🏷 Discover The Best Clown Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Step into the world of clown-centric entertainment, where laughter and drama intertwine on screen. From classic films to modern TV series, discover the best movies and shows that celebrate the art of clowning, each adding a unique twist to this age-old profession.

Cast

Taylour Paige

Jovan Adepo

James Remar

Stephen Rider

IT: Welcome to Derry (2025) TV Show

8.2 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In 1962, amid a spate of unexplained disappearances of local children, a group of misfit friends begin to suspect a long-buried ancient evil lurking. As the kids set out to determine what's really going on, a rising unease prompts several townspeople to work together to restore peace – all while a U.S. military operation seeks to exploit Derry for its own objectives.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: based on novel or book, small town, clown, haunted house, prequel, disappearance, psychotic, dead children, ...

Time: 1960s, 1930s, 1900s

Cast

Charlie Chaplin

Claire Bloom

Nigel Bruce

Buster Keaton

Limelight (1952)

7.9 596 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 137 min.

Audience: G

Story: A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Plot: clown, ballet dancer, black and white

Cast

Harry Earles

Olga Baclanova

Daisy Earles

Henry Victor

Freaks (1932)

7.8 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 64 min.

Audience: NR

Story: 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.

Style: provocative

Plot: infidelity, dwarf, attempted murder, clown, beauty, carnival, romance, revenge, ...

Cast

Raj Kapoor

Nargis

Nemo

Nadira

Shree 420 (1955)

7.5 20 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 168 min.

Story: The story of a small-town man who comes to make it big in the city, where he is almost instantly relieved of all his possessions. Homeless and penniless, he is taken in by a woman who looks after him.

Plot: gambling, solidarity, socialism, rain, card trick, clown, fraud, mumbai (bombay), ...

Cast

Raj Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Dharmendra

Manoj Kumar

Mera Naam Joker (1970)

7.4 80 votes

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 248 min.

Story: Raju faces many hurdles and disappointments in matters of the heart throughout his life. But as a clown in a circus, he tries to make his audience laugh at the cost of his own sorrows. Along the way, Raju loves and loses, but must always keep a smile on his face because, in the words of his circus manager, "The show must go on."

Style: melancholy

Plot: circus, philosophy, entertainer, sadness, clown, love, social commentary, loneliness, ...

Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes

Cast

John Wayne Gacy

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Sam Amirante

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Greg Bedoe

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Rafael Tovar

Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes (2022) TV Show

7.4 220 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Audience: TV-MA

Story: He dined with the powerful. He preyed on the vulnerable. Beneath a smiling exterior was the horrifying darkness of a sadistic serial killer.

Plot: illinois, clown, biography, serial killer, miniseries, true crime, missing person, criminal investigation, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Dominique Pinon

Marie-Laure Dougnac

Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Karin Viard

Delicatessen (1991)

7.3 1.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Country: France

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.

Plot: underground, suicide attempt, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, dark comedy, clown, butcher, butcher's shop, ...

Time: post-apocalyptic

Cast

Jaeden Martell

Jeremy Ray Taylor

Sophia Lillis

Finn Wolfhard

It (2017)

7.2 20.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

Plot: small town, based on novel or book, haunted house, clown, bullying, abandoned house, coming of age, flashback, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Edward Brophy

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Margaret Wright

Verna Felton

Sarah Selby

Dumbo (1941)

7.0 5.3K votes

Genre: Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 64 min.

Audience: G

Story: Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.

Style: whimsical

Plot: mother, dreams, nightmare, suffering, circus, cartoon, clown, ear, ...

Water for Elephants (2011)

6.9 2.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.

Plot: based on novel or book, elephant, clown, elephant trainer, veterinary

Time: great depression

Cast

Tim Curry

Harry Anderson

Dennis Christopher

Richard Masur

It (1990) TV Show

6.9 3.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 2

Audience: TV-14

Story: In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight against an ancient shape-shifting alien who poses as a child-killing clown, while also dealing with bullies and abusive parents. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the creature once and for all when it returns to their hometown.

Plot: suicide, based on novel or book, clown, haunted house, supernatural, flashback, evil, creepy house, ...

Time: 1960s, 1990s

Baskets (2016) TV Show

6.9 152 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 40

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Chip Baskets wants to follow his dream of being a French clown—however, reality keeps interfering. Saddled with financial difficulties and facing an impenetrable language barrier, he moves back home to Bakersfield with high hopes. There, he is forced to confront his past while working as a rodeo clown and competing with his siblings for his mother's approval and affection.

Plot: sibling relationship, clown, sibling rivalry, rodeo clown

Cast

Jessica Chastain

James McAvoy

Bill Hader

Isaiah Mustafa

It Chapter Two (2019)

6.8 9.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 169 min.

