The best Walter Matthau’s drama movies
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.
Earthquake
5.9/10
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
JFK
8/10
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
Hanging Up
4.8/10
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 Indian Fighter
6.3/10
A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country unwittingly gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter
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.
Bigger Than Life
7.4/10
A seriously ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.
I.Q.
6.2/10
Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.
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.
Lonely Are the Brave
7.6/10
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
California Suite
6.2/10
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
A Face in the Crowd
8.2/10
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
King Creole
7/10
Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at his night club The Blue Shade. Danny refuses, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
The Survivors
5.8/10
Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.
Plaza Suite
6.5/10
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
First Monday in October
6.4/10
For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.
The Laughing Policeman
6.4/10
When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to a murder. Evans' partner, Sgt. Jake Martin, becomes obsessed with solving the case.
The Grass Harp
6.8/10
Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s.
Kotch
6.6/10
Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose in life. Jack Lemmon's first film as director stars his old friend Walter Matthau.
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
6.6/10
In the second dramatic case for lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman who is refused release from a mental institution.
The Marriage Fool
6.4/10
A widower becomes re-charged when he meets an outgoing widow, but his son tries to block the romance.
