Modern Times
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83% Critic Match

Modern Times

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!

8.3 / 10 1936 1h 27mG English
ComedyDramaRomance

Storyline

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...

Cast & Crew

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

The Tramp (A Factory Worker)

Lead
Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard

A Gamin

Henry Bergman

Henry Bergman

Cafe Proprietor

Tiny Sandford

Tiny Sandford

Big Bill

Chester Conklin

Chester Conklin

Mechanic

Hank Mann

Hank Mann

Burglar

Stanley Blystone

Stanley Blystone

Gamin's Father

Al Ernest Garcia

Al Ernest Garcia

President of the Electro Steel Corp.

What People Are Saying

5.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Charlie Chaplin's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
4.0
Every frame feels alive. Modern Times is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker