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- DirectorSteven PaulStarsJerry LewisMadeline KahnMarty FeldmanA rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.
- DirectorPhilippe ClairStarsJerry LewisPhilippe ClairMarthe VillalongaClovis Blaireau is a private detective. It is charged by Nadège de Courtaboeuf wife knew wealthy industrialist Prosper de Courtaboeuf, to obtain evidence of the infidelity of her husband. Clovis managed to penetrate the intimacy of Prosper, and became his friend. Following diverse Clovis and Prosper adventures will find themselves in Tunisis pursued by a band of Mafioso and by members of the Front of breaking load of Couscous.
- DirectorMichel GérardStarsJerry LewisMichel BlancCharlotte de TurckheimJerry Logan is a Las Vegas police officer who is visiting France to see his ex-wife, with whom he is still friendly. She is remarried to Laurent Martin, who is a police officer in France.
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsJerry LewisTerry-ThomasJacqueline PearceAn American plans to bilk the British out of some considerable money with the help of an English con artist.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisJan MurrayJohn WoodBrendan Byers III is a wealthy playboy who wants to serve his country as a soldier, but he has been classified as 4-F (registrant not acceptable for military service). He recruits volunteers from among his employees for a privately funded mission in the Italian front of the war. Byers impersonates the German general Eric Kesselring, with a plan to order German troops to retreat and give way to advancing Allied forces. Unfortunately for Byers, the impersonation comes with complications. He has to deal with the real general's Italian mistress, while the German authorities are investigating Kesselring's involvement in the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
- DirectorAndrew MartonStarsSoupy SalesTab HunterArthur O'ConnellMelvin Byrd, who dreams of being a scientist, is a Cape Kennedy "miniscule molecular particle surveillance monitor" - in short, a janitor. His job is to keep a major rocket project completely dust-free, and this he does with his own hilariously fantastic inventions - including a literal attack on dirt by a "knight on a white horse". In his work, he meets Judy, a chimp involved in a top-secret project, which leads Melvin into the one room strictly off-limits to him. Not until he has entered the project room does Melvin learn that any man entering it will be negatively ionized - making him fly like a bird.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisSusan OliverRoger C. CarmelIn Jerry Lewis's first film in a decade, he plays Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who can't seem to hold down a job. The film opens with a brief montage of clips from past Lewis movies. He then moves into a succession of jobs that he gets himself fired from including a gas station attendant and a mailman - all with disastrous results.
- DirectorLogan McPhersonPaul TaylorStarsJerry LewisDrake BellTabitha St. GermainThe grandson of professor Julius Kelp, who created a potion to transform his personality, gets his hands on his grandfather's secret elixir and unleashes his destructive alter ego.
- DirectorHal NeedhamRalph BakshiStarsBurt ReynoldsDom DeLuiseDean MartinThe original characters from The Cannonball Run (1981) race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsSammy Davis Jr.Peter LawfordJohn WoodTwo night club owners find themselves in trouble with the law. One of them goes to his English Lord brother for help, and the Lord is later murdered. He swaps places with his dead brother to solve the murder.
- DirectorRoberto SantucciStarsLeandro HassumCamila MorgadoKiko MascarenhasA man loses everything. Again.
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsDean MartinSenta BergerJanice RuleSecret agent Matt Helm must battle foreign spies and a rogue nation's exiled ruler in order to recover a hijacked U.S. government experimental flying saucer.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsJerry LewisConnie StevensRobert MorleyIn a futuristic world, the USA decides to send a married couple of astronauts to its moon base in order to prevent any improper contact with the Soviet female cosmonauts manning the USSR moon base.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsJerry LewisPeter LawfordAnne FrancisA man (Jerry Lewis) is told by his doctor (Peter Lawford), and best friend, that he has a terminal illness. At his wife's urging, he lives life to the fullest, racking up insurmountable debts. When the damage is done, his friend the doctor tells him that he's not dying. Unfortunately, his life will eventually be ruined by his actions. So, they decide to stage his death so that his wife and family will not have to suffer for what he's done. Lewis eventually discovers that his friend, the doctor, set the entire scenario up so that he could get Lewis' wife.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsCantinflasDan DaileyShirley JonesThe young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood director Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the stars working in Hollywood at the time.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsDean MartinElke SommerSharon TateGold bullion worth USD 1 billion has been stolen from a hijacked train in Denmark. The main suspect is Count Massimo Contini. The US government sends Matt Helm, one of its top agents, to investigate and recover the gold.
