Walter Matthau films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 14 films on Boxlist

Known for Charade, The Odd Couple and JFK.

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Starring Walter Matthau

Charade
1963 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
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...
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The Odd Couple
1968 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
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...
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JFK
1991 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
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Fail Safe
1964 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
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.
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Charley Varrick
1973 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
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...
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The Fortune Cookie
1966 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
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...
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Bigger Than Life
1956 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A seriously ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.
Hopscotch
1980 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
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...
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Grumpy Old Men
1993 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
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...
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Hello, Dolly!
1969 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
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...
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I.Q.
1994 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
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.
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Dennis the Menace
1993 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
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.
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Pirates
1986 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his inventiveness, he raises the crew to mutiny, takes...
Hanging Up
2000 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.
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