"Everyone has a wild side. Even a legend."

1992

2h 23m

7.4(1121 votes)

Drama

Overview

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.

Where to Watch

Stream

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Videos & Trailers

2 videos

Cast & Crew

142 members

Acting

Robert Downey Jr.

Charles Spencer Chaplin

Acting

Geraldine Chaplin

Hannah Chaplin

Acting

Paul Rhys

Sydney Chaplin

Acting

John Thaw

Fred Karno

Acting

Moira Kelly

Hetty Kelly / Oona O'Neill

Acting

Anthony Hopkins

George Hayden

Acting

Dan Aykroyd

Mack Sennett

Acting

Marisa Tomei

Mabel Normand

Acting

Penelope Ann Miller

Edna Purviance

Acting

Kevin Kline

Douglas Fairbanks

Acting

Maria Pitillo

Mary Pickford

Acting

Milla Jovovich

Mildred Harris

Acting

Kevin Dunn

J. Edgar Hoover

Acting

Deborah Moore

Lita Grey

Acting

Diane Lane

Paulette Goddard

Acting

Nancy Travis

Joan Barry

Acting

James Woods

Joseph Scott

Acting

Hugh Downer

Charlie Age 5

No Image

Acting

Nicholas Gatt

Sydney Age 9

No Image

Acting

Bill Paterson

Stage Manager

Sound

Anthony Bowles

Conductor

No Image

Acting

Bryan Coleman

Drunk

No Image

Acting

Howard Lew Lewis

Workhouse Official

Acting

P.H. Moriarty

Workhouse Official

Acting

Brian Lipson

Warder

Acting

Alan Ford

Warder

Acting

Thomas Bradford

Charlie Age 14

No Image

Acting

Liz Porter

Matchgirl

No Image

Acting

Ultan Ely-O'Carroll

Rummy Binks

No Image

Acting

Marcus Eyre

Policeman

Acting

Anwar Adaoui

Lambeth Kid

No Image

Acting

Ben Bilson

Lambeth Kid

No Image

Acting

Matthew Cartwright

Lambeth Kid

No Image

Acting

Ian Covington

Lambeth Kid

No Image

Acting

Adam Goodwin

Lambeth Kid

No Image

Acting

Milly Gregory

Lambeth Kid

No Image

Acting

Sam Holland

Lambeth Kid

No Image

Acting

Josh Maguire

Lambeth Kid

No Image

Acting

Daniel Sherman

Lambeth Kid

No Image

Acting

Luke Strain

Lambeth Kid

No Image

Acting

Frankie Sullivan

Lambeth Kid

No Image

Acting

Karen Salt

Little Girl

No Image

Acting

Gerald Sim

Doctor

Acting

Una Brandon-Jones

Inmate

Acting

Audrey Leybourne

Inmate

No Image

Acting

Graham Sinclair

Master of Ceremonies

No Image

Acting

Karen Lewis

Yankee Doodle Dancer

Acting

Andrée Bernard

Yankee Doodle Dancer

Acting

Carole Jahme

Yankee Doodle Dancer

No Image

Acting

Jacqueline Leonard

Yankee Doodle Dancer

Acting

Claire Perriam

Yankee Doodle Dancer

No Image

Acting

Theresa Petts

Yankee Doodle Dancer

No Image

Acting

David Gant

London Maitre d'

