Search results for "Jack Lemmon"
JFK

JFK

JFK
IMDb: 8
189

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

Dad

Dad

Dad
IMDb: 6.3
117

A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father’s caretaker and becomes closer to…

Genre: Drama
Mass Appeal

Mass Appeal

Mass Appeal
IMDb: 6.7
99

A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Missing

Missing

Missing
IMDb: 7.7
123

Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his…

Buddy Buddy

Buddy Buddy

Buddy Buddy
IMDb: 6.5
96

During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed neighbor contemplates suicide over marital problems.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Airport ’77

Airport ’77

Airport ’77
IMDb: 5.8
114

Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring…

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

The Prisoner of Second Avenue
IMDb: 6.7
98

Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.

Genre: Comedy
The Front Page

The Front Page

The Front Page
IMDb: 7.3
105

Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.

Genre: Comedy
Save the Tiger

Save the Tiger

Save the Tiger
IMDb: 6.9
100

A businessman’s professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of two days.

Genre: Drama
The War Between Men and Women

The War Between Men and Women

The War Between Men and Women
IMDb: 6.1
105

A sarcastic near-sighted cartoonist, averse to commitment, falls for a single mother of three — the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Avanti!

Avanti!

Avanti!
IMDb: 7.1
138

A successful businessman travels to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father’s body, only to learn that dear old dad died with his longtime mistress.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Out-of-Towners

The Out-of-Towners

The Out-of-Towners
IMDb: 7.1
98

A trip to New York for a job interview turns into a trip to hell for a small town couple.

Genre: Comedy
The April Fools

The April Fools

The April Fools
IMDb: 6.1
95

Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is herself unhappily married — to the boss….

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple
IMDb: 7.6
106

In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him,…

Genre: Comedy
Luv

Luv

Luv
IMDb: 5.3
93

Depressed by the direction his life is taking, Harry decides to take his own life by jumping off the Manhattan Bridge. At the last minute he’s stopped by old friend…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Fortune Cookie

The Fortune Cookie

The Fortune Cookie
IMDb: 7.2
125

TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law Willie Gingrich enters the picture, and convinces Harry to overstate…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Great Race

The Great Race

The Great Race
IMDb: 7.2
160

Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help…

How to Murder Your Wife

How to Murder Your Wife

How to Murder Your Wife
IMDb: 6.4
118

Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he…

Genre: Comedy
Good Neighbor Sam

Good Neighbor Sam

Good Neighbor Sam
IMDb: 6.8
130

To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies…

Genre: Comedy
Under the Yum Yum Tree

Under the Yum Yum Tree

Under the Yum Yum Tree
IMDb: 6
110

A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tenant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Irma la Douce

Irma la Douce

Irma la Douce
IMDb: 7.3
147

When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn’t want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Notorious Landlady

The Notorious Landlady

The Notorious Landlady
IMDb: 6.7
123

An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Days of Wine and Roses

Days of Wine and Roses

Days of Wine and Roses
IMDb: 7.8
117

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his “passion” together.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Wackiest Ship in the Army

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

The Wackiest Ship in the Army
IMDb: 6.3
99

Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the “Wackiest Ship in the Navy” – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don’t know a jib…

Genre: Comedy, War
The Apartment

The Apartment

The Apartment
IMDb: 8.3
125

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot
IMDb: 8.2
123

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
It Happened to Jane

It Happened to Jane

It Happened to Jane
IMDb: 6.5
97

Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Cowboy

Cowboy

Cowboy
IMDb: 6.7
92

Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece…

Genre: Western
Bell, Book and Candle

Bell, Book and Candle

Bell, Book and Candle
IMDb: 6.8
106

Gillian Holroyd, a modern-day witch, becomes smitten with her handsome upstairs neighbor, Shep Henderson. Using her magical powers, she casts a love spell on him, only to face unexpected complications…

Operation Mad Ball

Operation Mad Ball

Operation Mad Ball
IMDb: 6.5
105

In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious…

Genre: Comedy, War
Fire Down Below

Fire Down Below

Fire Down Below
IMDb: 6
116

Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another…

You Can’t Run Away from It

You Can’t Run Away from It

You Can’t Run Away from It
IMDb: 5.9
95

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Three for the Show

Three for the Show

Three for the Show
IMDb: 6.1
93

This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who’s been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband’s songwriting partner, Gower…

Genre: Comedy, Music
My Sister Eileen

My Sister Eileen

My Sister Eileen
IMDb: 6.8
108

Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York’s Greenwich Village looking for “fame, fortune and a ‘For Rent’ sign on Barrow Street”. They find an apartment, but fame…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Mister Roberts

Mister Roberts

Mister Roberts
IMDb: 7.6
123

Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who’s yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Phffft

Phffft

Phffft
IMDb: 6.6
88

Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
It Should Happen to You

It Should Happen to You

It Should Happen to You
IMDb: 7.2
86

Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it’s love at first sight, but Gladys has…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Lady Takes a Sailor

The Lady Takes a Sailor

The Lady Takes a Sailor
IMDb: 5.9
99

Jennifer Smith heads a “Consumer Reports”-type company and her reputation for honesty is her greatest asset. While out boating one day she encounters a secret prototype submarine piloted by Bill…

Genre: Comedy, Romance