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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(4,239)19361h 27m11

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...

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Status
Released
Budget
$1.5M
Box office
$1.8M
Language
No Language
  • factory
  • ambulance
  • invention
  • mental breakdown
  • tramp
  • great depression
  • industrial revolution
  • slapstick comedy
  • automation
  • jail
  • hospital
  • black and white

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Behind the camera

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereRivoli Theatre, New York City, New York5 Feb 1936
    • TheatricalLos Angeles, California & Philadelphia, Pennsylvania12 Feb 1936
    • TheatricalDetroit, Michigan20 Feb 1936
    • TheatricalG25 Feb 1936
    • PremiereOxford Film Festival20 Jun 2003
    • TheatricalRe-release25 Dec 2003
    • TheatricalPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania (Re-release)26 Mar 2022
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalU11 Feb 1936
    • TheatricalRe-release8 Feb 1972
  • United Arab EmiratesAE

    • PhysicalDVD24 Aug 2015
  • AustraliaAU

    • Theatrical17 Feb 1938
    • PhysicalGDVD2 Sept 2003
  • CanadaCA

    • TheatricalG14 Feb 1936
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical4 Aug 1936
    • TheatricalRe-release4 Jul 1961
  • AustriaAT

    • Theatrical1 Jul 1956
    • TheatricalRe-release19 Dec 2003
  • BelgiumBE

    • TheatricalRe-release11 Feb 1972
  • BrazilBR

    • TheatricalL30 Mar 1936
    • PhysicalDVD14 Feb 2011
  • ChileCL

    • TheatricalRe-release7 May 2004
  • ChinaCN

    • PremiereBeijing International Film Festival17 Sept 1936
  • CroatiaHR

    • Theatrical11 Apr 1936

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Modern Times was released on 5 February 1936.

Audience reviews

2
  • A

    Andres Gomez

    11/5/2013

    8/10

    Really good movie from visionary and fun Charlie Chaplin in which industry literally swallows the human being.

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    6/19/2022

    7/10

    I wonder how many people watch this nowadays and sympathise immediately with Chaplin's unskilled worker trying to keep up with the relentless march of technology? It starts with him being an unwilling guinea pig for a gadget that appears as useful for cleaning teeth as it is for feeding him - a cunning invention which allegedly saves time, money and increases productivity... Needless to say, it's a crock of the prove…

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