Ranking All Of Director Charles Chaplin’s Movies
“What are Charles Chaplin’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Chaplin’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Charles Chaplin and looked at his Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato User, IMDB, and Letterboxd scores, ranking them against one another to see which movies came out on top. The movies are ranked in our list below based on which movies have the highest overall score between all 6 review sites in comparison with all of the other movies by the same director. The process is all very scientific with no flaws at all.
The full ranking chart is also included below the countdown on the bottom of the page.
Happy Viewing!
The Top Film’s Of Charles Chaplin
70 ) Nice and Friendly
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 70
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
This short which was made as a wedding present for Lord and Lady Mountbatten. In it, Lady Mountbatten has a valuable pearl necklace, which a very large number of crooks wants to steal.
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69 ) Recreation
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 52
- IMDB User Review Score: 69
- Letterboxd User Score: 66
Charlie begins to woo a woman on a bench, only to have her seaman boyfriend object. After a brick fight between the two men that eventually involves two police officers, all five people end up in the local pond to cool off.
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67 ) Triple Trouble
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 65
- Letterboxd User Score: 66
As Colonel Nutt is experimenting with explosives, a new janitor is joining his household. The inept janitor proceeds to make life difficult for the rest of staff.
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67 ) The Face on the Barroom Floor
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 50
- IMDB User Review Score: 68
- Letterboxd User Score: 66
A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he’s literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman’s picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.
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66 ) Tango Tangles
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 65
- Letterboxd User Score: 61
The action takes place in a dance hall, with a drunken Chaplin, Sterling, and the huge, menacing, and acrobatic Arbuckle fighting over a girl.
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65 ) Getting Acquainted
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 62
- Letterboxd User Score: 61
Charlie and his wife are walking in the park when they encounter Ambrose and his wife where they become attracted to each other’s wife and start chasing them around the park. A policeman out looking for a masher also becomes involved.
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64 ) Her Friend the Bandit
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 50
- IMDB User Review Score: 53
- Letterboxd User Score: 70
A comedy made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-directed the movie. This is Chaplin’s only lost film as no copy is known to exist.
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63 ) Twenty Minutes of Love
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 55
- Letterboxd User Score: 61
Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and even a little boy, all because our friend can’t stop snooping.
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62 ) Those Love Pangs
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 64
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
Charlie and a rival vie for the favors of their landlady.
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61 ) His Prehistoric Past
hi
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 49
- IMDB User Review Score: 65
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
Set in the stone age, King Low-Brow rules the land and a harem of wives. When Charlie arrives in this land (where every man has one thousand wives), he falls in love with the King’s favorite wife. When the King falls over a cliff, he is presumed dead and Charlie crowns himself King. The King, however, is not dead and comes back and bashes Charlie over the head with a rock. It turns out it was a dream and a police man bashed Charlie over the head with his club because he was sleeping in the park.
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60 ) Laughing Gas
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 48
- IMDB User Review Score: 55
- Letterboxd User Score: 61
Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can’t stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.
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59 ) Gentlemen of Nerve
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 45
- IMDB User Review Score: 61
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie’s friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.
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58 ) The Bond
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 62
- Letterboxd User Score: 61
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.
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56 ) Mabel’s Married Life
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 45
- IMDB User Review Score: 55
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won’t fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.
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56 ) The Property Man
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 45
- IMDB User Review Score: 55
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
Charlie is in charge of stage “props” and has trouble with actors’ luggage and conflicts over who gets the star’s dressing room. Once the dressing-room issue is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop. Backstage Charlie and an old man fight, often disrupting the on-stage performances. The audience also break into a fight, and a hose brought out behind the scenes ends up squirted over them.
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55 ) Caught in the Rain
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 44
- IMDB User Review Score: 55
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
When a married couple become separated in the park, Charlie takes up with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and she sleepwalks into his room so that when her husband returns from his walk he must go out again to look for her. Charlie returns the lady to her room but must climb out onto the window ledge in a downpour.
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54 ) His Musical Career
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 43
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.
