The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator 1940

8.31

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

1940

A Countess from Hong Kong

A Countess from Hong Kong 1967

6.10

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

1967

City Lights

City Lights 1931

8.30

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.

1931

The Kid

The Kid 1921

8.17

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.

1921

Modern Times

Modern Times 1936

8.30

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..

1936

The Gold Rush

The Gold Rush 1925

8.00

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

1925

The Circus

The Circus 1928

7.97

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

1928

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate 1923

6.73

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.

1923

Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux 1947

7.71

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.

1947

A King in New York

A King in New York 1957

6.80

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.

1957

The Pilgrim

The Pilgrim 1923

6.80

The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.

1923

Pay Day

Pay Day 1922

7.00

A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.

1922

Shoulder Arms

Shoulder Arms 1918

6.80

An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.

1918

The Idle Class

The Idle Class 1921

6.60

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

1921

The Bond

The Bond 1918

5.00

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.

1918

A Woman of the Sea

A Woman of the Sea 1926

6.00

Joan and Magdalen are the daughters of a fisherman. Magdalen leaves her fiancé, Peter, to run off to the big city. Joan and Peter marry. Magdalen's return years later causes trouble for the marriage, but Joan and Peter remain together in the end.

1926