Walter Matthau Movies

A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Lemmon

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Henry Fonda

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kevin Costner

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Lemmon

Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meg Ryan

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cary Grant

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Charlton Heston

A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Matthau

The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andy Griffith

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Lemmon

For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Lemmon

Don Siegel’s classic crime thriller "Charley Varrick," made in 1972 in the wake of the immensely successful "Dirty Harry," stars Walter...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kristoffer Tabori

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tim Robbins

An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

Genre: Family

Cast: Walter Matthau

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Walter Matthau

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Genre: Crime

Cast: Walter Matthau

The escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dan Aykroyd

When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Matthau

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...

Genre: Family

Cast: Walter Matthau

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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jack Lemmon

A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Mason

The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Fonda

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Walter Matthau

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Matthau

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robin Williams

An all-star variety special saluting America.

Genre: Music

Cast: Desi Arnaz Jr.

During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Lemmon

Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Matthau

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"...

Genre: Music

Cast: Barbra Streisand

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Walter Matthau

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,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Matthau

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Matthau

After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Matthau

1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton strives to become commander, so he demands the maximum quality of work...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Walker Jr.

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...

Genre: Western

Cast: Kirk Douglas

Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: 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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roberto Benigni

A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and Max. Meanwhile, a sultry Italian divorcée...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Walter Matthau

After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbles into a town and is confronted by the local...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Audie Murphy

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Matthau

A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ewa Aulin

A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Burt Lancaster

Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in the 1930s. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Matthau

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Piper Laurie

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Lemmon

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....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elvis Presley

Gangster and cop killer Jack Martin is on the run from the law, and hides out in a small town. Low on funds, he engineers a clever bank robbery that...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Walter Matthau

In New York City, David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. Who is he, who are they, and...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Gregory Peck

Jim Burton, chronic alcoholic, is cared for by Ellen, his incredibly patient, sexy, hard-working wife. A doctor's warning that Jim could become...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Egan

A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Egan

Lily and her son John live alone in a small town as her husband has been killed fighting the war in France. Or at least that is what she told John,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Matthau

Young Casey comes from a family of racehorse trainers, and his best friend, a foal called Casey's Shadow, may just be a champion.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Matthau

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Matthau

When retired salesman Joseph Kotcher begins to feel pressure to move out of the house he shares with the family of his son, he opts to embark on a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Matthau

A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.

Genre: Western

Cast: Kirk Douglas

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kirk Douglas

A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dean Martin

Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Matthau

Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans, based on his famous 1994 autobiography.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Evans

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Matthau

Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Preston

A retrospective look at 60 years of great moments in film comedy, from the 1920s to 1982.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Burt Reynolds

Documentary featuring interviews with director Sidney Lumet, "Fail-Safe" (2000) producer George Clooney, star Dan O’Herlihy and screenwriter...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sidney Lumet

Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: J. Hoberman

Small town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, defends a Nazi prisoner of war against murder charges. Set during World War II, Cobb has to contend with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Matthau

French film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and filmmaking.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michel Ciment

An irresponsible student enlists in the Coast Guard expecting to sit out World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andy Griffith

A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Coyote

This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Walter Matthau

An evening of Christmas music from stars living in Beverly Hills, California.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: James Stewart

Longtime singles Lillian Lambert and Clifford Pepperman enjoy a romance late in their lives.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ellen Burstyn

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Curtis

A documentary hosted by Walter Matthau, which discussed and showed examples from cinematic comedy classics. Long portions of the documentary were...

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Cast: Walter Matthau

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Matthau

A bored housewife poses as a call girl for a movie star sex-symbol, hoping she can prove to her husband, the star's agent, that she is still...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Matthau

A musical play based on the early years of actor Paul Muni.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Herschel Bernardi

This short video features illustrations from the Dr Seuss story book with narration by Walter Matthau. A hermit known as the Grinch hates Christmas...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Walter Matthau

An all-star cast celebrates George Burn's 90th birthday and showcases highlights in Burns' career.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Burns

Two plays by William Saroyan portraying writers stymied, inspired, frustrated, excited, listful, wistful, slothful, awed, unnerved, perhaps corrupted...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Hodges

A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder

Genre: Documentary

Cast: I. A. L. Diamond

Recently widowed after 41 years of marriage, Frank Walsh meets the outgoing Florence, sparking joy back into his life again. However, there is clear...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Matthau

In the second dramatic case for lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman who is wrongly imprisoned and refused release from a mental...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Matthau

A family living 50 miles away try to flee from the fallout of an atomic bomb that fell on New York City.

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Cast: Phyllis Thaxter

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Stewart

Jack Lemmon made over 60 films and received numerous awards, including eight Academy Award Nominations and two Oscars. Later in life, his achievement...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jack Lemmon

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anjelica Huston

A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Walter Matthau

A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Matthau

A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Anderson

This spellbinding documentary re-examines the issues raised by Oliver Stone's JFK, and explores the late Jim Garrison's contention that there was a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ike Pappas

Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dom DeLuise

Robert Osborne hosts this TCM original featuring an exclusive interview with the original Odd Couple.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Osborne

Carol Channing hosts musical variety special with guests Walter Matthau, George Burns, U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Chorale, The Association, Eddy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carol Channing

Jack Benny's 1968 TV specials features topical references including a parody of The Graduate.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Benny

A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joanne Woodward