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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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Grumpier Old Men

Grumpier Old Men
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/12/1995
  • Character: John Gustafson
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 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.

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.

The Player

The Player
7.5/10
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

The Great Race

The Great Race
7.2/10
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 to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.

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.

My Fellow Americans

My Fellow Americans
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/12/1996
  • Character: President Russell P. Kramer
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the current President and pursued by armed agents, the two squabbling political foes plunge into a desperately frantic search for the evidence that will establish their innocence.

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.

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 Happened to Jane

It Happened to Jane
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 24/05/1959
  • Character: George Denham
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 the line and the "meanest man in the world".

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.

Days of Wine and Roses

Days of Wine and Roses
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/12/1962
  • Character: Joe Clay
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.

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.

Mister Roberts

Mister Roberts
7.6/10
Mr. Roberts is as an officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned Navy ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.

The China Syndrome

The China Syndrome
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 16/03/1979
  • Character: Jack Godell
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.

Dad

Dad
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/10/1989
  • Character: Jake Tremont
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 him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.

Fire Down Below

Fire Down Below
6/10
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 island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.

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