Films with: Chaplin, Charlie

Carmen

[Carmen] A beautiful gypsy girl uses her irresistible charms to seduce a faithful military guard so that a band of smugglers can penetrate his stronghold. [The cheat] Depicts an impulsive, social climbing woman who gambles away Red Cross funds entrusted to her. She seeks the help of an Asian merchant to save her reputation and in return becomes his property.

DVD 1749

Chaplin mutuals.

Chaplin plays a variety of comedic characters, each of whom becomes involved with different people and situations.

DVD 1078

Chaplin's art of comedy

A montage of short film clips from a number of Chaplin's films that illustrates his multifaceted brand of comedy.

DVD 135

Chaplin's Essanay comedies.

A collection of Chaplin's films at Essanay Studios. Shanghaied: Hired to shanghai a crew, Chaplin is himself shanghaied and becomes assistant cook aboard a rolling boat. A Night in the show: Chaplin appears in a dual role as a playboy seated in the orchestra and as an obnoxious workman on a night out seated in the balcony. The latter closes the theater down by turning a fire hose on the fire-eating act. Police: The Tramp released from prison meets a former cell-mate and sets out to rob the home of a young woman. Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen: Parody of the popular Cecil B. DeMille film Carmen. Triple trouble: Charlie works in the home of an eccentric inventor from whom some German spies are attempting to obtain a formula.

DVD 1081

Chaplin's Essanay comedies.

A collection of Chaplin's films at Essanay Studios. The tramp: Charlie saves a farmer's daughter from some thieving toughs, but soon learns that her heart belongs to another. By the sea: Charlie's stroll by the sea finds him making enemies with a drunk, a husband and the police. Work: Charlie plays a paper hanger's assistant who is hired to paper a home where peace is replaced with anarchy, culminating with a massive explosion. A Woman: Charlie disguises himself as a woman in order to be near Edna after her father has forbidden her to see him. The Bank: Charlie, the janitor loves Edna, the pretty bank secretary, but her sweetheart is another Charles, the cashier. His regeneration: Chaplin makes a guest appearance in this "Broncho Billy" Anderson drama, as the tramp in a dance hall sequence.

DVD 1082

Chaplin's Essanay comedies.

A collection of Chaplin's films at Essanay Studios. His new job: Charlie applies for a job as an actor at a film studio. A night out: Charlie and Turpin are drunks about town, starting at a cafe and ending in a risque hotel room mix-up with a pretty girl. The Champion: Pint-sized Charlie defeats the bone-crushing champion prizefighter with the able assistance of his bulldog. In the park: Charlie interferes in the lives of two star-crossed lovers. A Jitney elopement: Charlie rescues his sweetheart from an arranged marriage by posing as Count Chloride de Lime. The film ends with a car chase featuring the Ford automobile.

DVD 1083

Chaplin's Mutual comedies 1916-1917 /

A group of silent comedies produced within an 18 month period, many featuring Chaplin's signature Little Tramp character. The films were digitally assembled and restored in a collaborative effort with Lobster Films in Paris and L'Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna, Italy.

DVD 10599

Chaplin, the collection comedy classics from the world's favorite tramp.

Films by the master filmmaker and comic genius, Charlie Chaplin. Cruel, cruel love: The film follows Charlie in his up and down exploits at woeing women. Film Johnny: Charlie creates havoc on a motion picture set during filming. Triple trouble: Charlie works as a janitor in the house of an inventor who has a formula for a wireless explosive.

DVD 1114

Chaplin, the collection comedy classics from the world's favorite tramp.

Films by the master filmmaker and comic genius, Charlie Chaplin. Sunnyside: Charlie plays a handyman in the hotel in the town of Sunnyside. When a man from the city begins seeing Charlie's girl, he decides to dress like the city man to impress her but only succeeds in making himself look foolish. Hot finish: Charlie aboard his motorcycle tries to outsmart his rival and win both Mabel and the big race.

DVD 1118

Chaplin, the collection comedy classics from the world's favorite tramp.

Films by the master filmmaker and comic genius, Charlie Chaplin. Knockout: Charlie as a small town yokel takes on a boxing champ to impress his girl. Between showers: Two men compete to help a buxom lady over a large puddle and have a spirited dispute over an umbrella. Day's pleasure: Charlie sets out to have a good time with his wife and kids but he encounters only mishaps in their Model-T Ford and on a sea-sickening boat ride.

DVD 1117

Chaplin, the collection comedy classics from the world's favorite tramp.

Films by the master filmmaker and comic genius, Charlie Chaplin. Kid auto races in Venice: Camera happy Charlie creates havoc at a children's race. Rival mashers: Charlie bests his two competitors for the affections of two young women. A Night out: Edna Purviance's first screen role in which a drunken Charlie manages to offend her husband.

DVD 1116

Chaplin, the collection comedy classics from the world's favorite tramp.

Films by the master filmmaker and comic genius, Charlie Chaplin. Good for Nothing: Charlie is hired to wheel an invalid around the park, but in an effort to increase his income he puts a beggar's sign on the old man. Charlie's Recreation: Charlie is smitten with the hat-check girl at a dance, but must contend with other admirers. Work: Charlie creates havoc as a paperhanger's assistant.

DVD 1115

Circus

In The Circus, a tramp fleeing the police takes refuge in a circus, becomes a clown by accident, and falls for an equestrienne.

DVD 385

City lights a comedy romance in pantomime /

A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl and attempts to obtain money from a millionaire to help her regain her sight.

DVD 5690

Gold rush

Chaplin is a prospector who goes to Alaska in search of gold. During a storm, he becomes trapped in a cabin with another prospector and an outlaw. The outlaw goes out for help, but is killed in an avalanche. Out of food and on the brink of starvation, the other prospector has visions of Chaplin as his next meal but Chaplin manages to keep himself from becoming dinner. Surviving all this, Chaplin goes on to fall in love with a Yukon dance hall girl. Classic scenes included in this film are the cabin teetering on the edge of a cliff and Chaplin attempting to eat his shoe.

DVD 398

Great dictator

Stars Charlie Chaplin in two totally opposite roles: a Jewish barber facing the constant threat of storm troopers and religious persecution; the other, the dictator, Adenoid Hynkel.

DVD 402

Kid

The Tramp rescues an abandoned baby and raises him to become his inseparable sidekick.

DVD 8164

King in New York A woman of Paris /

A king in New York: A king fleeing a revolution takes refuge in the USA. He is led by an advertising agent to make commercials, is suspected of being a communist, testifies before the Un-American Activities Committee and returns to Europe ; A woman of Paris: When her elopement to her beau fails, Marie winds up in Paris as a kept woman whose attempt at reconciliation with her true love only leads to more grief and, finally, tragedy.

DVD 6796

Limelight

Set in 1914 London, the film stars Chaplin as an aging music hall comic who's convinced he can no longer move people to laughter. But he gets a final opportunity to shine when he saves a young, equally desperate ballet dancer from suicide, then guides her to triumph on the stage.

DVD 5735

Modern times

A devastating satire on the effects of mass production on the lives of factory workers, with 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.

DVD 307

Monsieur Verdoux

In this dark comedy first released during WWII, Henri Verdoux, played by Charlie Chaplin, supports his family by first marrying, and then killing wealthy widows. On another level the film is an indictment of war in which mass murder is legalized, celebrated and paraded. "Killing is the enterprise by which your system prospers," Verdoux says. "As a mass killer, I am an amateur by comparison."

DVD 879