Release Date: 1928-01-06

Overview: Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

Rating: 7.938 (828 votes)

Release Date: 1921-01-21

Overview: A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

Rating: 8.2 (2207 votes)

Release Date: 1925-12-24

Overview: A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.

Rating: 7.6 (1215 votes)

Release Date: 1931-02-06

Overview: A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

Rating: 8.3 (2290 votes)

Release Date: 1947-09-26

Overview: 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.

Rating: 7.697 (439 votes)

Release Date: 1952-10-16

Overview: A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Rating: 7.9 (552 votes)

Release Date: 1925-09-22

Overview: The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

Rating: 7.1 (366 votes)

Release Date: 1926-12-25

Overview: During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

Rating: 7.943 (1317 votes)

Release Date: 1940-10-15

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

Rating: 8.296 (3489 votes)

Release Date: 1927-11-04

Overview: A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Rating: 7.838 (840 votes)

Release Date: 1936-02-05

Overview: 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..

Rating: 8.28 (3844 votes)

Release Date: 1932-08-19

Overview: Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.

Rating: 6.89 (232 votes)

Release Date: 1957-09-12

Overview: A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.

Rating: 6.797 (212 votes)

Release Date: 1923-02-19

Overview: The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.

Rating: 6.8 (140 votes)

Release Date: 1972-03-15

Overview: Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

Rating: 6.5 (232 votes)

Release Date: 1925-11-01

Overview: With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.

Rating: 6.899 (139 votes)

Release Date: 1928-09-15

Overview: When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors leave Letty increasingly disturbed.

Rating: 7.333 (123 votes)

Release Date: 1937-01-23

Overview: Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

Rating: 7.108 (181 votes)

Release Date: 1989-05-16

Overview: Zofia, a professor of ethics, is visited by Elżbieta, an American researching the fate of Jews who survived World War II. A daytime classroom conversation turns into a night of confrontation, and Zofia is forced to answer for a decision she made decades ago that directly affected the course of Elżbieta’s life.

Rating: 7.3 (124 votes)

Release Date: 1914-12-21

Overview: A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.

Rating: 6.117 (77 votes)