charles chaplin 
When we first meet Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp in this comic gem, he’s in typical straits: broke, hungry, destined to fall in love, and just as sure to lose the girl.
Charles Chaplin
United States,
1928
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The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street (a magical Virginia Cherrill) and mistakes him for a millionaire.
Charles Chaplin
United States,
1931
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Charlie decides to take his wife and children on a boat trip, but the family car proves somewhat recalcitrant.
Charles Chaplin
United States,
1919
35 mm
Thanks to a dog he finds, Charlie ends up in possession of some stolen loot. But the wrongdoers want their ill-gotten gains back.
Charles Chaplin
United States,
1918
35 mm
Charlie Chaplin’s comedic masterwork—which charts a prospector’s search for fortune in the Klondike and his discovery of romance (with the beautiful Georgia Hale)—forever cemented the iconic status of Chaplin and his Little Tramp character.
Charles Chaplin
United States,
1942
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In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona.
Charles Chaplin
United States,
1940
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Charlie is the spitting image of a rich woman’s drunk husband. At a masked ball, her inability to distinguish one from the other leads to much confusion.
Charles Chaplin
United States,
1921
35 mm
Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan make a miraculous pair in this nimble marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a film that is, as its opening title card states, “a picture with a smile—and perhaps, a tear.”
Charles Chaplin
United States,
1921
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Forced out of the U.S. in 1952, Charlie Chaplin lashed back with this scathing satire of everything American—from McCarthyist witch hunts to CinemaScope and rock and roll—as he played his last full role, as a deposed and impoverished monarch seeking refuge in Manhattan (though the film was shot in the United Kingdom).
Charles Chaplin
United Kingdom,
1957
35 mm
Charlie Chaplin’s masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer-director’s most touching films. Chaplin plays Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat.
Charles Chaplin
United States,
1952
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Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard).
Charles Chaplin
United States,
1936
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Charlie Chaplin plays shockingly against type in his most controversial film, a brilliant and bleak black comedy about money, marriage, and murder.
Charles Chaplin
United States,
1947
Blu-ray, DVD
Charlie is a bricklayer who sets off to celebrate payday with his pals. But his wife is waiting with the rolling pin.
Charles Chaplin
United States,
1922
35 mm
Having escaped from prison, Charlie disguises himself as a pastor. In a village, he’s mistaken for the new curate.
Charles Chaplin
United States,
1923
35 mm
Enlisted during the First World War, Charlie discovers the hard life of the trenches and the dangers of combat.
Charles Chaplin
United States,
1918
35 mm
Charlie is a farm laborer who’ll try anything to win over his pretty neighbor, but ends up spending a lot of time in dreamland.
Charles Chaplin
United States,
1919
35 mm
Having built his career as both an actor and director of silent cinema with comedic short films starring his wildly popular Little Tramp character, Charles Chaplin confounded audiences when he followed up his first feature, The Kid, with a serious melodrama—sans the Tramp!
Charles Chaplin
United States,
1923
DCP, 35 mm