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52 ) A Jitney Elopement
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 48
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
Edna’s father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna’s true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out.
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52 ) His New Profession
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 48
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.
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51 ) By the Sea
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 34
- IMDB User Review Score: 53
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other’s wife.
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49 ) The Professor
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 43
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
Professor Bosco, a poor flea trainer, rents a bed in a flophouse. Before going to bed, he rallies his troops and once he has made sure his beloved fleas are settled for the night, the professor prepares to sleep the sleep of the just man. Unfortunately he accidentally knocks the box off his bed and the fleas have the time of their lives pestering Bosco’s neighbors. To get the escapees back in their box again, the trainer resorts to… his whip! All is back to normal one more time. But not for long, as a stray dog enters the flophouse and very unwisely opens the box, thus creating new havoc. Written by Guy Bellinger
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49 ) The Masquerader
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 38
- IMDB User Review Score: 48
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film. The plot involving a guy dressing up as a woman is quite popular in old silent movies.
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47 ) Shanghaied
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 38
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner’s daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.
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47 ) In the Park
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 26
- IMDB User Review Score: 55
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
A tramp steals a girl’s handbag, but when he tries to pick Charlie’s pocket loses his cigarettes and matches. He rescues a hot dog man from a thug, but takes a few with his walking stick. When the thief tries to take some of Charlie’s sausages, Charlie gets the handbag. The handbag makes its way from person to person to its owner, who is angry with her boyfriend who didn’t protect her in the first place. The boyfriend decides to throw himself in the lake in despair, so Charlie helps him out.
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46 ) Dough and Dynamite
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 40
- IMDB User Review Score: 48
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
Chaplin and Conklin are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
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45 ) How to Make Movies
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 41
- Letterboxd User Score: 32
This film was never released for the general public. It was hidden in Chaplin’s private vaults for forty years until he included some parts of it in his compilation ‘The Chaplin Revue’ in 1959.
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44 ) Burlesque on Carmen
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 36
- IMDB User Review Score: 48
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
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42 ) His New Job
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 41
- IMDB User Review Score: 41
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
When one of the actors on a movie set doesn’t show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor. While waiting, he plays in a dice game and gets on many people’s nerves. When he finally gets to act, he ruins his scene, accidentally destroys the set, and tears the skirt of the star of the movie.
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42 ) A Night Out
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 39
- IMDB User Review Score: 43
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter’s wife.
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41 ) The New Janitor
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 41
- IMDB User Review Score: 43
- Letterboxd User Score: 37
The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief banker (Tandy). Meanwhile, one of the junior managers (Dillon) is being threatened with exposure by his bookie for gambling debts unpaid. Thus the manager decides to steal from the company.
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40 ) The Floorwalker
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 31
- Letterboxd User Score: 32
Chaplin, in his traditional Tramp persona, is a customer who creates chaos in a department store and becomes inadvertently entangled in the nefarious scheme of the store manager and the store’s floorwalker to embezzle money from the establishment.
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39 ) A Countess from Hong Kong
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 11
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 34
- IMDB User Review Score: 43
- Letterboxd User Score: 37
A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.
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38 ) His Trysting Place
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 32
- IMDB User Review Score: 38
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
Charlie and his friend Ambrose meet in a restaurant and accidentally leave with each other’s coats. Charlie was going to pick up a baby bottle and Ambrose was going to mail a love letter that was in his coat pocket. Charlie’s wife finds the letter and thinks he has a secret lover and Ambrose’s wife believes he has an illegitimate child. Controversy arises in the park between Charlie and his wife and Ambrose and his wife. It is resolved at the end, but Charlie sparks another fight between the other couple by showing his friend’s wife the love letter that was in his pocket.
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37 ) A Night in the Show
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 41
- IMDB User Review Score: 35
- Letterboxd User Score: 32
Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater.
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35 ) The Fireman
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 32
- IMDB User Review Score: 33
- Letterboxd User Score: 37
Charlie is a fireman who always does everything wrong. A man talks the Fire Chief into ignoring his burning home (he wants the insurance money) unaware that his daughter (the love of the Chief) is upstairs in the house. When the house next door catches fire its owner rouses Charlie who rouses the force.
