Screenplay: Charles Chaplin

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Charles Chaplin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


City Lights

1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Virginia Cherrill · Florence Lee · Harry Myers

Plot The Little Tramp falls in love with a beautiful, blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). She believes he is wealthy and he, in turn, sets out to raise the money for...

8.6

32K votes

8.6

32K votes

Modern Times

1936 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Paulette Goddard · Henry Bergman · Chester Conklin

Plot Chaplin is a factory worker in this hectic age - a minor cog in the grinding wheels of industry. His job -mechanically tightening bolts on a moving belt. The monotony...

8.6

62K votes

8.6

62K votes

The Great Dictator

1940 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Paulette Goddard · Jack Oakie · Reginald Gardiner

Plot In the 1930s, Tomania falls under the control of dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who dreams of world domination. In the Jewish district of the capital lives a barber who looks so...

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8.6

84K votes

8.6

84K votes

The Gold Rush

1925 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Mack Swain · Georgia Hale · Tom Murray

Plot The Lone Prospector, a valiant weakling, seeks fame and fortune in the Alaskan wilderness. There, he meets Black Larson (Tom Murray) and large but gentler Big Jim McKay (Mack Swain),...

8.4

27K votes

8.4

27K votes

The Kid

1921 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Jackie Coogan · Edna Purviance · Carl Miller

Plot 'The Kid' is the story of a child abandoned in a limousine by his unwed mother (Edna Purviance). When The Little Tramp finds him, he tries unsuccessfully to find a...

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8.4

32K votes

8.4

32K votes

Limelight

1952 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Claire Bloom · Nigel Bruce · Sydney Chaplin

Plot An old clown (Charles Chaplin), after preventing the suicide of a young dancer (Claire Bloom), takes care of her and tries to teach her everything he knows about theater so...

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8.3

13K votes

8.3

13K votes

Monsieur Verdoux

1947 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Martha Raye · Marilyn Nash · Isobel Elsom

Plot Monsieur Verdoux is a bluebeard who marries women and kills them after the marriage to get the money he needs for his family. But with two ladies he has bad...

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8.0

7K votes

8.0

7K votes

The Circus

1928 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Merna Kennedy · Betty Morrisey · Harry Crocker

Plot Charlie's Tramp character finds himself at a circus where he promptly gets chased around by the police who think he is a pickpocket. Running into the big top, he is...

8.0

7K votes

8.0

7K votes

A Dog's Life

1918 · Movie · 40 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Edna Purviance · Syd Chaplin · Henry Bergman

Plot The Little Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

7.7

4K votes

7.7

4K votes

The Immigrant (S)

1917 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Edna Purviance · Eric Campbell · Albert Austin

Plot Charlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America.

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7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

Shoulder Arms

1918 · Movie · 36 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Edna Purviance · Syd Chaplin · Jack Wilson

Plot Charlie is in boot camp in the "awkward squad." in the IWW. Once in France he gets no letters from home. He finally gets a package containing limburger cheese which...

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7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Pay Day (S)

1922 · Movie · 26 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Phyllis Allen · Mack Swain · Edna Purviance

Plot Charlie is an expert bricklayer. He has lots of fun and work and enjoys himself greatly while at the saloon. As he leaves work his wife takes the pay he...

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7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

The Pilgrim

1923 · Movie · 47 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Edna Purviance · Kitty Bradbury · Syd Chaplin

Plot Chaplin plays an escaped convict who steals clothes to get rid of this prison uniform. He ends up in a small town mistaken for someone else. Not quite a feature...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

1923 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Edna Purviance · Carl Miller · Adolphe Menjou · Lydia Knott

Plot Marie St. Clair (Edna Purviance), a simple girl living in a small French town, plans to elope with her lover, artist Jean Millet (Carl Miller), even though her suspicious stepfather...

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7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Easy Street (S)

1917 · Movie · 24 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Edna Purviance · Eric Campbell

Plot When Charlie the Tramp wanders into a mission he is smitten by Edna and puts back the collection box which he has taken. Reformed, he becomes a policeman and is...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Chaplin Revue

1959 · Movie · 128 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Albert Austin · Henry Bergman · Syd Chaplin

Plot 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...

7.2

147 votes

7.2

147 votes

The Adventurer

1917 · Movie · 31 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Edna Purviance · Eric Campbell · Henry Bergman

Plot The Little Tramp escapes from prison; saves a girl and her mother from drowning; and creates havoc at a swank party.

7.1

688 votes

7.1

688 votes

The Cure

1917 · Movie · 31 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Edna Purviance · Eric Campbell · Henry Bergman

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

7.1

733 votes

7.1

733 votes

The Idle Class

1921 · Movie · 32 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Edna Purviance · Mack Swain · Henry Bergman

Plot A tramp sneaks into a upper class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman who is having an argument with her drunken husband. Complications arise when she mistakes the...

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7.0

626 votes

7.0

626 votes

A King in New York

1957 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Dawn Addams · Oliver Johnston · Maxine Audley

Plot It details the story of King Shadhov who has just escaped a revolution in his homeland by fleeing to America. However, upon arrival, his Prime Minister steals the countries bankroll...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes