Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)

모르핀 중독자, 요한나는 약의 과다복용으로 인해 혼수상태에 빠졌다가 기적적으로 살아난다. 이후 특별한 능력을 갖게 되는데 병들고 노약한 환자들과 성적 접촉을 함으로써 병을 깨끗하게 낫게 하는 '성적 치료력'이 그것이다. 그런 그녀를 업신여기는 병원 직원들과 반면 그녀를 자비의 천사로 여기는 환자들 사이에 대립이 시작된다. 한마디로 ‘고전적인 오페라와 감각적 실험 정신의 만남’이다. 몬드룩조는 오페라의 풍부한 고전미와 현대의 메마른 정서를 뒤섞어 묘한 감각을 선보이고 있다. 절대 억압이 지배하는 감옥 같은 병원에서 방종에 가까운(혹은 그렇게 보이는) 자유를 극적으로 대조시킴으로써 인간 본연의 본능을 통해 치유를 표현하는 방법론은 아주 흥미롭다. 모르핀 중독자 요한나는 약의 과다복용으로 인해 혼수상태에 빠진다. 그러나 젊은 의사는 죽음에 임박한 그녀를 기적적으로 살려내고 그녀는 완벽히 회복됨은 물론이요, 왠지 다시 태어난 듯한 느낌을 받는다. 이후 그녀는 기억상실증으로 과거를 완전히 잃어버리지만 특별한 능력을 발견하게 되는데 그것은 ‘성적 치료력’. 그녀는 간호사로 일하면서 아픈 환자들에게 그녀의 몸을 주기 시작한다. 그녀의 이런 특이한 치료를 혐오하는 병원 사람들은 그녀를 매춘부라고 부르며 그녀를 억압하려 하지만 그녀를 보호하려는 환자들 때문에 쉽지 않다. 간호사 요한나의 이런 행위는 모든 것이 정체되고 억압된 장소인 병원에서 성을 자유와 치유의 도구로 삼아 기적적으로 환자를 고치는 자비와 사랑의 천사의 것처럼 표현된다. 특히 성적인 관계를 통해 생명의 기운을 불어넣어주는 듯 연출된 장면이 인상적이다.(부천판타스틱영화제 - 이유진)

A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship.

At a carnival called the Garden of Evil, a man is murdered, apparently by a gorilla...or someone in a gorilla suit.

Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows.

An accidental slip reveals that a happily married couple were intimate before marriage.

Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West.

In a modern retelling of Tod Browning's "Freaks" (1932), "Freakshow" tells the story of a group of criminals who chose to hide out by working security at a traveling circus. At first, they plot with an insider to steal the ticket sales, but the wily Lucy has bigger plans. She convinces the gang to let her seduce and marry the aging circus owner, Lon, in order to secure the entire circus fortune after he "suffers an accident". "People die all the time," Lucy says. The freaks are on to their scheme, however, and when the youngest of them is caught by the ruthless gang, they show no mercy to ensure her silence. When the circus folk find the child's remains, they swear vengeance, and no one is safe from their fury--least of all, the wily Lucy.

하찮은 서커스 마술사인 오스카는 어느날 회오리 바람에 휩쓸려 신비한 세계 오즈에 도착하고, 오즈의 사람들은 그가 오랫동안 기다려 온 위대한 마법사라고 믿는다. 하지만, 오즈의 세 마녀 글린다, 테오도라, 에바노라는 그의 정체를 의심하고, 오스카 또한 세 마녀 중 누가 나쁜 마녀인지를 가려내야만 하는데...

Mickey is ringmaster of a circus for orphans. Donald has a trained sea lion act, and does a bit of juggling himself. Mostly, though, he fights with a baby sea lion who keeps stealing both the fish and the show. Donald then finds himself and Mickey in an unrehearsed high wire act, which kicks into high gear when one of the orphans electrifies the wire. They end by doing a high dive into the seals' tank.

When a young female mouse makes a deal with the devil to become a rock star and learns the price, her boyfriend has to help her avoid damnation.

