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Best Eli Wallach movies

Today we present the best Eli Wallach 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 movies from Eli Wallach:

TOP 25: Genghis Khan

Eli Wallach as: Shah of Khwarezm
Genre: History
Release: 1965
This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tribes and conquers India,China,Persia,Korea and parts of Rusia,Europe and Middle-East.


TOP 24: Keeping the Faith

Eli Wallach as: Rabbi Ben Lewis
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2000
Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna Reilly, once their childhood friend and now grown into a beautiful corporate executive, suddenly returns to the city, she reenters Jake and Brian's lives and hearts with a vengeance. Sparks fly and an unusual and complicated love triangle ensues.

TOP 23: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Eli Wallach as: Julie Steinhardt
Genre: Drama, Crime
Release: 2010
As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.


TOP 22: The Sentinel

Eli Wallach as: Detective Gatz
Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery
Release: 1977
A commitment-shy New York fashion model moves into an old brownstone apartment, meets her weird neighbours and discovers she’s sitting on the gateway to Hell.


TOP 21: The Two Jakes

Eli Wallach as: Cotton Weinberger
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Release: 1990
This sequel to the classic Chinatown finds private detective Jake Gittes still haunted by the events of the first film. Hired by a man to investigate his wife's infidelities, Jake once again finds himself involved in a complicated plot involving murder, oil, and even some ghosts from his past.

TOP 20: Nuts

Eli Wallach as: Dr. Herbert A. Morrison
Genre: Drama
Release: 1987
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.


TOP 19: The Hoax

Eli Wallach as: Noah Dietrich
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2006
In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.


TOP 18: The Associate

Eli Wallach as: Donald Fallon
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1996
Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While trying to find clients Laurel pretends that she has a male partner named Robert Cutty. And when she starts to do well all of her clients wants to meet Cutty which is difficult since he doesn't exist.

TOP 17: Girlfriends

Eli Wallach as: Rabbi Gold
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Release: 1978
A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.


TOP 16: Ace High

Original Title: I quattro dell'Ave Maria
Eli Wallach as: Cacopoulos
Genre: Western, Action, Comedy
Release: 1968
After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back.


TOP 15: Mackenna's Gold

Eli Wallach as: Ben Baker
Genre: Adventure, Action, Western
Release: 1969
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.

TOP 14: Lord Jim

Eli Wallach as: The General
Genre: Adventure
Release: 1965
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman (Peter O'Toole) lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Based on Joseph Conrad's novel written in 1900.


TOP 13: The Ghost Writer

Eli Wallach as: Old man
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Release: 2010
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.


TOP 12: The Misfits

Eli Wallach as: Guido
Genre: Western, Drama, Action, Romance
Release: 1961
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.


TOP 11: The Lineup

Eli Wallach as: Dancer
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1958
In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.

TOP 10: How the West Was Won

Eli Wallach as: Charlie Gant
Genre: Western
Release: 1962
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.


TOP 9: The Holiday

Eli Wallach as: Arthur Abbott
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2006
Two women, one from the United States and one from the United Kingdom, swap homes at Christmastime after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.


TOP 8: Baby Doll

Eli Wallach as: Silva Vacarro
Genre: Drama
Release: 1956
Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby Doll's 20th birthday, the day that they are supposed to consummate their marriage, he faces interference from business rival Silva Vacarro, who plots to seduce Baby Doll away from Meighan.


TOP 7: The Brain

Original Title: Le Cerveau
Eli Wallach as: Frankie Scannapieco
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Release: 1969
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.


TOP 6: The Godfather: Part III

Eli Wallach as: Don Altobello
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1990
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

TOP 5: How to Steal a Million

Eli Wallach as: Davis Leland
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Release: 1966
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.


TOP 4: The Magnificent Seven

Eli Wallach as: Calvera
Genre: Western
Release: 1960
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.


TOP 3: Mystic River

Eli Wallach as: Mr. Loonie (uncredited)
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Release: 2003
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.


TOP 2: The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

Eli Wallach as: Himself
Genre: Documentary
Release: 1990
A documentary on the making of the three Godfather films, with interviews and recollections from the film makers and cast. This feature also includes the original screen tests of some of the actors for "The Godfather" film, and some candid moments on the set of "The Godfather: Part III."


TOP 1: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Original Title: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
Eli Wallach as: Tuco Ramirez
Genre: Western
Release: 1966
While the Civil War rages between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hit man and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

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