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1. American Horror Story (2011– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
An anthology series centering on different characters and locations, showcasing different aspects of horror.
Stars: Lady Gaga, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Sarah Paulson
Votes: 343,650
2. The Greatest Showman (2017)
PG | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.
Director: Michael Gracey | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya
Votes: 311,508 | Gross: $174.34M
3. The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson
Votes: 130,685 | Gross: $51.27M
4. The Elephant Man (1980)
PG | 124 min | Biography, Drama
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud
Votes: 258,456
5. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
PG-13 | 134 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Gellert Grindelwald plans to raise an army of wizards to rule over non-magical beings. In response, Newt Scamander's former professor, Albus Dumbledore, seeks his help to stop him.
Director: David Yates | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Johnny Depp
Votes: 308,802 | Gross: $159.56M
6. The Lone Ranger (2013)
PG-13 | 150 min | Action, Adventure, Western
Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 244,495 | Gross: $89.30M
7. Monster House (2006)
PG | 91 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.
Director: Gil Kenan | Stars: Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Ryan Whitney
Votes: 138,198 | Gross: $73.66M
8. Freaks (1932)
Not Rated | 64 min | Drama, Horror
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates
Votes: 50,607 | Gross: $0.63M
9. The Funhouse (1981)
R | 96 min | Horror
Four teenagers visit a local carnival for a night of innocent amusement, but soon discover that nothing there is innocent or amusing.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Elizabeth Berridge, Shawn Carson, Jeanne Austin, Jack McDermott
Votes: 16,281 | Gross: $7.89M
10. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Passed | 152 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde
Votes: 16,055 | Gross: $36.00M
11. Spicy City (1997)
TV-MA | 146 min | Animation, Adventure, Crime
An anthology of sexy and risque animated stories in a futuristic city with a seamy side.
Stars: Michelle Phillips, Charlie Adler, Letitia Hicks, James Keane
Votes: 814
12. Houdini (2014)
TV-14 | 76 min | Biography, Drama
Follow the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin.
Stars: Adrien Brody, Kristen Connolly, Evan Jones, Tim Pigott-Smith
Votes: 12,341
13. Sssssss (1973)
PG | 99 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A college student becomes lab assistant to a scientist who is working on a serum that can transform humans into snakes.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies-Urich, Richard B. Shull
Votes: 3,968
14. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
Not Rated | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A Roger Corman tale of Dr. James Xavier's devastating experiments on himself and the unforeseen.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt
Votes: 8,164
16. Dark Ride (2006)
R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A group of six friends on a road trip stop off at an amusement park attraction named 'Dark Ride', unaware that a psychopath who brutally murdered two girls, has just escaped a mental institution and is seeking refuge there.
Director: Craig Singer | Stars: Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Patrick Renna, David Clayton Rogers, Alex Solowitz
Votes: 6,707
17. She Creature (2001 TV Movie)
R | 91 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
In Ireland, two carnies abduct a mermaid and decide to take her to America. In their sea route, the seductive and mysterious creature reveals an uncontrollable darker side.
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Carla Gugino, Jim Piddock, Reno Wilson
Votes: 3,848
18. The Mutations (1974)
R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist experiments with crossing humans and plants, for which he uses his students.
Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Brad Harris, Julie Ege
Votes: 2,131
19. The True Adventures of Wolfboy (2019)
PG-13 | 88 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Follows a young boy who runs away from home in search of his estranged mother.
Director: Martin Krejcí | Stars: Stephen McKinley Henderson, Chloë Sevigny, Eve Hewson, John Turturro
Votes: 990
20. A Thousand & One Nights (1969)
X | 128 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.
Director: Eiichi Yamamoto | Stars: Sachiko Itô, Haruko Katô, Noboru Mitani, Hitoshi Takagi
Votes: 855
21. Howling VI: The Freaks (1991 Video)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits.
Director: Hope Perello | Stars: Brendan Hughes, Michele Matheson, Sean Sullivan, Antonio Fargas
Votes: 2,466
22. Hoopla (1933)
Passed | 85 min | Drama
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the son of the show's manager.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Clara Bow, Preston Foster, Richard Cromwell, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 312
23. The Butterfly Circus (2009)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Drama
A circus troupe brightens the spirits of audiences in Depression-era America and inspires hope in a limbless man from a sideshow.
