A sideshow ventriloquist, midget, and strongman form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" and commit a series of robberies.

A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him.

A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.

A professional clown and a self-indulgent count learn to help each other with their problems, but then become romantic rivals.

A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.

A deformed criminal mastermind plans to loot the city of San Francisco as well as revenge himself on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs.

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

A romantic rivalry among members of a secret society becomes even tenser when one of the men is assigned to carry out an assassination.

In fifteenth century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with the gypsy queen.

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.

The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles and downfalls.

One of the first feminist movies, The Smiling Madame Beudet is the story of an intelligent woman trapped in a loveless marriage. Her husband is used to playing a stupid practical joke in ... See full summary »