Acting

Mary Healey

Mrs. Karno

Acting

Malcolm Terris

Stallholder

Acting

Phil Brown

Projectionist

Acting

Matthew Cottle

Stan Laurel

Acting

Ena Baga

Pianist

No Image

Acting

David Duchovny

Rollie Totheroh

Acting

Mario Govoni

Swiss Butler

No Image

Acting

David Mooney

Wedding Photographer

No Image

Acting

C.J. Golden

Bride's Mother

No Image

Acting

Raymond Lynch

Bride's Father

No Image

Acting

Peter Georges

Groom

No Image

Acting

Mike Randleman

Groom's Mother

No Image

Acting

Mike Peluso

Groom's Father

No Image

Acting

Caroline Cornell

Wedding Guest

No Image

Acting

Ann Fairlie

Wedding Guest

No Image

Acting

Paul Hayes

Wedding Guest

Acting

Dennis Vero

Wedding Guest

No Image

Acting

Francesca Buller

Minnie Chaplin

Acting

Nick Corello

Masseur

Acting

Richard Fast

Bronco Billy Anderson

No Image

Acting

Brad Blumenthal

Party Photographer

Acting

Yoshio Be

Chauffeur

No Image

Acting

Peter Crook

Frank Hooper

No Image

Acting

David Totheroh

Cameraman

No Image

Acting

Jack Totheroh

Cameraman

No Image

Acting

Jack Ritschel

William Randolph Hearst

No Image

Acting

Heather McNair

Marion Davies

No Image

Acting

Laura Bastianelli

Dinner Guest

No Image

Acting

Joy Claussen

Dinner Guest

No Image

Acting

Paul Bruno Grenier

Dinner Guest

No Image

Acting

Marykate Harris

Dinner Guest

No Image

Acting

Charles Howerton

Dinner Guest

Acting

Jason Logan

Dinner Guest

Acting

Renata Scott

Dinner Guest

No Image

Acting

Michael Villani

Dinner Guest

Acting

Jerry Jensen

Hotel Porter

No Image

Acting

Larry Randolph

Waiter

No Image

Acting

Alan Charof

Federal Marshal

No Image

Acting

Dana Craig

Federal Marshal

Acting

Kennedy Grant

Federal Marshal

No Image

Acting

Ken Magee

Federal Marshal

Acting

Benjamin Whitrow

Station Master

Acting

Edward Crangle

Young Autograph Hunter

No Image

Acting

Stuart Richman

Barman

No Image

Acting

Mark Vegh

Barman

No Image

Acting

Caroline Guthrie

Courting Couple

Acting

Lawrence Lambert

Courting Couple

No Image

Acting

Robert Stephens

Ted the Drunk

Acting

Tim Chaplin

Working Man

No Image

Acting

Nick Edmett

Working Man

No Image

Acting

David Finch

Working Man

No Image

Acting

Mark Long

Working Man

Acting

Tommy Wright

Working Man

No Image

Acting

Leonard Kirby

Young Fan

No Image

Acting

Sean O'Bryan

Lewis Seeley

Acting

Donald Elson

Prop Man

Acting

Donnie Kehr

Sound Engineer

Acting

Sky Rumph

Charles Chaplin jr. Age 7

No Image

Acting

Bradley Pierce

Sydney Chaplin jr. Age 8

Acting

Richard James

Pianist

No Image

Acting

William Dennis Hunt

US Maitre D'

Acting

Michael Blevins

David Raksin

No Image

Acting

Norbert Weisser

German Diplomat

Acting

Vicki Frederick

Party Guest

Acting

Gene Wolande

Party Guest

Acting

Michael Adler

Party Guest

Acting

Iris Bath

Party Guest

No Image

Acting

Thomas Belgrey

Party Guest

Acting

Tom Preston

Party Guest

No Image

Acting

Mary Stark

Party Guest

No Image

Acting

Annie Waterman

Party Guest

No Image

Acting

Noah Lee Margetts

Clapper Boy

Writing

Rhett Smith

Tennis Party Guest

No Image

Acting

John Standing

Butler

Directing

Michael A. Goorjian

Charles Chaplin Jr

Acting

Michael Cade

Sydney Chaplin Jr

No Image

Acting

Todd Mason Covert

Reporter

No Image

Acting

Phil Forman

Reporter

No Image

Acting

Charley J. Garrett

Reporter

No Image

Acting

Jerry Giles

Reporter

No Image

Acting

Howard Hughes

Reporter

No Image

Acting

Jayson Kane

Reporter

No Image

Acting

Michael Miller

Reporter

Acting

John Otrin

Reporter

Acting

J. Michael Patterson

Reporter

No Image

Acting

Paul Sinclair

Reporter

No Image

Acting

Terrence Stone

Reporter

Acting

Ralph Votrian

Reporter

Acting

Emma Lewis

Production Assistant

No Image

Similar Movies

6.6

2022

Mat Kilau

The rise of a Malay warrior named Mat Kilau and his friends against the British colonialists who came to Pahang in 1892. The greed of British officials and policies, which have imposed excessive taxes, confiscated land belonging to the Malays to reap the treasures of Pahang and disrupted the Islamic way in Pahang has caused dissatisfaction among the rulers and the Malays. The patriotic spirit of Mat Kilau and his friends who rose up against British violence had caused Captain Syers to launch an attack on Mat Kilau. Witness the heroic spirit of Mat Kilau, Tok Gajah and Mat Kilau's best friends use their wisdom to fight in the jungle against the British soldiers. Did Mat Kilau and his friends succeed in driving out the barbaric and greedy British army to reap gold and tin in Pahang?

