John Landis - Best to worst
by triggerhappy6 | created - 10 Apr 2014 | updated - 09 Apr 2018 | PublicOther:
Coming Soon (1982)(Documentary/Trailer compliation): 5/10
I haven't seen:
Slasher (2004)(Documentary)
Mr.Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007)(Documentary)
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1. Coming to America (1988)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Romance
An extremely pampered African prince travels to Queens, New York and goes undercover to find a wife that he can respect for her intelligence and strong will.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Paul Bates, Garcelle Beauvais, Feather
Votes: 223,498 | Gross: $128.15M
My rating: 9/10
2. Three Amigos! (1986)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Western
Three actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to perform their onscreen bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short, Alfonso Arau
Votes: 83,613 | Gross: $39.25M
My rating: 8/10
3. Trading Places (1983)
R | 116 min | Comedy
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche
Votes: 165,736 | Gross: $90.40M
My rating: 8/10
4. Into the Night (1985)
R | 115 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After discovering that his wife is cheating on him, an insomniac aerospace engineer accidentally meets, and tries to help, a beautiful model on the run from some extremely dangerous people.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stacey Pickren, Carmen Argenziano
Votes: 13,628 | Gross: $7.56M
My rating: 8/10
5. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Horror
Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
Director: John Landis | Stars: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Joe Belcher, Griffin Dunne
Votes: 120,452 | Gross: $30.57M
My rating: 7/10
6. Spies Like Us (1985)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Comedy
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Mark Stewart, Sean Daniel
Votes: 52,960 | Gross: $60.09M
My rating: 7/10
7. Innocent Blood (1992)
R | 112 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Anne Parillaud, Anthony LaPaglia, Robert Loggia, David Proval
Votes: 10,999 | Gross: $4.97M
My rating: 7/10
8.
Masters of Horror (2005–2007)
Episode:
Deer Woman
(2005)
TV-MA | 57 min | Horror
A harried, burned-out cop believes that a recent string of murders proves that the murderer might be a deer-like creature in the form of a beautiful woman, straight from a local Native American folklore legend.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Brian Benben, Walter High, Michael P. Northey, Cinthia Moura
Votes: 4,254
My rating: 7/10
9. Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
PG | 101 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Four horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling's landmark television series.
Directors: Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller, Steven Spielberg | Stars: Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Doug McGrath
Votes: 41,173 | Gross: $29.50M
My rating: 6,5/10
Co-directed it with Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller.
10. Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Axel Foley, while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who killed his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Jon Tenney, Joey Travolta, Eugene Collier
Votes: 87,523 | Gross: $42.61M
My rating: 6/10
11. The Stupids (1996)
PG | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Tom Arnold, Jessica Lundy, Bug Hall, Alex McKenna
Votes: 7,149 | Gross: $2.42M
My rating: 6/10
12. Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A spoof of low budget 1950s science-fiction movies, interspersed with various comedy sketches and fake commercials making fun of late-night television.
Directors: Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss | Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Michelle Pfeiffer, Arsenio Hall, Donald F. Muhich
Votes: 12,636 | Gross: $0.55M
My rating: 6/10
Co-directed it with Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton and Robert K. Weiss.
13.
Masters of Horror (2005–2007)
Episode:
Family
(2006)
TV-MA | 58 min | Horror
Harold is seemingly a peaceful neighbor in a quiet American midwestern town, but he's actually a murderous psychopath, setting a trap for a couple who has just moved in across the street from him.
Director: John Landis | Stars: George Wendt, Meredith Monroe, Matt Keeslar, Haley Guiel
Votes: 3,399
14. National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
R | 109 min | Comedy
At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
Director: John Landis | Stars: John Belushi, Karen Allen, Tom Hulce, Stephen Furst
Votes: 129,299
My rating: 6/10
15. The Blues Brothers (1980)
R | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Jake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.
Director: John Landis | Stars: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, John Candy
Votes: 214,409 | Gross: $57.23M
My rating: 6/10
16. Susan's Plan (1998)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Crime
Susan wants her reprehensible ex-husband dead and, in several bungled attempts by henchmen, tries to accomplish the deed. First her boyfriend hires two dim-witted hitmen. Then she hires a ... See full summary »
Director: John Landis | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Billy Zane, Michael Biehn, Rob Schneider
Votes: 1,891
My rating: 5/10
17. The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
R | 83 min | Comedy
The daily programming of a fictional local TV channel presented as a series of highly irreverent skits.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Evan C. Kim, Bong Soo Han, Bill Bixby, George Lazenby
Votes: 20,257
My rating: 5/10
18. Burke and Hare (2010)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, History
A black comedy about two 19th-century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Bill Bailey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Smiley, Tim Curry
Votes: 21,345 | Gross: $0.00M
My rating: 5/10
19.
Fear Itself (2008–2009)
Episode:
In Sickness and in Health
(2008)
TV-14 | 43 min | Horror
A bride receives a mysterious note on her wedding day, warning her that she is about to wed a serial killer.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Maggie Lawson, James Roday Rodriguez, Marshall Bell, Sonja Bennett
Votes: 938
My rating: 5/10
20. Oscar (1991)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, Crime
A gangster attempts to keep the promise he made to his dying father: that he would give up his life of crime and "go straight".
Director: John Landis | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Peter Riegert, Chazz Palminteri
Votes: 34,274 | Gross: $23.56M
My rating: 4/10
21. Schlock (1973)
PG | 80 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A small town is terrorized by "The Banana Killer", which turns out to be the missing link between man and ape.
Director: John Landis | Stars: John Landis, Saul Kahan, Joseph Piantadosi, Richard Gillis
Votes: 1,978
My rating: 4/10
22. Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Elwood must reunite the old band, with a few new members, and go on another "Mission from God."
Director: John Landis | Stars: Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Walter Levine, Tom Davis
Votes: 34,770 | Gross: $13.98M
My rating: 4/10
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