Film

Modern Times 1936

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

  • Comedy, Drama, Romance
  • 87 min
  • G

He stands alone as the greatest entertainer of modern times! No one on earth can make you laugh as heartily or touch your heart as deeply...the whole world laughs, cries and thrills to his priceless genius!

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...

ComedyDramaRomancefactoryambulanceinventionmental breakdowntrampgreat depressionindustrial revolutionslapstick comedyautomationjailhospitalblack and white

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