Drama
"O palhaço que há em nós”, a Black Castle production, director Eduardo Robalo invites the audience to enter the parallel reality hidden in a clown's smile. “He says he will be a clown until his last day, but father, you will be a clown, forever. An actor in soul, a clown at heart.”
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Happy Warrior
All the Real Girls
If the Father and the Son
Shakes the Clown
The Greatest Show on Earth
A Clown in Babylon
The Great Monteleone
Bingo: The King of the Mornings
Santa Sangre
Triste Palhaço
Sad Clown
Mera Naam Joker
Silent Monologues
Mela
Limelight
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
He Who Gets Slapped
The Man Who Laughs
Crimi Clowns 2.0: Scum
Farewell Mister Grock
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Happy Warrior
IMDB 0 | Jul , 1925
Malcolm McGregor joins the circus and falls in love with Olive Borden but his life changes when he finds out he is a titled Lord.All the Real Girls
IMDB 5.9 | Feb , 2003
In a sleepy little mill town in North Carolina, Paul is the town Romeo. But when his best friend's sister returns home from boarding school, he finds himself falling for her innocent charm. In spite of her lack of experience and the violent protests of her brother, the two find themselves in a sweet, dreamy and all-consuming love.If the Father and the Son
IMDB 6.2 | Aug , 1955
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?Shakes the Clown
IMDB 5.5 | Aug , 1991
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.The Greatest Show on Earth
IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 1952
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 Clown in Babylon
IMDB 4.3 | Dec , 1999
Haunted by childhood memories of his father's murder, Frank Carroll, a private detective/circus clown, sets out on a mission of vengeance. Jingles Carroll, a gentleman in a red nose, was gunned down in cold blood by Max & Fudge, two members of a secret society, as his young son watched in horror. Now, twenty years later, Frank strikes back.The Great Monteleone
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2012
Old Monteleone lives alone in a house littered with the relics of his past life in the circus. He hasn't worn his clown suit in years, but now he has good reason to. Today he'll wear his old makeup one last time.Bingo: The King of the Mornings
IMDB 8 | Aug , 2017
1980s. Brazilian television exploding in color and auditorium programs not so politically correct. In the middle of this fervor, Augusto Mendes, a young rising actor, seeks his place in the sun. From porn studios to soap operas, he finally finds success and fame when he becomes "Bingo", a TV host clown from one of the audience leader TV shows for children. It turns out that behind the rice powder and red nose, nobody knows who he is.Santa Sangre
IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 1989
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his mother – the leader of a strange religious cult – and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.Triste Palhaço
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2023
Sad Clown
IMDB 9.4 | Jul , 2014
Upon entering the dressing room, the Ringmaster finds a Clown that has drawn a frown and tears on his face where there used to be a smile. What is it that is making him so sad, when the show demands a happy clown?Mera Naam Joker
IMDB 7.4 | Dec , 1970
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."Silent Monologues
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2023
A young screenwriter visits her sister for inspiration, a decision that brings only pain and disaster.Mela
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1980
Govindan Kutty (Raghu) is a clown who works in the circus. He comes to his village looking for a bride. Sharada (Anjali Naidu) is impressed by his charms and seemingly rich lifestyle and agrees to marry him. When they reach back the circus after getting married, things however change considerably. Govindan is an insignificant figure there and is frequently ignored by everyone else. The frustrated Sharada meets a stuntman Vijayan (Mammootty) and gets close to him much to the discomfort of Govindan.Limelight
IMDB 7.9 | Oct , 1952
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.Laugh, Clown, Laugh
IMDB 7.3 | Apr , 1928
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.He Who Gets Slapped
IMDB 7.6 | Dec , 1924
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.The Man Who Laughs
IMDB 7.3 | Apr , 1928
Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.Crimi Clowns 2.0: Scum
IMDB 7 | Nov , 2016
The Tersago family isn't your average family business: clowns by day, thieves by night. They get arrested following a robbery homicide in a villa in Brasschaat, but let off for lack of evidence, except for son Wesley. Wesley's sister Amber decides to finish Wesley's wacky reality movie herself. Father Ronny wants to get out of organized crime and launder the stolen money with the production of a musical. Ronny and his companion Lou get approached by two police inspectors entirely convinced of their involvement with the robbery homicide. The stolen money is rumored to belong to a powerful Russian drug lord. The Tersago's now realize their lives are in danger. An armed man slips into the theater during the premiere of the musical while son Wesley plans an escape from prison.Farewell Mister Grock
IMDB 5.2 | Jan , 1950
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.