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35 ) Work
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 23
- IMDB User Review Score: 38
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can’t get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife’s secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers’ supervisor, but the husband doesn’t buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house.
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34 ) The Rounders
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 27
- IMDB User Review Score: 37
- Letterboxd User Score: 37
Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.
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33 ) Behind the Screen
ma
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 24
- Letterboxd User Score: 19
Charlie is an overworked labourer at a film studio who helps a young woman find work even while his coworkers strike against his tyrannical boss.
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32 ) Police
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 36
- IMDB User Review Score: 33
- Letterboxd User Score: 25
Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.
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31 ) A Day’s Pleasure
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 30
- IMDB User Review Score: 27
- Letterboxd User Score: 32
A quickly made Chaplin two-reeler to help fill a gap while working on his first feature The Kid. It’s about a an outing with his wife and kids and things don’t go smoothly.
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30 ) The Count
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 21
- IMDB User Review Score: 31
- Letterboxd User Score: 32
The tailor’s handyman (Chaplin) burns a count’s trousers while ironing them and is fired. His superior discovers a note explaining the count can’t attend a party, and dresses up like one to take his place. Chaplin also goes to the residence hosting the party, but runs into the tailor. They both then struggle to win the fair maiden, Miss Moneybags. Soon, Charlie is distracted by a gypsy girl and the tailor must fend off other suitors. The real Count finally arrives, learns of the imposters and calls the police.
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29 ) The Bank
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 31
- IMDB User Review Score: 27
- Letterboxd User Score: 25
In a departure from the tramp character, Chaplin plays a janitor at a bank. Edna Purviance plays the secretary on whom Charlie has a crush and dreams that she has fallen in love with him.
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28 ) A Woman
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 22
- IMDB User Review Score: 35
- Letterboxd User Score: 25
Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie.
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26 ) The Adventurer
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 14
- Letterboxd User Score: 13
The Little Tramp escapes from prison; saves a girl and her mother from drowning; and creates havoc at a swank party.
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26 ) The Champion
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 28
- IMDB User Review Score: 27
- Letterboxd User Score: 25
Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a “good luck” horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner “who can take a beating.” After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer’s daughter fall in love.
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25 ) Pay Day
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 12
- Letterboxd User Score: 13
A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.
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24 ) Sunnyside
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 25
- IMDB User Review Score: 27
- Letterboxd User Score: 25
Chaplin plays a handyman at a hotel. His love interest in the village is the girl played by Edna Purviance. A young man from the city arrives and appears to have an eye for Edna too. Chaplin tries to win her back.
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23 ) Easy Street
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 12
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
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 assigned to rough-and-tumble Easy Street. Unable to trick or beat Eric the Tough, he puts Eric’s head in a gas pipe and anesthetizes him. A hero, he now helps many poor people living on Easy Street. Eric escapes jail, Edna is kidnapped, but Charlie (recharged after sitting on a doper’s needle) conquers all. Easy Street is transformed as is Eric.
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22 ) The Chaplin Revue
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 9
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
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”.
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20 ) The Pawnshop
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 23
- IMDB User Review Score: 18
- Letterboxd User Score: 25
Chaplin plays an assistant in a pawnshop run by Bergman. He engages in a slapstick battles with his fellow pawnshop assistant, deals with eccentric customers, and flirts with the pawnbroker’s daughter. One customer, posing as a jewelry buyer, pulls a gun and tries to rob the place. Chaplin disarms him.
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20 ) The Vagabond
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 17
- IMDB User Review Score: 24
- Letterboxd User Score: 25
After passing the hat and taking the donations intended for German street musicians Charlie heads for the country. Here he finds and rescues a girl from a band of gypsies. The girl falls in love with an artist whose portrait is later seen in a shop by the girl’s real mother. The mother and the artist arrive in a chauffeured auto and offer Charlie money for his services, money which he rejects.
