Walter Matthau Movie Rankings
1
3.3065
Regina returns home to find her house empty and her husband dead. The police inform her her husband had stolen $250,000 from the government. Now, his former associates begin harassing her, assuming she knows where the money is hidden. ... more about Charade
2
3.2885
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, begins investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Skeptical of the FBI's report Garrison presents a list of possible conspirators and motives, including Vice President Johnson. ... more about JFK
3
2.9939
Toni Simmons believes that the only reason her married lover won't leave his wife is because of the children. In truth, her lover, dentist Julian Winston, doesn't have any children. ... more about Cactus Flower
4
2.8619
Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes is a hobo. Discovered by Marcia Jeffries, he will become a very famous TV star. His success gives him more and more power. ... more about Face in the Crowd
5
2.8600
The story of Baseball Hall-of-Famer Hank Greenberg is told through archival film footage and interviews with Jewish and non-Jewish fans, his former teammates, his friends, and his family. ... more about
6
2.8429
Felix Ungar has just broken up with his wife. Despondant, he goes to kill himself but is saved by his friend Oscar Madison. With nowhere else to go, Felix is urged by Oscar to move in with him, at least for a while. ... more about Odd Couple
7
2.8352
First of a trilogy of films takes an unflinching look at the underbelly of little league baseball in Southern California. Former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker is a lazy, beer swilling swimming pool cleaner who takes money to coach the Bears. ... more about Bad News Bears
Actor Awards
BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
8
2.8344
Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. ... more about King Creole
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10
2.7649
A technical malfunction in the Pentagon's strategic control system causes an erroneous order to be sent to a B-58 squadron on a routine training mission instructing the bombers to fly beyond their fail safe distance. ... more about Fail-Safe
11
2.6827
A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother in law as the king of the ambulance chasing lawyers starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. ... more about Fortune Cookie
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
12
2.6768
Ex-CIA agent Kendig decides to get back into 'the game' by sending his memoirs, chapter by chapter, to the world's intellegence agencies. ... more about Hopscotch
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
13
2.6729
In order to free his best friend Bondi, Jack Burns lets himself be imprisoned only to find out that Bondi does not want to escape. Thus Burns breaks out on his own and is afterwards being chased by sheriff Johnson with helicopters and jeeps. ... more about Lonely Are the Brave
Not Available on DVD
14
2.6140
Edward Walters, an auto mechanic, falls for the intelligent and beautiful Catherine Boyd. It is love at first sight. There is however a problem, she's engaged to jerk James Moreland. ... more about I.Q.
15
2.6009
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. ... more about I'm Not Rappaport
16
2.5982
Schoolteacher and family man Ed Avery, who's been suffering bouts of severe pain and even blackouts, is hospitalized with what's diagnosed as a rare inflammation of the arteries. ... more about Bigger Than Life
Not Available on DVD
17
2.5827
A matchmaker named Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City. ... more about Hello
Actor Awards
BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
18
2.5635
4 totally different and seperated stories of guests in a hotel. ... more about California Suite
19
2.5516
Construction Engineer Stuart Graff is estranged from his jealously possessive wife, Remy, and has an affair with Denise Marshall, the widow of a co-worker. ... more about Earthquake
20
2.5311
Four armed men hijack a New York City subway train and demand 1 million dollars - which must be delivered in 1 hour - for the train and the lives of the passengers held hostage. Lt. ... more about Taking of Pelham One Two Three
21
2.5279
Neil Simon's comedy is filled with sparkling dialogue, featuring the comic genius of Walter Matthau and George Burns. When ABC decides to do a special on the history of comedy, they call on the famous vaudeville team of Lewis & Clark. ... more about Sunshine Boys
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
22
2.4766
Examines the vapid life of a born to wealth New Yorker. After he spends all of what was left to him, his questing after more (without bothersome labor) changes him. The main agent of change is a phenomenally passive and unassuming Elaine May. ... more about New Leaf
Not Available on DVD
23
2.4312
Charley Varrick and his friends rob a small town bank. Expecting a small sum to divide amongst themselves, they are surprised to discover a very LARGE amount of money. ... more about Charley Varrick
Actor Awards
BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
24
2.4088
After his mother's death, Collin Fenwick goes to live with his father's cousins, the wealthy, avaricious, and controlling Verena Talbo, and her compliant, earthy sister Dolly. ... more about Grass Harp
25
2.3722
Things don't seem to change much in Wabasha County: Max and John are still fighting after 35 years, Grandpa still drinks, smokes, and chases women , and nobody's been able to catch the fabled "Catfish Hunter", a gigantic catfish that actually smiles at ... more about Grumpier Old Men
26
2.3693
John and Max are elderly men living next door to each other. They're continuously arguing and insulting each other, and have been this way for over 50 years. One day, Ariel, moves into the street. ... more about Grumpy Old Men
27
2.2803
Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1930s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans though. ... more about Front Page
28
2.2544
Dennis, everyone's favorite kid from the comics is back. When his parents have to go out of town, he stays with Mr and Mrs Wilson. The little menace is driving Mr Wilson crazy. But Dennis is just trying to be helpful. Even to the thief he bumps into. ... more about Dennis the Menace
