Charlie Chaplin

The final feature film to have Charlie Chaplin as writer, director, and star tells the story of a king who, due to a revolution in his country, finds himself in New York almost penniless.

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to feel confident about life in Charlie Chaplin's 1952 classic. Featuring a BAFTA-winning breakout role for Claire Bloom, the film went on to win an Oscar for Best Music.

Based on an idea by Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin's Oscar-nominated crime comedy follows a bitter unemployed banker who finds a vicious new way to make money for his family—marrying widows and then murdering them.

One of only two films Charlie Chaplin wrote and directed but did not star in, this 1920s romance drama follows the mistress of a wealthy man torn between her current partner and her former fiancé.

A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.

Considered both one of Charlie Chaplin's greatest comedies and one of the best movies of all time, City Lights follows the misadventures of the Tramp as he falls in love with a blind flower girl and develops a troubled relationship with a depressed millionaire.

One of Charlie Chaplin's most enduring classics, and also his last outing as the Little Tramp, Modern Times puts our hero to work as a giddily inept factory employee who is driven insane by the monotony of his job. The silent comedy is a comment on both the struggles to survive in a modern, industrialised world and the financial hardship of the Great Depression. Features the song Smile, written by Chaplin, and co-stars Paulette Goddard (Chaplin's third wife) as the gamine the Tramp falls for.

Charlie Chaplin's comedy classic – proclaimed the film he most wanted to be remembered for – following the Tramp as he heads to snowy northern Canada to join the Alaska Gold Rush.

Charlie Chaplin's comedy and anti-fascist statement, lampooning Hitler and the Nazis (made and released before the start of World War II). Also notable for being Chaplin's first true sound picture.

Charlie Chaplin's first full-length film, a winning combination of slapstick and drama. After the Tramp discovers a baby discarded in a trash can, he raises the boy as his son and partner in petty crime.