Jack Nicholson

All Movies of Jack Nicholson

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  Joker: Put on A Happy Face
  Featuring interviews with filmmakers and industry legends, discover the origins and evolution of The Joker, and learn why The Clown Prince of Crime is universally hailed as the greatest comic-book supervillain of all time.
  Character: Self

   2020

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  John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs
  An examination of the Oscar-winning director who brought to life some of cinema's most beloved motion pictures.
   2017

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  8.1
  SNL 40: Saturday Night Live 40 (TV)
  Saturday Night Live celebrates 40 years in a star-studded 3-and-a-half hour live special featuring appearances from former and current cast members, past hosts and guest stars. Sketches include Justin & Jimmy Cold Open, Celebr...
  Character: Self

   2015

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  7.8
  Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
  A documentary on DIY producer/director Roger Corman and his alternative approach to making movies in Hollywood.
  Character: Himself

   2011

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  4.6
  How Do You Know
  A romantic comedy centered on the love triangle between professional softball player Lisa Jorgenson (Reese Witherspoon), George (Paul Rudd), a corporate executive in a middle of a crisis, and Manny (Owen Wilson), a major-league pi...
  Character: Charles

   2010

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  7.0
  Vanity Fair: Killers Kill, Dead Men Die (S)
  The most ambitious portfolio in the 13-year history of Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue, this year's homage to noir had its own dramatic imperatives.
  Character: The Killer (credit only)

   2007

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  6.1
  The Bucket List
  Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they...
  Character: Edward

   2007

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  Witness to 'Reds'
  Cast and crew of "Reds" revisit their memories and stories while making the film, one of the most critically acclaimed films of 1981. Features interviews with lead actor and director Warren Beatty, actors Jack Nicholson ...
  Character: Self

   2006

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  8.6
  The Departed
  The Departed is set in South Boston, where the state police force is waging war on organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Costello...
  Character: Frank Costello

   2006

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  6.7
  Inside Deep Throat
  Inside Deep Throat examines the unanticipated lasting cultural impact generated by Deep Throat, a sexually explicit film first shown in a midtown Manhattan adult theater in June 1972 that quickly became the flashpoint for an unpre...
  Character: Self (archive footage)

   2005

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  7.2
  A Decade Under the Influence
  The 1970s was an extraordinary time of rebellion, of questioning every accepted idea: political activism, hedonism, protests, the sexual revolution, the women's movement, the civil rights movement, the music revolution, rage and l...
   2003

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  6.8
  Something's Gotta Give
  Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) is a perennial playboy with a libido much younger than his years. During what was to have been a romantic weekend with his latest infatuation, Marin (Amanda Peet), at her mother’s Hamptons beach ho...
  Character: Harry Sanborn

   2003

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  5.4
  Anger Management
  ANGER MANAGEMENT looks into the life of Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler), an executive assistant at a pet clothing company. The mild-mannered but overly passive Dave is in love with his girlfriend, Linda (Marisa Tomei), yet his anxious ...
  Character: Doctor Buddy Rydell

   2003

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  7.6
  About Schmidt
  Warren Schmidt has led a safe, predictable life working in the insurance industry in Omaha, Nebr. for many years, yet now faces retirement. At the same time he is forced to take a hard look at his wife, his life and his relationsh...
  Character: Warren Schmidt

   2002

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  America: A Tribute to Heroes (TV)
  A two-hour telethon, which aired on all the major TV networks (and a host of cable networks), where celebrities raised money for the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, and the plane tha...
  Character: Self

   2001

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  7.0
  The Pledge
  Detective Jarry Black (Nicholson) is just retiring from his long years on duty. But on his final case, he is determined to find the killer of a mother's (Wright-Penn) young daughter, when the police give up searching. He makes a p...
  Character: Jerry Black

   2001

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  8.2
  Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
  Narrated by Tom Cruise, "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures" goes through each one of his movies and talks to various participants about their memories of working with Kubrick. For those who know very little about Kubrick, the do...
  Character: Himself

