Entertainment
Charlie Chaplin Filmography
Complete filmography of Charlie Chaplin: 68 films in the TMDB catalog, sorted by year.
moviesdirectorfilmographycharlie-chaplincinema
68 of 68 rows
Title↕ | Year↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Countess from Hong Kong | 1,967 | Comedy, Romance | 6 | 190 | English | A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York. |
| The Chaplin Revue | 1,959 | Comedy | 7.4 | 38 | English | Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb". |
| A King in New York | 1,957 | Comedy | 6.8 | 225 | English | A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings. |
| Limelight | 1,952 | Romance, Drama, Music | 7.9 | 578 | English | A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life. |
| Monsieur Verdoux | 1,947 | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.7 | 462 | English | The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine. |
| The Great Dictator | 1,940 | Comedy, War | 8.3 | 3,621 | English | Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime. |
| Modern Times | 1,936 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.3 | 4,001 | English | A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.. |
| City Lights | 1,931 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.3 | 2,396 | English | A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor. |
| The Circus | 1,928 | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 7.9 | 872 | English | Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter. |
| The Gold Rush | 1,925 | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 8 | 1,784 | English | A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl. |
| A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate | 1,923 | Drama, Romance | 6.7 | 191 | English | When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind. |
| The Pilgrim | 1,923 | Comedy, Western | 6.8 | 151 | English | The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church. |
| Pay Day | 1,922 | Comedy | 7 | 155 | English | A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying. |
| Nice and Friendly | 1,922 | Crime, Comedy | 4.8 | 29 | English | This short was made as a wedding present for Lord and Lady Mountbatten. In it, Lady Mountbatten has a valuable pearl necklace, which a very large number of crooks wants to steal. |
| The Kid | 1,921 | Comedy, Drama | 8.1 | 2,311 | English | A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son. |
| The Idle Class | 1,921 | Comedy | 6.7 | 111 | English | At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, unhappy wife. |
| Charlie Butts In | 1,920 | Comedy | 5.3 | 19 | English | A tramp heads home drunk on a Saturday night, finding it hard to make it to his room. When he finally does, he cannot make it to his bed. |
| A Day's Pleasure | 1,919 | Comedy | 6.2 | 113 | English | A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial. |
| Sunnyside | 1,919 | Comedy, Romance | 6.5 | 99 | English | An overworked farmhand who works also at the adjacent hotel dreams of marrying the village belle. |
| The Professor | 1,919 | Comedy | 5.7 | 31 | English | Professor Bosco, a poor flea trainer, rents a bed in a flophouse. Before going to bed, he rallies his troops and once he has made sure his beloved fleas are settled for the night, the professor prepares to sleep the sleep of the just man. Unfortunately he accidentally knocks the box off his bed and the fleas have the time of their lives pestering Bosco's neighbors. To get the escapees back in their box again, the trainer resorts to... his whip! All is back to normal one more time. But not for long, as a stray dog enters the flophouse and very unwisely opens the box, thus creating new havoc. |
| A Dog's Life | 1,918 | Comedy | 7.3 | 354 | English | The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city. |
| Shoulder Arms | 1,918 | Comedy, War | 6.8 | 191 | English | An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero. |
| The Bond | 1,918 | Comedy | 5 | 50 | English | A propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Load Committee to help sell U.S. Liberty Bonds during World War I. The story is a series of sketches humorously illustrating various bonds like the bond of friendship and of marriage and, most important, the Liberty Bond, to K.O. the Kaiser which Charlie does literally. |
| Triple Trouble | 1,918 | Comedy | 4.9 | 46 | English | As Colonel Nutt is experimenting with explosives, a new janitor is joining his household. The inept janitor proceeds to make life difficult for the rest of staff. |
| How to Make Movies | 1,918 | Documentary, Comedy | 6.1 | 22 | English | This film was never released for the general public. It was hidden in Chaplin's private vaults for forty years until he included some parts of it in his compilation 'The Chaplin Revue' in 1959. |
| The Immigrant | 1,917 | Comedy, Romance | 7.3 | 309 | English | A European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York. |
| Easy Street | 1,917 | Comedy, Action | 7.1 | 181 | English | A derelict, huddled under the steps of a missionary church, feels enlightened by the sermon of a passionate preacher and infatuated by the beauty of the congregation's pianist, in such a way that he tries to improve his life of poverty by becoming a policeman. His first assignment will be to patrol along Easy Street, the turf of a vicious bully and his criminal gang. |
| The Adventurer | 1,917 | Comedy, Adventure | 6.9 | 149 | English | The daring convict no. 23, known as The Eel, escapes from prison and, after mocking his inept persecutors, saves the lives of three people in peril: a beautiful girl, her mother and an annoying suitor, only to get exhausted and almost drowned. Once he regains his strength at Judge Brown's home, he participates on an upper-class social party where he competes with the suitor for the favors of the charming Miss Brown. But prison guards are still after him… |
| The Cure | 1,917 | Comedy | 6.8 | 139 | English | An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos. |
| The Rink | 1,916 | Comedy | 6.6 | 142 | English | After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating. |
| The Vagabond | 1,916 | Comedy | 6.8 | 134 | English | A tramp tries to earn money by playing the violin, but he’s soon facing off against the jealous competition. |
| One A.M. | 1,916 | Comedy | 6.7 | 127 | English | A drunken homeowner has a difficult time getting about in his home after arriving home late at night. |
| The Pawnshop | 1,916 | Comedy | 6.7 | 115 | English | A pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter, until a perfidious crook with bad intentions arrives at the pawnshop. |
| The Floorwalker | 1,916 | Comedy | 6.4 | 112 | English | An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's safe. |
