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A user-created list of the best movies by the legendary silent film star and director Charles Chaplin. See the titles, ratings, summaries, and cast of his comedies and dramas from 1914 to 1957.
- Ing in New York (1957) - 7.1
- Pilgrim (1923) - 7.4
- Sieur Verdoux (1947) - 7.9
- Elight (1952) - 8.1
- Circus (1928) - 8.2
- Gold Rush (1925) - 8.2
- Kid (1921) - 8.3
- Great Dictator (1940) - 8.4
- Y Lights (1931) - 8.5
- Ern Times (1936) - 8.5
Chaplin's final starring role is also one of his best. He wrote, directed, scored, and starred in A King in New York, a satire focused squarely on the Red Scare that gripped the United States in the 1950s. Chaplin plays a deposed monarch who comes to the United States nearly penniless. He becomes famous after doing some TV commercials and runs into...
The Pilgrimmarked an end to several chapters in Chaplin's life and career. It was the last film he made for the First National Film Company and the last he made with Edna Purviance. Purviance starred in 30 films with Chaplin over eight years. The film stars Chaplin as the title character, an escaped convict who pretends to be a preacher to evade cu...
By the time Monsieur Verdoux came out in 1947, Chaplin was not the star he once was. His push for American-Soviet relations during World War II led to the FBI opening an investigation into the star; several groups also boycotted the film. Verdouxis a stark departure for Chaplin. It was his first film not to include a Tramp-like character and made t...
Chaplin's follow-up to Monsieur Verdoux was a semi-autobiographical tale of a washed-up performer in World War I-era London. Limelight was the last film Chaplin made in the United States; he was banned from the country while promoting the film. He wouldn't return to the country for 20 years after the film's American wide release led to Chaplin's on...
The Circusis generally considered one of Chaplin's best comedies and came in the middle of a run at United Artists that takes up half of this list. However, it was also his most troubled production. Chaplin was hit with several personal tragedies while making the film, including the death of his mother, a divorce from his second wife, and an IRS in...
Charlie Chaplin once said that The Gold Rushwas the film he wanted to be remembered for. The 1925 classic brilliantly blends tragedy and comedy as it follows the adventures of Chaplin's Tramp as a gold prospector in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. The Tramp gets trapped in a cabin with two other prospectors and befriends one of them. RELAT...
The Kid was Chaplin's full-length directorial debut. It stars Chaplin as the Tramp and a young Jackie Coogan (who would later portray Uncle Fester on The Addams Family) as the Child. The Tramp finds the Child as a baby and names him John. As the years pass, the boy's mother becomes a famous actress and begins to search for the boy she abandoned yea...
The Great Dictator wasn't the first anti-Nazi Hollywood production, but it is one of the most well-remembered. It starred Chaplin as both the fascist dictator of fictional Tomania and a Jewish barber who's mistaken for the dictator and vaulted into power. The film is arguably most famous for its final speech, in which Chaplin's barber makes an impa...
Although Chaplin had considered making a sound film as early as 1918, he ultimately refused to jump to talkies as the industry transitioned in the late 1920s. City Lights is somewhere in between, with synchronized music and sound effects along with dialogue intertitles. The film follows Chaplin's Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl and befr...
Modern Times is Chaplin's last appearance as the Tramp and a comment on industrialization, which Chaplin believed to be the cause of the conditions of the Great Depression. In the film, the Tramp appears as a factory worker who is fired after a nervous breakdown. The Tramp then goes to jail and, upon his release, encounters several desperate indivi...
- Modern Times Is Chaplin's Magnum Opus (1936) Modern Times. G. Comedy. Drama. Romance. The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
- City Lights Is A Romantic Comedy Masterpiece (1931) City Lights. G. Drama. Romance. Comedy. With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
- The Great Dictator Is Chaplin's Most Controversial Film (1940) The Great Dictator. G. Comedy. Drama. War. Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
- The Gold Rush Was Chaplin's Biggest Silent Era Success (1925) The Gold Rush. Passed. Comedy. Adventure. Drama. A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.
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- City Lights (1931) Chaplin's silent masterpiece City Lights finds The Tramp falling in love with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill), and trying to find the money to pay for an operation to restore her sight.
- The Great Dictator (1940) In the mid-1930s, most Americans and British citizens opposed intervention in World War II, preferring appeasement to direct confrontation with Hitler.
- Modern Times (1936) Chaplin's ode to the working man, Modern Times, features the Tramp falling in love with a young street urchin (the stunning Paulette Goddard) and attempting to make a life together.
- The Gold Rush (1925) Set during the Alaskan Gold Rush, Chaplin's Tramp finds himself out to find his fortune, only to find misery and mishaps. He falls in love with a girl in the town's dance hall, but even that has its complications.
- CITY LIGHTS (1931) Written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Starring Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia.
- THE GOLD RUSH (1925) Written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Starring Charlie Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Malcolm Waite. “The Gold Rush” is Chaplin at his comedic best, with the Little Tramp traveling to the Yukon to strike it rich.
- MODERN TIMES (1936) Written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Starring Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford, Chester Conklin.
- THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) Written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Starring Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Henry Daniell, Reginald Gardiner, Billy Gilbert, Maurice Moscovich.
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The Circus. 1928 1h 12m G. 8.1 (36K) Rate. 90 Metascore. The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus. Director Charles Chaplin Stars Charles Chaplin Merna Kennedy Al Ernest Garcia.
