Movies like Man on a Tightrope

20 movies like Man on a Tightrope, ordered by similarity : The Greatest Showman(2017), Circus World(1964), Water for Elephants(2011), Dumbo(2019), The First of May(1998), The Greatest Show on Earth(1952), Under the Big Top(1938), Rain or Shine(1930), Carol(2015), Cloud 9(2008), Saving Flora(2018), Ring of Fear(1954) ...

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Man on a Tightrope

Czech circus owner-Clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.

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The Greatest Showman

Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.

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Circus World

When circus proprietor Matt Masters decides to take his show on a European tour, it is beset by problems, while he searches for Lili, the mother of his adopted daughter, who disappeared years before.

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Water for Elephants

Set in the 1930s, a former veterinary student takes a job in a travelling circus and falls in love with the ringmaster's wife.

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Dumbo

A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.

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The First of May

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.

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The Greatest Show on Earth

The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.

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Under the Big Top

A pretty young circus trapeze artist is pushed by her domineering aunt to be the best aerialist in the world. When she begins to fall for one of the two men in her act, her mother ... See full summary »

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Rain or Shine

Woman inherits a traveling circus which brings financial difficulties.

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Carol

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.

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Cloud 9

A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.

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Saving Flora

Flora is a circus elephant who can no longer perform her tricks. The night before she's scheduled to be euthanized, the circus owner's 14-year old daughter, Dawn, sneaks Flora from the ... See full summary »

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Ring of Fear

The Clyde Beatty Circus seems jinxed, falling victim again and again to apparent accidents which are actually the acts of a murderous saboteur. Mystery writer Mickey Spillane comes on the scene to solve the case.

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When Night Is Falling

An uptight and conservative woman, working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university, finds herself strangely attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman who works at a local carnival that comes to town.

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A Summer Place

A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.

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He Who Gets Slapped

A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him.

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Dual Alibi

Twin trapezists fall out over a lottery ticket and a worthless woman, but later extract a unique revenge.

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Sawdust and Tinsel

A circus owner (Åke Grönberg) leaves his mistress (Harriet Andersson) for his wife, and an actor (Anders Ek) seduces the mistress.

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Woodpeckers

Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.

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Husband Material

A love triangle between a spirited young woman, her outgoing boyfriend and a fiance who's husband material.

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Big Fish

A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.

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