The following is a list of selected movies that have Bill Murray in them – from early in his career to more recent films. This is but a partial listing and will exist updated on occasion; particularly after something new comes out.

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Stone the Kasbah (2015)

rock the kasbahRichie Vance is a done upwardly music manager. Every ane of his clients has left him but one, who presently also abandons him in Afghanistan while on a USO tour. Deserted without any money or his passport, Richie discovers a young girl with an astonishing singing voice. He takes the role of her manager equally he brings her to Kabul to compete in The Afghan Star, a pop reality show.

The cast of Rock the Kasbah also includes Zooey Deschanel, Bruce Willis, Shia LaBeouf, Danny McBride, and Kate Hudson.

Rock the Kasbah was released in theaters Oct 23, 2015 (U.South.)

St. Vincent (2014)

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A young male child, caught in the heart of his parents' hard divorce, happens to be the next-door neighbor of Vincent De Van Nuys (Bill Murray) – a specially wily and unfriendly war veteran with whom he strikes up an improbable friendship.

Against all odds, the foreign pair of friends forms a lasting bond that not merely helps the male child cope with his parents' struggles but helps Vincent learn to enjoy life again in the aftermath of PTSD and severe depression.

The bandage of St. Vincent also includes Melissa McCarthy and Naomi Watts.

St. Vincent was released in theaters October 24, 2014 (U.S.)



The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

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Gustave H is an obsequious, stuffy, and resourceful concierge at the Yard Budapest Hotel, a swanky resort located high up in the mountainous terrain of the charming Democracy of Zubrowka. Acclaimed British thespian Ralph Fiennes stars as Gustave, who forges a special type of paternal friendship with a young bellhop (Nada Moustafa, played by Tony Revolori) in the midst of a homicide investigation at the hotel. Eventually the concierge, who was bequeathed a valuable painting past the victim afterwards a i-nighttime stand up, becomes a prime doubtable.

The film essentially plays out as a quirky and endearing murder mystery filled with the signature wit and elaborate style of managing director Wes Anderson. It is a menstruation piece gear up in a quaint and prosperous Europe before World War II. A stiff supporting cast – which includes Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Jude Law and, of course, Bill Murray – gives the Grand Budapest Hotel an air of grandiosity.

The Monuments Men (2014)

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During Earth State of war Ii, a group of art historians and academics volunteered to join Allied frontline forces in Europe for the purpose of safeguarding and rescuing valuable works of fine art past some of the globe's greatest painters and sculptors. Actors George Clooney, Matt Damon, Pecker Murray, and John Goodman star in this pic that brings to light the brave piece of work performed by these mettlesome and unconventional unit, whose love for art and cultural heritage is proudly on display at the world'south greatest museums.

Although many of these brave men and women were past their prime with regard to participating in armed conflict, the Monuments Men special unit was able to rescue most five 1000000 works of art pillaged by the Nazis equally they invaded Europe.

Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

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Nib Murray stars as Franklin D. Roosevelt in this picture show, which focuses on a weekend in 1939 when King George VI (Samuel W) and Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) came to visit New York – an attempt by FDR to boost American support for U.k. before the war.

During this time, FDR besides begins a secretive romance with his afar cousin Margaret Suckley (Laura Linney) – of course, there is some dispute equally to how accurate this delineation is. At any rate, Hyde Park on Hudson allows for a rather personal and close look into the life of ane of the most beloved presidents in American History.

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

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In 1965, two children, Sam and Suzy, from very different backgrounds autumn in love and run abroad to a cove called Moonrise Kingdom, while throwing the town into an outraged frenzy. Suzy is the daughter of attorneys (played past Bill Murray and Frances McDormand) while Sam is an orphan at scout camp.

The large ensemble cast includes Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton, and Harvey Keitel – in addition to such Wes Anderson regulars as Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, and Bob Balaban.

Go Depression (2009)

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Directed by Aaron Schneider and inspired by true events, this tense menses drama stars Beak Murray as funeral managing director Frank Quinn, and Robert Duvall as Felix Breazeale. Felix is a cantankerous, shotgun-toting recluse who goes to Quinn and requests Quinn's help to suit his own funeral.

Later on seeing the manner townsfolk gossiped almost some other hermit who had died, Felix decides that he would similar to throw a funeral party for himself, merely one that he would like to attend while he'south nevertheless alive and kicking. Felix hopes to take guests who will share their stories about him and possibly even become to the root of the truth nigh his life and the reason he walked away from culture and disappeared into the Tennessee wood forty years before. The biggest question is, will anyone bear witness up to hear Felix Breazeale's story?

