Eddie Murphy Movies I've Seen
by Lebowskidoo | created - 25 Mar 2018 | updated - 4 months ago | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Meet Dave (2008)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman.
Director: Brian Robbins | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Scott Caan
Votes: 43,649 | Gross: $11.80M
2. 48 Hrs. (1982)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him in order to track down a killer.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae
Votes: 85,271 | Gross: $78.87M
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: 165,786 | Gross: $90.40M
4. Best Defense (1984)
R | 94 min | Comedy, War
A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later.
Director: Willard Huyck | Stars: Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw, George Dzundza
Votes: 6,417 | Gross: $19.27M
5. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
R | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.
Director: Martin Brest | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher
Votes: 203,214 | Gross: $234.76M
6. The Golden Child (1986)
PG-13 | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child whom dark forces want to eliminate.
Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Eddie Murphy, J.L. Reate, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis
Votes: 59,381 | Gross: $79.82M
7. Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
R | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogomil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Jürgen Prochnow, Ronny Cox
Votes: 130,450 | Gross: $153.67M
8. 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: 223,568 | Gross: $128.15M
9. Harlem Nights (1989)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
During the 1930s, a New York City illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters, and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.
Director: Eddie Murphy | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello
Votes: 24,792 | Gross: $60.86M
10. Another 48 Hrs. (1990)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Jack Cates once again enlists the aid of ex-con Reggie Hammond - this time to take down The Iceman, a ruthless drug lord operating in the San Francisco bay area.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James, Kevin Tighe
Votes: 44,523 | Gross: $80.82M
11. Boomerang (1992)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A successful executive and womanizer finds his lifestyle choices have turned back on him when his new female boss turns out to be an even bigger deviant than he is.
Director: Reginald Hudlin | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Robin Givens, Halle Berry, David Alan Grier
Votes: 31,377 | Gross: $70.10M
12. The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Crime
A conman discovers during a "job" that US Congress is where the money is. "Name recognition" gets him elected. Will he develop a conscience?
Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Lane Smith, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Joe Don Baker
Votes: 16,928 | Gross: $46.67M
13. 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: 87,577 | Gross: $42.61M
14. Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A Caribbean vampire seduces a Brooklyn police officer who has no idea that she is half-vampire.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Allen Payne, Kadeem Hardison
Votes: 25,107 | Gross: $19.75M
15. The Nutty Professor (1996)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Grossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.
Director: Tom Shadyac | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Larry Miller
Votes: 123,669 | Gross: $128.81M
16. Metro (1997)
R | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A Hostage Negotiator teams up with a Sharpshooter to bring down a dangerous jewel thief.
Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Michael Rapaport, Kim Miyori, Art Evans
Votes: 29,077 | Gross: $31.99M
17. Doctor Dolittle (1998)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A doctor discovers that he can communicate with animals.
Director: Betty Thomas | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Peter Boyle, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt
Votes: 102,131 | Gross: $144.16M
18. Holy Man (1998)
PG | 114 min | Comedy, Drama
An over-the-top television evangelist finds a way to turn television home shopping into a religious experience, and takes America by storm.
Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum, Kelly Preston, Robert Loggia
Votes: 20,943 | Gross: $12.07M
19. Life (I) (1999)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In 1932, two strangers are wrongfully convicted and develop a strong friendship in prison that lasts them through the 20th century.
Director: Ted Demme | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatundé, Nick Cassavetes
Votes: 54,771 | Gross: $63.84M
20. Bowfinger (1999)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy
When a desperate movie producer fails to get a major star for his bargain-basement film, he decides to shoot the film secretly around him.
Director: Frank Oz | Stars: Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Christine Baranski
Votes: 73,934 | Gross: $66.38M
21. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Scientist Sherman Klump's inventions, his upcoming marriage to his pretty colleague Denise Gaines, and his reputation, are threatened by his evil clone Buddy Love.
Director: Peter Segal | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, John Ales
Votes: 53,273 | Gross: $123.31M
22. Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Dolittle must save a forest and a bear's life.
