Charlie Chaplin
1) Modern times
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A devastating satire on the effects of mass production on the lives of factory workers. Shows Charlie as a factory worker, jailbird, night watchman, and a singing waiter. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but voices emanate from TV sets and radios.
2) Modern times
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English
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When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job.
4) City lights
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English
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The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive...
5) The kid
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Legendary actor Charlie Chaplin stars as The Little Tramp who stumbles upon an abandoned baby in an alley and takes him into his care in this landmark silent film. As 'the kid' grows older, they become partners in crime, until one day when the child falls ill and hospital workers endeavor to take the boy away. One of the most famous silent films of all time--and the first that Chaplin wrote and directed himself--it is also regarded as the first ever...
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Remarkable for its psychological nuance and its boldly modern perspective on an independent woman₂s search for fulfillment, Charlie Chaplin₂s long-overlooked silent masterpiece A Woman of Paris is a revelation. Chaplin confounded 1923 audiences with this unexpected foray into serious drama, and by ceding the spotlight to his longtime screen partner Edna Purviance. She is captivating as the vivacious Marie St. Clair, a 'woman of fate' who leaves...
8) In the park
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Charlie Chaplin's fourth film, released in 1915 by Essanay Films. It was one of several films he created in a park setting and follows the shenanigans of the tramp as he's causing havoc in the park.
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Hollywood icon Charlie Chaplin rocketed to fame from the slums of Victorian London and spent decades as one of Hollywood's most famous and beloved stars until his scandalous fall from grace. His stage persona and incendiary media portrayal defined how he was perceived, but his private life has always been shrouded in mystery until now. Never-before-heard recordings, intimate home movies, and newly restored classic films reveal a side to Chaplin that...
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English
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Russian émigré countess Natascha becomes a stowaway in the shipboard stateroom of U.S. diplomat Ogden in order to escape her life of forced prostitution in Hong Kong. Her plan is to blackmail her way to freedom in the States but Ogden has a mind of his own and can resist even the charms of a countess.
11) Chaplin
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A loving, grand scale portrait of the amazing life and times of Charlie Chaplin. His poverty-stricken childhood in England, his friendships, his many wives and scandalous affairs, and his pursuit by J. Edgar Hoover. Nominated for three **Academy Awards** and three **Golden Globe Awards** including Best Actor (Robert Downey Jr. ). Winner of Best Actor at the **BAFTA Awards.**
12) Limelight
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English
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A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.