Bill Murray
Director, Actor
- Rutles, The (All You Need is Cash) (1978)
- Dir. Gary Weis, Eric Idle
Feat. Michael Palin, John Belushi, Bianca Jagger…
- The mock–Beatles twist and "rut" in a spot–on piss–take of the Fab Four, led by Monty Python’s Eric Idle and making a…
- Meatballs (1979)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray
- A laidback Bill Murray injects some meat into the summer camp cliche, here playing a trainee counselor in charge of a group of misfit stereotypes:…
- Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979)
- Dir. Michael O'Donoghue
Feat. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Carrie Fisher…
- Notorious spoof of the Italian schockumentaries is the brain child of Saturday Night Live's oddball genius Michael O'Donoghue.
Originally…
- Caddyshack (1980)
- Dir. Harold Ramis
Feat. Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray…
- Rude and crude golfing hi–jinks, often deliriously funny. Perhaps most famous for the infantile chocolate–bar in the swimming pool scene.
- Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
- Dir. Art Linson
Feat. Bill Murray, Peter Boyle
- In a piece of dream–casting, Bill Murray plays 'gonzo' journalist Hunter S Thompson, with Peter Boyle as his lawyer sidekick having a series of…
- Stripes (1981)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates…
- In a moment of weakness and despair, a slobbish Bill Murray enlists in the US Army and spends the rest of the movie humourously regretting the…
- Rodney Dangerfield - No Respect (1981-1995)
- Feat. Rodney Dangerfield, Tim Allen, Bill Murray…
- Weighty retrospective of comic legend Rodney Dangerfield's hilarious career highlights, with collaborative appearances by other big name comedy acts,…
- Tootsie (1982)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Bill Murray
- Much–loved classic, with unemployed actor Dustin Hoffman donning a dress to pay the bills. Unfortunately, his TV–soap character, Dorothy…
- Ghostbusters (1984)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver…
- Blockbuster supernatural comedy follows the lives of three flaky paranormal investigators who find themselves in countless gooey situations. The…
- Razor's Edge, The (1984)
- Dir. John Byrum
Feat. Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Denholm Elliott
- Bill Murray is in early dramatic mode as a despondent WWI vet. embarking on a spiritual walkabout through India and the Himalayas.
Written by…
- Scrooged (1988)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Alfre Woodard…
- Bill Murray is hilariously mean–spirited as a yuppie incarnation of Charles Dicken’s ‘Scrooge’ who eventually gets a change of attitude…
- Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver…
- A cash–in for sure, but as much fun as the original, with the paranormal pests here thriving on all the "bad vibes" of grumpy Manhattanites.…
- Quick Change (1990)
- Dir. Bill Murray
Feat. Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid
- Clever caper comedy features the most ingenious bank robbery ever staged. Rollicking fun with Bill Murray, Geena Davis and Randy Quaid.
- What About Bob? (1991)
- Dir. Frank Oz
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Bill Murray
- Psychiatrist Richard Dreyfuss is followed and endlessly harassed on his vacation by a lovable but neurotic Bill Murray. Wonderful lunacy ensues.
- Saturday Night Live - 15th Anniversary Special (1992)
- Feat. Robin Williams, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks…
- Compilation of some of the best sketches from the first fifteen years of the US TV–show 'Saturday Night Live'. This programme was a training…
- Mad Dog and Glory (1992)
- Dir. John McNaughton
Feat. Robert De Niro, Bill Murray, Uma Thurman
- Wimpy cop Robert De Niro saves the life of smarmy mobster Bill Murray who then obliges him with the dubious services of one Uma Thurman for a week.…
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- Dir. Harold Ramis
Feat. Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott…
- Bill Murray is perfectly cast as a cranky TV weatherman who gets stranded in a tin–pot town, where he wakes every day in the same day, over and…
- Ed Wood (1994)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker…
- Tim Burton, the eccentric visionary behind EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, PEE–WEE and BATMAN finds a soul mate in recounting the life of the world's…
- Kingpin (1996)
- Dir. Pete Farrelly, Bob Farrelly
Feat. Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Bill Murray
- Woody Harrelson and Randy Quaid go bowling for the makers of DUMB AND DUMBER. The gross–out slapstick is this time charged with edgy satire,…
- Space Jam (1996)
- Dir. Joe Pytka
Feat. Michael Jordan, Bill Murray
- Basketball star Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny slam dunk with other looney tunes and a host of midget aliens.
Anarchic humour and a decent…
- Larger Than Life (1996)
- Dir. Howard Franklin
Feat. Bill Murray, Jeremy Piven, Linda Fiorentino…
- Bill Murray is a 'motivational speaker' who inherits an elephant from the father "he never knew he had". Thus begins a trans–continental…
- Man Who Knew Too Little, The (1997)
- Dir. Jon Amiel
Feat. Bill Murray, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley…
- Contrived spy comedy, in which a bumbling Bill Murray accidently inducts himself into various high level intrigues. Though nothing special, this…
- Rushmore (1998)
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams
- Bamboozling minds everywhere is this oblique comedy from Wes Anderson (BOTTLE ROCKET), re–envisioning that Hollywood mainstay, Highschool USA,…
- Cradle Will Rock (1999)
- Dir. Tim Robbins
Feat. John Cusack, Bill Murray, John Turturro…
- Caught between government paranoia and unionist principles in depression–era New York, a theatre troupe voice their dissent by attempting to…
- Charlie's Angels (2000)
- Dir. McG
Feat. Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu…
- TV's favourite female crimefighters get the big screen makeover. Not quite the phenomenon that were Farrah and co., contemporary imposters Drew…
- Hamlet (2000)
- Dir. Michael Almereyda
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Julia Stiles, Bill Murray…
- Setting Shakespeare’s play in the contemporary corporate world, the dir. of NADJA brings a fresh slant to the classic despite low–budget…
- Osmosis Jones (2001)
- Dir. Pete Farrelly, Bob Farrelly
Feat. Bill Murray, Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne…
- The Farrelly Bros (KINGPIN) take their comic fixation with bodily functions to extremes by setting this icky animation within the bowels of Bill…
- Lost in Translation (2003)
- Dir. Sofia Coppola
Feat. Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi
- A coolly romantic and engaging tale of a “brief encounter” between two Americans stranded in Tokyo – a movie–star in midlife crisis…
- Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Roberto Benigni, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop…
- A compendium of whimsical b&w shorts from lapsidaisical indie auteur Jim Jarmusch, set around various celebrity encounters over nicotine and…
- Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The (2004)
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett…
- Another snorkle into the 'Cinema Absurd with Wes Anderson', delivering an intricate comedic conceit woven around a washed–up oceanographer…
- Broken Flowers (2005)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Bill Murray, Julie Delpy, Frances Conroy…
- A beguiling middle–age lament starring Bill Murray, unfurled in typical low gear by the world's 'coolest' director, Jim Jarmusch.
