Chaplin's inventive and devastating satire on the woes of modern industrialised life, featuring the last appearance of his Little Tramp character and his first use of sound effects. The classic scene, in which he gets sucked into a production line epitomises this film's clever inventiveness. find out more...

The Little Tramp brings his slapstick hijinks to the big top. Charlie Chaplin's film 'The Circus' begins in a fading circus, where the equestrienne can't jump the hoops and the clowns can't make the audience laugh. Outside on the midway, The Little Tramp falls into a series of wonderful comic routines that end when, pursued by a cop, he bursts into the tent's centre ring and wows the audience. The circus owner/ringmaster auditions The Little Tramp as a clown but discovers he is only funny when h find out more...