Chaplin's best movies ranked

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

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

A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find purpose and hope in their lives.

A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

A recently-deposed European monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity and is later wrongly accused of being a Communist.

A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.

In Hong Kong, an ambassador returning to America meets a Russian countess, a refugee without a passport, who decides to hide in his cabin.

The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy.

The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.

A kept woman runs into her former fiancé and finds herself torn between love and comfort.

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

Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.

Disguised as a priest, an escaped convict makes his way to Texas. He ends up in a small rural town where the townsfolk mistake him for their new church minister.

After a difficult day at work, a bricklayer tries to enjoy his pay day without his wife knowing.

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.

Charlie works on a farm from 4am to late at night. He gets his food on the run (milking a cow into his coffee, holding an chicken over the frying pan to get fried eggs). He loves the neighbor's daughter Edna but is disliked by her father. He rides a cow into a stream and is kicked off. Unconscious, he dreams of a nymph dance. Back in reality a city slicker is hurt in a car crash and is being cared for by Edna. When Charlie is rejected after attempting to imitate the slicker, the result is ambiguous--either tragic or a happy ending. Critics have long argued as to whether the final scene is real or a dream.

A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.

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

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

The plot is a satire derived from Hugh Antoine D'Arcy's poem of the same title. The painter courts Madeleine but loses to the wealthy client who sits for his portrait. The despairing artist draws the girl's portrait on the barroom floor and gets tossed out. Years later he sees her, her husband and their horde of children. Unrecognized by her, Charlie shakes off his troubles and walks off into the future.