Director: Joshua Weigel | Stars: Eduardo Verástegui, Nick Vujicic, Doug Jones, Matt Allmen
Votes: 3,608
24. Blind Woman's Curse (1970)
Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Crime, Horror
The head of a yakuza gang is being trailed by a mysterious, vengeful blind woman.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Hoki Tokuda, Makoto Satô, Hideo Sunazuka
Votes: 1,635
25. Sideshow (2000)
R | 74 min | Horror
While visiting a traveling carnival full of human freaks, high school students nearly join as permanent members.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Jamie Martz, Michael Amos, Scott McCann, Jessi Keenan
Votes: 745
26. Maisie Was a Lady (1941)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Drama
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Ann Sothern, Lew Ayres, Maureen O'Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith
Votes: 639
27. The 4Bidden Fables (2014)
95 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
From International Fantasy Artist Dorian Cleavenger comes 4 stories of the bizarre and macabre in this unique journey of altered realities.
Director: Dorian Cleavenger | Stars: Zachary James Akers, Richard Billock, Ebony Black, Nicholas Carrington
Votes: 164
28. The Member of the Wedding (1997 TV Movie)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Romance
Frankie Addams, 12-year-old tomboy, feels disconnected from the world. Frankie's mother died when she was born, and her father is a distant, uncomprehending figure. Her closest companions ... See full summary »
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Anna Paquin, Alfre Woodard, Corey Dunn, Enrico Colantoni
Votes: 194
29. The Woman for Joe (1955)
91 min | Drama, Romance
A sideshow owner and his main attraction, a midget, fall for the same woman.
Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Diane Cilento, George Baker, Jimmy Karoubi, David Kossoff
Votes: 131
30. Schlitzie: One of Us
66 min | Documentary | Completed
Schlitzie: One of Us is a love letter to the 4-foot-tall performer, who was born with microcephaly, and made his most notable cultural impact via the 1932 classic film Freaks. The Ramones ... See full summary »
Director: Steven Belgard | Stars: Mat Fraser, Naomi Grossman, Wallace Ford, Angelo Rossitto
31. Crustacean (2009)
92 min | Comedy, Horror
A lobster-clawed freak from a lurid sideshow wreaks a wrath of bloody horror - through a rural community so small that only two families live there - in this outrageous parody of grind ... See full summary »
Director: L.J. Dopp | Stars: Hannah Harper, Peter Atkins, Angela Berliner, Brian Sheridan
Votes: 51
32. Finky (2019)
95 min | Drama
A young musician with a tragic past is crippled in a car accident and given a chance at redemption when he is recruited by a violent, avant-garde circus.
Director: Dathaí Keane | Stars: Dara Devaney, Ned Dennehy, Diarmuid de Faoite, Fionnuala Gygax
Votes: 51
33. The Murder in the Museum (1934)
65 min | Mystery, Thriller
When a city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on a a somewhat disreputable sideshow, the daughter of the chief suspect teams up with a newspaper reporter to find the real killer.
Director: Melville Shyer | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, John Harron, Phyllis Barrington, Tom O'Brien
Votes: 214
34. Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
Let Guitry take you down cause he's going to...Elysées Fields .
Directors: Sacha Guitry, Robert Bibal | Stars: Sacha Guitry, Lucien Baroux, Jean Périer, Roger Bourdin
Votes: 246
35. Jonah Hex: Motion Comics (2010)
TV-MA | 84 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
One long and two short motion comic adventures of Jonah Hex, a deadly cynical bounty hunter with a lip and a horrible facial scar. He hunts a necromancer and his crony - undead Wild Bill Hickok, some robbers and a rotten old judge.
Stars: Jim Cummings, Steve Blum, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Mick Wingert
Votes: 99
36. Spangles (1926)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance
Marian Nixon plays the title character, a gorgeous bareback rider with a travelling circus. Spangles falls in love with Dick (Pat O'Malley), a young fugitive from justice who uses the Big Top for a hideout.