(Related story: Bill Murray on the Set of "Become Low")

Broken Flowers (2005)

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Don Johnston (played by Bill Murray) just wants to alive the quiet life of a retiree. Equally his virtually recent girlfriend moves out of his house, he receives a letter from an bearding ex-girlfriend stating that he has a teenage son who may exist looking for him. Although he is initially reluctant, Don is persuaded by a nosy neighbor to investigate and track downwards his possible son. After locating the v women most likely to have sent the letter, he embarks on an epic search for the truth. Equally he meets with each of his ex-lovers one after the other, however, will be able to detect the answers he's looking for?

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

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Directed by wunderkind Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou stars Bill Murray as the washed-up oceanographer Steve Zissou, a filmmaker in the spirit of Jacques Cousteau.

Steve's dearest friend Esteban is attacked and brutally killed past an unidentified species of shark during a swoop and Steve vows to kill the strange beast to avenge his friend. With a rag-tag group fabricated up of Team Zissou, the crewmembers of Steve'due south vessel the Belafonte, Steve's illegitimate son Ned Plimpton and a significant British journalist named Jane Winslett-Richardson, Steve sets out in unprotected waters to find the Jaguar Shark and avenge his friend.

Lost in Translation (2003)

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In this understated slice-of-life film directed past Sofia Coppola (The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette), Bill Murray plays Bob Harris, an aging actor who's traveled to Tokyo, Nippon for work and finds himself constantly overwhelmed and befuddled past the peculiarities of Japanese culture.

By chance, Bob meets Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) one evening at the bar in their luxurious hotel, and despite the considerable age gap, the two of them have an instantaneous and intense chemistry with each other. Charlotte is a bright young woman who'southward accompanying her photographer husband every bit he travels for his task, and she is often left to her ain devices in much the same way as Bob when he'due south not working.

Bob and Charlotte strike upward an easy companionship every bit they navigate the peculiar customs and vibrantly colored nightlife of the city together. Bob has a wife he can barely bring himself to talk to, and Charlotte's human relationship with her husband is tender but every bit afar. Are Bob and Charlotte looking to brand their friendship into something more than, or are they both just tired of being the simply people in Tokyo who feel asunder and alone?

Rushmore (1998)

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Jason Schwartzman plays fifteen-yr-erstwhile overachiever Max Fischer in this movie directed by Wes Andersen. With a scholarship to the exclusive Rushmore academy, membership to a apiculture society, and hobbies that include writing and producing plays, Max Fischer is the king of extracurriculars but non exactly king of applying himself when it comes to his real schoolwork.

Max's world begins to tilt on its centrality when he discovers that he'southward been placed on bookish probation and his hormones finally kick in, leading to him falling head over heels for a pretty teacher named Miss Cantankerous, who began working at the Rushmore uncomplicated school afterwards the death of her married man.

Max discovers that his friend, discontented millionaire Herman Blume (Bill Murray), is too in beloved with the beguiling school instructor, and Max launches an all-out war against his competition. Will he exist able to win Miss Cross's center or will his winner-take-all attitude cost him everything he values near?



The Homo Who Knew As well Little (1997)

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The Human being Who Knew Too Little is a 1997 film that chronicles the misadventures of Wallace Ritchie (Beak Murray) during a visit to England to visit his brother James (Peter Gallagher).

Ritchie, a well-meaning merely somewhat naive homo, is ready by his blood brother in the "Theatre of Life", which is supposed to requite people the awareness of being spies for an evening. Upon entering his evening of fun, Ritchie unwittingly stumbles upon an bodily spy ring, and unwittingly takes the place of one of the operatives.

Ritchie eventually meets Lori (Joanne Whalley), a call girl who partners with him. As the two get further and further into the spy ring, they begin to uncover a conspiracy that could have global ramifications. Once the leaders of this conspiracy take hold of on to him, they send infamous Russian assassinator Boris the Butcher (played past the unequalled Alfred Molina) after Ritchie and Lori. Then, as with multiple Murray films, hijinks ensue.

Kingpin (1996)

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This one-act starring Woody Harrelson, Vanessa Angel, Randy Quaid, and Bill Murray features bowling and centers around Run Munson, a professional person bowler, who loses his manus in a con game gone incorrect. He so tries to stay in the world of bowling past unsuccessfully selling bowling supplies.