Playing an…
- Lost City, The (2005)
- Dir. Andy Garcia
Feat. Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman, Andy Garcia
- Actor/director Andy Garcia‘s passionate tribute to his native Cuba and to the explosive chapter of history that saw it changed forever. Garcia…
- Garfield 2: A Tale of Two Kitties (2006)
- Dir. Tim Hill
Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Bill Murray, Billy Connolly…
- Sardonic feline Garfield (voiced by Bill Murray) and his owner travel to England in this demure and vastly superior sequel, where the purrfect one…
- Darjeeling Limited, The (2007)
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman…
- Idiosyncratic comedy from the dir. of THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS combines a dusty, nostalgic sub–continental adventure–quest with a whimsical…
- City Of Ember (2008)
- Dir. Gil Kenan
Feat. Harry Treadaway, Saoirse Ronan, Tim Robbins…
- Dystopian children's fantasy set in an underground city of the future that is threatened by eternal darkness but whose leaders protect their citizens…
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman…
- Wes Anderson’s quirky, buttoned–up sensibility is a fantastic match for Roald Dahl’s classic tale about a sly, debonair fox (George…
- Limits of Control, The (2009)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Isaach de Bankole, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton…
- Indie King Jim Jarmusch directs this mysterious and moody crime thriller, in which a Lone Man wanders through Madrid and Seville on an undisclosed…
- Get Low (2010)
- Dir. Aaron Schneider
Feat. Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek…
- Folksy comic tale with mysterious hermit Duvall throwing the inhabitants of a small town into turmoil when he decides to host his own funeral party.
- Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis…
- Wes Anderson's latest exquisite comedy, about two 12–year–olds in 1960s New England who consummate their adolescent romance by running…
- A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2012)
- Dir. Roman Coppola
Feat. Charlie Sheen, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray…
- An eye–popping, ultra–stylised pop–art comedy from Roman Coppola (son of Francis, sister of Sofia), whose absurd satire of a…
- Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
- Dir. Roger Michell
Feat. Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Colman…
- Pleasant chronicle of the affair between President Roosevelt (Bill Murray) and his distant cousin, Daisy (Laura Linney), which comes to light during…
- Grand Budapest Hotel, The (2014)
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric…
- Dir. Wes Anderson at last marries his quirky, meticulous aesthetic to a marvellously exotic setting and characters to create arguably his finest film…
- Monuments Men, The (2014)
- Dir. George Clooney
Feat. George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray…
- George Clooney directs and stars in this stirring WWII adventure based on the deeds of a team of Allied art historians who go behind enemy lines to…
- St. Vincent (2014)
- Dir. Theodore Melfi
Feat. Bill Murray, Naomi Watts, Melissa McCarthy…
- Likeable coming–of–age comedy about an unlikely friendship between a young boy and a misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who…
- Dumb and Dumber To (2014)
- Dir. Pete Farrelly, Bob Farrelly
Feat. Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Rob Riggle…
- Much derided sequel has Carrey and Daniels re–uniting togo on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for…
- Olive Kitteridge (TV Mini-Series) (2014)
- Dir. Lisa Cholodenko
Feat. Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Ann Dowd…
- Frances McDormand is superb as the forbidding Olive Kitteridge in this exemplary HBO adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize–winning…
- Aloha (2015)
- Dir. Cameron Crowe
Feat. Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Emma Stone…
- Hawaiian set romantic comedy with Bradley Cooper as a defense worker who teams up with a pilot to stop a satellite launch.
- Rock the Kasbah (2015)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Bill Murray, Leem Lubany, Kate Hudson…
- Bill Murray strikes out in this tepid comedy as down–on–his–luck music manager who discovers a teenage girl with an extraordinary…
- Jungle Book, The (2016)
- Dir. Jon Favreau
Feat. Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley…
- An eye–popping, effects–driven take on the tale of Mowgli a young boy raised by wolves who's existence is threatened by the tiger Shere…
- Dead Don't Die, The (2019)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton…
- Zom–com from indie favourite Jim Jarmusch, assembling a stunning ensemble cast and following the police force of a small town as they struggle…
- French Dispatch, The (2021)
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton…
- A wildly inventive anthology film from meticulous auteur Wes Anderson (GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL) set in in a fictional 20th century French town, where a…
- Ghostbusters Afterlife (2021)
- Dir. Jason Reitman
Feat. Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace…
- The fourth Ghostbusters movie with much of the original cast reappearing alongside fresh young faces, directed and co–written by Jason Reitman…