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Limelight (1952)

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

Directed byCharlie Chaplin

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  1. 01

    Monsieur Verdoux

    Same director

    1947 · 124 min · Comedy · Crime · Drama

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    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.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • principal cast overlap
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  2. 02

    The Red Shoes

    Strong story similarity

    1948 · 133 min · Drama · Romance

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    A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  3. 03

    Singin' in the Rain

    Strong story similarity

    1952 · 103 min · Comedy · Romance

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    In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  4. 04

    An American in Paris

    Strong story similarity

    1951 · 113 min · Comedy · Music · Romance

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    Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  5. 06

    Modern Times

    Same director

    1936 · 87 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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    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...

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  6. 07

    The Circus

    Same director

    1928 · 72 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  7. 08

    Moulin Rouge

    Strong story similarity

    1952 · 119 min · Drama

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    In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits in. In the following years, he meets two women who provide an opportunity for him to find true love.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • a closely matched era
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  8. 09

    City Lights

    Same director

    1931 · 87 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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    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.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  9. 10

    The Cousins

    Strong story similarity

    1959 · 112 min · Drama

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    Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
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