Director: Steve Carr | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Cedric The Entertainer, Kristen Wilson, Raven-Symoné
Votes: 47,394 | Gross: $112.95M
23. Showtime (2002)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based television cop show, while tracking down the manufacturer and distributor of an illegally made semi-automatic firearm.
Director: Tom Dey | Stars: Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, Rene Russo, Rachael Harris
Votes: 65,202 | Gross: $38.08M
24. The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
In the future, a man struggles to keep his lunar nightclub out of the hands of the Mafia.
Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Jay Mohr, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson
Votes: 26,999 | Gross: $4.42M
25. I Spy (2002)
PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A professional athlete has to help a U.S. government agent recover a missing jet.
Director: Betty Thomas | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell
Votes: 53,432 | Gross: $33.56M
26. Daddy Day Care (2003)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Family
Two men named Charlie Hinton and Phil Ryerson get laid off and have to become stay-at-home fathers when they can't find jobs. This inspires them to open their own day care center.
Director: Steve Carr | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin, Anjelica Huston, Steve Zahn
Votes: 73,761 | Gross: $104.30M
27. The Haunted Mansion (2003)
PG | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A realtor and his wife and children are summoned to a mansion, which they soon discover is haunted, and while they attempt to escape, he learns an important lesson about the family he has neglected.
Director: Rob Minkoff | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Marsha Thomason, Jennifer Tilly, Terence Stamp
Votes: 56,905 | Gross: $75.85M
28. Dreamgirls (2006)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.
Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Beyoncé, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover
Votes: 77,290 | Gross: $103.37M
29. Norbit (2007)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Romance
A mild-mannered guy, who is married to a monstrous woman, meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.
Director: Brian Robbins | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Thandiwe Newton, Terry Crews, Clifton Powell
Votes: 79,766 | Gross: $95.67M
30. Imagine That (2009)
PG | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A financial executive who can't stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter's imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await.
Director: Karey Kirkpatrick | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church, Yara Shahidi, Ronny Cox
Votes: 15,807 | Gross: $16.09M
31. Tower Heist (2011)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When a group of hard-working guys find out they've fallen victim to their wealthy employer's Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence.
Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda
Votes: 150,999 | Gross: $78.05M
32. A Thousand Words (I) (2012)
PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
After stretching the truth on a deal with a spiritual guru, literary agent Jack McCall finds a Bodhi tree on his property. Its appearance holds a valuable lesson on the consequences of every word he speaks.
Director: Brian Robbins | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Cliff Curtis, Kerry Washington, Clark Duke
Votes: 44,699 | Gross: $18.44M
33. Mr. Church (2016)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
"Mr. Church" tells the story of a unique friendship that develops when a little girl and her dying mother retain the services of a talented cook - Henry Joseph Church. What begins as a six month arrangement instead spans into fifteen years and creates a family bond that lasts forever.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Britt Robertson, Natascha McElhone, Xavier Samuel
Votes: 31,260 | Gross: $0.69M
34. Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
R | 118 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.
Director: Craig Brewer | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson
Votes: 64,953
35. Coming 2 America (2021)
PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Music
The African monarch Akeem learns he has a long-lost son in the United States and must return to America to meet this unexpected heir and build a relationship with his son.
Director: Craig Brewer | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley, Jermaine Fowler
Votes: 75,440
36. You People (2023)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Romance
Follows a new couple and their families, who find themselves examining modern love and family dynamics amidst clashing cultures, societal expectations and generational differences.
Director: Kenya Barris | Stars: Jonah Hill, Lauren London, Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Votes: 62,754
37. Candy Cane Lane (I) (2023)
PG | 117 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A man is determined to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas decorating contest. He makes a pact with an elf to help him win--and the elf casts a spell that brings the 12 days of Christmas to life, which brings unexpected chaos to town.
Director: Reginald Hudlin | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jillian Bell, Genneya Walton
Votes: 20,086
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