86 Charlie Chaplin Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

The Circus is a silent film which tells the story of a circus ringmaster who is going through financial problems. He hires the Little Tramp as a clown, but he soon comes to know that he can only be funny unintentionally.  

Charlie Chaplin's iconic Little Tramp returns as a factory worker dealing with the challenges of a modern and industrialised world. The silent comedy film, written and directed by Chaplin, is a commentary on the socio-economic problems that arose during the Great Depression.

A married mother abandons her child in a car with the note, that someone should care for him better when the father loses interest. The car is stolen and the thieves abandon the baby. The Tramp played by Charlie Chaplin rescues the child and raises him until fate reunites the mother and child.  

Charlie Chaplin stars as the Lone Prospector in search of gold during the Klondike Gold Rush. Trapped in a cabin with another successful prospector, Big Jim, and a fugitive criminal, the three try to survive the harsh winter. Later the Lone Prospector falls in love with a barmaid and his fortunes change for the better. 

A Tramp falls in love with a blind flower girl and utilizes his occasional friendship with a wealthy alcoholic man to help her with her eye operation, but ends up in jail following an unfortunate mix-up. After being released, he finds out that the girl, now with eyesight restored, waits eagerly for her presumably wealthy and handsome benefactor.

Terry, a ballet dancer, is depressed over her failed career and attempts suicide. However, a once-famous stage clown Calvero rescues her. They become friends and give each other a purpose in their lives. Terry eventually starts liking him, and proposes marriage, but Calvero feels that this is not a good idea due to their age gap.  

An amnesiac Jewish barber escapes from a hospital two decades after getting injured in WWI and sets shop in the Jewish ghetto of Tomainia, unaware of dictator Adenoid Hynkel's policy towards Jews or uncanny resemblance with him. He gets involved in the rebellion to support his feisty neighbor Hannah and eventually lands on a podium meant for Hynkel.

A poor tramp saves a stray dog, and despite the fact that he doesn’t even have enough money for food, he decides to keep the dog. Things change when the dog digs up a wallet filled with money that was buried by a group of criminals.

Monsieur Verdoux is a family man who loses his job. In order to support his family, he decides to marry rich widows using various aliases, and then murder them for their money. Although his scheme works, problem arises when his fourteenth victim seems impossible to kill.

The Immigrant is a short romantic comedy film which revolves around an immigrant, The Little Tramp, who arrives in American after enduring a challenging voyage. He soon befriends a woman, but he also finds himself in one problem after another.

This film comprises of four Chaplin short films from 1917 which are presented with music and sound effects.

The Chaplin Cavalcade is an anthology film which consists of four Charlie Chaplin short films, in which the protagonist gets into hilarious situations.

Shoulder Arms is a war comedy short film which tells the story of a soldier named Charlie, who is posted to the frontlines in France during the World War I. By disguising himself as a tree trunk, he manages to get thirteen German soldiers captured. He also manages to capture the Kaiser as well as the Crown Prince. Therefore, Charlie soon becomes a national hero. However, he soon wakes up and realizes that it was all a dream.

After being deposed, a European monarch seeks shelter in New York City. After some time, he even accidentally becomes a celebrity. However, things get complicated when he is wrongly suspected and accused of being a communist.

This film is a combination of four comedy films starring Charlie Chaplin. In the first one, he plays a stagehand working in a movie studio. In the second one, he plays a tailor’s assistant, who poses as the secretary of a count, to impress a wealthy woman. In the third one, he plays a man trying to save a girl from a burning house, and in the last one, he plays a poor violinist trying to reunite a gypsy girl with her mother.

Chase me Charlie is an anthology short film which consists of excerpts from several of short films of Charlie Chaplin, including The Tramp, In the Park, etc.

This silent short comedy film tells the story of Clarence, who takes another man’s coat at a restaurant accidentally. This leads his wife to think that he has a mistress. 