   2001

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  7.3
  As Good As It Gets
  In New York, Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) is the most dysfunctional of men, an acid-tongued romance novelist who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. As part of Melvin's unwavering daily routine, he consumes an artery-hard...
  Character: Melvin Udall

   1997

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  5.8
  The Evening Star
  Picking up the story thread left by 1983's Terms of Endearment, this overwrought sequel is made palatable by Shirley MacLaine's charismatic performance, which in turn is nearly equaled by Marion Ross's role as her housekeeper. An ...
  Character: Garrett Breedlove

   1996

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  5.9
  Mars Attacks!
  Director Tim Burton unleashes MARS ATTACKS!, a vicious, affectionate, brightly-colored homage to 1950s alien invasion movies. When a shiny silver flying saucer lands in the Nevada desert, a group of skull-faced Martians exit the g...
  Character: President James Dale / Art Land

   1996

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  6.1
  Blood and Wine (Blood & Wine)
  Wine merchant Alex Gates seems to have it all: a fancy shop, a beautiful wife, Suzanne, a sexy Latin mistress, Gabriella, and a hot car. He enjoys the best vintages of the goods he sells. In truth, Alex Gates' finances are stretch...
   1996

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  5.7
  The Crossing Guard
  Freddie Gale is a seedy jeweler who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl. After a hit-and-run takes the life of a man's daughter, breaking his heart and destroying his marriage, he plots revenge on the man...
  Character: Freddy Gale

   1995

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  6.3
  Wolf
  Worn down and out of luck, mild-mannered, middle-aged book editor Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches both his job and wife out from under his nose. But after being bit by a wo...
  Character: Will Randall

   1994

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  The Who's Tommy, the Amazing Journey
  Through interviews and archive footage, this video details the history of the rock opera TOMMY, including the album, the movie and the broadway musical.
  Character: The Specialist (archive footage)

   1993

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  4.4
  Man Trouble
  A sleazy but affable guard dog trainer is blackmailed to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients.
  Character: Harry Bliss

   1992

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  5.9
  Hoffa
  This film recounts the life and times of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa -- from his impassioned struggle to build his union into a powerful force on the American scene to his mysterious end.
  Character: James R. Hoffa

   1992

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  7.4
  A Few Good Men
  In this military courtroom drama based on the play by Aaron Sorkin, Navy lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee is assigned to defend two Marines who are accused of the murder of a fellow leatherneck at the base at Guantanamo Bay. Kaffee genera...
  Character: Col. Nathan R. Jessup

   1992

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  5.8
  The Two Jakes
  The sequel to Chinatown finds Jake Gittes investigating adultery and murder... and the money that comes from oil.
  Character: Jake Gittes | Movie director

   1990

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  7.2
  Batman
  Gotham City is a sunless, ominous haven for criminals, held in the corrupt grip of crime boss Carl Grissom (the ever-magnetic Jack Palance), and terrorized by a sadistic vandal and murderer known as The Joker. But it isnt long bef...
  Character: Joker / Jack Napier

   1989

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  6.2
  Ironweed
  Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at...
  Character: Francis Phelan

   1987

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  7.9
  Broadcast News
  In James L. Brooks’ quirky, romantic comedy, three ambitious workaholics are set loose in a network TV newsroom where their professional and personal lives become hopelessly cross-wired. Tom (William Hurt) is the modern anchorma...
  Character: Bill Rorish

   1987

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  6.7
  The Witches of Eastwick
  In the small New England town of Eastwick, three women friends - shy music teacher Jane Spofford, potter Alexandra Medford and journalist/mother Sukie Ridgemont - discover that when they come together their mutual wishes can cause...
  Character: Daryl Van Horne

   1987

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  5.5
  Heartburn
  Though she always played coy about the fact in interviews, Nora Ephron's novel Heartburn is a thinly disguised "à clef" rehash of her marriage to Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein. Meryl Streep plays Rachel, an influential ...
  Character: Mark

