The best Walter Matthau’s drama movies on Google Play Movies

Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau

01/10/1920- 01/07/2000
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.

JFK

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

Fail Safe

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.

Earthquake

Earthquake
5.9/10
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

Hanging Up

Hanging Up
4.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 16/02/2000
  • Character: Lou Mozell
A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.

I.Q.

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.

King Creole

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.

A Face in the Crowd

A Face in the Crowd
8.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/05/1957
  • Character: Mel Miller
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.

Lonely Are the Brave

Lonely Are the Brave
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 24/05/1962
  • Character: Sheriff Morey Johnson
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.

The Survivors

The Survivors
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/06/1983
  • Character: Sonny Paluso
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.

California Suite

California Suite
6.2/10
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

First Monday in October

First Monday in October
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/08/1981
  • Character: Dan Snow
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.

Plaza Suite

Plaza Suite
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 12/05/1971
  • Character: Roy Hubley / Jesse Kiplinger / Sam Nash
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.

Onionhead

Onionhead
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/10/1958
  • Character: 'Red' Wildoe
Follow-up to Andy Griffith's big hit in "No Time for Sergeants" moves the action to the Coast Guard and WW II.

Casey's Shadow

Casey's Shadow
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 01/01/1978
  • Character: Lloyd Bourdelle
Casey's family raises and trains race horses, and their latest undersized foal named Casey's Shadow does not seem to have a lot going for it, but may turn out to be a champion.

The Grass Harp

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.

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