While at the bowling alley, he watches Ishmael Boorg bowl a good game and tries to recruit him into becoming a pro. After some convincing, Ishmael agrees despite the fact that he is Amish. However, he is not quite the bowler Roy imagined him to exist.

Groundhog 24-hour interval (1993)

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In this moving-picture show directed by Harold Ramis, Bill Murray plays sourpuss weatherman Phil Connors, who goes to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania with his crew on consignment to encompass the almanac Groundhog Day event. Phil immediately notices something very strange is going on when he wakes upwardly the following morning time only to realize that he'southward reliving what should now be the previous day over and over.

No i else is aware of what Phil is experiencing, and he is the simply 1 who retains his memories of the Groundhog Days before that, so he takes advantage of the seemingly never-ending loop by seducing beautiful women and getting involved in high-speed police chases. Phil soon turns his attention to trying to woo his lovely producer, Rita (Andie MacDowell), simply tin he accept the shortcut to winning her over, or will he accept to go the long way around and learn what being a decent homo is all virtually first?

What Virtually Bob? (1991)

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In this movie directed by Frank Oz, Bill Murray plays Bob Wiley, an extremely neurotic and manipulative homo in need of assist. Richard Dreyfuss plays Dr. Leo Marvin, a successful psychiatrist who winds up having Bob dropped in his lap by a colleague. Leo easily Nib a copy of his new bestselling self-aid book and then takes off for an extended holiday at a lakeside cottage with his family.

Not content with being abased by his therapist, the usually reclusive Bob manages to detect out where Dr. Leo and his family are staying and gets on a bus to follow his wayward therapist. Although Leo is less than pleased at Bob's inflow, Bob manages to charm Leo's family with his personality and sense of humor. Worried that he might be losing his family for good, Leo slowly merely surely loses his mind and plots to kill the needy, abrasive patient that is quite literally driving him mad.

Quick Change (1990)

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Grimm (Pecker Murray) is totally fed up with New York City and decides to rob a depository financial institution. Dressed as a clown, with Loomis and Phyllis as accomplices, he pulls off the heist – but getting away proves to be a problem.

Quick Change as well stars Randy Quaid and Geena Davis. This movie was co-directed by Howard Franklin and Bill Murray.

Ghostbusters Ii (1989)

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Set five years after the events of the original film, it seems equally though everyone has forgotten what the Ghostbusters did for New York Metropolis, including the Ghostbusters. However, the Ghostbusters' very first client, Dana Barrett, is in need of their help once once more.

While Dana is out running errands with her baby son, Oscar, his stroller rolls out into traffic on its ain. The Ghostbusters investigate the spot where Oscar's stroller stopped and uncover a large river of pinkish ectoplasmic slime that's flowing towards the Manhattan Museum of Art where Dana works.

The evil spirit of Hungarian wizard Vigo the Carpathian awakens within a painting and orders Dana's boss to notice a child for him to possess and then that he tin can continue with his plans to take over the globe. Information technology'south up to the Ghostbusters to cease Vigo and rescue Dana's son earlier it'south besides late.

Scrooged (1988)

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In this dark, comedic adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Ballad, Bill Murray plays network president Frank Cross. Frank is an aroused, cynical man who hates Christmas, just will practise whatever information technology takes to get people to tune in for his network'due south special vacation line-up. The day earlier Christmas, Frank cruelly fires a junior exec for daring to criticize a violence-riddled promo for the network'due south big, upcoming Christmas Special, "Scrooge".

That nighttime, Frank has a nightmare almost his former, now-deceased boss Lou, who warns Frank that he has to mend his ways and tells him that he'll soon be visited by iii ghosts. With the help of a cranky, cab-driving elf, a sweet only violent sugarplum fairy, and the Monitor of Christmas Hereafter, Frank fumbles his way through his regrets and painful memories to finally come to terms with Christmas. Tin can Frank patch things up with his family unit and the girl he gave upwards for professional gain, or is it already besides late for him?

The Razor's Border (1984)

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Later Larry Darrell (Bill Murray) comes back to America from fighting combat at World War I, he has realized that he has non come dorsum as the same person. Larry has a fiance named Isabel, and she decides to postpone their wedding plans for a while when Larry travels to Paris. He realizes that he would like an easier life after doing some reading – a book that encourages him to head to Republic of india and Nepal, where he gets spiritual guidance from a lama.

