The best Walter Matthau’s movies

Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau

01/10/1920- 01/07/2000
Today we present the best Walter Matthau’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Walter Matthau’s movies.
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Dennis the Menace

Dennis the Menace
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 23/06/1993
  • Character: George Wilson
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.

Grumpy Old Men

Grumpy Old Men
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/12/1993
  • Character: Max Goldman
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent hijinks.

Charade

Charade
7.8/10
After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines. But why does Peter keep changing his name?

JFK

JFK
8/10
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/05/1968
  • Character: Oscar Madison
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, but their lifestyles are as different as night and day are, so Felix's ideas about housekeeping soon begin to irritate Oscar.

Earthquake

Earthquake
5.9/10
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

Fail Safe

Fail Safe
8/10
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.

Grumpier Old Men

Grumpier Old Men
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/12/1995
  • Character: Max Goldman
A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and Max. Meanwhile, a sultry Italian divorcée opens a restaurant at the local bait shop, alarming the locals who worry she'll scare the fish away. But she's less interested in seafood than she is in cooking up a hot time with Max.

The Odd Couple II

The Odd Couple II
6.4/10
30 years after the first film, Oscar and Felix embark on a road trip together, to attend the wedding of Oscar's son to Felix's daughter.

Candy

Candy
5.1/10
Based on Terry Southern's satirical novel, a send-up of Voltaire's Candide. Young Candy is a high school girl who seeks truth and meaning in life, encountering a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations in the process.

Mirage

Mirage
7.2/10
New York City. David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. Who is he, who are they, and why is he surrounded by murder?

Pirates

Pirates
6/10
  • Genre: AdventureComedy
  • Release: 08/05/1986
  • Character: Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red
Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his inventiveness, he raises the crew to mutiny, takes over the ship, and kidnaps the niece of the governor of Maracaibo. The question is, can he keep this pace up?

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
7.6/10
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Hanging Up

Hanging Up
4.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 16/02/2000
  • Character: Lou Mozell
A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.

The Fortune Cookie

The Fortune Cookie
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 19/10/1966
  • Character: William H. "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich
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. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.

Cactus Flower

Cactus Flower
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/12/1969
  • Character: Dr. Julian Winston
Distraught when her middle-aged lover breaks a date with her, 21-year-old Toni Simmons attempts suicide. Impressed by her action, her lover, dentist Julian Winston reconsiders marrying Toni, but he worries about her insistence on honesty. Having fabricated a wife and three children, Julian readily accepts when his devoted nurse, Stephanie, who has secretly loved Julian for years, offers to act as his wife and demand a divorce.

The Indian Fighter

The Indian Fighter
6.3/10
A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country unwittingly gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter

Hello, Dolly!

Hello, Dolly!
7/10
Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.

The Bad News Bears

The Bad News Bears
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 07/04/1976
  • Character: Coach Morris Buttermaker
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

The Front Page

The Front Page
7.3/10
A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.

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