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Jack Lemmon has 28 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 2000s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Some Like It Hot.
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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
1995
Drama · Comedy

The Wedding Banquet
1993
Comedy · Drama

Home for the Holidays
1995
Comedy · Drama

Better Than Chocolate
1999
Drama · Romance

Belle Époque
1992
Comedy · Drama

The King of the Street Cleaners
1977
Comedy · Romance

The Goodbye Girl
1977
Comedy · Drama

Dutch
1991
Comedy · Drama

The Apartment
1960 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Prime Video · Included

Irma la Douce
1963 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%MGM+ · Included

12 Angry Men
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Prime Video · Included

Glengarry Glen Ross
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Prime Video · Included

The Fortune Cookie
1966 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Prime Video · Included

The Great Race
1965 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Tubi · Free w/ ads

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe

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.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman

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.
Dir. Gene Saks · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler

When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi

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.
Dir. William Friedkin · With Courtney B. Vance, Ossie Davis, George C. Scott

Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon

Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene and Dave Moss are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering who did it.
Dir. James Foley · With Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin

TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law Willie Gingrich enters the picture, and convinces Harry to overstate his injuries and claim $1 million in pain and suffering. Harry's similarly-minded ex-wife suddenly reappears in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich

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.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford

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.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood

Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.
Dir. John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy · With Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.
Dir. Robert Altman · With Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Jack Lemmon

A successful businessman travels to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body, only to learn that dear old dad died with his longtime mistress.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill

Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.
Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron

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.
Dir. James Bridges · With Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas, Jack Lemmon

A trip to New York for a job interview turns into a trip to hell for a small town couple.
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Sandy Baron

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.
Dir. Donald Petrie · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret

Gillian Holroyd, a modern-day witch, becomes smitten with her handsome upstairs neighbor, Shep Henderson. Using her magical powers, she casts a love spell on him, only to face unexpected complications when genuine feelings emerge, threatening her supernatural abilities.
Dir. Richard Quine · With James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon

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.
Dir. Richard Quine · With Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas

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.
Dir. Howard Deutch · With Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Ann-Margret

Brucey, the son of Oscar, calls his father to invite him to his wedding to Felix's daughter next Sunday in California. Oscar and Felix meet again at Los Angeles International Airport and rent a car in order to go to San Malina for the wedding.
Dir. Howard Deutch · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Richard Riehle
During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed neighbor contemplates suicide over marital problems.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss

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.
Dir. Peter Segal · With Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd

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.
Dir. Robert Redford · With Matt Damon, Will Smith, Charlize Theron

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.
Dir. Gary David Goldberg · With Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Ethan Hawke

Care-free Charlie cons his widower brother-in-law Herb 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.
Dir. Martha Coolidge · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Dyan Cannon
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.
Dir. Jerry Jameson · With Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro
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