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10 Best Movies Like The Mountebanks

If you loved The Mountebanks, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Limelight

Limelight

1952★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Mountebanks for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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

#2
Water for Elephants

Water for Elephants

2011★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Mountebanks for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 ...

#3
Lola Montès

Lola Montès

1955★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Mountebanks for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men....

#4
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

2012★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Mountebanks for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and hi...

#5
The Greatest Show on Earth

The Greatest Show on Earth

1952★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Mountebanks for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 ...

#6
He Who Gets Slapped

He Who Gets Slapped

1924★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Mountebanks for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being sla...

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