The 32 Best Bill Murray Movies

Slacker comedies made him a star and deadpan art-house turns made him a legend; both camps are represented here, along with a couple of cameos that outgrew their movies.

1. 1
   Groundhog Day

   Harold Ramis's 1993 comedy classic with Murray as a cynical weatherman forced to relive the same day in Punxsutawney until he gets it right.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Moonrise Kingdom

   Wes Anderson's 2012 island fable with Murray as the glum lawyer father of a runaway twelve-year-old girl.
   884pts
3. 3
   Where the Buffalo Roam

   The 1980 cult comedy with Murray as gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, a role he researched by living with the writer.
   884pts
4. 4
   Ghostbusters II

   The 1989 sequel that reunited Venkman and the team to battle a river of slime and a possessed Renaissance painting in New York.
   810pts
5. 5
   Tootsie

   Sydney Pollack's 1982 comedy in which Murray steals scenes as the deadpan playwright roommate of Dustin Hoffman's cross-dressing actor.
   783pts
6. 6
   Stripes

   Ivan Reitman's 1981 hit military comedy with Murray as a slacker who talks his best friend into joining the US Army.
   762pts
7. 7
   The French Dispatch

   Wes Anderson's 2021 anthology in which Murray anchors the ensemble as Arthur Howitzer Jr., the magazine's dying editor.
   762pts
8. 8
   Ghostbusters

   The 1984 supernatural comedy blockbuster in which Murray's wisecracking Peter Venkman leads a team of paranormal exterminators through New York.
   762pts
9. 9
   On the Rocks

   Sofia Coppola's 2020 reunion with Murray, who plays a charming playboy father helping his daughter spy on her husband in Manhattan.
   762pts
10. 10
    Zombieland

    The 2009 zombie comedy famous for Murray's extended cameo as himself, hiding out in his Beverly Hills mansion disguised as the undead.
    724pts
11. 11
    What About Bob?

    The 1991 comedy pairing Murray's clingy, phobic patient with Richard Dreyfuss's increasingly unhinged psychiatrist on a lakeside vacation.
    647pts
12. 12
    Meatballs

    Ivan Reitman's 1979 summer-camp comedy that gave Murray his first starring film role as head counselor Tripper Harrison.
    647pts
13. 13
    Little Shop of Horrors

    The 1986 musical in which Murray's masochistic dental patient Arthur Denton delights in Steve Martin's sadistic dentist.
    647pts
14. 14
    The Dead Don't Die

    Jim Jarmusch's 2019 deadpan zombie comedy with Murray as the weary police chief of a small town overrun by the undead.
    647pts
15. 15
    The Jungle Book

    Jon Favreau's 2016 live-action Disney remake with Murray voicing the easygoing bear Baloo and singing The Bare Necessities.
    579pts
16. 16
    Ed Wood

    Tim Burton's 1994 biopic in which Murray plays Bunny Breckinridge, the flamboyant friend of the worst director in history.
    579pts
17. 17
    The Razor's Edge

    The 1984 Somerset Maugham adaptation Murray made as his first dramatic lead, playing a WWI veteran searching for meaning.
    502pts
18. 18
    Mad Dog and Glory

    John McNaughton's 1993 crime comedy with Murray cast against type as a stand-up comic mob boss opposite Robert De Niro.
    502pts
19. 19
    The Royal Tenenbaums

    Wes Anderson's 2001 family saga in which Murray plays the bearded neurologist Raleigh St. Clair, husband to Gwyneth Paltrow's Margot.
    413pts
20. 20
    Charlie's Angels

    The 2000 action-comedy blockbuster with Murray as Bosley, the Angels' bumbling go-between.
    413pts
21. 21
    Man Who Knew Too Little

    The 1997 spy spoof with Murray as a clueless American tourist who mistakes a real espionage plot for interactive theatre in London.
    413pts
22. 22
    Hyde Park on Hudson

    The 2012 period drama with Murray earning a Golden Globe nod as Franklin D. Roosevelt hosting the King of England in 1939.
    413pts
23. 23
    Scrooged

    The 1988 modern-day take on A Christmas Carol with Murray as a heartless TV executive visited by three ghosts.
    413pts
24. 24
    Quick Change

    The 1990 heist comedy Murray co-directed and starred in as a bank robber dressed as a clown who cannot get out of New York.
    413pts
25. 25
    Caddyshack

    The 1980 golf-club comedy in which Murray improvised his way into cult history as gopher-hunting groundskeeper Carl Spackler.
    312pts
26. 26
    Rushmore

    Wes Anderson's 1998 comedy that reinvented Murray as a melancholy steel tycoon feuding with a precocious prep-school student.
    312pts
27. 27
    Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

    Wes Anderson's 2004 oceanographic adventure built entirely around Murray as a washed-up Cousteau-style documentarian hunting a jaguar shark.
    312pts
28. 28
    St. Vincent

    The 2014 comedy-drama that earned Murray a Golden Globe nomination as a grouchy war veteran babysitting his neighbor's son.
    312pts
29. 29
    Lost in Translation

    Sofia Coppola's 2003 Tokyo drama that earned Murray his only Oscar nomination as a fading movie star adrift in a hotel bar.
    193pts
30. 30
    Kingpin

    The Farrelly brothers' 1996 bowling comedy with Murray as the comb-over villain Ernie McCracken, a role he largely improvised.
    193pts
31. 31
    Get Low

    The 2009 Depression-era drama with Murray as a sly funeral director staging a living funeral for Robert Duvall's hermit.
    193pts
32. 32
    Broken Flowers

    Jim Jarmusch's 2005 road movie in which Murray plays an aging Don Juan tracking down old girlfriends to find a son he never knew he had.
    0pts

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