Audience: R

Story: 27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

Plot: suicide, based on novel or book, haunted house, clown, carnival, sequel, maine, creature, ...

Time: 1980s, 2010s

Cast

Lauren LaVera

David Howard Thornton

Samantha Scaffidi

Elliott Fullam

Terrifier 3 (2024)

6.8 2.0K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Five years after surviving Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and Jonathan are still struggling to rebuild their shattered lives. As the holiday season approaches, they try to embrace the Christmas spirit and leave the horrors of the past behind. But just when they think they're safe, Art returns, determined to turn their holiday cheer into a new nightmare. The festive season quickly unravels as Art unleashes his twisted brand of terror, proving that no holiday is safe.

Plot: monster, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), angel, shower, child murder, santa claus, college, clown, ...

Cast

David Howard Thornton

Lauren LaVera

Elliott Fullam

Sarah Voigt

Terrifier 2 (2022)

6.7 2.5K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A year after the Miles County massacre, Art the Clown is resurrected by a sinister entity. Art returns home, where he must hunt down and destroy teenage Sienna and her younger brother Jonathan on Halloween. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while uncovering the true nature of Art's evil intent.

Plot: halloween, clown, gore, resurrection, sequel, slasher, killer, macabre, ...

Cast

Ryan Kwanten

Amber Valletta

Donnie Wahlberg

Bob Gunton

Dead Silence (2007)

6.5 2.5K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.

Plot: funeral, legend, tombstone, detective, supernatural, clown, flashback, ventriloquist, ...

Cast

Betty Hutton

Cornel Wilde

Charlton Heston

Dorothy Lamour

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

6.4 279 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 152 min.

Audience: NR

Story: To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.

Plot: circus, clown, traveling circus, trapeze artist

Cast

David Howard Thornton

Jenna Kanell

Samantha Scaffidi

Catherine Corcoran

Terrifier (2018)

6.3 3.0K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 84 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.

Plot: halloween, clown, gore, slasher, maniac, killer clown, evil clown, extreme violence, ...

Cast

Mike Myers

Beyoncu00e9

Seth Green

Michael York

Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

6.0 3.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The world's most shagadelic spy continues his fight against Dr. Evil. This time, the diabolical doctor and his clone, Mini-Me, team up with a new foe—'70s kingpin Goldmember. While pursuing the team of villains to stop them from world domination, Austin gets help from his dad and an old girlfriend.

Plot: gold, helicopter, sibling relationship, saving the world, submarine, asteroid, undercover, submachine gun, ...

Place: belgium

Cast

Sheri Moon Zombie

Bill Moseley

Richard Brake

Emilio Rivera

3 from Hell (2019)

5.8 549 votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained. Teaming up with Otis’ half-brother Winslow, the demented Firefly clan escape to unleash a whole new wave of murder, madness and mayhem.

Plot: prisoner, sadism, sadistic, clown, sequel, murder, death, firefly, ...

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Best Movies Featuring Clowns

Clowns have been a staple in cinema, often used to explore themes of comedy, tragedy, and everything in between. Here are some of the most iconic films that delve into the world of clowns:

1. Barry Lyndon (1975)

Directed by Stanley Kubrick, this historical drama features a brief but memorable appearance by a clown during a carnival scene. While not the main focus, the clown adds a touch of whimsy and contrast to the film's otherwise serious tone.

2. The Greatest Showman (2017)

This musical biopic of P.T. Barnum features a group of clowns as part of the circus ensemble. The clowns are portrayed as talented performers, adding to the film's vibrant and uplifting atmosphere.

Memorable Songs: "This Is Me," "A Million Dreams"
Notable Performances: Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams

Best TV Shows Featuring Clowns

Television has also embraced the character of the clown, often in more nuanced and complex ways. Here are some of the best TV series that feature clowns:

1. It (2017 Mini-Series)

Based on Stephen King's novel, this mini-series revolves around the terrifying clown Pennywise, portrayed by Bill Skarsgård. The show delves into the psychological horror of a small town haunted by a malevolent entity disguised as a clown.

2. BoJack Horseman (2014-2020)

This animated series features a character named Mr. Peanutbutter, who briefly becomes a clown to win a bet. The show uses this storyline to explore themes of identity and self-perception, adding a layer of depth to the character.

Key Episodes: "Downer in the Upside" (Season 3, Episode 10)
Themes: Depression, redemption, personal growth

Whether you're looking for a heartwarming story or a spine-chilling thriller, these movies and TV shows offer a diverse range of perspectives on the world of clowns. From the whimsical to the terrifying, each one provides a unique and engaging viewing experience.