A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. This throws the town into a panic and everyone wants the animal killed immediately, except for the daughter of the sheriff. She wants to capture the tiger and put it in a zoo, thereby saving the tiger's life. Her determination starts a nationwide campaign among children to raise the money to buy the tiger from the circus, but first, she, her father and an Indian tiger trainer must find the tiger before the National Guard do, who have orders to kill it on sight.

Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money and are looking for a job. They finally find employment working in a circus, but Jerry has different dreams. He wants to become a clown.

몬테카를로에 잠시 다녀온다더니 영영 무소식인 펭귄일행을 기다리며 아프리카에서 하루하루 고향 뉴욕에 대한 향수에 취해있는 ‘알렉스’(사자), ‘마티’(얼룩말), ‘멜먼’(기린), ‘글로리아’(하마). 결국 뉴욕행을 결심하고, 함께 돌아가기 위해 펭귄 일행을 찾아 몬테카를로로 향한다. 하지만 펭귄 일행과 만나기가 무섭게 동물 통제 관리국 ‘캡틴 듀브아’에게 쫓기는 신세가 된 뉴요커 4인방. 그녀의 맹추격 속 위기에 몰린 이들은 우연히 만난 유럽 서커스단 ‘비탈리’(호랑이), ‘지아’(재규어), ‘스테파노’(바다사자)에게 자신들이 미국 뉴욕의 서커스단이라고 속여 기차를 얻어 타고서야 겨우 위기를 모면하게 된다. 듀브아와의 추격전에 비행기는 망가지고 뉴욕으로 돌아갈 방법이 없어져 좌절하던 4인방은 유럽 서커스단의 공연이 성공적이면 유럽을 넘어 미국 뉴욕으로 갈 수 있다는 말에 이들과 함께할 것을 결심한다. 마침내 로마에서의 첫 공연! 하지만 기대와 달리 기술도 의욕도 평균 이하인 유럽 서커스단의 공연에 뉴요커 4인방의 희망은 절망으로 바뀌고 만다. 뉴욕으로 가기 위해서는 어떻게든 서커스를 성공시켜야 하는 상황! 알렉스는 지금까지 해왔던 서커스가 아닌 새롭고 창의적인 공연을 해보자고 제안한다. 이에 유럽 서커스단과 뉴요커 4인방은 모두 함께 힘을 합쳐 전에 없던 놀랍고, 환상적인 서커스 공연을 준비하기 시작하는데…

Woody Woodpecker visits the circus. Singing "I Went to the Animal Fair," he strolls through a tiger's cage. As Woody looks at a rhinoceros, the nearby lion eats Woody's hot dog. Woody gets revenge by putting the lion's tail in the bun; the lion eats his own tail. Woody next tries to sneak into the main tent, and the run-ins with the guard take up the rest of the cartoon. First, the guard tells Woody he can work for his admission by watering an elephant, but he's not pleased when Woody ties the elephant's trunk to a hydrant. The chase is on, leading into the lion tamer's cage, onto the trapeze, and bicycling across the tightrope. Both Woody and the guard end up as targets in the shooting gallery.

A man stays alone with his children in a half demolished house in the middle of a desolate field. His wife has just been killed by a grenade in a military battle. He is expecting a new attack. Instead a wandering caravan called Circus Fantasticus stops by the house. They bring along the dying director of the circus. Is it possible for anything beautiful to happen in a landscape of war and death? Can life go on? Is it possible to realize that death does not exist?

Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune back to her ragtag band of ragged shoeleather performers.

Would you be willing to walk away from everyone and everything you've ever known in exchange for your safety? This is the question facing career criminal Bobby "Bats" Batton (Tom Sizemore); on the outs with the mob and facing prosecution for a number of serious crimes, Batton is offered a deal by the FBI in which he will be given immunity in exchange for testifying against his former partners. However, Batton will have to join the Federal Witness Protection Program, which means that he, his wife, and his children will never again see their friends and family.

A meteorite brings a powerful element to the Earth during the Cold War, too powerful to ever be used it's contained until a decision is made to dispose of it in the depths of the ocean. During transit on the worlds largest and most secure Super Tanker a rogue wave damages the ship and releases the element which triggers a chain reaction in the environment and the political arena.

An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.

Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.