Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "freakshow"

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: 345,410

2. Nightmare Alley (2021)

R | 150 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A grifter working his way up from low-ranking carnival worker to lauded psychic medium matches wits with a psychologist bent on exposing him.

Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe

Votes: 166,083 | Gross: $11.34M

3. 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: 138,985 | Gross: $73.66M

4. The Lone Ranger (2013)

PG-13 | 150 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

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: 244,919 | Gross: $89.30M

5. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Teenager Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a vampire. After a series of events, Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque du Freak, becoming a creature of the night.

Director: Paul Weitz | Stars: Chris Massoglia, John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, Josh Hutcherson

Votes: 48,157 | Gross: $14.05M

6. BloodRayne (2005)

R | 95 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

In the eighteenth century, a vampire escapes from the freak show, in which she once participated, and teams up with a group of vampire slayers to kill the man who raped her mother.

Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Madsen

Votes: 37,269 | Gross: $2.41M

7. Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)

R | 76 min | Animation, Action, Crime

As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness.

Director: Sam Liu | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Tara Strong, Ray Wise

Votes: 61,711 | Gross: $3.78M

8. Sisters (1972)

R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley

Votes: 20,810 | Gross: $0.35M

9. The Krays (1990)

R | 120 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.

Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell

Votes: 9,071 | Gross: $2.06M

10. Bully (2006 Video Game)

T | Action, Crime, Drama

A troubled teen is dropped off at the worst school in the country and must survive by rising through the rankings of the school system.

Stars: Gerry Rosenthal, Peter Vack, Matt Bush, John Lavelle

Votes: 6,294

11. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in love with Lionel Sweeney, an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century.

Director: Steven Shainberg | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr., Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin

Votes: 16,379 | Gross: $0.22M

12. Multiple Maniacs (1970)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

Watch as the life of a leader of a menacing group of deviants, explodes in a spectacle of debauchery. Accidentally filmed from beginning to end, on purpose.

Director: John Waters | Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole

Votes: 4,492 | Gross: $0.03M

13. Carny (1980)

R | 107 min | Drama

Tired of her dull job as a waitress, Donna decides to join two carnival hustlers and see what life in their field is like.

Director: Robert Kaylor | Stars: Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson, Meg Foster

Votes: 2,448

14. The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 180 min | Drama, Fantasy

An elderly amusement park maintenance man, Eddie, is trapped in purgatory and the only way out is to confront five people from his past. Unfortunately, dark secrets from his service in the Philippines begin to haunt him.

Director: Lloyd Kramer | Stars: Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, Jeff Daniels, Dagmara Dominczyk

Votes: 6,152

15. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History

A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge

Votes: 18,969

16. Nightmare Alley (1947)

Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir

The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker

Votes: 13,451

17. Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)

Not Rated | 99 min | Horror

After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.

Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Yukie Kagawa, Teruko Yumi, Mitsuko Aoi

Votes: 1,892

18. She Freak (1967)

Unrated | 83 min | Horror

Claire Brennen stars as a waitress who leaves the greasy-diner business for the excitement of the carnival. She quickly discovers that she despises freaks and human oddities.

Directors: Byron Mabe, Donn Davison | Stars: Claire Brennen, Lee Raymond, Lynn Courtney, Bill McKinney

Votes: 1,208

19. From a Whisper to a Scream (1987)

R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Horror

In a small Tennessee town, a historian relates four horror stories to a reporter.

Director: Jeff Burr | Stars: Vincent Price, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser, Harry Caesar

Votes: 3,002 | Gross: $1.36M

20. Wolf Girl (2001)

R | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Tara Talbot (Victoria Sanchez) is afflicted with the rare genetic condition known as hypertrichosis - she is covered head to toe in hair. She lives her life in Harley Dune's (Tim Curry's) ... See full summary »

Director: Thom Fitzgerald | Stars: Shelby Fenner, Shawn Ashmore, Tony Denman, Nate Dushku

Votes: 1,053

21. Freakshow (2007 Video)

Unrated | 85 min | Horror

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 ... See full summary »

Director: Drew Bell | Stars: Christopher Adamson, Rebekah Kochan, Dane Rosselli, Sharon Edrei

Votes: 1,236

22. Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)

GP | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.

