Hollywood Rivals: Chaplin vs Keaton
★ 10 · 2006 · 51m · Documentary
A documentary spotlighting the personal lives and friendly (sometimes) rivalry of the two legendary Hollywood comedians Charlie Chaplin vs. Buster Keaton.
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1911 · ★ 6
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1966 · ★ 4.8
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1971 · ★ 5.5
After adopting a hippie lifestyle, a man finds his home life enhanced while becoming isolated at work.
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1934 · ★ 6
A poetic journey through the paths and places of old Castile that were traveled and visited by the melancholic knight Don Quixote of La Mancha and his judicious squire Sancho Panza, the immortal characters of Miguel de Cervantes, which offers a candid depiction of rural life in Spain in the early 1930s and illustrates the first sentence of the first article of the Spanish Constitution of 1931, which proclaims that Spain is a democratic republic of workers of all kind.
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1932 · ★ 5.5
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2005 · ★ 6.7
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2004
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1959 · ★ 8.5
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1936 · ★ 5.8
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