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.

Limelight
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....

Water for Elephants
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 ...

Lola Montès
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....

Great Expectations
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...

The Greatest Show on Earth
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 ...

He Who Gets Slapped
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...