Movies like The Circus (1928)
The best movies like The Circus (1928) are Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), The Cameraman (1928) and Caught in a Cabaret (1914). If The Circus hooked you with its comedy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedModern Times (1936)8.3/10 from 4,256 votes
- NewestThe Artist (2011)Released 2011
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Cameraman (1928)
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCaught in a Cabaret (1914)
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Chaplin Revue (1959)
Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisModern Times (1936)
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisCity Lights (1931)
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Kid (1921)
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Pleasure Garden (1925)
Two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre follow different paths in love and fortune.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisSafety Last! (1923)
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923)
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Night in the Show (1915)
Two disruptive theater patrons, the wealthy drunk Mr. Pest (played by Charlie Chaplin) and the rowdy working-class Mr. Rowdy (also played by Chaplin), attend a live vaudeville theater production. Their constant antics, seat-hopping, and physical altercations quickly overshadow the acts on stage and plunge the entire theater into absolutely hilarious chaos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHis New Job (1915)
When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor. While waiting, he plays in a dice game and gets on many people's nerves. When he finally gets to act, he ruins his scene, accidentally destroys the set, and tears the skirt of the star of the movie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPay Day (1922)
A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe General (1926)
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisSeven Chances (1925)
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLiberty (1929)
While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each other's pants. They spend the rest of the film trying to exchange pants in various unlikely settings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Gold Rush (1925)
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Navigator (1924)
The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise that he intended as their honeymoon. When circumstances find both Rollo and Betsy on the wrong ship, they end up having adventures on the high seas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like this7th Heaven (1927)
In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBig Business (1929)
Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKid Auto Races at Venice (1914)
The Tramp interferes with the celebration of several kid auto races in Venice, California (Junior Vanderbilt Cup Race, January 10 and 11, 1914), standing himself in the way of the cameraman who is filming the event.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisEasy Virtue (1928)
Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTwo Tars (1928)
Two sailors on shore leave rent a car and go on a drive with their dates, but soon get involved in a huge traffic jam with dozens of ill-tempered motorists. A minor collision sets off an escalating series of retaliations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBy the Sea (1915)
It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy Best Girl (1927)
Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his father's stores, to prove that he can be a success without his father's influence. There he meets stockroom girl Maggie Johnson, and they fall in love. This causes problems, because Mrs. Merrill had planned for her son to marry Millicent Rogers, a high society girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Artist (2011)
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Kid Brother (1927)
The timid youngest son of the most important family in town must use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and the love of a beautiful new woman in town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLimelight (1952)
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Circus?
The closest matches to The Circus are Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), The Cameraman (1928) and Caught in a Cabaret (1914). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Circus?
People who watched The Circus most often go on to Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), The Cameraman (1928) and Caught in a Cabaret (1914).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Circus?
Modern Times (1936), rated 8.3/10 by 4,256 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Circus?
The Artist (2011) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Circus?
Yes: Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), The Cameraman (1928) and Caught in a Cabaret (1914).
How are movies similar to The Circus chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Circus, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.