CHARLIE CHAPLIN SHORT FILMS
by ajithgopan | created - 03 Feb 2015 | updated - 15 Oct 2017 | Public
1. Sunnyside (1919)
41 min | Comedy, Short
Charlie works on a farm from 4am to late at night. He gets his food on the run (milking a cow into his coffee, holding an chicken over the frying pan to get fried eggs). He loves the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Olive Ann Alcorn, Albert Austin
Votes: 2,443
2. Dough and Dynamite (1914)
Not Rated | 33 min | Comedy, Short
Charlie and another waiter must become bakers when the regular bakers go out on strike. The strikers put dynamite in a piece of bread which is delivered to the cake counter. It winds up in the oven and explodes.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Fritz Schade, Norma Nichols
Votes: 835 | Gross: $0.13M
3. His Trysting Place (1914)
32 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie's wife sends him to the store for a baby bottle with milk. Elsewhere, Ambrose offers to post a love letter for a woman in his boarding house. The two men meet at a restaurant and ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Phyllis Allen
Votes: 662
4. The Idle Class (1921)
TV-G | 32 min | Short, Comedy
A tramp sneaks into a upper class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman who is having an argument with her drunken husband. Complications arise when she mistakes the tramp for her husband.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Charles Aber, Joe Anderson
Votes: 2,936
5. A Day's Pleasure (1919)
TV-G | 24 min | Short, Comedy
A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, C. Allen, Naomi Bailey
Votes: 2,493
6. His Prehistoric Past (1914)
Not Rated | 22 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie dreams he is in the stone age. There King Low-Brow rules a harem of wives. Charlie, in skins and a bowler, falls in love with the king's favorite wife, Sum-Babee. During a hunting ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, May Wallace, Gene Marsh
Votes: 703
7. Pay Day (I) (1922)
TV-G | 21 min | Comedy, Short
After a difficult day at work, a bricklayer tries to enjoy his pay day without his wife knowing.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Mack Swain, Edna Purviance
Votes: 3,272 | Gross: $0.13M
8. Mabel's Married Life (1914)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Comedy
Accosted by a masher in the park and unable to motivate husband Charlie into taking action, Mabel gets him a boxing mannequin to sharpen his fighting skills.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Eva Nelson
Votes: 1,025
9. Caught in the Rain (1914)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Comedy
When a married couple become separated in the park, Charlie takes up with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and she sleepwalks into his ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Alice Davenport, Alice Howell
Votes: 760
10. His New Profession (1914)
16 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie meets a couple and agrees to care for the man's crippled uncle. After the couple breaks up the man's new girl drops some eggs which Charlie slips on while trying to control the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Charley Chase, Peggy Page, Jess Dandy
Votes: 1,024
11. Gentlemen of Nerve (1914)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Comedy
Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Mabel Normand, Chester Conklin
Votes: 656
12. The New Janitor (1914)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie is janitor for a firm the manager of which receives a threatening note about his gambling debts. He throws a bucket of water out the window which lands on his boss and costs him his... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, John T. Dillon, Al St. John, Glen Cavender
Votes: 814
13. His Musical Career (1914)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St. They confuse the addresses. The difficulties of delivering the piano by mule cart,... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Fritz Schade, Cecile Arnold
Votes: 799
14. Getting Acquainted (1914)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Comedy
A continuous exchange of meetings between husbands and wives of different couples in which a policeman intrudes in daring chase until both couples are found.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Mack Swain, Mabel Normand
Votes: 703
15. A Film Johnnie (1914)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
Director: George Nichols | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Peggy Pearce, Mabel Normand
Votes: 1,270
16. Mabel's Busy Day (1914)
TV-G | 10 min | Short, Comedy
A hotdog girl gives one to a policeman who then allows her into a race track. While other customers swipe her hotdogs, Charlie runs off with the whole box, pretending to sell them while ... See full summary »
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Dan Albert, Charles Avery
Votes: 783
17. Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Comedy
The Tramp wanders into and disrupts the filming of a go-kart race.
Director: Henry Lehrman | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Henry Lehrman, Gordon Griffith
Votes: 2,475
18. The Professor (1919)
7 min | Comedy, Short
Professor Bosco, a poor flea trainer, rents a bed in a flophouse. Before going to bed, he rallies his troops and once he has made sure his beloved fleas are settled for the night, the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Albert Austin, Henry Bergman, Loyal Underwood
Votes: 516
19. The Bond (1918)
10 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie and friends illustrate various bonds in life and the most important, Liberty Bonds for the war...
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Albert Austin, Henry Bergman
Votes: 880
20. The Rounders (1914)
Unrated | 16 min | Comedy, Short
Two drunks live in the same hotel. One beats his wife, the other is beaten by his. They go off and get drunk together. They try to sleep in a restaurant using tables as beds and are thrown ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Phyllis Allen, Minta Durfee
Votes: 1,326
21. The Star Boarder (II) (1914)
Not Rated | 16 min | Comedy, Short
A brat's magic lantern show exposes an indiscreet moment between a landlady and her star boarder.
Director: George Nichols | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy, Gordon Griffith
Votes: 726
22. The Masquerader (I) (1914)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie is an actor in a film studio. He messes up several scenes and is tossed out. Returning dressed as a lady, he charms the director. Even so, Charlie never makes it into film, winding up at the bottom of a well.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Chester Conklin, Charles Murray
Votes: 1,121
23. Tango Tangle (1914)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Comedy
Out of costume, Charlie is a clean-shaven dandy who, somewhat drunk, visits a dance hall. There the wardrobe girl has three rival admirers: the band leader, one of the musicians, and now Charlie.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Chester Conklin
Votes: 1,028
24. A Thief Catcher (1914)
Not Rated | 8 min | Short, Comedy
The Keystone Cops pursue a thief.
Director: Ford Sterling | Stars: Ford Sterling, Phyllis Allen, Charles Chaplin, William Hauber
Votes: 377
25. Recreation (1914)
Not Rated | 7 min | Comedy, Short
Charlie is walking in the park. A girl leaves a seaman on one bench and joins Charlie on another. The seaman wakes up. He and Charlie stage a brick fight. Policemen get hit and arrest both ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Charles Bennett, Helen Carruthers, Edwin Frazee
Votes: 880
26. A Busy Day (1914)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Comedy
A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Phyllis Allen, Ted Edwards
Votes: 901
27. The Champion (1915)
31 min | Short, Comedy, Sport
Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Bud Jamison, Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Billy Armstrong
Votes: 1,916
28. Twenty Minutes of Love (1914)
Not Rated | 20 min | Comedy, Short
Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and even a little boy, all because our friend can't stop snooping.
Directors: Joseph Maddern, Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy, Gordon Griffith
Votes: 1,020
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