Charlie Chaplin gets a job as the new janitor of a bank and gets fired after accidentally dropping a bucket of water on his boss. Meanwhile, a manager with unpaid gambling debts decides to steal from the company. The janitor ends up foiling the robbery and receiving a reward after a few humorous disasters. 

In this rare unreleased film, Charlie Chaplin is Professor Bosco, proprietor of a flea circus, who stays at a flophouse for night. After putting his fleas in their box, he retires for the night, but accidently topples the box. As all fleas run around pestering other guests, he somehow manages to get them back. Then a stray dog opens it once again…..

Charlie Chaplin, who also wrote and directed this 13 minute film, plays the role of man who gets thrown out of a film set after creating a mischief. He returns to the studio, this time as a beautiful lady and is instantly hired for the lead role. However, the playful Chaplin soon reveals his own disguise and is fired again.

Written, directed and starred by Charlie Chaplin, the film focuses on Charlie’s escapades as he tries to rescue his true love from an arranged marriage to a wealthy count. On receiving the note from the girl, he goes to her house impersonating as the count; but is roughly thrown out when the true count arrives. Undeterred, he continues to hang around looking for opportunities.   

The Charlie Chaplin silent movie revolves around Charlie accepting the responsibility of wheeling his elderly physically disabled uncle around. However, he fails to control the wheelchair and runs into a girl carrying eggs. Additionally, his schemes to earn some extra money land him in trouble. 

Charlie Chaplin and Chester Conklin work as the waiter at a restaurant. Inept and comically careless, Charlie never fails to enrage the customers.  In spite of that, he is transferred to the bakery section when the bakers there go on strike. Here too he continues to upset others with his ineptness. But the climax is reached when the enraged bakers put dynamite in the dough. 

Charlie and his friend Mike are asked by a piano store owner to deliver a piano to Mr. Rich at 666 Prospect Street. They must also repossess another piano from Mr. Poor at 999 Prospect Street. Incredulous amusement ensues as they do exactly the opposite after mixing up the addresses. 

The short comedy sees Charlie Chaplin playing a clumsy waiter who pretends to be the Ambassador of Greece to impress a woman. However, his efforts earn him the jealousy of the woman’s boyfriend, leading to hilarious outcomes. 

This 1914 silent short film follows Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp as he snoops around the ardent couples in the park. He tries to imitate a couple by embracing and kissing a park tree. Then a stolen watch brings a policeman to the scene creating chaos with everyone ending up into the Westlake Park Lake, except the Tramp and the girl he met there. 

A humorous comedy of errors happens when Charlie Chaplin in his famous tramp persona tries to woo a married woman and is confronted by her husband. Much hilarity ensues when all three of them end up in the same hotel and the sleepwalking woman ends up in the drunken tramp’s bed. 

Her Friend the Bandit is a comedy short film which tells the story of a bandit who develops a liking for a young woman Mabel. When the latter hosts a party, he attends as a French count, but his behavior shocks the other guests attending the party.

Charlie Chaplin, a dentist’s assistant, is called in when the dentist fails to awaken his patient after laughing gas anesthesia, but Chaplin ends up clubbing him on his head. When sent to fetch prescription, Chaplin gets into many fights with bricks flying around, resulting in more dental patients. Chaplin continues creating more laughs with these patients and also, with pretty female patients. 

In this Keystone Studio’s silent comedy film, Mabel hangs a boxing dummy in her house after her husband Charlie is unable to protect her from the undesired attention from a man in a park. When Charlie returns home drunk, he assumes that the dummy is the man from park and thrashes it until Mabel finally makes him understand that it is not so.

Charlie plans to sabotage the race and car of his racing rival after he steals away Charlie’s love interest Mabel. When Charlie gets his rival kidnapped, Mabel puts on his clothes and decides to race in his stead. As the race progresses Charlie employs one after another tactic unsuccessfully to sabotage Mabel’s race. 