   1986

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  8.5
  Live Aid
  The broadcast of the biggest benefit concert in history.
  Character: Self

   1985

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  7.2
  Prizzi's Honor
  Adapted from Richard Condon's novel, the film stars Nicholson as a none-too-bright hit man for a Mafia family who falls in love with an independent operator--a female killer played by Kathleen Turner. The two make a surprisingly f...
  Character: Charley Partanna

   1985

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  8.0
  Terms of Endearment
  Larry McMurtry's novel becomes a somewhat lumpy film as directed by James L. Brooks (As Good As It Gets). Nevertheless, it is entirely winning, with Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger playing a combative mother and daughter who see...
  Character: Garrett Breedlove

   1983

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  6.2
  The Border
  A border agent involved in drug smuggling decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
  Character: Charlie Smith

   1982

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  7.1
  The Postman Always Rings Twice
  Frank Chambers, a depression-era drifter ends up at a diner owned by Nick Papadakis, who offers Frank a job. Frank accepts the offer, and soon begins an affair with Nick's wife Cora. The adulterous lovers soon plot to kill Nick an...
  Character: Frank Chambers

   1981

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  7.7
  Reds
  Warren Beatty's award winning epic mixes drama and interviews with major social radicals of the period. "Reds" tells the story of the love affair between activists Louise Bryant and John Reed. Set against the backdrop of...
  Character: Eugene O'Neill

   1981

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  7.9
  The Shining
  Writer Jack Torrance takes a job as a winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the remote Colorado mountains. He moves in, along with his wife Wendy and son Danny, in the hope that the isolation will cure his writer’s block. Bu...
  Character: Jack Torrance

   1980

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  6.1
  Goin' South
  Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the ga...
  Character: Henry Lloyd Moon | Movie director

   1978

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  6.5
  The Missouri Breaks
  Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.
  Character: Tom Logan

   1976

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  6.5
  The Last Tycoon
  F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
  Character: Brimmer

   1976

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  7.3
  The Passenger
  David Locke (Jack Nicholson) is a frustrated and disillusioned war correspondent and TV journalist who is in Africa to cover a Civil War, unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the I.D. ...
  Character: Locke

   1975

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  5.4
  The Fortune
  The early 1900's with its Mann-Act (disallowing women to be transported across State lines for immoral reasons) brings a married man to devise a scheme for taking his upper-class girlfriend away with him... he simply has her marry...
  Character: Oscar Sullivan aka Dix

   1975

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  8.8
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  A misbehaved con named McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), who shirks authority, finds himself in an asylum after faking insanity to get out of work detail in prison. The troublemaker soon finds himself in a place that's worse than prison ...
  Character: R.P. McMurphy

   1975

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  6.7
  Tommy
  Cpt. Walker's plane is shot down during World War 2 and he is presumed dead. His widow Nora meets Frank Hobbs and they are quick to get married. However, one day Cpt. Walker comes home and his son Tommy sees his murder. This cause...
   1975

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  8.8
  Chinatown
  Director Roman Polanski’s neo-noir detective story is set during a heat wave in 1930s Los Angeles, whose residents are suffering from a water shortage as a result of an ongoing drought. Private investigator Jake Gittes (Jack Nic...
  Character: J.J. Gittes

   1974

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  7.8
  The Last Detail
  After being convicted of petty thievery, a young sailor finds himself in the care of two escorts assigned to take him to military prison. But the journey turns out to be more leisurely than expected, with several side trips and ex...
  Character: Buddusky

   1973

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  6.3
  The King of Marvin Gardens
  DJ Radio monologist David Staebler (Jack Nicholson) is called to Atlantic City by his brother Jason (Bruce Dern), who wants him to come in on an island real estate deal. David is drawn into the world of his brother, who is involve...
  Character: David Staebler

   1972

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  5.5
  Drive, He Said
  Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from schoo...
  Director of the film

