Charlie Chaplin Movies

A video essay on Charlie Chaplin's film "Limelight" (1952).

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...

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful...

Firefighter Charlie Chaplin is tricked into letting a house burn by an owner who wants to collect on the insurance.

Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by...

At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, unhappy wife.

A janitor at a bank is in love with a secretary and dreams that she has fallen in love with him too.

A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

A good man trys to help a blind girl to see again but he doesn't have enough money for the operation.

Gene Kelly is a legend of the heyday of the Hollywood musical. His name stands for masterpieces such as "Singin' in the Rain" and "An American in...

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....

For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of...

A tramp tries to earn money by playing the violin, but he’s soon facing off against the jealous competition.

A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966.

Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.

The Tramp interferes with the celebration of several kid auto races in Venice, California (Junior Vanderbilt Cup Race, January 10 and 11, 1914),...

A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp appears and intervenes.

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...

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...