Movie 'City Lights'

Part of Charlie Chaplin Collection

Charles “Charlie” Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era. He used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency by the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in Kid Auto Races (1914). From 1914 onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was producing them, and by 1918 he was also composing the music for them. In 1919 he co-founded United Artists. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chaplin the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time.

• Caught in a Cabaret not owned

  • Release Date: 27 Apr 1914
  • Rating: 56% · 50

  Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.

• A Burlesque on Carmen not owned

  • Release Date: 18 Dec 1915
  • Rating: 58% · 69

  A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.

• The Floorwalker not owned

  • Release Date: 15 May 1916
  • Rating: 64% · 94

  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 safe.

• The Fireman not owned

  • Release Date: 12 Jun 1916
  • Rating: 62% · 96

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

• The Vagabond not owned

  • Release Date: 10 Jul 1916
  • Rating: 67% · 121

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

• One A.M. not owned

  • Release Date: 7 Aug 1916
  • Rating: 67% · 109

  A drunken homeowner has a difficult time getting about in his home after arriving home late at night.

• The Count not owned

  • Release Date: 4 Sept 1916
  • Rating: 62% · 72

  A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later, the tailor discovers a note explaining that the count cannot attend a dance party, so he dresses as such to take his place; but the apprentice has also gone to the mansion where the party is celebrated and bumps into the tailor in disguise…

• The Pawnshop not owned

  • Release Date: 2 Oct 1916
  • Rating: 66% · 98

  A pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter, until a perfidious crook with bad intentions arrives at the pawnshop.

• Behind the Screen not owned

  • Release Date: 13 Nov 1916
  • Rating: 64% · 81

  During the troubled shooting of several movies, David, the prop man's assistant, meets an aspiring actress who tries to find work in the studio. Things get messy when the stagehands decide to go on strike.

• The Rink not owned

  • Release Date: 4 Dec 1916
  • Rating: 67% · 118

  After amusements working in a restaurant, Charlie uses his lunch break to go roller skating.

• Easy Street not owned

  • Release Date: 22 Jan 1917
  • Rating: 71% · 163

  A derelict, huddled under the steps of a missionary church, feels enlightened by the sermon of a passionate preacher and infatuated by the beauty of the congregation's pianist, in such a way that he tries to improve his life of poverty by becoming a policeman. His first assignment will be to patrol along Easy Street, the turf of a vicious bully and his criminal gang.

• The Cure not owned

  • Release Date: 16 Apr 1917
  • Rating: 68% · 123

  An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.

• The Immigrant not owned

  • Release Date: 17 Jun 1917
  • Rating: 73% · 268

  An European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.

• The Adventurer not owned

  • Release Date: 22 Oct 1917
  • Rating: 69% · 127

  The daring convict no. 23, known as The Eel, escapes from prison and, after mocking his inept persecutors, saves the lives of three people in peril: a beautiful girl, her mother and an annoying suitor, only to get exhausted and almost drowned. Once he regains his strength at Judge Brown's home, he participates on an upper-class social party where he competes with the suitor for the favors of the charming Miss Brown. But prison guards are still after him…

• Shoulder Arms not owned

  • Release Date: 20 Oct 1918
  • Rating: 67% · 165

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

• The Kid owned

  • Release Date: 21 Jan 1921
  • Rating: 82% · 1,985

  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.

• Pay Day not owned

  • Release Date: 2 Apr 1922
  • Rating: 70% · 130

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

• A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate owned

  • Release Date: 1 Oct 1923
  • Rating: 67% · 156

  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.

• The Gold Rush owned

  • Release Date: 12 Jul 1925
  • Rating: 80% · 1,512

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

• The Circus owned

  • Release Date: 6 Jan 1928
  • Rating: 80% · 744

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

• City Lights owned

  • Release Date: 1 Feb 1931
  • Rating: 83% · 2,057

  In this sound-era silent film, a tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower seller.

• Modern Times owned

  • Release Date: 5 Feb 1936
  • Rating: 83% · 3,549

  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..

• The Great Dictator owned

  • Release Date: 15 Oct 1940
  • Rating: 83% · 3,206

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

• Monsieur Verdoux owned

  • Release Date: 26 Sept 1947
  • Rating: 78% · 396

  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.

• Limelight owned

  • Release Date: 23 Oct 1952
  • Rating: 79% · 492

  A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

• A King in New York owned

  • Release Date: 12 Sept 1957
  • Rating: 68% · 194

  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.

• The Chaplin Revue not owned

  • Release Date: 1 Sept 1959
  • Rating: 74% · 29

  Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".

• The Real Charlie Chaplin not owned

  • Release Date: 19 Nov 2021
  • Rating: 79% · 19

  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.