29
2.2438
A trio of sisters (Ryan, Keaton, Kudrow) come together at the (possible) imminent death of their father (Matthau), to whom none of them was particularly close. ... more about Hanging Up
30
2.2043
New York City. David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. ... more about Mirage
Not Available on DVD
31
2.2022
Robert Morse and Walter Matthau are friends. Though both are married, Matthau discovers Morris is fooling around. When asked about it, Morse passes on the oral history and guide to fooling around without your wife finding out. ... more about Guide for the Married Man
32
2.1605
Joseph Kotcher, a retired traveling salesman, lives with his son Gerald and daughter-in-law Wilma in Los Angeles. ... more about Kotch
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
33
2.1319
Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart. ... more about House Calls
34
2.0711
The escaped delinquent John Burn deputizes for dr. Maitlin, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird. He scores as a radio- psygologist and is very popular. But then dr. Maitlin meats the real dr. Lawrence Baird at a congress in London... ... more about Couch Trip
35
2.0646
A frontiersman in 1820s Kentucky finds the area too civilized for his tastes, so he makes plans for he and his son to leave for the wild Texas country. ... more about Kentuckian
36
1.9407
Sonny Paluso and Donald Quinelle are two unfortunate people who just lost their jobs, when they meet in a bar; Sonny's gas station has been blown away and Donald has just been fired by his bosses parrot!!! But that day, their lifes change when they ... more about Survivors
37
1.8991
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three seperate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. ... more about Plaza Suite
38
1.8833
Architect Larry Coe has a wife and family, but becomes embroiled in an affair with beautiful Maggie Gault, a neighbor with her own family. The two lovers are forced to face the choice between love and loyalty. ... more about Strangers When We Meet
39
1.8637
Johnny Hawks, a former Indian fighter, returns to the West after the Civil War. He reacquaints himself with the Indian band led by Red Cloud. Red Cloud's beautiful daughter has now grown into womanhood... ... more about Indian Fighter
40
1.8146
Casey is a young boy in a family that trains racehorses. His best friend, a foal they call "Casey's Shadow", looks to be a loser, but comes out a champion. ... more about Casey's Shadow
41
1.7560
It has been seventeen years now since Oscar and Felix saw each other for the last time. Oscar is living in Florida, Felix in New York. ... more about Odd Couple II
42
1.7268
After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbles into a town and is confronted by the local judge, Matthau. ... more about Ride a Crooked Trail
Not Available on DVD
43
1.7228
Care-free Charlie (Walter Matthau) cons his widower brother-in-law Herb (Jack Lemmon) into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. ... more about Out to Sea
44
1.6670
Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. ... more about Pirates
Not Available on DVD
45
1.6023
A policeman is among the victims when the passengers of a late-night bus are machine-gunned. ... more about Laughing Policeman
46
1.5888
Actor Awards
BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
Not Available on DVD
47
1.5186
Joe Mulholland, Head of Production at a Hollywood studio, makes a rather fool-hardy promise to a dying friend. He undertakes to make a major movie using the title - if not the content - of a best-selling sex manual "Love in Sex". ... more about Movers & Shakers
Not Available on DVD
48
1.4903
Walter Matthau plays a professional killer going by the name of Trabucco, who is on his way to rub out gangster Rudy "Disco" Gambola, set to testify against the mob. ... more about Buddy Buddy
Not Available on DVD
49
1.4113
Ruth Loomis (Jill Clayburg) becomes the first woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. A staunch conservative, she immediatly runs into conflict with Dan Snow (Walter Matthau), the high court's resident liberal. ... more about First Monday in October
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Comedy/Musical
50
0.0001
1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton strives to become commander, so he demands the maximum quality of work from his crew, without granting them any freedom or favors - ignoring that they're thousand of miles ... more about Ensign Pulver
Not Available on DVD
51
0.0001
Gangster and cop killer Jack Martin is on the run from the law, and hides out in a small town. Low on funds, he engineers a clever bank robbery that yields him a big bundle. ... more about Gangster Story
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53
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Shot by a jealous husband, Charley falls out a porthole and is lost at sea only to find himself returned as an attractive blond woman. ... more about Goodbye Charlie
Not Available on DVD
54
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Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. ... more about I Ought to Be in Pictures
Not Available on DVD
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Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations. ... more about Little Miss Marker
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58
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Actor Awards
BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
Not Available on DVD
59
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Three men gun down Solly Pitts, 'rebel' against the racket-ridden Longshoremen's Union. Before dying, Pitts tells his wife 'Cockeye' Cook was one of the killers...but won't repeat it to the police, nor will anyone else help them. ... more about Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
Not Available on DVD
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Jim Burton, chronic alcoholic, is cared for by Ellen, his incredibly patient, sexy, hard-working wife. A doctor's warning that Jim could become mentally ill strikes enough fear into him that he really wants to cure himself...but can't. ... more about Voice in the Mirror
Not Available on DVD
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