Stuck in a car with his mother, Loïc opens up a sensitive conversation : he no longer wants to walk on the footsteps of his clown parents. As he's asking her to remove his makeup, his mother Marianne must then accept her son's new start.
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the mother suddenly appears five years later and wants her son, Teddy decides to run away with the child and goes back onstage with his son. Will the family catch up with them, or will the mother never get her son back?
Henry, an unemployed clown, is in love with the famous soap opera actress, Sunny Carmichael. He writes her letters daily yet fear of rejection prevents him from disclosing his return address. Can true love prevail?
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
Experimental documentary short starring Batato Barea and Peter Pank, filmed in July 1991
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.
A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
Based on a true story of serial killer a model citizen, loving father and husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his house which he shared with his family.
Two years in a clown school. Against all odds and trends, learning how to make people laugh out at the human condition.
Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even more, and his boss threatens him with unemployment if he can't get his act under control.
Darso, a clown busker, lost his wife and unborn child to thug violence. In grief, he brought his wife's body back to his village. However, the village is in chaos due to a conflict with an evil developer and a curse ritual that summons dark forces. Darso is also caught up in the evil forces connected to the person he loves most.
Raju faces many hurdles and disappointments in matters of the heart throughout his life. But as a clown in a circus, he tries to make his audience laugh at the cost of his own sorrows. Along the way, Raju loves and loses, but must always keep a smile on his face because, in the words of his circus manager, "The show must go on."
A famous stand-up comedian debates on whether telling or not a polemic joke he just wrote. His whole night changes when he realizes that he has lost the ability to hear laughter...
A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.
A portrait of the performance artists in colorful clothes and painted faces whom have transitioned from a symbol for joy and laughter, to horror and terror, to melancholy and sadness.
One evening, as Ludvik is about to go to bed, he notices that a painting, once owned by his grandfather, mysteriously begins to move on its own. The next day, Ludvik shares the unsettling event with his friend Amund, and together they decide to investigate the painting's origins. Ludvik's grandfather had lived in an old cabin deep in the woods, that had been abandoned since his passing. Determined to uncover the truth, Ludvik and Amund venture to the cabin, only to discover secrets that should never see the light of day.
The life of Adrien Wettach, famous in the annals of the circus under the name of Grock, world famous Swiss clown. A series of images from Épinal, retracing the career of a European artist, within the framework of world history. Lots of children, wars, an eccentric Russian countess, Countess Barinoff, who grows old admiring the clown, and a very long quibble about a party wall, all serve to highlight the star's final number.