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Walter Matthau has 31 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 2000s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Fail Safe.
Father of the Bride
1991
Comedy · Romance
Fail Safe
1964 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Charade
1963 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Prime Video · Included
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1974 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%MGM+ · Included
A Face in the Crowd
1957 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Tubi · Free w/ ads
The Fortune Cookie
1966 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads
A New Leaf
1971 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads
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.
Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver
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.
Dir. Stanley Donen · With Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
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
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers while the authorities question about the method of their escape.
Dir. Joseph Sargent · With Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
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
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.
Dir. Elia Kazan · With Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa
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
After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.
Dir. Elaine May · With Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston
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.
Dir. David Miller · With Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau
A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.
Dir. Gene Saks · With Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn
Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must now come up with a plan to not only evade the police but the mob as well.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr
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.
Dir. Gene Kelly · With Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston
A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.
Dir. Nicholas Ray · With James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spoken in over 20 years of retirement. Willy Clark's nephew is the producer of a TV variety show that wants to feature a reunion of this classic duo. It is up to him to try to get the Sunshine Boys back together again.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin
After a blackout in his office building, accountant David Stillwell emerges outside to find out a man he did not know either jumped or was pushed out a window to his death — and that he can't remember the past two years of his life. Enlisting the help of a rookie private eye and a reluctant old flame, Stillwell uncovers the mystery detail by unexpected detail.
Dir. Edward Dmytryk · With Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau
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.
Dir. Roberto Benigni · With Roberto Benigni, Walter Matthau, Stefania Sandrelli
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Dir. Michael Ritchie · With Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow
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
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
The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas
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
Delinquent Danny Fisher flunks out of high school, quits his job as a nightclub busboy, and one night gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at The Blue Shade. Danny declines, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
Dir. Michael Curtiz · With Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau
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.
Dir. Fred Schepisi · With Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith
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
The escaped mental patient and delinquent John W. Burns Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.
Dir. Michael Ritchie · With Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
Dir. Nick Castle · With Walter Matthau, Mason Gamble, Joan Plowright
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.
Dir. Michael Ritchie · With Robin Williams, Walter Matthau, Jerry Reed
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