Cast: Jack Lemmon

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Jack Lemmon · Shirley MacLaine · Fred MacMurray · Ray Walston

Synopsis In The Apartment (1960), a lonely office worker named C.C. Baxter lends his apartment to company executives for their extramarital affairs, hoping to climb the corporate ladder. His life takes a turn when he develops feelings for Fran, an elevator...

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Jack Lemmon · Tony Curtis · George Raft

Synopsis Some Like It Hot (1959) follows two struggling musicians, Joe and Jerry, who witness a mob hit in 1920s Chicago. To escape the gangsters, they disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band heading to Florida. As "Josephine" and...

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Jack Lemmon · Lee Remick · Charles Bickford · Jack Klugman

Synopsis Days of Wine and Roses (1962) follows the tumultuous relationship between Joe, a charming but aimless public relations executive, and Kirsten, a secretary with a reserved demeanor. Their whirlwind romance blossoms into marriage, but their lives spiral into chaos as...

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Jack Lemmon · Walter Matthau · Susan Sarandon · Vincent Gardenia

Synopsis The Front Page (1974) is a comedic tale set in the bustling world of 1920s Chicago journalism. The story follows Hildy Johnson, a sharp-witted reporter eager to leave the newspaper business for a quieter life with his fiancée. However, on...

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Jack Lemmon · Shirley MacLaine · Lou Jacobi · Bruce Yarnell

Synopsis The film version of Irma La Douce (which means "Irma the Sweet") tells the story of Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon), an honest policeman who finds a street full of prostitutes in a popular area in Paris. After reporting the ladies...

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Jack Lemmon · Walter Matthau · Ron Rich · Cliff Osmond

Synopsis Harry Hinkle is a cameraman who is broadcasting a live game until a football player hits him. Despite the insignificant concussion, his brother in law, who is a lawyer, suggests to him to pretend a serious injury in order to...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Jack Lemmon · Sissy Spacek · Melanie Mayron · John Shea

Synopsis Missing (1982) follows the harrowing journey of an American father, Ed Horman, who travels to a politically turbulent South American country to search for his missing son, Charles, a journalist. As Ed teams up with his daughter-in-law, Beth, they uncover...

Direction Gene Saks

Cast Jack Lemmon · Walter Matthau · John Fiedler · Herb Edelman

Synopsis Two friends try sharing an apartment, but their ideas of housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day. Felix Ungar has just broken up with his wife. Despondant, he goes to kill himself but is saved by his...

Direction William Friedkin

Cast Jack Lemmon · Courtney B. Vance · Ossie Davis · George C. Scott

Synopsis Made for cable television version of the 1957 classic about eleven jurors quick to condemn a Latino youth on trial for murdering his father before reviewing the evidence. Juror #8 holds out with a verdict of not guilty, thus setting...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Madeleine Stowe · Julianne Moore · Jennifer Jason Leigh · Tim Robbins

Synopsis Short Cuts (1993) weaves together the intersecting lives of 22 Los Angeles residents over a few days, blending humor, tragedy, and mundane reality. Directed by Robert Altman, the film explores themes of love, infidelity, mortality, and chance encounters. From a...

Direction Oliver Stone

Cast Kevin Costner · Tommy Lee Jones · Gary Oldman · Joe Pesci

Synopsis J.F.K. (JFK) (1991) follows New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison as he investigates the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Dissatisfied with the official Warren Commission report, Garrison uncovers inconsistencies and potential conspiracies surrounding the tragic event. As he delves...

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Jack Lemmon · Juliet Mills · Clive Revill · Edward Andrews

Synopsis The arrogant and rude Vice-President of the Armbruster Industries Wendell Armbruster, Jr. travels to Ischia, in Italy, to retrieve the body of his father Wendell Armbruster, Sr., who died in a suddenly and tragic accident while driving back to Baltimore....

Direction Kenneth Branagh

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Derek Jacobi · Kate Winslet · Julie Christie

Synopsis In Hamlet (1996), directed by Kenneth Branagh, Prince Hamlet of Denmark is devastated by his father's sudden death and his mother's hasty marriage to his uncle, Claudius. When the ghost of his father reveals he was murdered by Claudius, Hamlet...

Direction Mick Jackson

Cast Jack Lemmon · Hank Azaria · Wendy Moniz · Caroline Aaron

Synopsis Mitch (Azaria) is a successful sportswriter who suddenly learns that one of his old professors, Morrie (Lemmon) is ill. Mitch visits Morrie and the two form an emotional bond, allowing Mitch to see what is really important in life. A...

Direction James Foley

Cast Al Pacino · Ed Harris · Jack Lemmon · Jonathan Pryce

Synopsis In Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), a group of desperate real estate salesmen face intense pressure when their corporate office announces a brutal sales contest: the top performers win lucrative leads, while the losers face termination. As the clock ticks, the...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Tim Robbins · Greta Scacchi · Dina Merrill · Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis Robert Altman's adaptation of Michael Tolkin's novel gives the notorious director a chance to address perhaps his greatest nemesis: the Hollywood studio system. Disguised as a thriller, the film assembles virtually every famous actor in Hollywood to create an exhilarating...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Judy Holliday · Peter Lawford · Jack Lemmon · Connie Gilchrist

Synopsis "It Should Happen To You" is the delightful, bubble-headed comedy about Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday), who decides that all one really needs to be famous is a gigantic billboard advertising her name in New York. Well, the trick works and...

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Tony Curtis · Jack Lemmon · Natalie Wood · Peter Falk

Synopsis 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...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff · Gisela Grischow

Cast Billy Wilder · Jean Arthur · Humphrey Bogart · James Cagney

Synopsis Billy Wilder discusses his life and films in interviews filmed by Volker Schlondorff over two weeks in 1988.

Direction Annie Tresgot · Michel Ciment

Cast Billy Wilder · Michel Ciment · Jack Lemmon · Walter Matthau