- DirectorSusan SeidelmanStarsPeter FalkDianne WiestEmily LloydA paroled labor racketeer attempts to connect with his rebellious teenage daughter. Meanwhile, his deceitful former partner wants to kill him and a politically ambitious attorney wants to jail him.
- DirectorAlex BrewerBenjamin BrewerStarsNicolas CageElijah WoodSky FerreiraA pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisHarold J. StoneSusan Bay NimoyOn a San Diego beach, Gerald Clamson fishes out of the water a look-alike frog man who gives him a map to a stash of stolen-diamonds coveted by several crime syndicates.
- DirectorNorton VirgienStarsFrank WelkerAmy HillEd O'RossGeorge embarks on a cross-country trip to reunite a baby elephant with her family.
- DirectorHal WalkerStarsDean MartinJerry LewisMike KellinAlvin Corwin is low man on the totem pole, and goes from one mishap to another at an army training camp in World War II.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsFrank SinatraDean MartinAnita EkbergZack Thomas is a tough guy who hooks up with Joe Jarrett to open a casino.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJames CaanLaura DevonGail HireThe story of three racing drivers and three women, who constantly have to worry for the lives of their boyfriends. Jim Loomis and Mike Marsh drive for Pat Cassarian. Jim expects his fiancée Holly, but before she arrives, he dies in a race. Since she doesn't have the money to travel back, she stays. The young and very ambitious talent Ned Arp joins the team, and immediately starts wooing Pat's sister Julie. Third on the team is womanizer Dan McCall, who brings with him his current girlfriend Gabrielle from Paris. So the basic theme of this movie is, "Whom with whom?"
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsDean MartinAnna Maria AlberghettiEva BartokIn this musical comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsDean MartinLana TurnerEddie AlbertA hunch horse-player's marriage is threatened by his betting ways; in desperation, his wife becomes his bookie.
- DirectorJack DonohueStarsFrank SinatraDeborah KerrDean MartinA businessman's neglected wife divorces her husband by mistake and marries his best friend by accident.
- DirectorAndrew V. McLaglenStarsDean MartinBrian KeithCarol WhiteA man kidnaps the wife of a cavalry commander in order to exchange her for a Gatling gun that's being sold by a gun runner.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisJanet LeighMary Ann MobleyAn artist has an opportunity to go to Paris and wants to bring his fiancee along. However, she's a psychiatrist who currently has three female patients who don't like men. So, he guises himself as three different men to gauge their trust and hopefully cure them so that his fiancee can go with him.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisMilton BerleSammy Davis Jr.Suicidal nerd seeks help from psychiatrist, runs into various nutty characters.
- DirectorElliot SilversteinStarsJerry LewisMorgan FreemanJaclyn BernsteinJerry Lewis plays an Ohio optometrist who has a six-year old daughter with epilepsy. He fights to get the FDA to approve a drug (at that time only available in England) for use in the U.S.
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsDean MartinElizabeth MontgomeryMartin BalsamAn actor playing a surgeon on a popular TV series is routinely chased by female fans, including the unhappy wives of his best pals.
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsDean MartinAnn-MargretKarl MaldenHandsome top-secret American agent Matt Helm must recover a laser-weapons inventor who has been kidnapped by arch-villain Julian Wall.
- DirectorPaul BogartStarsDean MartinEugene RocheThalmus RasulalaA San Francisco attorney (Dean Martin) is hired to defend a black militant accused of murder.
