, 2h4
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 Soldier in 1918 Tomainia (uncredited)
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.

, 1h31
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Young, Charles Coburn, Irina Baronova, Lee Bowman, Reginald Owen, Lucile Watson
Roles Laundry Foreman
Rating71%
Placée dans le contexte de la Première Guerre mondiale en Europe, un homme et une femme de classes différentes sont réunies par leur amour des chevaux Lippizan.

, 1h20
Directed by Richard Wallace
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Edward Arnold, Shirley Ross, William Frawley, Rufe Davis, Charles Halton, Lew Fields
Roles Workman (uncredited)
Rating53%

, 1h53
Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley
Rating73%
The musical's story spans about forty years, from the late 1880s to the late 1920s. Magnolia Hawks is an eighteen-year-old on her family's show boat, the Cotton Palace which travels the Mississippi River putting on shows. She meets Gaylord Ravenal, a charming gambler, falls in love with him, and eventually marries him. Together with their baby daughter, the couple leaves the boat and moves to Chicago, where they live off Gaylord's gambling winnings. After about ten years, he experiences an especially bad losing streak and leaves Magnolia, out of a sense of guilt that he is ruining her life because of his losses. Magnolia is forced to bring up her young daughter alone. In a parallel plot, Julie LaVerne (the show boat's leading actress, who is part African-American, but "passing" as white) is forced to leave the boat because of her background, taking Steve Baker (her white husband, to whom, under the state's law, she is illegally married) with her. Julie is eventually also abandoned by her husband, and she becomes an alcoholic. Magnolia's becomes a success on the stage in Chicago. Twenty-three years later Magnolia and Ravenal are reunited at the theater in which Kim, their daughter, is appearing in her first Broadway starring role.

, 1h27
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Sports films, Films about the labor movement, La précarité
Actors Paulette Goddard, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford, Chester Conklin, Hank Mann
Roles Big Bill
Rating84%
Modern Times portrays Chaplin as a factory worker employed on an assembly line. There, he is subjected to such indignities as being force-fed by a "modern" feeding machine and an accelerating assembly line where he screws nuts at an ever-increasing rate onto pieces of machinery. He finally suffers a nervous breakdown and runs amok, throwing the factory into chaos. He is sent to a hospital. Following his recovery, the now unemployed factory worker is mistakenly arrested as an instigator in a Communist demonstration. In jail, he accidentally ingests smuggled cocaine, mistaking it for salt. In his subsequent delirium, he gets out of the jail. When he returns, he stumbles upon a jailbreak and knocks the convicts unconscious. He is hailed a hero and is released.

, 1h5
Directed by Harry Lachman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Alan Hale, Sidney Toler, James Finlayson, Arthur Housman
Roles Wharf tough guy (uncredited)
Rating72%
Laurel and Hardy star as both their famous Stan and Ollie characters and as Stan and Ollie's twin brothers Bert and Alf.

, 1h34
Directed by James Cruze
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy, Binnie Barnes, Katharine Alexander, Montagu Love, Addison Richards
Roles San Francisco Troublemaker
Rating59%
Pendant la ruée vers l'or en Californie en 1849, on découvre de l'or dans la propriété de John Sutter, un immigrant d'origine Suisse.

, 1h8
Directed by Fred Guiol, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Barbara Pepper, Moroni Olsen, Frank M. Thomas, Willie Best
Roles Construction Foreman
Rating51%
This script must be run from the command line

, 20minutes
Directed by Mack Sennett
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Buster Keaton, Lona Andre, Tiny Sandford, Don Brodie, Kitty McHugh, James C. Morton
Roles Mortimer
Rating54%

, 1h5
Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Carl Brisson, Arline Judge, Mady Christians, William Frawley, Inez Courtney, Grant Withers
Roles Stoker (uncredited)
Rating63%

, 20minutes
Directed by Charley Rogers, Hal Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Walter Long, Baldwin Cooke, Sam Lufkin
Roles Man in Courtroom
Rating75%
In a packed courtroom, Butch Long (Walter Long) vows revenge on 'squealers' Laurel and Hardy whose evidence has helped to send him to prison for the rest of his life, threatening to "break off their legs and wrap 'em around their necks!" after Laurel makes a suggestion to the judge (Harry Dunkinson), "Aren't you going to hang him?" Later, in the car, Ollie repeats this question sarcastically, since he saw Long's reaction just after Stan said it; he then asks Stan, "Couldn't you see that he was annoyed?" (an understatement to be sure!)

, 1h17
Directed by Charley Rogers, Gus Meins, Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Musical films, Films about toys, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Bletcher, Charlotte Henry, Baldwin Cooke, Jean Darling
Roles Dunker (uncredited)
Rating70%
Stannie Dum (Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee (Oliver Hardy), live in a shoe (as in the nursery rhyme There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe), along with Mother Peep (the Old Woman), Bo Peep (Charlotte Henry), a mouse resembling Mickey Mouse (and actually played by a live monkey in a costume), and many other children. The mortgage on the shoe is owned by the villainous Silas Barnaby (Henry Brandon), who is looking to marry Bo Peep. Knowing the Widow Peep is having a difficult time paying the mortgage, Barnaby offers the old woman an ultimatum – unless Bo Peep agrees to marry him he will foreclose on the shoe. Widow Peep refuses, but is worried about where she'll get the money to pay the mortgage. Ollie offers her all the money he has stored away in his savings can, only to learn that Stannie has taken it to buy peewees (a favored toy consisting of a wooden peg with tapered ends that rises in the air when struck with a stick near one end and is then caused to fly through the air by being struck again with the stick). He and Stannie set out to get the money for the mortgage from their boss, the Toymaker (William Burress). But Stannie has mixed up an order from Santa Claus (building 100 wooden soldiers at six feet tall, instead of 600 soldiers at one foot tall) and one of the soldiers, when activated, wrecks the toy shop. Stannie and Ollie are fired without getting the money.

, 17minutes
Directed by Charley Chase
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Charley Chase, Betty Mack, Frank Austin, Harry Dunkinson, James C. Morton, Harry Bernard
Roles Large Policeman
Rating60%

Directed by James Gibbons Parrott
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Wally Albright, George McFarland, Stymie Beard, Scotty Beckett, Tommy Bond, Leonard Kibrick
Roles Policeman directing traffic
Rating69%
On the day that he is scheduled to perform a violin solo at a swank bridge luncheon held by his social-climbing mother, rich kid Waldo opts instead to play football with the gang. With Waldo's help, the kids win the game, but his expensive clothes are covered with mud. Spanky declares that he and his pals are perfectly capable of washing Wally's duds on their own—and the result is a slapstick smorgasbord, culminating in a typically outsized Hal Roach traffic jam.

Directed by Gus Meins
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Wally Albright, Stymie Beard, George McFarland, Tommy Bond, Scotty Beckett, Jerry Tucker
Roles First mover
Rating77%
While sailing their toy tugboat in a puddle outside their house, Wally and Spanky notice a moving van with a child-sized fire engine riding into the neighborhood. They quickly round up the rest of the gang, and follow the moving van to its destination. The fire truck's owner, a snobbish rich kid named Jerry, comes out to find a dozen strange children playing with his fire engine and shoos them all away, refusing to trade any sorts of collateral (pocket knives, gratitude) for even a ride. When Wally's girl Jane turns up, however, Jerry is quick to offer her a ride. Wally tries to dissuade Jane from riding with Jerry by telling her that the gang has a fire engine of its own, big enough to hold all of them. Jane agrees to a ride with Wally in his fire engine after she gets back from her ride with Jerry.