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Best Jerry Lewis movies

Today we present the best Jerry Lewis 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 Jerry Lewis:

TOP 23: The Trust

Jerry Lewis as: Jim's Father
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2016
A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault.


TOP 22: Mr. Saturday Night

Jerry Lewis as: Jerry Lewis
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1992
Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of the world has forgotten the golden days of Buddy Young, and that there just may not be room in the business for an old comic like himself.

TOP 21: Till Luck Do Us Part 2

Original Title: Até que a Sorte nos Separe 2
Jerry Lewis as: Chamberlain
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2013
After all the trouble in the first film, Tino and Jane have more fun adventures. Still tasting bitter failure, they see a light at the end of the tunnel with uncle Olavinho’s unexpected inheritance. However, the will carries an unusual request: the rich uncle wants his ashes to be scattered throughout the Grand Canyon. The couple takes the opportunity of the trip to fulfill this wish and decides to go to Las Vegas and end up getting into comical situations. Big time spender Tino will fall into the greatest temptations and indulge in the casinos of the gambling city.


TOP 20: Hollywood or Bust

Jerry Lewis as: Malcolm Smith
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1956
The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. Trying to steal the car, Steve tells Malcolm that he lives in Hollywood, next to Anita Ekberg's. When Malcom hears that, they both set out for Hollywood and the adventure begins...


TOP 19: Road to Bali

Jerry Lewis as: Woman in Lala's Dream (uncredited)
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1953
Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.

TOP 18: The Patsy

Jerry Lewis as: Stanley Belt
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1964
When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy Stanley Belt (Lewis), can't do anything right. The TV show is getting closer, and Stanley is getting worse.


TOP 17: The Ladies Man

Jerry Lewis as: Herbert H. Heebert - Mama Heebert
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1961
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?


TOP 16: The Disorderly Orderly

Jerry Lewis as: Jerome Littlefield
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 1964
The Disorderly Orderly is a 1964 American comedy film released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Jerry Lewis. The film was produced by Paul Jones with a screenplay by director Frank Tashlin, based on a story by Norm Liebermann and Ed Haas.

TOP 15: The Bellboy

Jerry Lewis as: Stanley / Himself
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1960
Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach. It is there that he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. All that he displays are facial expressions and a comedic slapstick style. And anything that can go wrong - does go wrong when Stanley is involved. Then one day, Jerry Lewis, big star, arrives at the hotel and some of the staff notice the striking resemblanc


TOP 14: The Nutty Professor

Jerry Lewis as: Professor Julius F. Kelp / Buddy Love / Baby Kelp
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction, Romance, Family
Release: 1963
Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote and starred in this riotously funny movie that set a new standard for screen comedy and inspired the hit remake. Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher who discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.


TOP 13: Funny Bones

Jerry Lewis as: George Fawkes
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1995
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood.

TOP 12: The Family Jewels

Jerry Lewis as: Willard Woodward / James Peyton / Everett Peyton / Julius Peyton / Eddie Peyton / Skylock Peyton / Bugs Peyton
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1965
A young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.


TOP 11: Boeing, Boeing

Jerry Lewis as: Robert Reed
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1965
Living in Paris, journalist Bernard has devised a scheme to keep three fiancées: Lufthansa, Air France and British United. Everything works fine as long as they only come home every third day. But when there's a change in their working schedule, they will be able to be home every second day instead. Bernard's carefully structured life is breaking apart


TOP 10: Cinderfella

Jerry Lewis as: Cinderfella
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance, Family
Release: 1960
When his father dies, poor Fella is left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother and her two no-good sons Maximilian and Rupert. As he slaves away for his nasty step-family, Maximilian and Rupert attempt to find a treasure Fella's father has supposedly hidden on the estate. Hoping to restore her dwindling fortunes, the stepmother plans a fancy ball in honor of the visiting Princess Charmein whom she hopes will marry Rupert. Eventually, Fella's Fairy Godfather shows up to convince him that he has a shot at winning the Princess himself.


TOP 9: Pardners

Jerry Lewis as: Wade Kingsley Jr. / Wade Kingsley Sr.
Genre: Comedy, Western
Release: 1956
Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with Slim Moseley Jr.,the son of his father's former partner. Wade overcomes Slim's initial reluctance to accept him by using his fortune to buy a prize cow and new car to help Slim in his job as foreman on the Kingsley family ranch, currently under siege by a gang of outlaws called "masked raiders." Wade generously tries to pay off the ranch's mortgage with $15,000 of his own money, but unfortunately neither "pardner" realizes that respected banker Dan Hollis, the son of their fathers' murderer, is the leader of the gang.

TOP 8: Artists and Models

Jerry Lewis as: Eugene Fullstack
Genre: Comedy, Music
Release: 1955
Eugene and Rick are two struggling artists who share apartment. However, Rick has problems with that, because Eugene is obsessed with pulp fiction comic books and has nightmares because of that. However, Rick soon finds that those nightmares could be excellent material for writing his own comic books.


TOP 7: The Geisha Boy

Jerry Lewis as: Gilbert Wooley
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1958
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.


TOP 6: Rock-a-Bye Baby

Jerry Lewis as: Clayton Poole
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 1958
An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer.


TOP 5: And the Oscar Goes To...

Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Release: 2014
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.


TOP 4: Who's Minding the Store?

Jerry Lewis as: Norman Phiffer
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 1963
Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?

TOP 3: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Jerry Lewis as: Driver Who Runs Over Hat (uncredited)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Release: 1963
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.


TOP 2: Arizona Dream

Jerry Lewis as: Leo Sweetie
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Release: 1993
An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle's wedding. It's a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. He gets romantically involved with one, while the other, rich but depressed, plays accordion tunes to a gaggle of pet turtles


TOP 1: The King of Comedy

Jerry Lewis as: Jerry Langford
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1982
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.


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