Connection
Charlie Chaplin is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Editor, Sound and Script British born on 16 april 1889 at London (United-kingdom)
Charlie Chaplin participated to 111 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 5 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Military humor in film, Medical-themed films, Monde imaginaire, Hitler, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert
Roles Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber
Rating83%
The action starts in 1918, with the collapse of the Tomainian (German) army. A Jewish barber saves the life of a wounded pilot, Schultz, but loses his own memory through concussion.
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes L'Or
Actors Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Charlie Chaplin, Malcolm Waite, Harry Arras
Roles The Lone Prospector
Rating80%
The Lone Prospector (played by Chaplin), a valiant weakling, seeks fame and fortune among the sturdy men who marched across Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike Gold Rush. The Lone Prospector's inoffensive patience and his ill-chosen garb make him the target for the buffoonery of his comrades and the victim of the merciless rigors of the frozen North. After he is caught in a blizzard, the icy clutches of the storm have almost claimed him when he stumbles into the cabin of Black Larsen (played by Murray), a renegade. Larsen is thrusting him out the door, back into the arms of death, when Fate, which preserves the destinies of simple children, appears in the person of Big Jim McKay (played by Swain). Jim subdues the renegade, and he and the Lone Prospector occupy the cabin while their unwilling host is thrust forth to obtain food. Starvation almost claims the two until a bear intrudes and is killed to supply their larder.
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Serial killer films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Martha Raye, William Frawley, Charlie Chaplin, Isobel Elsom, Edna Purviance, Fritz Leiber
Roles Henri Verdoux
Rating77%
Henri Verdoux had been a bank teller for thirty years before being laid off. To support his wife and child, he turns to the business of marrying and murdering wealthy widows. The Couvais family becomes suspicious when Thelma Couvais draws all her money and disappears, only two weeks after marrying a man named "Varnay", whom they only know through a photograph. As Verdoux (Chaplin) prepares to sell the residence of the murdered Thelma, widowed Marie Grosnay visits the residence. Verdoux sees her as another "business" opportunity and attempts to charm her, but she refuses. In the following weeks, Verdoux has a flower girl repeatedly send Grosnay flowers. In need of money to invest, Verdoux, as M. Floray, visits widow Lydia Floray (Hoffman), who complains that his engineering job has kept him away too long. That night, Verdoux murders her for her money.
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin, Wheeler Dryden
Roles Calvero
Rating79%
The movie is set in London in 1914, on the eve of World War I (and the year Chaplin made his first film). Calvero (Chaplin), once a famous stage clown but now a washed-up drunk, saves a young dancer, Thereza "Terry" Ambrose, (Claire Bloom), from suicide. Nursing her back to health, Calvero helps Terry regain her self-esteem and resume her dancing career. In doing so he regains his own self-confidence, but his attempts to make a comeback meet with failure. Terry says she wants to marry Calvero despite their age difference, although she has befriended Neville (Sydney Earl Chaplin), a young composer Calvero believes would be better suited to her. In order to give them a chance, Calvero leaves home and becomes a street entertainer. Terry, now starring in her own show, eventually finds Calvero and persuades him to return to the stage for a benefit concert. Reunited with an old partner (Keaton), Calvero gives a triumphant comeback performance. He suffers a heart attack during a routine, however, and dies in the wings while watching Terry, the second act on the bill, dance on stage.
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Dawn Addams, Michael Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde, Shani Wallis
Roles King Shahdov
Rating69%
"One of the minor annoyances in modern life is a revolution." Due to a revolution in his country Estrovia, King Igor Shahdov (Charlie Chaplin) comes to New York City with almost no money, his securities having been stolen by his own Prime Minister. He tries to contact the Atomic Energy Commission with his ideas for using atomic power to create a utopia.
Charlie Chaplin
Among those, 5 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Actor
Add to a movie listThe Great Dictator (1940)
, 2h4Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Military humor in film, Medical-themed films, Monde imaginaire, Hitler, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert
Roles Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber
Rating83%
The action starts in 1918, with the collapse of the Tomainian (German) army. A Jewish barber saves the life of a wounded pilot, Schultz, but loses his own memory through concussion.
The Gold Rush (1925)
, 1h22Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes L'Or
Actors Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Charlie Chaplin, Malcolm Waite, Harry Arras
Roles The Lone Prospector
Rating80%
The Lone Prospector (played by Chaplin), a valiant weakling, seeks fame and fortune among the sturdy men who marched across Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike Gold Rush. The Lone Prospector's inoffensive patience and his ill-chosen garb make him the target for the buffoonery of his comrades and the victim of the merciless rigors of the frozen North. After he is caught in a blizzard, the icy clutches of the storm have almost claimed him when he stumbles into the cabin of Black Larsen (played by Murray), a renegade. Larsen is thrusting him out the door, back into the arms of death, when Fate, which preserves the destinies of simple children, appears in the person of Big Jim McKay (played by Swain). Jim subdues the renegade, and he and the Lone Prospector occupy the cabin while their unwilling host is thrust forth to obtain food. Starvation almost claims the two until a bear intrudes and is killed to supply their larder.
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
, 2h4Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Serial killer films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Martha Raye, William Frawley, Charlie Chaplin, Isobel Elsom, Edna Purviance, Fritz Leiber
Roles Henri Verdoux
Rating77%
Henri Verdoux had been a bank teller for thirty years before being laid off. To support his wife and child, he turns to the business of marrying and murdering wealthy widows. The Couvais family becomes suspicious when Thelma Couvais draws all her money and disappears, only two weeks after marrying a man named "Varnay", whom they only know through a photograph. As Verdoux (Chaplin) prepares to sell the residence of the murdered Thelma, widowed Marie Grosnay visits the residence. Verdoux sees her as another "business" opportunity and attempts to charm her, but she refuses. In the following weeks, Verdoux has a flower girl repeatedly send Grosnay flowers. In need of money to invest, Verdoux, as M. Floray, visits widow Lydia Floray (Hoffman), who complains that his engineering job has kept him away too long. That night, Verdoux murders her for her money.
Limelight (1952)
, 2h17Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin, Wheeler Dryden
Roles Calvero
Rating79%
The movie is set in London in 1914, on the eve of World War I (and the year Chaplin made his first film). Calvero (Chaplin), once a famous stage clown but now a washed-up drunk, saves a young dancer, Thereza "Terry" Ambrose, (Claire Bloom), from suicide. Nursing her back to health, Calvero helps Terry regain her self-esteem and resume her dancing career. In doing so he regains his own self-confidence, but his attempts to make a comeback meet with failure. Terry says she wants to marry Calvero despite their age difference, although she has befriended Neville (Sydney Earl Chaplin), a young composer Calvero believes would be better suited to her. In order to give them a chance, Calvero leaves home and becomes a street entertainer. Terry, now starring in her own show, eventually finds Calvero and persuades him to return to the stage for a benefit concert. Reunited with an old partner (Keaton), Calvero gives a triumphant comeback performance. He suffers a heart attack during a routine, however, and dies in the wings while watching Terry, the second act on the bill, dance on stage.
A King in New York (1957)
, 1h47Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Dawn Addams, Michael Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde, Shani Wallis
Roles King Shahdov
Rating69%
"One of the minor annoyances in modern life is a revolution." Due to a revolution in his country Estrovia, King Igor Shahdov (Charlie Chaplin) comes to New York City with almost no money, his securities having been stolen by his own Prime Minister. He tries to contact the Atomic Energy Commission with his ideas for using atomic power to create a utopia.