Avant-garde / Exp

1983

NR

Plot: First Name: Carmen tells the parallel stories of a quartet rehearsing Beethoven and a group of young people robbing a bank, supposedly to get the funds to make a film. Director Jean-Luc G ...

Drama

1967

NR

Plot: Radley Metzger, one of the most interesting (and certainly the most self-consciously artistic) filmmakers to come out of the 60s sexploitation scene, directed this eye-popping updated version of the cl ...

Romance

1948

NR

Plot: Perhaps its just as well that Columbia elected to film Prosper Merimees Carmen without Georges Bizets music: after all, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford werent exactly Leontyne Price and Robe ...

Drama

1992

PG13

Plot: Partly based on Charlie Chaplins My Autobiography, this humorous and dramatic biopic features an all-star cast including Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Kline, Dian ...

Plot: Charles Chaplins next-to-last Mutual Studios 2-reeler is as funny as his other 11 Mutual entries, though theres a stronger inner lining of poignancy. En route by boat from an unnamed country, immigrant ...

Plot: The Count, filmed during Charlie Chaplins 1916-17 Mutual period, is a rowdy throwback to his Keystone days. Chaplin plays the assistant to bombastic clothes-presser Eric Campbell. While d ...

Plot: Charlie Chaplins fourth film for Mutual is a tour de force solo performance, with Chaplin playing his classic drunk, returning home in the wee hours. The only other character in the film is the taxi dr ...

1999

NR

Plot: Charlie Chaplin began his new job at Essanay Studios, who lured him away from Keystone with an offer of $1250 a week plus a bonus of $10,000, with a parody film on his former employer. It features two ...

NR

Plot: The Tramp, Charlie Chaplins sixth film for Essanay, is generally considered his first masterpiece. It is the first of his films that blended pathos with comedy and contains subtle ...

NR

Plot: Shanghaied, Charlie Chaplins 11th film for Essanay was shot largely on board the SS Vaquero, which Chaplin had rented for the film. Chaplins cameraman, Harry Ensign, devised a pivot for t ...

Musical

1984

PG

Plot: Georges Bizets 1875 opera about Carmen, the colorful cigarette factory worker whose flirtations with the soldier Don José are forgotten in her love for the matador Escamillo, is the source for director ...

Film, TV & Radio

1969

NR

Plot: This documentary on the work of the silent screens greatest comedian features excerpts from a number of Charlie Chaplins earliest screen appearances restored from original nitrate prints for this relea ...