Movies and TvShows featuring "trapeze-act" theme.

When an American works at a resort in Acapulco, he becomes involved with a Mariachi band, gets into his first fight, and develops a romance. Along the way, he experiences the beauty of Acapulco and encounters various challenges and adventures.

Thirteen Women is a crime, drama, horror, and mystery movie released in 1932. The story revolves around thirteen women who receive a prediction of their deaths from a vengeful swami. As each woman faces tragic events, a police detective tries to unravel the mystery and prevent further killings.

Big Top Bunny is a Merrie Melodies short film featuring Bugs Bunny and a circus bear. The rabbit and bear engage in a series of humorous and competitive acts, including trapeze stunts, cannon shots, and high-diving. The film showcases their one-upmanship and comedic rivalry, with surreal and comedic elements added to the mix.

Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.

The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch just as she starts her famed triple somersault. It only takes the circus manager about fifteen minutes to figure out the obvious suspect was the guilty one.

To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.

The stage of a vaudeville theatre. A lady in evening costume is performing on a trapeze. Two Rubes are seated in a box. The lady begins to disrobe, and here the fun commences. As she removes her garments one by one and throws them at our rural friends, they begin going through antics, which to say the least, are highly amusing. When the stockings come off, the climax takes place. The Rubes jump from their seats and make things lively for a short time in the theatre.

Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest new media of the early 1960s.

Walter Catlett learns his son Ben Alexander has thrown over fiancee Joyce Compton for acrobat Nora Lane. He takes lawyer Arthur Housman to the road house where she is performing to lay down the law.