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsDean MartinJerry LewisJoanne DruJerry and Pete are two friends with no money, looking for some job. They finally find one as workers in a circus, but Jerry has different dreams. He wants to become a clown.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsJerry LewisPhyllis KirkDavid WayneA bumbling hero with a photographic memory winds up in Morocco as a private in the French Foreign Legion. He still hasn't adjusted after 18 months. Among other things, he's lost a tank.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsFrank SinatraDean MartinSammy Davis Jr.Three cavalry officers and a bugler work together to thwart a Native American chief intent on uniting local tribes against the white man.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsDean MartinStella StevensDaliah LaviRetired agent Matt Helm is re-activated in order to stop an evil organization from exploding an atom bomb over the USA and starting WWIII.
- DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsRock HudsonDean MartinSusan ClarkTwo men who have been friends since childhood find themselves on opposite ends of the law.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJerry LewisJoan BlackmanEarl HollimanThe weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth...
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsJerry LewisEd WynnJudith AndersonA gender-swapped retelling of Charles Perrault's classic, where Cinderfella is visited by a fairy godfather to help him escape from his wicked stepmother and stepbrothers.
- DirectorBilly CrystalStarsBilly CrystalDavid PaymerJulie WarnerThe life of Buddy Young, a comic legend in flashbacks but an old man looking for work in the present.
- DirectorBud YorkinStarsFrank SinatraLee J. CobbMolly PiconAfter leaving his parents' home, young Buddy Baker goes to live with his womanizing older brother in a posh Manhattan apartment where he learns how to be a partying playboy.
- DirectorHal WalkerStarsJohn LundMarie WilsonDiana LynnEn route to Hollywood, singer Steve, his partner Seymour and fiancée Jane, Jane's airheaded roommate Irma, and Irma's con artist fiancé Al have a series of misadventures and end up involved with a murderous gang.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisSebastian CabotNeil HamiltonA young heiress must choose among six uncles, one of whom is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.
- DirectorJoseph AnthonyStarsDean MartinShirley MacLaineCliff RobertsonTony Ryder takes over his dead uncle's media empire while trying to keep quiet the mysterious circumstances of his death in a Palm Beach hotel room.
- DirectorNorman PanamaStarsBing CrosbyBob HopeJoan CollinsMistaken identity and the acquisition of a rare Tibetan herb put two buffoonish con men on the wrong side of a secret organization geared toward world domination.
- DirectorHal WalkerStarsDean MartinJerry LewisRuth HusseyThe greatest player in Ridgefield College history uses his influence and reputation to get his only son, a sickly, uncoordinated nerd, on the college football team with comic results.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsDean MartinJerry LewisMarjie MillarWhen Herman promises the mob to fix a racing horse in order to pay off his debts, he selects his veterinarian cousin as a patsy to help him but things go awry.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisLori NelsonA rich momma's boy returns west with the son of his murdered father's partner to foil a gang trying to gain control of his family ranch.
- DirectorHal NeedhamStarsBurt ReynoldsRoger MooreFarrah FawcettA wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country road race. However, the eccentric entrants will do anything to win the road race, including low-down, dirty tricks.
- DirectorArthur Allan SeidelmanStarsJoe PesciVictoria JacksonFred WilliamsonRocky Nelson is a New York City cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor. However, when he gets there, the directors think that he is too short to be an actor. He is then approached by someone who offers him a job at a Hollywood security agency, because he would fit in there being an ex-cop, and while working there, he could come in contact with some Hollywood heavyweights who could give him the break he needs, and at the same time, he gets to live in Dean Martin's guest house.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsTony CurtisJanet LeighJerry LewisThis farcical short was Jerry Lewis' first film as a director, according to co-scripter Don McGuire. Lewis appeared in dual roles as an American Indian and as an Army recruiting officer. The 16mm film was shot in Lewis' house. Janet Leigh commented, "A lot of us would gather there and make these funny movies. And we would then all go and have dinner, and we would go back and continue our shoot the next day. They were funny and quite wonderful. We just had great fun doing it."
