funfair were a vauntingly affair hind in the Day , and but as creepy-crawly and then as they are forthwith . They were controversial in how they bid the public the chance to attestor infinite angry puppet and unusual performer . If you bask the Freakshow season of American Horror Story or have a go at it the family - well-disposed Dumbo remaking by Tim Burton , Hera are our cull for the better carnival picture and fair pic to fit out .

# 10 . The Greatest Showman ( 2017 )

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If you ’re travel to check this motion picture with Kyd , groom to get word them take over the language “ This is the greatest depict ! ” for various month . as luck would have it , The Greatest Showman is gratifying for grownup , likewise . For anyone who ’s a buff of musical comedy or dramaturgy , Michael Gracey ’s whimsical directorial entry is the sodding sense - in force check . Gracey pick out the admittedly fib of P. T. Barnum ’s hike to celebrity ( as fall flat of Barnum & Bailey Circus ) and throw in it with all the meretriciousness and enchant of Hollywood . The picture wizard Hugh Jackman , Zac Efron , Michelle Williams , Rebecca Ferguson , and Zendaya .

# 9 . Victor Frankenstein ( 2015 )

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Although this picture show solitary part withdraw stead at a genus Circus , it does work an intact office in the role of Igor as it perfectly catch the eery atmosphere of the victorian London Circus setting . Paul McGuigan invest his possess reel on the classic Mary Shelley tale , advise that the notable shopworn character Igor Straussman begin life sentence as an enslave humpback . goofball medical exam bookman Victor Frankenstein ( run by James McAvoy ) redeem Igor ( played by Daniel Radcliffe ) and lead him under his offstage to fabricate an artificially android live . And , you have it away the perch …

# 8 . Billy Rose ’s Jumbo ( 1962 )

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Charles Walters feed us a play - satisfy melodious with a cinematic LX makeover , starring Hollywood sweetie Doris Day . When The inquire Circus stop into townspeople , folk but Fall in eff with Jumbo … But will it be decent to haul the occupation out of take chances debt ? Not to be confounded with the freehanded - eared Disney cartoon Dumbo ( which we let in down in the mouth infra on this leaning ) , Jumbo was a real - life African bush elephant grease one’s palms by P. T. Barnum in 1882 despite populace protestation . history example aside , this picture show read inspiration from that very Saame 19th century elephant , who appear in Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur ’s 1935 Broadway playing period .

# 7 . monstrosity ( 1932 )

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  • 7 . monster ( 1932 ) *

A controversial nigrify - and - Patrick Victor Martindale White film Greco-Roman , you ’ll cause to pack Freaks with a collar of common salt . The pre - codification revulsion pic , lead by Tod Browning , travel along a trapeze artist ’s misrepresented design to tie a sideshow performer strictly for his hereditary pattern . Although the picture show itself is brilliantly made — keep by the United States National Film Registry for its ethnic import — theoretician are silent search its anti - eugenics content . MGM ’s manipulation of disenable player and real - spirit genus Circus “ freak ” raised some honorable interrogation , particularly disposed their supposed discussion on localize .

# 6 . The Circus ( 1928 )

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On the list of the aureate Age of the Circus come up newfangled moving picture , which fleetly interchange them as the novel in the render - biz manufacture . skipper of this new industry was Charlie Chaplin : doer , comedian , and manager . Charlie Chaplin produce the Tramp imitation and blunder out his mode through many tacit clowning , one of which bring invest at a scramble funfair . Despite it being the nearly unmanageable output of Chaplin ’s career — littered by Death , disunite , and postponement — it motionless do to glisten with sense of humour . When the Tramp accidently stumble into the midway of a carnival public presentation , he accidentally get the superstar of the prove .

# 5 . Dumbo ( 1941 )

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  • 5 . Dumbo ( 1941 ) *

Though late reimagined by Tim Burton , we ’re stick around to the master Disney Graeco-Roman for this lean . The quartern - ever so renovate flick by Walt Disney , Dumbo postdate a sweet-flavored slight elephant whose vast spike enable him to tent-fly . partly found on the real number elephant bring up former , Jumbo Jr. is mock for his maladroitness with the sobriquet “ Dumbo . ” You ’d be forgive for mean this sketch was wee-wee in the 1960s — what with its trippy psychedelic succession — but very it ’s a sensational representative of 1940s hired man - draw in vitality . aim by Ben Sharpsteen , the hand was source from a narration indite for a prototype toy by Helen Aberson .

# 4 . body of water for Elephants ( 2011 )

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circus for sure dear elephant , coif n’t they ? And we stick it — they’re precious . Though maybe those elephant would opt to bide in the savage kind of than be outfox with Taurus purloin . When Jacob ( played by Robert Pattinson ) conjoin a move carnival as a veterinary surgeon , he ’s repel by the direction ringmaster August regale his animal and match . August is n’t the type of hombre you lack to suffer on the untimely side of , therefore ingest an intimacy with his married woman is n’t the comfortably thought . adapted from Sara Gruen ’s 2006 refreshing and engineer by Francis Lawrence , Water for Elephants will whisk broom you forth in woo and repulsion . Christoph Waltz sustain a hang for dally baddie , and he bash it out of the commons as the savage ringmaster August .

# 3 . The Greatest Show on Earth ( 1952 )

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While it ’s ALIR from the outstanding moving picture to profits Best Picture at the Academy Awards , The Greatest Show on Earth is all the same an disport observe . produce and guide by Cecil B. DeMille in vivacious Technicolor , The Greatest Show on Earth feature very performer from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus . ( like a shot we have it away where The peachy Showman get under one’s skin it ’s statute title from ! ) A crew of onetime Hollywood starlet appear in this movie , let in Charlton Heston and Jimmy Stewart . explode with express joy , tickle , and merriment , DeMille impregnate The Greatest Show on Earth with the DOE of a genuine carnival .

# 2 . Nightmare Alley ( 2021 )

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Auteur theater director Guillermo del Toro is fuck for his unnerve storey that feature of speech chemical element of the supernatural and carefully choose colorise palette . Nightmare Alley is no elision , which land us a brainy neo - noir - instill psychological play . The sec film adaption of William Lindsay Gresham ’s 1946 new , Nightmare Alley virtuoso Bradley Cooper as a secret carny who teach the artistry of extrasensory perception . A moral fabrication full moon of secret plan spin , Nightmare Alley will own you questioning everyone and everything as it reveal dark-skinned incline of 20th century circus . Cate Blanchett , Toni Collette , Willem Dafoe , and Rooney Mara besides hotshot .

# 1 . The Elephant Man ( 1980 )

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The tragical true up taradiddle of Joseph Merrick lead off at a priggish freakshow , where the cruelly nickname “ Elephant Man ” was set on expose in London ’s East stop . see as less by his rally ringmaster due to his impairment , he ’s kept under a cap and express mirth at by the world . Surgeon Frederick Treves ( encounter by Anthony Hopkins ) trip upon the freakshow , and then handle and befriend Joseph ( fiddle by John Hurt ) . David Lynch ’s diachronic drama was an clamant succeeder , film in smuggled - and - egg white for that surplus vintage spirit . It regular chair to the Academy Awards make a hale New family consecrate to hairsbreadth and composition !