Modern Times
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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...
- Director
- Charlie Chaplin
- Signature
- Craft · Drama · Humour
- Worldwide
- $2M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
25 billed performers
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Modern Times actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
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Story overview
What It's About
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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...
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Why We Recommend It
Why It's Ranked
Modern Times appears in 6 Nutevio collections. Here is the argument behind each placement.
- Best Prison Movies Ranked #6
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- Romance Movies Ranked #12
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- Best Romance Movies Ranked #12
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- Best Comedies Ranked #16
Placed at #16 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
- Comedy Movies Ranked #17
Placed at #17 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
- Top 250 Movies of All Time Ranked #116
Placed at #116 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Modern Times returned 1.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $2M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $2M
- Release date
- Feb 5, 1936
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- No Language
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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