- DirectorHal WalkerStarsDean MartinJerry LewisCorinne CalvetAlthough allergic to kissing girls, Seaman Melvin Jones, through a fluke TV appearance, gets the undeserved reputation of a great kisser dubbed "Mr. Temptation" and is pursued by amorous young females.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisMona FreemanNightclub comic Hap Smith assumes the identity of another soldier so he can tour army bases in a revue with his ex-partner Chuck Allen.
- DirectorDaniel NoahStarsJerry LewisKerry BishéKevin PollakA jazz pianist makes a discovery days before the death of his wife that causes him to believe his sixty-five year marriage was a lie. He embarks on an exploration of his own past that brings him face to face with a menagerie of characters from a bygone era.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisIna BalinEverett SloaneAn incompetent bellhop is recruited to fill in for a deceased comedian.
- DirectorMichael GordonStarsDean MartinAlain DelonRosemary ForsythIn 1845 Texas, a Louisiana belle is courted by a wanted Spanish nobleman and a Texas brawling gunrunner but her suitors' passionate duel is interrupted by the cavalry and a Comanche attack.
- DirectorFielder CookStarsDean MartinStella StevensEli WallachWhen a carefree bachelor tries to get his best friend to drop his mistress and return to his wife, he discovers that he too has romantic problems.
- DirectorDon McGuireStarsJerry LewisMartha HyerDarren McGavinSidney Pythias is a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Mike Damon as a teenage gang member worth saving from delinquency. With Damon's help, Sidney works his way through the Police Academy to become a cop too.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisHelen TraubelPat StanleyA clueless, recently-single graduate unwittingly takes a job as a servant in a mansion inhabited by dozens of young women.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisBrian DonlevyHoward McNearA goofy paperhanger is hired to root out a financial inefficiency on a Hollywood studio lot, wreaking havoc as he goes.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsJerry LewisJoan O'BrienZachary ScottA TV repairman dreams of being a detective and sets out to locate a missing heir.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsJerry LewisGlenda FarrellSusan OliverMedical student Jerome Littlefield works as an orderly at a private clinic where he creates havoc due to his ineptitude.
- DirectorJohn RichStarsTony CurtisJerry LewisDany SavalA friend visits his philandering friend just as that man's scheme of being secretly simultaneously engaged to three flight attendants goes awry.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsJohn LundDiana LynnDon DeForeA scatterbrained Brooklynite and her wheeler-dealer fiancé interfere in her level-headed roommate's love life.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsDean MartinJerry LewisPat CrowleyA singer who can't pay his bookie joins a nerdy, star-struck movie fan and his Great Dane in a cross-country convertible ride to Hollywood.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsFrank SinatraDean MartinSammy Davis Jr.In Prohibition-era Chicago, two rival gangs compete for control of the city's rackets.
- DirectorArnold LavenStarsDean MartinJean SimmonsGeorge PeppardA former deputy and a strong-willed widow are determined to stop a ruthless town boss.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsDean MartinRobert MitchumInger StevensThe players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.
- DirectorHal WalkerStarsBing CrosbyBob HopeDorothy LamourTwo unemployed show-biz pals accept treasure-diving work in Bali for a local princess and they find treasure, love and trouble.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsDean MartinJerry LewisLizabeth ScottFleeing a murder charge, a busboy and a nightclub singer wind up on a spooky Caribbean island inherited by a young woman.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisDonna ReedAlthough gifted golfer Harvey Miller is too nervous to golf in public tournaments, he acts as coach and caddy for friend Joe Anthony.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsJerry LewisMarie McDonaldSessue HayakawaGilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJerry LewisDina MerrillDiana SpencerDuring the 1950s, a military panel grills Junior Officer John Paul Steckler to find the whereabouts of a Navy destroyer that he temporarily commanded during WWII and is missing.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsFrank SinatraDean MartinSammy Davis Jr.Danny Ocean gathers a group of his World War II compatriots to pull off the ultimate Las Vegas heist. Together the eleven friends plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night.