Directors: Al Adamson, Samuel M. Sherman | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Lon Chaney Jr., Zandor Vorkov, Anthony Eisley

Votes: 2,258

23. Midori: The Camellia Girl (2016)

91 min | Drama, Fantasy

14-year-old Midori is the constantly abused chore girl for a freak show. Things begin to change for her after a dwarf magician joins the freak show, but not always for the better.

Director: Torico | Stars: Lisa Nakamura, Takeru, Shunsuke Kazama, Misaki Morino

Votes: 358

24. 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: 2,480

25. Zombie Women of Satan (2009)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance

A travelling group of freaks, headed up by Pervo the Clown, go to a rural farm to take part in a webcast interview to help them gain more followers and make the public aware of their ... See full summary »

Directors: Steve O'Brien, Warren Speed | Stars: Victoria Hopkins, Warren Speed, Christian Steel, Seymour Leon Mace

Votes: 929

26. Firecracker (2005)

TV-MA | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young boy who lives in a dysfunctional home went to the carnival and met a singer. Shortly after, a murder took place. The town's sheriff is seeking answers. The singer is trying to ... See full summary »

Director: Steve Balderson | Stars: Karen Black, Mike Patton, Susan Traylor, Kathleen Wilhoite

Votes: 1,022

27. Brothers of the Head (2005)

R | 93 min | Drama, Music

In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and rock music.

Directors: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe | Stars: Luke Treadaway, Harry Treadaway, Jonathan Pryce, John Simm

Votes: 1,876 | Gross: $0.04M

28. Outback (2012)

PG | 85 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

A cute koala (Rob Schneider) must rescue a fellow animal from a feared crocodile (Alan Cumming).

Director: Kyung Ho Lee | Stars: Charlie Bewley, Lielle Blinkoff, Robert Cait, Cathy Cavadini

Votes: 1,101

29. Some Like It Hot (1939)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the... See full summary »

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Una Merkel, Gene Krupa

Votes: 317

30. Freakshow (1989)

97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

"Freakshow" is a 1989 horror anthology movie.

Director: Constantino Magnatta | Stars: Audrey Landers, Peter Read, Dean Richards Wiancko, William Korbut

Votes: 287

31. Meet Boston Blackie (1941)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Chester Morris, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Lane, Charles Wagenheim

Votes: 688

32. The Watchmaker's Apprentice (2019)

99 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Urban, an orphan, serves a greedy master watchmaker as an apprentice. When Urban grows up, he falls in love with the watchmaker's daughter Laura and wants to marry her. Before this can ... See full summary »

Director: Jitka Rudolfová | Stars: Viktor Preiss, Michael Balcar, Dana Droppová, Éva Bandor

Votes: 180

33. The Three Trials (2006)

100 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

Catherine, a nun with a unique form of narcolepsy, attempts to lose herself in the worlds of religion, adolescent fantasy, and finally masochistic devotion to a man. Her husband, a plastic ... See full summary »

Director: Randy Greif | Stars: Molinee Green, Max Herholz, Michael Q. Schmidt, Åsa Wallander

Votes: 120

34. Are You with It? (1948)

Approved | 93 min | Comedy

Milton Haskins, a math genius known for his infallibility with numbers, quits his job with an insurance company after he discovers he made a mistake, and hooks up with a traveling carnival.... See full summary »

Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Olga San Juan, Martha Stewart, Lew Parker

Votes: 131

35. Sanitarium (1998 Video Game)

T | Adventure, Drama, Horror

After a horrific car crash your character ends up in an asylum. You must find out how you came to be there and recover your identity.

Director: Martin Stoltz | Stars: Frank Schurter, Stephen Bennett, Brad Broman, Amanda Crocker

Votes: 490

36. Silver Man (2003)

98 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A street performer fights a pathological man for his girlfriend's love.

Director: Peter Foldy | Stars: Paul Popowich, Derek Hamilton, Eugene Levy, Audrey Lupke

Votes: 235

37. The Darkest Nothing: Paraphrenia

105 min | Crime, Drama, Horror | Filming

Addicted to violent disturbing images and videos on the Dark Web, Judy is in desperate need of help. Her psychiatrist William tries a unique method on Judy that takes her deep inside her most brutal fantasies, she participates in everything she thought it was just creepy pasta, until she realizes that William does something else with her.