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19 ) The Tramp
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 17
- IMDB User Review Score: 22
- Letterboxd User Score: 19
The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life. Unwilling to be a problem in their lives, he takes to the road, though he is seen skipping and swinging his cane as if happy to be back on the road where he knows he belongs.
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16 ) The Rink
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 20
- IMDB User Review Score: 18
- Letterboxd User Score: 13
After amusements working in a restaurant, Charlie uses his lunch break to go roller skating.
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16 ) A King in New York
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 10
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 16
- IMDB User Review Score: 18
- Letterboxd User Score: 19
Due to a revolution in his country, King Shahdov comes to New York – almost broke. To get some money he goes to TV, making commercials and meets the child from communist parents. Due to this he is suddenly a suspected as a communist himself and has to face one of McCarthy’s hearings.
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16 ) A Woman of Paris
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 14
- IMDB User Review Score: 22
- Letterboxd User Score: 19
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.
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13 ) One A.M.
n
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 19
- IMDB User Review Score: 18
- Letterboxd User Score: 13
A drunken homeowner has a difficult time getting about in his home after arriving home late at night.
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13 ) Shoulder Arms
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 11
- IMDB User Review Score: 26
- Letterboxd User Score: 13
Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.
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13 ) The Cure
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 14
- IMDB User Review Score: 17
- Letterboxd User Score: 19
An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.
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12 ) The Pilgrim
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 13
- IMDB User Review Score: 14
- Letterboxd User Score: 19
The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.
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11 ) The Idle Class
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 12
- IMDB User Review Score: 14
- Letterboxd User Score: 13
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 tramp for her husband.
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10 ) A Dog’s Life
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 10
- IMDB User Review Score: 10
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
Poor Charlie lives in a vacant lot. He tries to get a job but when he gets to the head of the employment line the jobs are gone. Back “home” he rescues Scraps, a bitch being attacked by other strays. Together they manage to steal some sausages from a lunch wagon. They enter a dance hall where Edna is a singer and unwilling companion to the clientele. He is thrown out when he can’t pay. Back “home”
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9 ) The Immigrant
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 10
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
Charlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America.
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8 ) Monsieur Verdoux
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 8
- Letterboxd User Score: 8
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.
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7 ) Limelight
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
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6 ) The Circus
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman and falls in love with the circus owner’s daughter. Unaware of Charlie’s affection, the girl falls in love with a handsome young performer. Charlie’s versatility makes him star of the show when he substitutes for an ailing tightwire walker. He is discharged from the company when he protects the girl from her father’s abuse, but he returns and appeals to the handsome performer to marry the girl. After the wedding the father prevails upon them to rejoin the circus. Charlie is hired again, but he stays behind when the caravan moves on.
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5 ) The Gold Rush
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia. He tries to win her heart with his singular charm.
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4 ) The Great Dictator
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 3
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel’s regime.
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3 ) The Kid
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
Considered one of Charlie Chaplin’s best films, The Kid also made a star of little Jackie Coogan, who plays a boy cared for by The Tramp when he’s abandoned by his mother, Edna. Later, Edna has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son. When she finds him and wrests him from The Tramp, it makes for what turns out be one of the most heart-wrenching scenes ever included in a comedy.
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2 ) City Lights
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
City Lights is the first silent film that Charlie Chaplin directed after he established himself with sound accompanied films. The film is about a penniless man who falls in love with a flower girl. The film was a great success and today is deemed a cult classic.