Movie

7.2

1999

The Long Winter

In 1838, Francois-Xavier Bouchard (Francis Reddy) fights beside his Quebec countrymen and the English minority.

Movie

6.9

2020

My Name Is Sara

The true life-story of Sara Góralnik, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is taken in by a farmer and his young wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers’ marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.

Movie

8.1

1984

Paris, Texas

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

Movie

6.9

1979

The Tin Drum

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.

Movie

7.9

1959

Ben-Hur

In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.

Movie

7.7

1979

Manhattan

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Movie

7.6

1987

The Last Emperor

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

Movie

6.6

1997

Absolute Power

A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run, while holding evidence that could convict the President.

Movie

7.5

2005

Walk the Line

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.

Movie

8.3

1998

American History X

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.

Movie

7.4

2003

Lost in Translation

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

Movie

7.9

1995

Braveheart

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

Movie

8.3

1989

Dead Poets Society

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

Movie

7.4

1999

Boys Don't Cry

A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.

Movie

7.9

1997

Titanic

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

Movie

8.4

2002

City of God

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

Movie

7.5

1984

The Killing Fields

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.

Movie

7.7

1953

Stalag 17

It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.

Movie

8.0

2002

Catch Me If You Can

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

Movie

Recommended Movies

7.4

1992

The Last of the Mohicans

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.

Movie

6.9

1992

Batman Returns

Batman must face The Penguin, a sewer-dwelling gangleader intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Meanwhile, another Gotham resident finds herself transformed into Catwoman and is out for revenge...

Movie

5.8

1990

Air America

Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.

Movie

6.2

1958

Girls in Uniform

A new student, Manuela, enters a strict girls' boarding school after her mother’s death, where she finds comfort in a kind teacher, stirring complex emotions within her.

Movie

5.6

2019

Thalasso

Provocative French writer Michel Houellebecq meets Gérard Depardieu at a sea water therapy centre in Cabourg. Together, they try to survive the health regime to which they are subjected by the establishment. But events quickly derail their routine… Just Great is a joyful comedy elevated by two extraordinary performances.

Movie

6.4

1991

Kafka

Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

Movie

5.6

1994

The Road to Wellville

An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.

Movie

5.8

1915

A Burlesque on Carmen

A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.

Movie

6.0

1956

What a Woman!

A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.

Movie

6.3

1928

The Matinee Idol

The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1997.

Movie

5.9

2011

Eyyvah Eyvah 2

A clarinetist from a village in Turkey's Thracian region tries to reach his fiancé, who works as a nurse in a village near Çanakkale, to give her a ring to win back her heart.

Movie

6.2

2021

Chathur Mukham

An ambitious young woman faces a supernatural force through technology. Will she be able to survive the onslaught and solve this unheard phenomenon?

Movie

6.2

1992

Stay Tuned

Salesman Roy Knable spends all his free time watching television, to the exasperation of his wife, Helen. One day, TV salesman Spike convinces Roy to buy a satellite dish offering 666 channels. The new addition to Roy's home entertainment system sucks him and Helen into Hellvision, a realm run by Spike, who is an emissary of Satan. For 24 hours, the couple must survive devilish parodies of TV programs if they want to return to reality alive.

Movie

6.6

2003

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was locked and the windows were barred, but when her father enters after having forced the door, there is no-one there except for Mathilde. So who did it and how did he get away?

Movie

7.0

1987

Cry Freedom

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.

Movie

6.7

2021

Night of the Kings

A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named "Zama King" and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.

Movie

6.1

1980

The Mirror Crack'd

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Movie

6.6

2013

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Movie

6.3

1991

Soapdish

Celeste Talbert is the star of the long-running soap opera "The Sun Also Sets." With the show's ratings down, Celeste's ruthlessly ambitious co-star, Montana Moorehead, and the show's arrogant producer, David Seton Barnes, plot to aggravate her into leaving the show by bringing back her old flame, Jeffrey Anderson, and hiring her beautiful young niece, Lori Craven.

Movie

6.0

2008

What Doesn't Kill You

Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.

Movie