The best Jack Lemmon’s movies

Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon

08/02/1925- 27/06/2001
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jack Lemmon’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Jack Lemmon.
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The Apartment

The Apartment
8.3/10
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 the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot
8.2/10
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.

JFK

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

Airport '77

Airport '77
5.8/10
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 plan, all while 200 feet underwater.

It Should Happen to You

It Should Happen to You
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/01/1954
  • Character: Pete Sheppard
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 her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.

And the Oscar Goes To...

And the Oscar Goes To...
7.1/10
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.

12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men
7.8/10
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.

Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross
7.7/10
When an office full of Chicago real estate salesmen is given the news that all but the top two will be fired at the end of the week, the atmosphere begins to heat up. Shelley Levene, who has a sick daughter, does everything in his power to get better leads from his boss, John Williamson, but to no avail. When his coworker Dave Moss comes up with a plan to steal the leads, things get complicated for the tough-talking salesmen.

The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers

The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/01/1962
  • Character: Self
A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches.

The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/05/1968
  • Character: Felix Ungar
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.

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
6.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1992
  • Character: Himself
A documentary destined to calmly explain and analyze the facts, myths and rumours about John Kennedy's assassination and the overwhelming use of information in Oliver Stone's epic "JFK" (1991), at the same time it presents a behind the scenes documentary on the controversial film. Features interviews with the cast and director, and the personalities who lived and remember the facts concerning the November 22, 1963, like reporters, eyewitnesses and others, and some of the real characters from the movie, like Jim Garrison, Numa Bertel, Lou Ivon and Perry Russo.

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.

The Out-of-Towners

The Out-of-Towners
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/05/1970
  • Character: George Kellerman
George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.

The Legend of Bagger Vance

The Legend of Bagger Vance
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 02/11/2000
  • Character: Narrator
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.

How to Murder Your Wife

How to Murder Your Wife
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/01/1965
  • Character: Stanley Ford
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 wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband.

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

The Wackiest Ship in the Army
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 29/12/1960
  • Character: Rip Crandall
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 from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.

Avanti!

Avanti!
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 17/12/1972
  • Character: Wendell Armbruster, Jr.
A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.

Hamlet

Hamlet
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/12/1996
  • Character: Marcellus
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Grumpy Old Men

Grumpy Old Men
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/12/1993
  • Character: John Gustafson
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.

Irma la Douce

Irma la Douce
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 05/06/1963
  • Character: Nestor Patou / Lord X
A Parisian policeman gives up everything for the love of a free-living sex worker.

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