| The Fireman | 1,916 | Comedy | 6.3 | 110 | English | Firefighter Charlie Chaplin is tricked into letting a house burn by an owner who wants to collect on the insurance. |
| Behind the Screen | 1,916 | Comedy, Romance | 6.5 | 96 | English | During the troubled shooting of several movies, David, the prop man's assistant, meets an aspiring actress who tries to find work in the studio. Things get messy when the stagehands decide to go on strike. |
| The Count | 1,916 | Comedy | 6.2 | 85 | English | A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later, the tailor discovers a note explaining that the count cannot attend a dance party, so he dresses as such to take his place; but the apprentice has also gone to the mansion where the party is celebrated and bumps into the tailor in disguise… |
| Police | 1,916 | Comedy | 6.3 | 82 | English | Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house. |
| The Tramp | 1,915 | Comedy | 6.5 | 135 | English | The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life. Unwilling to be a problem in their lives, he takes to the road, though he is seen skipping and swinging his cane as if happy to be back on the road where he knows he belongs. |
| The Champion | 1,915 | Comedy | 6.5 | 110 | English | Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love. |
| Work | 1,915 | Comedy | 5.8 | 99 | English | Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers' supervisor, but the husband doesn't buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house. |
| A Night in the Show | 1,915 | Comedy | 6.2 | 91 | English | Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater. |
| By the Sea | 1,915 | Comedy | 5.5 | 79 | English | It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife. |
| His New Job | 1,915 | Comedy | 5.7 | 79 | English | When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor. While waiting, he plays in a dice game and gets on many people's nerves. When he finally gets to act, he ruins his scene, accidentally destroys the set, and tears the skirt of the star of the movie. |
| A Burlesque on Carmen | 1,915 | Comedy | 5.8 | 78 | English | A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run. |
| A Night Out | 1,915 | Comedy | 5.8 | 73 | English | After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife. |
| The Bank | 1,915 | Comedy | 6.3 | 72 | English | A janitor at a bank is in love with a secretary and dreams that she has fallen in love with him too. |
| In the Park | 1,915 | Comedy | 5.4 | 72 | English | A tramp steals a girl's handbag, but when he tries to pick Charlie's pocket loses his cigarettes and matches. He rescues a hot dog man from a thug, but takes a few with his walking stick. When the thief tries to take some of Charlie's sausages, Charlie gets the handbag. The handbag makes its way from person to person to its owner, who is angry with her boyfriend who didn't protect her in the first place. The boyfriend decides to throw himself in the lake in despair, so Charlie helps him out. |
| A Woman | 1,915 | Comedy | 6 | 71 | English | Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie. |
| Shanghaied | 1,915 | Comedy | 5.9 | 64 | English | A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale. |
| A Jitney Elopement | 1,915 | Comedy | 5.8 | 59 | English | Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier. |
| Laughing Gas | 1,914 | Comedy | 5.5 | 75 | English | Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club. |
| The Rounders | 1,914 | Comedy | 6.1 | 71 | English | Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker. |
| The Masquerader | 1,914 | Comedy | 5.7 | 71 | English | Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film. |
| Twenty Minutes of Love | 1,914 | Comedy | 5.6 | 65 | English | Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and even a little boy, all because our friend can't stop snooping. |
| Recreation | 1,914 | Comedy | 5.1 | 64 | English | Charlie begins to woo a woman on a bench, only to have her seaman boyfriend object. After a brick fight between the two men that eventually involves two police officers, all five people end up in the local pond to cool off. |
| His New Profession | 1,914 | Comedy | 5.8 | 62 | English | Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair. |
| Those Love Pangs | 1,914 | Comedy | 5.6 | 59 | English | Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady. |
| The New Janitor | 1,914 | Comedy | 6.2 | 57 | English | The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief banker (Tandy). Meanwhile, one of the junior managers (Dillon) is being threatened with exposure by his bookie for gambling debts unpaid. Thus the manager decides to steal from the company. |
| His Prehistoric Past | 1,914 | Comedy | 5.6 | 53 | English | Set mostly in the Stone Age, a prehistoric king, with a harem of wives, rules a beach. Charlie arrives and falls for the king's favorite wife. In the end, it turns out to have been a dream; Charlie was asleep in the park. |
| Dough and Dynamite | 1,914 | Comedy | 6.1 | 53 | English | Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results. |
| His Musical Career | 1,914 | Comedy | 6 | 50 | English | Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St. |
| The Face on the Barroom Floor | 1,914 | Comedy | 5.3 | 50 | English | A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film. |
| His Trysting Places | 1,914 | Comedy | 6.2 | 49 | English | On his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in the apartment lobby. Unbeknownst to him, the letter is about a rendezvous with her own lover at their "trysting place". Elsewhere, after some domestic frustration, Charlie runs an errand to buy a baby bottle before stopping at the same restaurant. After a confrontation there, they both inadvertently leave with each other's coats. Later, their wives independently discover what appears to be incriminating evidence of extramarital affairs from the pockets of the swapped garments. It all comes to a head when all four of them find themselves at the "trysting place" in the park. |
| Getting Acquainted | 1,914 | Comedy | 5.3 | 48 | English | Charlie and his wife are in the park when he encounters Ambrose and his wife. Each man is attracted to and shows unwanted attention to the other man's wife. A policeman becomes involved. |
| Gentlemen of Nerve | 1,914 | Comedy | 5.7 | 48 | English | Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up. |
| Caught in the Rain | 1,914 | Comedy | 5.6 | 47 | English | When a married couple become separated in the park, a tramp sits with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and chaos ensues. |
| The Property Man | 1,914 | Comedy | 5.6 | 41 | English | Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop. |
Loading community rankings...