The silent comedy follows Mabel as she goes with her beau to an auto-race where they meet Mr. Wow-wow and his friend. While trying to enter the raceway through a gap in fence, Wow-wow’s friend gets stuck just as a policeman arrives, who is distracted by Wow-wow’s capers. Mabel is now not interested in her beau. But will Wow-wow get the girl?  

The Property Man is a 1914 Charlie Chaplin short comedy film, which shows Chaplin being in charge of stage ‘props’ and also has trouble with the actors’ luggage and conflicts over who gets the dressing room of the star. 

Charlie Chaplin portrays Mr. Sniffels in this silent comedy. He is out for a walk with his domineering wife Mrs. Sniffels when he falls for the pretty Mabel. When the woman’s husband Ambrose arrives he tries to woo Mrs. Sniffels. Both men are turned down by the women and garner the attention of a policeman.  

This Charlie Chaplin film opens with Masher and Rival fighting for the attention of the landlady. When their mission fails Masher goes to a bar where he meets a blonde; but runs away to the park when her tall boyfriend appears. There he finds Rival with a brunette and feels jealous. His envy increases many fold when the tall man comes to the same park with the blonde.  . 

Entrepreneurial hot dogs seller Mabel is trying to sell hot dogs at a car race. When she leaves her box of hot dogs and goes away for a minute, Charlie Chaplin’s character, a tipsy good-for-nothing, finds the box and gives away the hot dogs for free. A hilarious police chase ensues.  

Three men are vying for the affections of Mabel. Charlie Chaplin in his famous tramp persona is one of the suitors who teams up with another to beat the third. They play dirty tricks including throwing bricks and using a mallet. But when the tramp double-crosses his partner, he ends up losing the girl as well. 

The silent comedy starring the iconic Charlie Chaplin finds him playing the role of upper-class gentleman Lord Helpus, who drinks what he believes to be a glass of poison but is actually water, after being dumped by his girlfriend. 

Also known as The Landlady's Pet, the film portrays Charlie Chaplin as a resident of a boarding house. All other boarders are jealous of him because he is the favorite of the land lord’s wife and so they try to frighten him with a dummy; but by a quirk of fate it actually makes him a hero.   

The film starts with Charlie falling asleep in a park. The story then moves to a prehistoric kingdom, ruled by King Low Brow, who maintains a large harem. Shortly, Charlie enters the scene trying to light his pipe and develops an affair with the king’s favorite wife, proclaiming himself the ruler once the king falls from a cliff and is presumed dead. 

This twelve minute short Keystone comedy presents the popularity of tango in the early twentieth century. At a dance hall, a drunk Charlie Chaplin attempts to woo a hat check girl. However, he faces competition when a bandleader and another musician too try to attract the attention of the girl.

Loosely based on the poem of the same name, this Charlie Chaplin short film depicts the story of a prosperous painter, who becomes a destitute after losing his beloved to one of his wealthy clients. Months later, he sees her in a park and goes to a sailors’ bar, where he becomes drunk and tries to draw her face on the barroom floor before passing out. 

Charlie Chaplin plays a janitor who takes up a job in the house of munitions manufacturer Colonel Nutt. As a spy, the Count arrives to steal Nutt’s latest invention, the janitor makes life difficult for everyone. When a pickpocket joins the Count to steal the invention, and the police get involved, complete pandemonium breaks out. 

In this short, Charlie Chaplin plays a very drunk person who meets a woman in a bar and then tries to woo her. Later, he tries his luck by following the woman home, only to become a nuisance for everyone.  

Feeling lonely, Charlie Chaplin is about to drown himself in the park lake, but after noticing a pretty girl, he tries to woo her. However, her seaman boyfriend doesn’t like this and the two men get into a brick fight. Before long, two police officers are involved in this fight. The chaos end when all the concerned parties land in the lake. 