   1971

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  7.1
  Carnal Knowledge
  The sex lives of two lifelong friends provide the basis for this satirical sex comedy that features Jack Nicholson and folk-rocker Art Garfunkle. The men become friends in college, and the story chronicles their romantic exploits ...
  Character: Jonathan

   1971

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  6.1
  On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
  When a psychiatrist (Yves Montand) begins talking to a young woman (Barbra Streisand), he realizes that she can recall a past life while under hypnosis. Although this brash New Yorker is thoroughly modern and somewhat abrasive, he...
  Character: Tad Pringle

   1970

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  7.3
  Five Easy Pieces
  Bobby Eroica Dupea comes from a well-bred family of musicians, and once showed great promise as a concert pianist. By nature a restless, angry individual, Bobby left his family and his music when he could no longer endure the dull...
   1970

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  7.6
  Easy Rider
  A landmark in film history, EASY RIDER blew the studio doors open for more young directors than any film before or since, helping to create the wide-open climate that would lead to the production of many outstanding films in the 1...
   1969

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  6.1
  Head
  A plot-less collection of various musical encounters and adventures by the famous rock band "The Monkees" which follows Davy, Peter, Mike and Mickey as they travel through an assortment of places in search of meaning.
  Character: Movie Director at Filmshoot in Restaurant

   1968

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  6.1
  Psych-Out
  Jenny, a deaf runaway who has just arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor known around town as The Seeker. She falls in with a psychedelic band, Mumblin' Jim...
  Character: Stoney

   1968

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  5.1
  Hells Angels on Wheels
  At first gas station attendant Poet is happy when the rockers gang "Hell's Angels" finally accepts him. But he's shocked when he learns how brutal they are - not even murder is a taboo to them. He gets himself in trouble...
  Character: Poet

   1967

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  6.9
  The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
  Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran...
  Character: Gino - Hit Man

   1967

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  7.8
  The Shooting
  Probably the first Western which really deserves to be called existential. Ex-bounty hunter Gashade and his young sidekick Coley are persuaded by an unknown woman to lead her through the desert. On the skyline appears a spectral f...
  Character: Billy Spear

   1966

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  6.0
  The Terror
  France, 18th century. Lieutenant Andre Duvalier (Jack Nicholson) has been accidentally separated from his regiment. He is wandering near the coast when he sees a young woman (Sandra Knight) and asks her for directions to Coldon, w...
   1963

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  6.5
  The Raven
  In this tongue-in-cheek movie inspired by Poe's poem, Dr. Craven is the son of a great sorcerer (now dead) who was once himself quite skilled at that profession, but has since abandoned it. One evening, a cowardly fool of a magici...
  Character: Rexford Bedlo

   1963

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  5.5
  Dr. Kildare (TV Series)
  TV Series (1961-1966). 5 Seasons. 191 episodes. The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his s...
  Character:  Jaime Angel 4 episodes, 1966

   1961

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  6.5
  The Little Shop of Horrors
  Seymour Krelboin (Jonathan Haze) is a young man who works in a flower store. He manages to create a carnivorous plant that feeds on human flesh. Nobody knows about it, so Seymour and the plant become good "friends". The ...
  Character: Wilbur Force

   1960

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  The Barbara Stanwyck Show (TV Series)
  TV Series (1960-1961). 1 seasons. 36 episodes. A dramatic anthology series with Barbara Stanwyck as the Hostess/Star.
  Character:  Bud 1 episode, 1960

   1960

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  5.3
  Too Soon to Love
  Kathy (Jennifer West) and Jim (Richard Evans) are teenage lovers kept apart by her domineering father. The two see each other on the side and get arrested for making out in a car. When Kathy gets pregnant, Jim tries a stick up to ...
  Character: Buddy

   1960

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  5.3
  The Wild Ride
  A rebellious punk of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking. One day he kidnaps his buddy's girlfriend
  Character: Johnny Varron

   1960