Movies like The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan (1914)
The best movies like The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan (1914) are The Chaplin Revue (1959), Why Worry? (1923) and My Wife's Relations (1922). If The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
Quick picks
- Highest ratedSilent Movie (1976)6.5/10 from 366 votes
- NewestDory's Reef Cam (2020)Released 2020
The Chaplin Revue (1959)
Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhy Worry? (1923)
A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Wife's Relations (1922)
Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPolice (1916)
Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Woman (1915)
Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHard Luck (1921)
A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShanghaied (1915)
A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLiberty (1929)
While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each other's pants. They spend the rest of the film trying to exchange pants in various unlikely settings.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMabel's Married Life (1914)
Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisHail, Caesar! (2016)
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Day's Pleasure (1919)
A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Night in the Show (1915)
Two disruptive theater patrons, the wealthy drunk Mr. Pest (played by Charlie Chaplin) and the rowdy working-class Mr. Rowdy (also played by Chaplin), attend a live vaudeville theater production. Their constant antics, seat-hopping, and physical altercations quickly overshadow the acts on stage and plunge the entire theater into absolutely hilarious chaos.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBig Business (1929)
Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrom Soup to Nuts (1928)
Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Blacksmith (1922)
Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDory's Reef Cam (2020)
Dive into the waters below and watch the aquatic wildlife from the world of Nemo and Dory.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDough and Dynamite (1914)
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisConvict 13 (1920)
A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNever Weaken (1921)
A young man schemes to drum up business for his girlfriend's employer but after seeing her being intimate with another man, he attempts to commit suicide.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHigh and Dizzy (1920)
A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJus' Passin' Through (1923)
At Thanksgiving, a tramp arrives in a homeless-hostile town.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Soft Pedal (1926)
An opportunistic umbrella salesman attempts to save a musician and his daughter from blackmail.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Lifetime of Comedy (1960)
Compilation of comedy sketches from the comedy kings Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Danny Kaye & Bing Crosby.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
A Sporting Chance (1919)
John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide. But instead he winds up helping a girl, Gilberte Bonheur (Fritzi Brunette), out of a jam. He finds her bending over a man who she has apparently killed, and since he's about to kill himself anyway, he offers to assume the blame. Throw a valuable emerald into the works, and the fact that the dead man suddenly comes back to life, and Stonehouse -- not to mention the audience -- becomes thoroughly befuddled by it all. Everything clears up, however, when Gilberte gives him a theater ticket -- it turns out that everything he went through was the plot to a stage play, enacted in real life by the actors. The critics roasted the play, saying it wasn't true to life, and this was their proof that the situations really could happen. Gilberte retires from acting when Stonehouse proposes.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
The Golem and the Dancing Girl (1917)
As a practical joke, an actor impersonates the screen monster he made famous. A lost film.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Silent Movie (1976)
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLook Pleasant, Please (1918)
A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Gestures (2017)
Anna works at a bookstore. Lucas is suddenly very interested in books. A romantic comedy in which Chaplin meets the Nouvelle Vague.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Rigadin No Longer Loves Cinema (1916)
Rigadin and his rival use camera/projector systems to reach their objectives.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
The Janitor's Tea Party (1907)
The scene of the drama is a block of modern flats. Many of the residents are away at a dance, and the janitor and his staff decide upon a jollification of their own. They invite their friends to a fine high tea. Everybody is having a fine time, and their spirits are running high. We are now taken to the outside of the hall door, and watch with amusement the frantic pounding and bell ringing of the residents returning from their evening engagements and seeking admission to their apartments. The gay gathering inside are too busy with their own pleasure to heed the angry crowd outdoors. A policeman is called, but all to no purpose, and the tenants are all taken to the station for quarters for the night. Returning to the janitor's quarters we see that the jollifications have been concluded and the guests are all departing. The superior officer at the station concludes to make another effort to gain admittance in the building and, with the tenants at his heels, he approaches the flats.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan?
The closest matches to The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan are The Chaplin Revue (1959), Why Worry? (1923) and My Wife's Relations (1922). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan?
Start with The Chaplin Revue (1959), the closest match to The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan?
Silent Movie (1976), rated 6.5/10 by 366 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan?
Dory's Reef Cam (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan?
Yes: The Chaplin Revue (1959), Why Worry? (1923) and My Wife's Relations (1922).
How are movies similar to The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.