Comedy · Drama · Romance
City Lights
Avg rating 9.0 / My rating TBC
1931 · Directed by Charlie Chaplin · With Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
- Silent Cinema
- Comedy
- Melodrama
- Classical Hollywood
A penniless tramp meets a blind flower seller who mistakes him for a man of means. Around the same time, he befriends a drunken millionaire whose generosity vanishes with sobriety. A silent comedy of pratfalls and tenderness, made after talking pictures had arrived.
Film info
- Runtime
- 1h 27m · 87 min
- Format
- Silent film with a synchronised orchestral score by Chaplin, some sound effects, and intertitles for the few plot points that need words.
- IMDb
- 8.5 / 10 (215,345 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 95% (critics)
- Metacritic
- 99 / 100
- TMDB
- 8.2 / 10 (audience, 2,556 votes)
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