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1 ) Modern Times
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
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Charles Chaplin’s Best Movies
Charles Chaplin Review Website Filmography Rankings
| Film | RT Critic | RT User | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
| Modern Times | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| City Lights | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| The Kid | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| The Great Dictator | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| The Gold Rush | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| The Circus | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Limelight | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
| Monsieur Verdoux | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| The Immigrant | 12 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
| A Dog’s Life | 12 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 |
| The Idle Class | 12 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 11 |
| The Pilgrim | 12 | 13 | 14 | 19 | 12 |
| One A.M. | 12 | 19 | 18 | 13 | 13 |
| Shoulder Arms | 12 | 11 | 26 | 13 | 13 |
| The Cure | 12 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 13 |
| The Rink | 12 | 20 | 18 | 13 | 16 |
| A King in New York | 10 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 16 |
| A Woman of Paris | 8 | 14 | 22 | 19 | 16 |
| The Tramp | 12 | 17 | 22 | 19 | 19 |
| The Pawnshop | 12 | 23 | 18 | 25 | 20 |
| The Vagabond | 12 | 17 | 24 | 25 | 20 |
| The Chaplin Revue | 12 | 53 | 9 | 11 | 22 |
| Easy Street | 12 | 53 | 12 | 11 | 23 |
| Sunnyside | 12 | 25 | 27 | 25 | 24 |
| Pay Day | 12 | 53 | 12 | 13 | 25 |
| The Adventurer | 12 | 53 | 14 | 13 | 26 |
| The Champion | 12 | 28 | 27 | 25 | 26 |
| A Woman | 12 | 22 | 35 | 25 | 28 |
| The Bank | 12 | 31 | 27 | 25 | 29 |
| The Count | 12 | 21 | 31 | 32 | 30 |
| A Day’s Pleasure | 12 | 30 | 27 | 32 | 31 |
| Police | 12 | 36 | 33 | 25 | 32 |
| Behind the Screen | 12 | 53 | 24 | 19 | 33 |
| The Rounders | 12 | 27 | 37 | 37 | 34 |
| The Fireman | 12 | 32 | 33 | 37 | 35 |
| Work | 12 | 23 | 38 | 41 | 35 |
| A Night in the Show | 12 | 41 | 35 | 32 | 37 |
| His Trysting Place | 12 | 32 | 38 | 41 | 38 |
| A Countess from Hong Kong | 11 | 34 | 43 | 37 | 39 |
| The Floorwalker | 12 | 53 | 31 | 32 | 40 |
| The New Janitor | 12 | 41 | 43 | 37 | 41 |
| His New Job | 12 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 42 |
| A Night Out | 12 | 39 | 43 | 41 | 42 |
| Burlesque on Carmen | 12 | 36 | 48 | 41 | 44 |
| How to Make Movies | 12 | 53 | 41 | 32 | 45 |
| Dough and Dynamite | 12 | 40 | 48 | 41 | 46 |
| Shanghaied | 12 | 53 | 38 | 41 | 47 |
| In the Park | 12 | 26 | 55 | 51 | 47 |
| The Professor | 12 | 53 | 43 | 41 | 49 |
| The Masquerader | 12 | 38 | 48 | 51 | 49 |
| By the Sea | 12 | 34 | 53 | 51 | 51 |
| A Jitney Elopement | 12 | 53 | 48 | 41 | 52 |
| His New Profession | 12 | 53 | 48 | 41 | 52 |
| His Musical Career | 12 | 53 | 43 | 51 | 54 |
| Caught in the Rain | 12 | 44 | 55 | 51 | 55 |
| Mabel’s Married Life | 12 | 45 | 55 | 51 | 56 |
| The Property Man | 12 | 45 | 55 | 51 | 56 |
| The Bond | 12 | 29 | 62 | 61 | 58 |
| Gentlemen of Nerve | 12 | 45 | 61 | 51 | 59 |
| Laughing Gas | 12 | 48 | 55 | 61 | 60 |
| His Prehistoric Past | 12 | 49 | 65 | 51 | 61 |
| Those Love Pangs | 12 | 53 | 64 | 51 | 62 |
| Twenty Minutes of Love | 12 | 53 | 55 | 61 | 63 |
| Her Friend the Bandit | 12 | 50 | 53 | 70 | 64 |
| Getting Acquainted | 12 | 53 | 62 | 61 | 65 |
| Tango Tangles | 12 | 53 | 65 | 61 | 66 |
| Triple Trouble | 12 | 53 | 65 | 66 | 67 |
| The Face on the Barroom Floor | 12 | 50 | 68 | 66 | 67 |
| Recreation | 12 | 52 | 69 | 66 | 69 |
| Nice and Friendly | 12 | 53 | 70 | 69 | 70 |
