Walter Matthau Movies

List of the best Walter Matthau movies: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three(1974), Charley Varrick(1973), A New Leaf(1971), The Bad News Bears(1976), Hopscotch(1980), Cactus Flower(1969), House Calls(1978), A Guide for the Married Man(1967), Plaza Suite(1971), Kotch(1971), I'm Not Rappaport(1996), The Laughing Policeman(1973) ... ...

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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

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?

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Charley Varrick

A man, his wife and their friend stage a bloody bank robbery without realizing they are stealing from the Mob.

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A New Leaf

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. So he intends to marry a rich woman and - murder her.

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The Bad News Bears

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

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Hopscotch

Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.

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Cactus Flower

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.

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House Calls

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... See full summary »

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A Guide for the Married Man

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

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Plaza Suite

Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.

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Kotch

Wanting to avoid settling in a nursing home, Joseph Kotcher, a retired salesman, is obliged to leave his son's family. He embarks on a road trip during which he strikes up a friendship with... See full summary »

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I'm Not Rappaport

Two old men - a white former radical, and a black retired janitor - strike up an unusual and funny friendship on a park bench in New York, where they deal with family, drug dealers, and the pitfalls of age.

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The Laughing Policeman

In San Francisco, California, one victim in a mass murder is a police detective. His partner and a new partner investigate in the city's seamy side.

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First Monday in October

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.

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I Ought to Be in Pictures

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 York cemetery for six years and Dad has ... See full summary »

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Pirates

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

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The Secret Life of an American Wife

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 desirable to other men and thereby, rekindle the spark in their marriage.

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The Survivors

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.

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Dennis the Menace

When his parents have to go out of town, Dennis stays with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. The little menace is driving Mr. Wilson crazy, but Dennis is just trying to be helpful. Even to the thief who's arrived in town.

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The Sunshine Boys

After a long separation, two former vaudeville partners reunite to renew their friendship and their feud.

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Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love

An orphan (Ryan Todd) and his grandmother (Ellen Burstyn) must flee to stay together, with help from a fatherly friend (Walter Matthau).

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Casey's Shadow

A Cajun trainer (Walter Matthau) and his three sons enter the annual quarter-horse race in Ruidoso, N.M.

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Gangster Story

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Fail-Safe

A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?

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The Odd Couple

Two friends try sharing an apartment, but their ideas of housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day.

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The Front Page

A ruthless editor tries to get his top reporter to cover one more crime story before retirement.

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The Fortune Cookie

A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury.

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Hello, Dolly!

Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.

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The Little Devil

During an exorcism, father Maurice meets a little devil named Giuditta, who refuses to return to hell and decides to discover the world.

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Grumpier Old Men

John and Max resolve to save their beloved bait shop from turning into an Italian restaurant, just as its new female owner catches Max's attention.

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Buddy Buddy

During a high profile Mafia testimony case in California's Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed next-door neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems.

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Out to Sea

A failed gambler, intent on meeting a rich widow, tricks his widowed brother-in-law into boarding a cruise ship as dance hosts.

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Neil Simon's The Odd Couple II

A slob (Walter Matthau) and a neat freak (Jack Lemmon), former roommates, meet again years later for their children's wedding.

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Charade

Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?

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Lonely Are the Brave

A fiercely independent cowboy gets himself locked up in prison to escape with an old friend.

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Bigger Than Life

A seriously ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.

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Mirage

An accountant suddenly suffers from amnesia. This appears related to the suicide of his boss. Now some violent thugs are out to get him. They work for a shadowy figure known simply as The Major.

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Ride a Crooked Trail

Fugitive bank robber Joe Maybe steals the identity of a marshal and rides into a town whose judge asks Joe to act as town marshal but an old flame almost betrays his real identity forcing Joe to claim she's his wife.

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Ensign Pulver

Life becomes so harried after Ensign Pulver's prank, he and the Captain are swept off deck during a storm, ending up on a tropical island, a group of ship wrecked nurses, dancing natives, and one very big case of appendicitis.

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Onionhead

In 1941, an Oklahoma college graduate joins the US Coast Guard and serves as a cook on a ship based in Boston.

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Island of Love

A con man named Steve Blair (Robert Preston), enlists an out-of-work, drunk writer Paul Ferris (Tony Randall) to write a fictitious screenplay he hopes will be funded by a rich, but ... See full summary »

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The Indian Fighter

A frontier scout (Kirk Douglas) leads a wagon train to Oregon, woos a Dakota woman (Elsa Martinelli) and exposes a troublemaker (Walter Matthau).

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Strangers When We Meet

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.

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Slaughter on Tenth Avenue

A brave longshoreman lingers on after being gunned down by 3 racketeers, as a determined assistant D.A. searches hard for fearful witnesses against the men.

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Who's Got the Action?

A lawyer (Dean Martin) begins to win after his wife (Lana Turner) secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.

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King Creole

A troubled youth's singing sets New Orleans rockin'. With a sweet girl to love him and nightclubbers cheering, it seems he will shake off his past and head for the top. But will a mobster and his man-trap moll snare him in a life of crime?

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California Suite

Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

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Candy

Candy Christian, an innocent high-schooler, encounters numerous colorful characters and humorous sexual situations while attempting to find meaning in life.

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The Kentuckian

A Kentucky widower bound for 1820's Texas with his young son is thwarted in his efforts by a corrupt constable, a long-standing family feud, and a beautiful indentured servant.

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JFK

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

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