Save the Tiger (1973)
Drama
A disillusioned war veteran has two days to let go of his shaken morals if he wants his small fashion company to survive.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Norman Burton, Patricia Smith, Thayer David
Director: John G. Avildsen
Mister Roberts (1955)
Comedy | Drama | War
In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant and her crew are stationed in the "backwater" areas of the Pacific Ocean. Trouble ensues when the crew members are granted liberty.
Starring: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Betsy Palmer, Ward Bond
Director: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan
The Odd Couple (1968)
Comedy
Two friends try sharing an apartment, but their ideas of housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman, Monica Evans, Carole Shelley
Director: Gene Saks
The Odd Couple II (1998)
Adventure | Comedy
Oscar and Felix take a road trip to their son and daughter's wedding.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Richard Riehle, Jonathan Silverman, Mary Beth Peil, Christine Baranski
Director: Howard Deutch
Missing (1982)
Biography | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, Jerry Hardin, John Shea, Charles Cioffi
Director: Costa-Gavras
The Notorious Landlady (1962)
Comedy | Mystery
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
Starring: Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries, Estelle Winwood, Maxwell Reed
Director: Richard Quine
The Apartment (1960)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis
Director: Billy Wilder
The China Syndrome (1979)
Drama | Thriller
While doing a report on energy sources, ambitious reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses a near-accident at a nuclear power plant. Attempting to publicize the incident, Wells soon finds herself entangled in an inquiry by a senior engineer at the plant into possible faults that the power company refuses to acknowledge.
Starring: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter Donat
Director: James Bridges
The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960)
Comedy | War
During World War II, the Army recruits Navy Officer Rip Crandall (Jack Lemmon) to command a battered old Schooner for a top secret mission. Masquerading as a Japanese fishing boat, this nautical nightmare must smuggle a spy through the mine-infested waters of the South Pacific. Unfortunately for Crandall, he has inherited a wild crew of butter-fingered landlubbers, including First Officer Tommy Hanson (Ricky Nelson).
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson, John Lund, Chips Rafferty, Tom Tully, Joby Baker
Director: Richard Murphy
Dad (1989)
Comedy | Drama
A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. In the process, he teaches his father to be more independent which causes problems with the man's wife. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Baker, Kevin Spacey, Ethan Hawke
Director: Gary David Goldberg
It Should Happen to You (1954)
Comedy | Romance
A dizzy model in love with fame rents a billboard and puts her name on it.
Starring: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford, Michael O'Shea, Vaughn Taylor, Connie Gilchrist
Director: George Cukor
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Drama
An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.
Starring: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Pryce
Director: James Foley
The Out of Towners / The Out-of-Towners (1970)
Comedy
George and Gwen Kellerman live in the small, quiet town of Twin Oaks, Ohio with their two young children and pet dog. George has a strong sense of what is right and wrong, especially as it applies to himself and Gwen, but he still looks to her for validation. Working for a plastics company, George believes he is a shoo-in for the company's Vice-President of Sales, New York Division job, a position located in New York City. George is looking forward to their future life in New York City, with all the amenities and benefits living in the big city has to offer. For George's 9 am interview, George and Gwen plan on taking a flight that lands in New York at 8 pm the evening before, which gives them time for dinner at New York's finest restaurant, The Four Seasons, and a comfortable night's stay at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel before the interview. But nothing on this trip goes according to plan. In fact, what can go wrong, does. Because of circumstances, it even looks as if George may miss his…
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis
Director: Arthur Hiller
Irma la Douce (1963)
Comedy | Romance
In Paris, an ex-cop falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of that life by paying for all of her time.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi, Bruce Yarnell, Herschel Bernardi
Director: Billy Wilder
The Front Page (1974)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1920s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans though. It's the day before guilty (but insane) murderer, Earl Williams, is due to go to the gallows and Burns tempts Johnson to stay and write the story.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, David Wayne
Director: Billy Wilder
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Comedy
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Pat O'Brien, George Raft, Joe E. Brown
Director: Billy Wilder
The Great Race (1965)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance | Sport
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 Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention. The Blake Edwards style of slapstick and song originated with this movie. A dedication to Laurel and Hardy appears at the beginning of the film. Edwards' tribute to Stan and Ollie can be seen most clearly in the interaction between Professor Fate and his cohort Max, as well as in the operatic Pottsdorf pie fight.
Starring: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon
Director: Blake Edwards
Avanti! (1972)
Comedy | Romance
When Wendell Armbruster, a wealthy businessman from the US goes to Italy to claim his dead father's body, he finds himself falling in love with the daughter of his father's mistress.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills
Director: Billy Wilder
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The Fortune Cookie (1966)
Comedy | Romance
A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Judi West, Cliff Osmond, Lurene Tuttle
Director: Billy Wilder