When his trip has ended, he heads back to his normal life and is stunned to find out that Isabel and his old friends are not exactly the same equally when he outset left them. While Larry was away finding a simpler and easier life for himself in a spiritual fashion, he has returned to realize that life dorsum abode doesn't e'er stay the same.

This movie was based on the book of the same name past West. Somerset Maugham, published in 1944.

Ghostbusters (1984)

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In this comedy from director Ivan Reitman, parapsychologists Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Ackyroyd) and Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) find that they've lost the funding for their paranormal research studies. Seeing no other options, the three figure out a way to parlay their inquiry into a full-time task hunting and capturing ghosts and other paranormal disturbances.

They buy and renovate an old firehouse besides a classic hearse they paint and name the Ecto 1. They hang out their shingle equally the Ghostbusters and hire snarky secretary Janine to field calls and brand appointments. When cute cellist Dana Barrett finds the ancient temple of the evil elder god Gozer in her refrigerator, she turns to the Ghostbusters for help. Can they solve the mystery of the link betwixt Dana'due south apartment building and Gozer's temple before Gozer has its take chances to wreak havoc on New York City?

Stripes (1981)

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In this 1981 comedy from director Ivan Reitman, Pecker Murray plays John Winger, a hopeless loser who talks his buddy Russell (Harold Ramis) into enlisting in the ground forces with him for a laugh. John and Russell go stuck with stick-in-the-mud Sgt. Hulka (Warren Oates) and a whole gaggle of incompetents and goofballs, merely somehow they manage to brand it through their bones preparation.

While stationed in Germany, John and Russell take off in an armored personnel carrier disguised equally an RV to become and visit their girlfriends. John and Russell's platoon mates scramble to find the two of them every bit well every bit the stolen carrier, simply get captured and detained past communists in Czechoslovakia. John and Russell join Sgt. Hulka in a full-on attack to get their swain platoon members out alive.

Caddyshack (1980)

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Harold Ramis directed this raunchy 1980 summer one-act that follows the trials and frustrations of hardworking bluish-collar caddies equally they cater to the obscenely wealthy and eccentric members of the exclusive Bushwood Land Gild.

Quirky characters grow, including the uptight Gauge Smalls (Ted Knight), impolite but charming real estate programmer Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield), golf shaman Ty Webb (Chevy Chase), and a twitchy assistant groundskeeper and veteran Carl Spackler (Pecker Murray).

An aggressive young caddy named Danny tries to land the elusive Bushwood scholarship and so that he tin nourish college, simply information technology will take a bit more than to impress the impossible to please Smalls. With some help from beau caddies and golfing genius Ty Webb, Danny sets out to win a golfing competition that could modify his life forever.

Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)

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Almost twenty years before Fearfulness and Loathing in Las Vegas would hit the big screen, there was Where the Buffalo Roam, a semi-autobiographical comedy directed by Art Linson and starring Bill Murray equally eccentric gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Inspired past Thompson'due south obituary for his friend, attorney and activist Oscar Acosta, the film depicts Thompson's ascent to fame thanks to a piece he wrote for Boom Magazine virtually his chaser pal's battle in the courts to prevent several immature men from existence sent to jail for marijuana possession. Thompson covers the 1972 presidential ballot entrada merely winds up being thrown off candidate Richard Nixon'south plane thanks to his shenanigans. Masquerading as a respectable journalist, Thompson gets a devastating quote for his piece straight from the candidate'south oral cavity to polish off his next article.

Meatballs (1979)

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In this teen comedy directed past Ivan Reitman, Bill Murray appears in his beginning starring function as campsite counselor Tripper Harrison. The movie follows the exploits and antics of Tripper and his team of counselors in training at the cut-charge per unit summertime camp, Camp North Star.

The heart of the story centers on Rudy Gerner, a lonely and insecure young man who's been sent to North Star for the summer. Tripper befriends Rudy and helps him to build his confidence and Rudy encourages his new friend to hunt later on the pretty caput female counselor at the camp.

Amongst make-ups, pause-ups and pranks, the campers at N Star ready for the annual Olympiad, which the wealthy rivals of Camp Mohawk have won twelve years running. Will Camp Due north Star finally win the competition or will the cheaters on team Mohawk win for the thirteenth year in a row?