Bonnie feels that she instinctively does things like an elephant as a result. Her single mother, Lis, is bi-polar and at times spends days on end without even getting out of bed. Then there are other times when she will manically do wild acts, such as impromptu dancing in public. As a result, Bonnie's sturdy and stable grandmother must hold the family together by doing all the cooking, etc. After her grandmother is killed by a car, Bonnie becomes the most responsible family member and struggles with preparing meals and getting her reluctant mother to take her medication. She also must dodge Jorien, a social worker who is attempting to place her in a foster home.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 83 min
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1995)
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Two runaway kids hide in a museum. Once they are locked inside overnight, they try to solve a mystery about a statue supposedly carved by Michaelangelo, known as "The Angel". Will they solve the mystery in time?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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Mela (1980)
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Govindan Kutty (Raghu) is a clown who works in the circus. He comes to his village looking for a bride. Sharada (Anjali Naidu) is impressed by his charms and seemingly rich lifestyle and agrees to marry him. When they reach back the circus after getting married, things however change considerably. Govindan is an insignificant figure there and is frequently ignored by everyone else. The frustrated Sharada meets a stuntman Vijayan (Mammootty) and gets close to him much to the discomfort of Govindan.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
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Violet's Visit (1997)
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Violet, a feisty 15 year-old who prefers the nickname "Scooter" , decides to run away from her boring life in a small town and goes to visit with the father she has never seen. She believes he lives in the city with his new wife, but in fact he is in a gay relationship with his long-time lover. This inevitably leads to changes and readjustments all round as dad gets to know, reluctantly, the daughter he never wanted.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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My Favorite Clown (1987)
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Sergei is a professional clown in the circus, and he knows how to make people happy. He is adopting the six-year old boy Vanka from a foster home. Sergei is a good man, who can provide unconditional love. But Sergei's wife suddenly separates from him, and Sergei is left alone with the tough decision to make.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
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Lotta Leaves Home (1993)
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A feisty five-year-old girl Lotta decides to move away from home. And no, she doesn't want to put on the stupid sweater.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min
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Little Virgil and Freddy Frogface (1980)
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Little Virgil lives in a henhouse with his best friend Oscar, a one-legged rooster. Virgil's worst enemy is Orla, the local bully-boy. When a circus comes to town, Virgil hires on as the Human Cannonball's apprentice. The role is a perfect fit, and ugly, evil Orla finally gets his comeuppance.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 79 min
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Six Bears and a Clown (1972)
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The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears escape and seek him out and a school inspector comes into town.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, campy
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The Adventures of Eliza Fraser (1976)
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An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Violin Player (1994)
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This European drama, set in Paris, follows a brilliant musician as he suddenly forsakes his career, to live and love amongst the common populace. Armand is the violinist who yearns to experience that life and to share his music with everyone, not just the wealthy and the elite. He leaves the glittering world of classical music without a backward glance and takes up residence in the Paris metro where he is surrounded by beggars and tramps. There he meets and becomes friends with Lydia, a metro employee.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 94 min
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Clownwise (2013)
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Once a hugely popular clown trio, Oskar, Max, and Viktor are now living very different lives. The intense fight that ended their friendship has left them on bad terms for over 40 years. Max is battling colon cancer, Viktor's wife is losing a battle to Alzheimer's, and Oskar, who's never been the best dad, is trying to rescue his daughter from an abusive relationship. The good old days are gone indeed. Despite their situations, each one still tries to maintain a sense of humor. They look fondly on the days when they were slapstick superstars. However, when it comes to the issues that led to their career demise, they just can't seem to let their anger go. As they hesitantly agree to a reunion, they begin to find that the only way back to the top is through forgiveness.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Finland, Luxembourg, Slovakia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, captivating, melancholic, humorous
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Jessica (2004)
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The Bergman sisters could not be more different. Jessica is a feisty tomboy who loves to help her father work their farmland. Her beautiful sister Meg is eagerly being groomed by her mother Hester (Lisa Harrow) to be the perfect wife, so that she can marry her way out of poverty. However, when the man, Jack Thomas, who Meg has set her sights on falls in love with Jessica and gets her pregnant, Hester schemes to wrench the couple apart to claim Jessica's son, Joey for Meg. Later she commits Jessica to a mental asylum. It is here that Jessica receives news of her lover's death and almost loses hope, but after enlisting the help of Mr. Runche, a down and out lawyer battling alcoholism, she is eventually released. Years later, it is the reformed Runche who gives Jessica the courage to fight for the return of her child. Eventually Meg and Hester call an uneasy truce with Jessica, and allow her to play a role in Joey's life as his aunt.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 196 min
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Blue Fin (1978)
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Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: semi serious, independent film
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The Clown (2011)
Plot Summary:
The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, offbeat
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Pippi on the Run (1970)
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Fed up with their strict parents, Tommy and Annika run away from home, with their friend Pippi Longstocking to look after them in their long trek.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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The One and Only Ivan (2020)
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Ivan is a 400-pound silverback gorilla who shares a communal habitat in a suburban shopping mall with Stella the elephant, Bob the dog, and various other animals. He has few memories of the jungle where he was captured, but when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives, it touches something deep within him. Ruby is recently separated from her family in the wild, which causes him to question his life, where he comes from and where he ultimately wants to be.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, sweet, visually appealing, light, feel good, emotional, computer animated, sad, tear jerker
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Jumping Ship (2001)
Plot Summary:
Joseph, Matthew and Andrew Lawrence (TV's Brotherly Love) star in this thrilling, action-packed sequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie Horse Sense. It's first-class adventure on the high seas for Michael Woods (Joseph Lawrence) and his cousin (Andrew Lawrence) when they charter a private yacht for a fun-filled cruise off the coast of Australia. But the yacht turns out to be a broken-down fishing boat complete with rusting hull! When they find themselves being chased by modern-day pirates, they decide that Jumping Ship with the boat's captain Jake Hunter (Matthew Lawrence) is the only option. Stranded on a desert island without any conveniences from home, these three castaways must work together as a team if they hope to survive and be rescued.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, talky
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The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story of Ajatashatru Oghash Rathod, a fakir who tricks his local village in Rajasthan, India into believing his possesses special powers and into paying him to fly to Paris to buy a bed of nails from an Ikea store.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, India, Belgium, Singapore, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, light, sincere, feel good, fairy tale, inspirational