The best Buster Keaton’s movies

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

04/10/1895- 01/02/1966
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Buster Keaton’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Buster Keaton.
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Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard
8.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/08/1950
  • Character: Buster Keaton
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
7.5/10
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Steamboat Bill, Jr.
7.8/10
The just out of college effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was little.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days
6.7/10
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

The Cameraman

The Cameraman
8/10
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

The General

The General
8.1/10
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

Sherlock Jr.

Sherlock Jr.
8.2/10
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

The Great Buster: A Celebration

The Great Buster: A Celebration
7.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 05/10/2018
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary.

The Boat

The Boat
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/11/1921
  • Character: The Boat Builder
Buster's handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it in tow, the side of his house, then the whole thing, collapses. At the harbor he rides the boat out only to have it sink beneath him. The rest is a series of adventures he and his family have with the restored boat.

Limelight

Limelight
8/10
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

The Electric House

The Electric House
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/10/1922
  • Character: Buster
Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.

The Paleface

The Paleface
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 01/01/1922
  • Character: Little Chief Paleface
A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly. This tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white oil tycoons are trying to force them from their land. The Indian warriors give chase to Keaton, who ingeniously escapes their efforts to kill him. As a result, Keaton eventually becomes accepted by the tribe and given the title, "Little Chief Paleface". He subsequently leads the tribe's effort to stop the oil tycoons from displacing them from their land.

Spite Marriage

Spite Marriage
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/03/1929
  • Character: Elmer
An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.

The Balloonatic

The Balloonatic
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/01/1923
  • Character: The Young Man (as 'Buster' Keaton)
Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon which lands Buster in the wilderness proves useful later on as their canoe is about go over a waterfall.

The Goat

The Goat
7.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/05/1921
  • Character: The Goat
A series of adventures begins when Buster is mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the evil bad guy.

And the Oscar Goes To...

And the Oscar Goes To...
7.1/10
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.

Three Ages

Three Ages
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/09/1923
  • Character: The Boy
The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In contemporary times, the man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.

The Frozen North

The Frozen North
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 28/08/1922
  • Character: The Bad Man
This satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, "last stop on the subway." He uses a wanted poster as his partner in robbing a gambling house. When he thinks he spies his wife making love to another man he shoots them both only to learn it isn't his cabin after all.

Beach Blanket Bingo

Beach Blanket Bingo
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 14/04/1965
  • Character: Buster
In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.

Hard Luck

Hard Luck
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/03/1921
  • Character: Suicidal Boy
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.

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