The movie follows a wife played by Charlie Chaplin, who becomes jealous of her husband’s attention to another woman during a parade. She chases the couple, attacks them, and interrupts a film set, until the husband finally manages to get rid of her.

Camille is a 1926 short silent film which was loosely based on a French novel named La Dame aux Camélias. The film revolves around a group of people drinking real alcohol during prohibition.

A number of crooks are planning to steal Lady Mountbatten’s pearl necklace. Therefore, Charlie Chaplin is called, in order to hunt down the crooks, which he does with the help of a wooden hammer. 

Charlie Chaplin's iconic Little Tramp returns as a factory worker dealing with the challenges of a modern and industrialised world. The silent comedy film, written and directed by Chaplin, is a commentary on the socio-economic problems that arose during the Great Depression.

A Tramp falls in love with a blind flower girl and utilizes his occasional friendship with a wealthy alcoholic man to help her with her eye operation, but ends up in jail following an unfortunate mix-up. After being released, he finds out that the girl, now with eyesight restored, waits eagerly for her presumably wealthy and handsome benefactor.

An amnesiac Jewish barber escapes from a hospital two decades after getting injured in WWI and sets shop in the Jewish ghetto of Tomainia, unaware of dictator Adenoid Hynkel's policy towards Jews or uncanny resemblance with him. He gets involved in the rebellion to support his feisty neighbor Hannah and eventually lands on a podium meant for Hynkel.

A married mother abandons her child in a car with the note, that someone should care for him better when the father loses interest. The car is stolen and the thieves abandon the baby. The Tramp played by Charlie Chaplin rescues the child and raises him until fate reunites the mother and child.  

Charlie Chaplin stars as the Lone Prospector in search of gold during the Klondike Gold Rush. Trapped in a cabin with another successful prospector, Big Jim, and a fugitive criminal, the three try to survive the harsh winter. Later the Lone Prospector falls in love with a barmaid and his fortunes change for the better. 

The Circus is a silent film which tells the story of a circus ringmaster who is going through financial problems. He hires the Little Tramp as a clown, but he soon comes to know that he can only be funny unintentionally.  

Terry, a ballet dancer, is depressed over her failed career and attempts suicide. However, a once-famous stage clown Calvero rescues her. They become friends and give each other a purpose in their lives. Terry eventually starts liking him, and proposes marriage, but Calvero feels that this is not a good idea due to their age gap.  

Monsieur Verdoux is a family man who loses his job. In order to support his family, he decides to marry rich widows using various aliases, and then murder them for their money. Although his scheme works, problem arises when his fourteenth victim seems impossible to kill.

It is a collection of three silent movies featuring Charlie Chaplin. In A Dog's Life, the tramp’s life is compared to a stray dog, in Shoulder Arms, he plays a recruit who becomes a hero against the Nazis, and in The Pilgrim, he is an escaped convict who is mistakenly appointed the town’s pastor. 

A poor tramp saves a stray dog, and despite the fact that he doesn’t even have enough money for food, he decides to keep the dog. Things change when the dog digs up a wallet filled with money that was buried by a group of criminals.

The Immigrant is a short romantic comedy film which revolves around an immigrant, The Little Tramp, who arrives in American after enduring a challenging voyage. He soon befriends a woman, but he also finds himself in one problem after another.

This film comprises of four Chaplin short films from 1917 which are presented with music and sound effects.

The Chaplin Cavalcade is an anthology film which consists of four Charlie Chaplin short films, in which the protagonist gets into hilarious situations.

Shoulder Arms is a war comedy short film which tells the story of a soldier named Charlie, who is posted to the frontlines in France during the World War I. By disguising himself as a tree trunk, he manages to get thirteen German soldiers captured. He also manages to capture the Kaiser as well as the Crown Prince. Therefore, Charlie soon becomes a national hero. However, he soon wakes up and realizes that it was all a dream.

After being deposed, a European monarch seeks shelter in New York City. After some time, he even accidentally becomes a celebrity. However, things get complicated when he is wrongly suspected and accused of being a communist.