Director: Filip Halo | Stars: Vanessa Barre, Filip Halo, Kristina Kostiv, Ulrich Günther

38. Freakshow (1999)

7 min | Horror, Short

Joey and Sarah are a couple of obnoxious kids who are out trick or treating on Halloween. The rude duo get more than they bargained for when they sneak into a sideshow attraction at a local carnival in order to check out the freaks inside.

Director: Marcus Wagner | Stars: Sean Whalin, Alissa Dean, Eric Frandsen, Alice Cooper

Votes: 98

39. The Sideshow Picasso (2008)

Documentary, Short

Brooklyn painter Marie Roberts comes from a family long entrenched in Coney Island's Sideshow. Her family home once housed the famous freaks and oddities of the 1920's and 1930's where her ... See full summary »

Director: Marilyn Agrelo | Star: Marie Roberts

40. Dating a Siamese Twin (2013)

12 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy

A pair of Siamese Twins eagerly anticipate the arrival of a bachelor who they will fight over in hopes of becoming his bride. Little do the two know, however, that their would-be suitor- ... See full summary »

Director: Alexander Ray | Stars: Chris Calleja, Rob Putansu, Amanda Rae Evans, Keyna Reynolds

41. El camino del diablo (2005)

Drama

Set in the early 1960s in Aqua Prieta, an Arizona / Mexico border town, El Camino Del Diablo is an erotic drama that transcends gender barriers in a world of innocence lost.

Director: Victory Tischler-Blue

42. Flightless (I)

Animation | Announced

Far Far away in a mystical aviary world, three very special earth-bound birds learn that you don't have to fly in order to soar.

43. Cirkus (2004)

9 min | Animation, Short

Naive clown with a fabulous act and a heart of gold wants to join the circus. Unfortunately he ends up in the wrong place: A circus where the manager is apathetic, the ballerina has had enough, and the horse is on prescription drugs...

Director: Thomas Pors | Stars: Nicolaj Kopernikus, Nis Bank-Mikkelsen, Helle Dolleris

Votes: 13

44. Carnival Show (1938)

10 min | Short, Music

Using the backdrop and excitement of a local carnival, this soundie short features four different and unique acts, from the fast talking carnival barker (Clyde Hager) and the singing of Jon... See full summary »

Director: Milton Schwarzwald | Stars: Clyde Hager, Jan Peerce, Cotton Club Tramp Band, Three DeLovelies

Votes: 11

45. Ridgeback (2009)

10 min | Short, Drama

Ridgeback is the story of Ezekiel Mann and his encounters with his own dark freak show beast: Canaan. Despite being warned by his friends, colleagues, and even the woman of his dreams to ... See full summary »

Director: James A. Lee | Stars: Kimberly Darden, Bruce Gentry, Paul Radford, Isaiah Stratton

46. Sensations of the Season (2009 Video)

5 min | Animation, Short, Horror

Roll up, roll up. Come and see Unzie and his fantastical freak show. Conjoined twins, the worlds fattest singer - Unzie has it all. Come and see the freakiest show on Earth.

Director: Jan Stephens

47. Duo Zemganno (1994)

145 min | Drama, History, Romance

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Stars: Martin Havelka, Peter Pavlac, Milan Sládek, Sylvia Turbová

48. Circle of Freaks (2004)

Unrated | 6 min | Animation, Horror, Short

A little boy enters a freak show, only to find out that nothing is as it seems... and that the true monster lies within.

Director: David R. Popolow | Stars: Brad Levicoff, David R. Popolow

Votes: 26

49. Shou urodov (2010)

1 min | Short, Comedy

Short surreal sketches which utilize the symmetry.

Directors: Dmitriy Ilyin, Kirill Kalandzhi | Stars: Kirill Kalandzhi, Dmitriy Ilyin

50. Wiener Bluttheater mit Oz the Fakir of Lust (2020 Video)

30 min | Short, Horror

Horror Show from 1.Wiener Bluttheater with a body modification like Act called OZ - THE FAKIR OF LUST

Director: Martin Nechvatal | Stars: Frank Oest, Christian Steiner, Tini Pohorset, Anja Gradenegger