Backdrop image for movie A Thousand Clowns

A Thousand Clowns (1965)

Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allowing him to keep Nick), the nephew, who until now has gloried in his Uncle's iconoclastic approach to life, tries to play mediator. But when he succeeds, he is alarmed by the uncle's willingness to cave in to society in order to save the relationship.

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance

Top billed cast

  • Photo of Jason RobardsJason RobardsMurray
  • Photo of Barry GordonBarry GordonNick
  • Photo of Barbara HarrisBarbara HarrisSandra
  • Photo of Martin BalsamMartin BalsamArnold
  • Photo of Gene SaksGene SaksLeo
  • Photo of William DanielsWilliam DanielsAlbert Amundsen
  • Photo of John McMartinJohn McMartinThe Man in the Office
  • Photo of Philip BrunsPhilip BrunsThe Man in the Restaurant

Similar to A Thousand Clowns

Backdrop image for movie Shelf Life

Shelf Life (2005)

A branch library becomes the battlefield for a fierce war of wills in this dark comedy by writer-director Tamar Halpern. A head librarian quietly loathes the new book shelver, a feisty woman fresh out of rehab. But what begins as simmering passive aggression soon spirals into all-out war.

  • Comedy
Backdrop image for movie The Specials

The Specials (2019)

For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.

  • Comedy
  • Drama
Backdrop image for movie Library Wars: Book Of Memories

Library Wars: Book Of Memories (2015)

Iku (Nana Eikura) joined the Library Defense Force after a member from that team retrieved an important book that was targeted for censorship. She is assigned to work under Atsushi’s (Junichi Okada) team. She endures Atsushi's harsh treatment and looks for the member who retrieved her book. She also finds herself becoming attracted to Atsushi. Iku meets female high school student Marie (Tao Tsuchiya) at the library. Maries has a hearing disability. She is also a childhood friend of Mikihisa (Kei Tanaka). Iku senses Marie’s strong feelings for Mikihisa. Asako (Chiaki Kuriyama) works as a clerk for the Library Task Force. She has frequent meetings with curator Shuji (Aoi Nakamura). This creates complicated feelings for Hikaru (Sota Fukushi). One day, Mikihisa is arrested because of a book he recommended to Marie. Official reason given is because the book is unsuitable for disabled people. The members of the Library Task Force are angered by Mikihisa's arrest.

  • Romance
  • Action
  • Science Fiction
Backdrop image for movie Short Term 12

Short Term 12 (2013)

Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.

  • Drama
Backdrop image for movie Fourteen

Fourteen (2019)

Twentysomething Brooklynites Mara and Jo have been close friends since middle school. Gradually, it becomes apparent that the increasingly unstable Jo has troubles that may be the result of substance abuse, or an even deeper problem. Over the course of a decade, the more stable Mara tries to help.

  • Drama
Backdrop image for movie Library Wars

Library Wars (2013)

Set in the year 2019 in Japan. In order to crack down on free expression, a new law is passed, which allows for the government to create an armed force to find and destroy objectionable printed material. Meanwhile, to oppose this oppressive crackdown, the Library Force is created. The Library force, including instructor Atsushi Dojo and Iku Kasahara, work to protect the libraries. A fierce battle then ensues between these two groups.

  • Romance
  • Action
  • Fantasy
Backdrop image for movie Love Recovered

Love Recovered

A grieving mother who suffered the tragic loss of her daughter must decide if she can provide a loving home to a child who's lost her parents.

  • Drama
  • Family
Backdrop image for movie Columbus

Columbus (2017)

When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library.

  • Drama
Backdrop image for movie L'assistente sociale tutta pepe e tutta sale

L'assistente sociale tutta pepe e tutta sale (1981)

Nadia is a social worker who is trying to keep the residents of a local slum in line. Unfortunately she keeps neglecting her work and fantasizing about a life as a pop-star. When she falls for one of the residents in question, a small time crook called Bel Ami, she ends up an accomplice in a convoluted heist involving a holy Catholic relic.

  • Comedy
Backdrop image for movie Kamen Rider Zangetsu the Stage -Gaim Gaiden-

Kamen Rider Zangetsu the Stage -Gaim Gaiden- (2019)

Takatora Kureshima (Kamen Rider Zangetsu) visits a former Yggdrasill Corporation experimental project site located in the poverty and conflict stricken Republic of Torukia. He is visiting the site for the first time in 8 years, and is suddenly attacked! Suprised he stumble and falls into a giant hole which leads into an underground city. This underground city is the most dangerous place in the republic, in which many young men are killed defending themselves while trying to survive. These men use Lock Seeds and Drivers to transform into Armored Riders. Due to the fall Takatora has lost his memory. He is helped by the leader of Team Orange Ride. Unbeknownst to them, there are cameras hidden all around the underground city. The ones behind the cameras are responsible for the conflicts in the city. One man in particular is seeking revenge on Takatora for a specific reason...

  • Action
  • Science Fiction
  • Drama
Backdrop image for movie Jeevan Naiya

Jeevan Naiya (1936)

Lata, daughter of a dancing girl, is brought up by social worker Mathuradas and is engaged to marry the rich Ranjit when the villain Chand arrives to blackmail her with her undisclosed ancestry. Lata is forced to disclose the truth to Ranjit and the assembled wedding guests. Ranjit disowns her but they are reunited when Ranjit, blinded by an explosion, is nursed back to health by a devoted woman who turns out to be his wife.

  • Drama
Backdrop image for movie Jesus of Montreal

Jesus of Montreal (1989)

A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.

  • Drama
Backdrop image for movie Ghettokids - Brüder ohne Heimat

Ghettokids - Brüder ohne Heimat (2002)

Two trouble-causing brothers, who in the second generation after World War II Germany live, are in the center of this German made for TV movie. The movie makes a subject out of their everyday lives and the helpless attempt for them to build a normal life.

  • Drama
  • TV Movie
Backdrop image for movie Mrs. Doubtfire

Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job -- disguised as a British nanny. Soon he becomes not only his children's best pal but the kind of parent he should have been from the start.

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Family
Backdrop image for movie Orangutan

Orangutan (2021)

A vivacious aspiring social worker brings together five peculiar strangers to help solve their existential problems but finds herself in way over her head.

  • Comedy
  • Drama
Backdrop image for movie Die Anruferin

Die Anruferin (2008)

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

  • Drama
Backdrop image for movie Tropical Paths

Tropical Paths (1977)

In the island of Paquetá, professor investigates the genital vocation of vegetables and fruits, maintaining sexual relations with a watermelon. In his experiences, he counts on the interlocution of an attentive student.

  • Comedy
Backdrop image for movie The Golden Child

The Golden Child (1986)

After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind's fate hangs in the balance. On the other side of the world in Los Angeles, the priestess Kee Nang seeks the Chosen One, who will save the boy from death. When Nang sees social worker Chandler Jarrell on television discussing his ability to find missing children, she solicits his expertise, despite his skepticism over being "chosen."

  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Comedy