This film is a combination of four comedy films starring Charlie Chaplin. In the first one, he plays a stagehand working in a movie studio. In the second one, he plays a tailor’s assistant, who poses as the secretary of a count, to impress a wealthy woman. In the third one, he plays a man trying to save a girl from a burning house, and in the last one, he plays a poor violinist trying to reunite a gypsy girl with her mother.

Chase me Charlie is an anthology short film which consists of excerpts from several of short films of Charlie Chaplin, including The Tramp, In the Park, etc.

This silent short comedy film tells the story of Clarence, who takes another man’s coat at a restaurant accidentally. This leads his wife to think that he has a mistress. 

How to Make Movies is a 1918 comedy short film, which shows the development of Chaplin Studios as well as the adventures that take place there. 

Charlie Chaplin gets a job as the new janitor of a bank and gets fired after accidentally dropping a bucket of water on his boss. Meanwhile, a manager with unpaid gambling debts decides to steal from the company. The janitor ends up foiling the robbery and receiving a reward after a few humorous disasters. 

In this rare unreleased film, Charlie Chaplin is Professor Bosco, proprietor of a flea circus, who stays at a flophouse for night. After putting his fleas in their box, he retires for the night, but accidently topples the box. As all fleas run around pestering other guests, he somehow manages to get them back. Then a stray dog opens it once again…..

Charlie Chaplin, who also wrote and directed this 13 minute film, plays the role of man who gets thrown out of a film set after creating a mischief. He returns to the studio, this time as a beautiful lady and is instantly hired for the lead role. However, the playful Chaplin soon reveals his own disguise and is fired again.

Written, directed and starred by Charlie Chaplin, the film focuses on Charlie’s escapades as he tries to rescue his true love from an arranged marriage to a wealthy count. On receiving the note from the girl, he goes to her house impersonating as the count; but is roughly thrown out when the true count arrives. Undeterred, he continues to hang around looking for opportunities.   

The Charlie Chaplin silent movie revolves around Charlie accepting the responsibility of wheeling his elderly physically disabled uncle around. However, he fails to control the wheelchair and runs into a girl carrying eggs. Additionally, his schemes to earn some extra money land him in trouble. 

Charlie Chaplin and Chester Conklin work as the waiter at a restaurant. Inept and comically careless, Charlie never fails to enrage the customers.  In spite of that, he is transferred to the bakery section when the bakers there go on strike. Here too he continues to upset others with his ineptness. But the climax is reached when the enraged bakers put dynamite in the dough. 

Charlie and his friend Mike are asked by a piano store owner to deliver a piano to Mr. Rich at 666 Prospect Street. They must also repossess another piano from Mr. Poor at 999 Prospect Street. Incredulous amusement ensues as they do exactly the opposite after mixing up the addresses. 

This 1914 silent short film follows Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp as he snoops around the ardent couples in the park. He tries to imitate a couple by embracing and kissing a park tree. Then a stolen watch brings a policeman to the scene creating chaos with everyone ending up into the Westlake Park Lake, except the Tramp and the girl he met there. 

A humorous comedy of errors happens when Charlie Chaplin in his famous tramp persona tries to woo a married woman and is confronted by her husband. Much hilarity ensues when all three of them end up in the same hotel and the sleepwalking woman ends up in the drunken tramp’s bed. 

Charlie Chaplin, a dentist’s assistant, is called in when the dentist fails to awaken his patient after laughing gas anesthesia, but Chaplin ends up clubbing him on his head. When sent to fetch prescription, Chaplin gets into many fights with bricks flying around, resulting in more dental patients. Chaplin continues creating more laughs with these patients and also, with pretty female patients. 

