The best Walter Matthau’s romance 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.
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Charade

Charade
7.8/10
After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines. But why does Peter keep changing his name?

Hello, Dolly!

Hello, Dolly!
7/10
Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.

The Fortune Cookie

The Fortune Cookie
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 19/10/1966
  • Character: William H. "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich
A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother in law as the king of the ambulance chasing lawyers starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.

Grumpier Old Men

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

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.

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.

A New Leaf

A New Leaf
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/03/1971
  • Character: Henry Graham
Henry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to avoid climbing down the social ladder.

California Suite

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

Cactus Flower

Cactus Flower
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/12/1969
  • Character: Dr. Julian Winston
Distraught when her middle-aged lover breaks a date with her, 21-year-old Toni Simmons attempts suicide. Impressed by her action, her lover, dentist Julian Winston reconsiders marrying Toni, but he worries about her insistence on honesty. Having fabricated a wife and three children, Julian readily accepts when his devoted nurse, Stephanie, who has secretly loved Julian for years, offers to act as his wife and demand a divorce.

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.

House Calls

House Calls
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/03/1978
  • Character: Dr. Charley Nichols
Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart.

Out to Sea

Out to Sea
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/07/1997
  • Character: Charlie Gordon
Care-free Charlie (Walter Matthau) cons his widower brother-in-law Herb (Jack Lemmon) into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. The catch is that they are required to be dance hosts! With a tyrannical cruise director, and the luscious Liz and lovely Vivian, our heroes have lots of mis-adventures before they finally return to port.

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.

The Little Devil

The Little Devil
6.9/10
Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a fun-loving man called Giuditta. What Father Maurice doesn't know is that this type of devil will turn his life around.

A Guide for the Married Man

A Guide for the Married Man
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/01/1967
  • Character: Paul Manning
A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.

Strangers When We Meet

Strangers When We Meet
7.1/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 29/06/1960
  • Character: Felix Anders
A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.

Little Miss Marker

Little Miss Marker
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/03/1980
  • Character: Sorrowful Jones
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.

Goodbye Charlie

Goodbye Charlie
6.1/10
When a cavorting Hollywood writer is killed by the angry husband of a woman he was having an affair with, he comes back as a spirit in the form of a beautiful woman and moves in with his/her best friend as a base operation for enacting sweet revenge.

The Marriage Fool

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.

Pete 'n' Tillie

Pete 'n' Tillie
6.2/10
A fun-loving bachelor woos and weds a secretary, but the bonds of this marriage aren't strong enough to stop his philandering from continuing.

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