The Circus (1928)
Comedy | Romance
The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker, Henry Bergman
Director: Charles Chaplin
Limelight (1952)
Drama | Music | Romance
A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find meaning and hope in their lives.
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Norman Lloyd, Sydney Chaplin
Director: Charles Chaplin
The Kid (1921)
Comedy | Drama | Family
The Tramp and an abandoned child triumph over life's hard knocks in the landmark film that changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be.
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Carl Miller, Edna Purviance, Albert Austin, Henry Bergman
Director: Charles Chaplin
City Lights (1931)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
As it is the case with practically all of Chaplin's films, in City Lights comedy and drama are closely intertwined. In it the Tramp makes two friends – one is an eccentric millionaire (Harry Myers) with a serious drinking problem who has decided to end his life, the other a poor blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) selling flowers to make ends meet. The Tramp profoundly changes their lives but they react to his goodness in two radically different ways.
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia, Hank Mann
Director: Charles Chaplin
Monsieur Verdoux / A Comedy of Murders (1947)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Martha Raye, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis, Audrey Betz
Director: Charles Chaplin
The Great Dictator (1940)
Comedy | Drama | War
Chaplin plays two characters in his first full talkie. Adenoid Hynkel, the dictator of Tomania, and a Jewish barber. The barber recovers from amnesia to discover Hynkel is persecuting all the Jews in his country. The film ends with a message of hope for the world.
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert
Director: Charles Chaplin
Modern Times (1936)
Comedy | Drama
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford, Chester Conklin, Hank Mann
Director: Charles Chaplin
The Gold Rush (1925)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance | Western
The Tramp goes the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray
Director: Charles Chaplin