The silent comedy follows Mabel as she goes with her beau to an auto-race where they meet Mr. Wow-wow and his friend. While trying to enter the raceway through a gap in fence, Wow-wow’s friend gets stuck just as a policeman arrives, who is distracted by Wow-wow’s capers. Mabel is now not interested in her beau. But will Wow-wow get the girl?  

The Property Man is a 1914 Charlie Chaplin short comedy film, which shows Chaplin being in charge of stage ‘props’ and also has trouble with the actors’ luggage and conflicts over who gets the dressing room of the star. 

Charlie Chaplin portrays Mr. Sniffels in this silent comedy. He is out for a walk with his domineering wife Mrs. Sniffels when he falls for the pretty Mabel. When the woman’s husband Ambrose arrives he tries to woo Mrs. Sniffels. Both men are turned down by the women and garner the attention of a policeman.  

This Charlie Chaplin creation was made during the First World War for boosting the sale of Liberty Bonds begins with various types of humanly bonds. There is bond of friendship, which shows Albert Austin borrowing money from Chaplin and then buying him a drink with that borrowed money. Then there are bonds of love and matrimony. But nothing is more important than the Bond of Liberty.   

This Charlie Chaplin film opens with Masher and Rival fighting for the attention of the landlady. When their mission fails Masher goes to a bar where he meets a blonde; but runs away to the park when her tall boyfriend appears. There he finds Rival with a brunette and feels jealous. His envy increases many fold when the tall man comes to the same park with the blonde.  . 

The film starts with Charlie falling asleep in a park. The story then moves to a prehistoric kingdom, ruled by King Low Brow, who maintains a large harem. Shortly, Charlie enters the scene trying to light his pipe and develops an affair with the king’s favorite wife, proclaiming himself the ruler once the king falls from a cliff and is presumed dead. 

Loosely based on the poem of the same name, this Charlie Chaplin short film depicts the story of a prosperous painter, who becomes a destitute after losing his beloved to one of his wealthy clients. Months later, he sees her in a park and goes to a sailors’ bar, where he becomes drunk and tries to draw her face on the barroom floor before passing out. 

Charlie Chaplin plays a janitor who takes up a job in the house of munitions manufacturer Colonel Nutt. As a spy, the Count arrives to steal Nutt’s latest invention, the janitor makes life difficult for everyone. When a pickpocket joins the Count to steal the invention, and the police get involved, complete pandemonium breaks out. 

Feeling lonely, Charlie Chaplin is about to drown himself in the park lake, but after noticing a pretty girl, he tries to woo her. However, her seaman boyfriend doesn’t like this and the two men get into a brick fight. Before long, two police officers are involved in this fight. The chaos end when all the concerned parties land in the lake. 

A number of crooks are planning to steal Lady Mountbatten’s pearl necklace. Therefore, Charlie Chaplin is called, in order to hunt down the crooks, which he does with the help of a wooden hammer. 

It is a collection of three silent movies featuring Charlie Chaplin. In A Dog's Life, the tramp’s life is compared to a stray dog, in Shoulder Arms, he plays a recruit who becomes a hero against the Nazis, and in The Pilgrim, he is an escaped convict who is mistakenly appointed the town’s pastor. 

How to Make Movies is a 1918 comedy short film, which shows the development of Chaplin Studios as well as the adventures that take place there. 

The Knockout is a comedy film that features Charlie Chaplin as a boxing match referee and two homeless persons pretending to be professional boxers, one of them masquerading as famous boxer Cyclone Flynn, out to earn some money. The two hoboes persuade a local strongman to enter a fight with false Flynn. What follows is utterly catastrophic. 

This Charlie Chaplin creation was made during the First World War for boosting the sale of Liberty Bonds begins with various types of humanly bonds. There is bond of friendship, which shows Albert Austin borrowing money from Chaplin and then buying him a drink with that borrowed money. Then there are bonds of love and matrimony. But nothing is more important than the Bond of Liberty.   

A silent comedy film about a policeman in ordinary clothes who is chased by two criminals when he takes out his dog for a walk.