Direction: Jerry Lewis

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Jerry Lewis. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Smorgasbord (Cracking up)

1983 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

6.7

117 votes

6.7

117 votes

The Patsy

1964 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Ina Balin · Everett Sloane · Phil Harris

Synopsis When a star comedian dies, his comedy team, decides to train a nobody to fill the shoes of the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man they choose, bellboy Stanley Belt, cant do anything right. The...

6.4

255 votes

6.4

255 votes

The Nutty Professor

1963 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Stella Stevens · Del Moore · Kathleen Freeman

Synopsis Professor Julius Kelp is a nerdy, scruffy, buck-toothed, accident-prone, socially awkward university professor whose experiments in the classroom laboratory are unsuccessful and highly destructive. When a football-playing bully embarrasses and attacks him, Kelp decides to "beef up" by joining a...

6.3

6K votes

6.3

6K votes

The Ladies Man (The Ladies' Man)

1961 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Helen Traubel · Kathleen Freeman · Hope Holiday

Synopsis The rubber-legged, rubber-faced Lewis plays Herbert H. Herbert, a man who is despondent over the break-up of his romance. While looking for a job, he comes across an impressive mansion (built as a set at the cost of 350,000 US...

6.2

987 votes

6.2

987 votes

Three on a Couch

1966 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Janet Leigh · James Best · Leslie Parrish

Synopsis An 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...

6.2

267 votes

6.2

267 votes

The Errand Boy

1961 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Brian Donlevy · Sig Ruman · Dick Wesson

Synopsis When Mr. T.P., president of Paramutual Studios, hires clumsy Morty Tashman (Jerry Lewis) to be "The Errand Boy" and to spy on his fellow employees in an efficiency "sting" operation, he never realized that he was developing the recipe for...

6.2

341 votes

6.2

341 votes

Hardly Working

1980 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

6.2

37 votes

6.2

37 votes

The Family Jewels

1965 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Donna Butterworth · Sebastian Cabot · Robert Strauss

Synopsis Nine-year-old Donna Peyton is orphaned when her father dies and leaves her with a $30 million fortune. Her late father's attorney, John Wyman, explains that she must visit each of her six uncles (all played by Jerry Lewis) and decide...

6.1

426 votes

6.1

426 votes

The Bellboy

1960 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Alex Gerry · Bob Clayton · Sonny Sand

Synopsis Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach. It is there that he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. All that he displays are facial expressions and a comedic slapstick style. And anything...

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

The Big Mouth

1967 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Harold J. Stone · Susan Bay · Buddy Lester

Synopsis Gerald Clamson (Jerry Lewis) is a bank examiner who loves fishing on his annual two week holiday. Unfortunately one day at the ocean he reels in an injured gangster in a scuba diving suit named Syd Valentine (also played by...

5.8

93 votes

5.8

93 votes

Which Way to the Front?

1970 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · John Wood · Jan Murray · Kaye Ballard

Synopsis Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in it's fight against Hitler. However, Byers is not the kind of man who takes "No" for an answer and so...

5.3

348 votes

5.3

348 votes

One more time

1970 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

4.2

21 votes

4.2

21 votes

Direction Jud Taylor · Robert E. Collins · Jeffrey Hayden · Leonard Horn

Cast David Hartman · E.G. Marshall · John Saxon · Robert Walden

Synopsis Dr. Benjamin Craig was an extremely successful neurosurgeon who had become so well-known and well-renowned in his field that he was able to open his own very exclusive clinic called 'The David Craig Institute of New Medicine'. There Craig and...

Not rated

Not rated

The Day the Clown Cried

1972 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Peter Ahlm · Lars Amble · Harriet Andersson

Synopsis In this unfinished movie (Some production footage can be seen online) Helmut Doork, a once great and famous clown, is fired from the circus. Getting drunk at a local bar, he pokes fun at Hitler in front of some Gestapo...

Not rated

Not rated