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Modern Times (1936)

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...

Directed byCharlie Chaplin

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  1. 01

    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 shared themes: black and white and hilarious
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  2. 02

    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 shared themes: black and white and silent film
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  3. 03

    The Kid

    Same director

    1921 · 68 min · Comedy · Drama

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    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.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • strong shared themes: black and white and hilarious
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  4. 04

    The Great Dictator

    Same director

    1940 · 125 min · Comedy · War

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

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • principal cast overlap
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  5. 05

    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
    • shared themes: black and white and great depression
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  6. 06

    Bringing Up Baby

    Similar atmosphere

    1938 · 102 min · Comedy · Romance

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    David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: black and white and hilarious
    • a closely matched era
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  7. 07

    Casablanca

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    1943 · 102 min · Drama · Romance

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    In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • similar audience response
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  8. 08

    The Grapes of Wrath

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    1940 · 129 min · Drama

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    Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

    Why it connects

    • shared themes: great depression and jail
    • a closely matched era
    • similar audience response
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