Director: Frank O'Connor | Stars: Marian Nixon, Pat O'Malley, Hobart Bosworth, Gladys Brockwell
Votes: 35
37. The Sideshow (1928)
65 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Melrose's circus is being threatened by his competitor, who's angry that Melrose has outmanuevered him in bookings; what he doesn't know is that the competitor has also planted a saboteur ... See full summary »
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Marie Prevost, Ralph Graves, 'Little Billy' Rhodes, Alan Roscoe
Votes: 104
38. Haruko's Paranormal Laboratory (2015)
Not Rated | 76 min | Comedy
A TV (Aoi Nakamura) transforms into a person with a body and mind. He lives with his owner Haruko (Moeka Nozaki). The television meets a suspicious TV producer (Tetsuhiro Ikeda). TV is ... See full summary »
Director: Lisa Takeba | Stars: Moeka Nozaki, Sayaka Aoki, Tetsuhiro Ikeda, Fumiyo Kohinata
Votes: 99
39. Transky, body, vteriny (2021 TV Movie)
94 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Directors: Tomás Dianiska, Petra Vselichová | Stars: Jakub Burýsek, Pavla Gajdosíková, Markéta Matulová, Ondrej Brett
40. Dwarfs in Art: A New Perspective (2018 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Journalist and documentary filmmaker Richard Butchins examines the representations of dwarfs in art and culture revealing society's shifting attitudes towards people with dwarfism.
Directors: Richard Butchins, Simon Lloyd | Stars: Richard Butchins, Kiruna Stamell, Tanya Raabe-Webber, Marianne Bergeron
Votes: 12
41. Something Strange (2016 TV Short)
13 min | Documentary, Short
Mentalist and oddity collector Chris Mysterion and his showbiz partner Steffi Kay organize a circus sideshow revival in Toronto.
Director: Kelli Kieley | Stars: Mysterion, Steffi Kay, Nicholas Cvjetkovich, Dan Malette
42. The Residents: Freak Show (1994 Video Game)
Adventure, Horror, Music
Interactive tour of a freak show based on the album Freak Show by the underground experimental San Francisco rock band The Residents. Some of the characters you meet are Herman the Human Mole, Harry the Head and Wanda the Worm Woman.
Directors: Jim Ludtke, The Residents | Stars: Dianna Alden, Laura Amat, Tony Janssen, Steven Kloman
43. Bad Day on the Midway (1995 Video Game)
Adventure, Crime, Mystery
The player must switch between characters, who are at the surreal Midway amusement park for one reason or another, to solve some puzzles and stop Ted, the psycho-killer on rampage there. The game has a time limit and no save option.
Director: Jim Ludtke | Stars: Diana Alden, Ollie Gordon, Molly Harvey, Seymore Hodges
Votes: 7
44.
Baywatch (1989–2001)
Episode:
Blindside
(1993)
TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Former Baywatch lifeguard, John D. Cort, returns to Baywatch wanting to becomes a lifeguard again and tries to rekindle the flame with his former girlfriend C.J. But after a series of ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Schwartz | Stars: David Hasselhoff, Nicole Eggert, David Charvet, Pamela Anderson
Votes: 170
45.
'Way Out (1961)
Episode:
Side Show
(1961)
30 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Henpecked Harold Potter is smitten with Cassandra the Electric Woman at the side show, and she entices him to help her escape from the brutal barker.
Director: Seymour Robbie | Stars: Roald Dahl, Myron McCormick, Murray Hamilton, Margaret Phillips
Votes: 42
46.
The Hunger (1997–2000)
Episode:
The Swords
(1997)
TV-MA | 28 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A man becomes involved with a woman who can be penetrated by swords.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Terence Stamp, Balthazar Getty, Amanda Ryan, Jamie Foreman
Votes: 214
47.
The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode:
Homerpalooza
(1996)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy
Homer takes Bart and Lisa to a music festival in an attempt to prove his coolness, but ends up embarrassing them after being hired to participate in the festival's freak show.
Director: Wesley Archer | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith
Votes: 2,909
48.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
The Circus
(1986)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Newspaperman Bragg debunks charlatans as a way of "staying sane." His latest quarry is the obscure circus of Dr. Nis. When Bragg visits, Dr. Nis tries to prove its authenticity.
Director: Michael Gornick | Stars: William Hickey, Kevin O'Connor, Ed French, Jacques Sandulescu
Votes: 254
49.
Wizards and Warriors (1983)
Episode:
The Dungeon of Death
(1983)
49 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The faithful Marko has been captured along with information crucial to the war. Prince Erik with the aid of his brother Prince Justin and a band of mercenaries must get into the dungeon of Castle Blackpool to retrieve them both.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Jeff Conaway, Walter Olkewicz, Duncan Regehr, Julia Duffy
Votes: 9
50.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Humbug
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The agents search for a killer in a Florida town inhabited by sideshow performers.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jim Rose, Wayne Grace
Votes: 5,913