- DirectorAndrew V. McLaglenStarsJames StewartDean MartinRaquel WelchMace Bishop (James Stewart) masquerades as a hangman in order to save his outlaw brother, Dee (Dean Martin), from the gallows, runs to Mexico chased by Sheriff July Johnson's (George Kennedy's) posse and fights against Mexican bandits.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisDiana LynnWhen an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child - with humorous consequences.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsDean MartinJerry LewisShirley MacLaineRick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisAlex GerryBob ClaytonMute bellboy Stanley works at the luxurious Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. In spite of being a serviceable and friendly employee, the clumsy Stanley gets successively into trouble with his mistakes.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsTony CurtisDean MartinJanet LeighIll-advised by a pal, a chemistry professor falsely claims to be an undercover FBI agent to cover up his marital infidelity; his wife swallows his life, but it gets him in trouble with the real FBI, the CIA, and the KGB.
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsSusan HaywardDean MartinWilfrid Hyde-WhitePolitical drama about a honest but naive gubernatorial candidate who is manipulated by his corrupt campaign manager and is forced to temporarily cede power to his wife, a woman of integrity despite her shameful past.
- DirectorGeorge SeatonHenry HathawayStarsBurt LancasterDean MartinGeorge KennedyA bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisJanet LeighAn unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsJerry LewisMarilyn MaxwellConnie StevensA TV repair man must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart, now a famous movie star, so her career will not suffer.
- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsJerry LewisAnna Maria AlberghettiEduard FranzThe conflict between the Rabbi father and the son who disappoints him by seeking a secular career instead of a religious touches a Jewish cord, although it has a universal aspect.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisStella StevensDel MooreA timid chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome womanizer.
- DirectorPeter ChelsomStarsJerry LewisOliver PlattLee EvansAn unsuccessful comedian uncovers a family secret and learns the true price of letting inherent talent shine.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisPolly BergenEgotistical vaudevillian Bill Miller basks in the limelight with his successful musical-comedy act, but his success is due to his unheralded second banana.
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsDean MartinGeraldine PageYvette MimieuxJulian Berniers and his bride Lily leave Chicago to visit his two spinster sisters, Carrie and Anna, in New Orleans but Lily's jealousy combined with Carrie's possessiveness of Julian threaten to destroy the whole family.
- DirectorMelvin FrankStarsLeslie ParrishStubby KayePeter PalmerAs Sadie Hawkins Day approaches, Daisy Mae hopes to win the hand of Li'l Abner by catching him in the traditional race.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsJerry LewisJill St. JohnRay WalstonNorman Phiffier works as a store clerk in a large department store. Clumsy and inept, he can't do anything right. Boy are they in trouble!
- DirectorJoseph AnthonyStarsDean MartinAnthony FranciosaShirley MacLaineMore than anything in the world, Sam Lawson wants to be a successful actor. Is he willing to sacrifice his wife, happiness and personal reputation to achieve his goal?
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsJudy HollidayDean MartinFred ClarkA Brooklyn answering service operator becomes involved in the lives of her clients, including a struggling playwright with whom she begins to fall in love.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsShirley MacLainePaul NewmanRobert MitchumA four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsDean MartinKim NovakRay WalstonJealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife, Zelda, away for the night while he tries to sell a song to famous nightclub singer Dino, who is stranded in town.
- CreatorGlen A. LarsonLou ShawStarsJoe PesciDick ButkusBubba SmithRocky Nelson is a former New York cop trying to make it as an actor in Hollywood. However, while he is still looking for his big break, he works for a private security agency that caters to the needs of the Hollywood elite.
- DirectorLinda DayStarsPaul ReiserHelen HuntRichard KindJerry Lewis guest stars as Freddie Statler, an extremely wealthy man. He wants Paul to film a documentary of his life. Paul hires a film editor/cameraman who turns out to be very low key and slow moving.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsJohn WayneDean MartinMartha HyerRanch owner Katie Elder's four sons determine to avenge the murder of their father and the swindling of their mother.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsJohnny DeppJerry LewisFaye DunawayA young New Yorker goes to Arizona where he finds freedom to both love and dream.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsMarlon BrandoMontgomery CliftDean MartinThe lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.