A magician in a carnival--who actually can read minds and levitate people and objects--works with a superintelligent chimp named Alex, who can also talk. The magician and the chimp soon become the stars of the carnival, drawing in big crowds. However, the wild-animal trainer, who has been displaced by the team as the carnival's top act, decides to kidnap Alex and sell him to a medical laboratory for experimentation, thereby getting rid of his competition.

Melrose's circus is being threatened by his competitor, who's angry that Melrose has outmanuevered h...

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...

One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. ...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall ...

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans fo...

A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, wit...

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be...

The romance between a lion tamer and a liberated girl.

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the bas...

Dignity. Poise. Mystery. We expect nothing less from the great turn-of-the-century magician, Presto....

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colon...

An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens s...

The Chinese consider the lion a symbol of good luck, so it's a half-dragon, half-lion – a dralion – ...

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish...

From the Italian 'saltare in banco' – which literally means 'to jump on a bench' – Saltimbanco explo...

Icarus is the main character of Varekai, who falls to the ground, breaking his legs as he does. He i...

Night of Abandon: A wild blissful night in Brazil during Carnival. Liar's Tale: A burned out photoj...

An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.

Balthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch...