Want to know the best Michael Caine movies? How about the worst Michael Caine movies? Curious about Michael Caine box office grosses or which Michael Caine movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Michael Caine movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
My father introduced me to Michael Caine (1933-) in the movie The Man Who Would Be King. Since that 1975 movie I have followed his career very closely. I am probably one of the few people on Earth who not only saw The Swarm at the theater but also Beyond the Poseidon Adventure at the theater. After years of struggling as an actor, in the mid 1960s he finally became a star with the British films Zulu, Alfie, and Ipcress Files. Since then he has starred in roughly 90 movies. Over the years Caine has received 6 Oscar® nominations and 2 Oscar® wins. Not only is he still popular after a 60 plus year career but he is still appearing in some the biggest movies out there (Inception, Batman trilogy). Currently he is director Christopher Nolan’s good luck charm. Caine has appeared in the last 7 Nolan films (he has an uncredited voice role in 2017’s Dunkirk).
His IMDb page shows over 170 acting credits since 1956. In the table below, Ultimate Movie Rankings ranks his movies in 6 different sortable columns. Television roles, cameos, shorts and straight to DVD movies were not included in the rankings.
Michael Caine Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Michael Caine Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
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- Sort Michael Caine movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Michael Caine movie received.
- Sort Michael Caine movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
- Blue Link in Co-Star column will take you to that star’s UMR movie page
Our Personal Top Ten Michael Caine Movies
Adjusted Michael Caine Adjusted Worldwide Box Office Grosses
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Hello,
Carole, Carroll, Carol what is the difference, because it is a so nice surname
Lombard Queen of the Screw ball comedy, Baker Queen sex Kitten type and Linley, i have just seen her in Poseidon and in Harlow but i dont know so much because in France at the beginning of the sixty that was Baker who was on the high step;
But Carole , Carole, carol what ever stay one of my favorite surname!!
A PLUS
Pierre
Hey Pierre….funny comment about all of the Caroles…..lol Glad it is staying your favorite surname….thanks for all the comments today.
Hello,
Happy Birthday Sir Michael Caine;
One of the best actor i know and he has a so great English accent;
I dont know if he made a film with Maggie Smith because together it will be a great pleasure to hear, like a beautiful Symphonie;
This is the second comment i do and i dont know where the first gone but i lost it like i lost a lot of posts and comments, i think it is my fault because i typ with my iPad;
Bonne nuit
Pierre
Hey Pierre….thanks for visiting our Michael Caine page…..as we celebrate his birthday. Caine has made a few movies with Maggie Smith…..the most famous is California Suite…..in that one they play a married couple….she plays an actress that is in Hollywood for the Oscars….in the movie she was nominated but lost….while in real life she actually won the Oscar for that role. In her speech she gave Caine some major kudos. Sorry about your comments disappearing. Generally…..if two people post a comment at the same exact time….the comment might disappear….hopefully it will not happen again. Good feedback.
1 Thanks for the feedback. I used to confuse Lynley with Baker because (1) both were called Carroll/Carol (2) both played Harlow (3) each was initially promoted as a Baby Doll sex kitten type and [4] of course they each had [apparently] blonde hair.
2 When making Some Like it Hot Marilyn is supposed to have said to Tony in a private conversation “Someday our looks will go.” Marilyn was not to know that would unfortunately never happen to her hence my own pleasure at just “being here”.
3 So you will not take my advice to profile “Kitchen Sink” stars but instead the snob in you simply hankers after a viewing of Larry in Bunny Lake !! As always he’s naturally very good actually. He was always perceived more as a prestige actor rather that a box office star and one film historian claimed that he was really a stage performer not totally suited to movies.
4 However all of Britain’s actor knights like Gielgud, Richardson and Sir Maurice drooled over him just as young American thespians idolised Mr Mumbles. When asked by a journalist just before shooting started on Sleuth who was going to get top billing the then plain MISTER Micklewhite retorted “Olivier of course.” Sir Maurice later told of how when they met on set he deferentially addressed Larry as Lord Olivier [Larry got his peerage in 1970] only for young[ish] Micklewhite to be instructed “Call me Larry.”
5 Interestingly Sir Maurice kept his Micklewhite name until recently when it started to cause confusion at today’s high security conscious airports but when the Queen knighted him in 2000 it was as Sir Maurice Micklewhite CBE and that is presumably how he will always be recorded in the Royal Rolls. It academic to me as I will always consider him to be “Sir Maurice”.
6 Personally I though that Larry had great screen presence and if he had been an American he would have been recognised as an even bigger star than he was. But then of course he would never have gotten those snooty English titles!
7 I remember being very nervous about what was in that shuttered room and as my pals and I were heavily into Cthulhu at the time I was dreading it might be that dark God or his grandfather Yog-Sothoth . However if I recall correctly it turned out to be just an ordinary mortal who had gone mad and was in captivity.
8 True Bruce should have no trouble with a Lynley or Remick page but as they were always 2nd fiddle or less when a big star was in the movie I think that many of their grosses would be as Danny DeVito expressed it in his movie of the same name “Other People’s Money.”
9 Lemmon got a Golden Globe nomination for Under the Yum Yum Tree. Nostalgically I remember seeing it in Birmingham England when I served with the British RAF there. Anyway will keep my eye out for your next subject
Hey Bob…good breakdown on Steve’s latest videos….I imagine I am a few videos behind….between work, WoC care and the website being broken….I am falling so far behind on lots of stuff.
HI BRUCE
1 Thanks for responding to the latest posts from me and some of the distinguished kindred spirits who seem to have joined me on this site. Hope your activities schedule evens out and the site frustration problems fade away.
2 In the confusion over the site management the correction button facility seemed to have disappeared though I haven’t tested it yet today. I sorely miss the little fella because –
(1) I notice that in its absence there were quite a few minor mistakes that I couldn’t correct.
(2) I was actually going to suggest that you supplement it with a “Joel fright” ticking clock where people like me who don’t like “losers” will be warned that they have a certain amount of time to switch to another page before the latest Joel gem kicks in !!. However with the difficulties that you have been experiencing such matters are understandably low in your priorities.
Hey Bob
1. Actually had time to catch up on some comments late last night….so glad I was able to respond to you and the Joel party goers.
2. That correction button is one of the features that has not been brought back…..it is not for lack of trying…..having a hard time finding that widget again….but I will look again before heading out the door for work.
3. The good news is BERN1960 is making great progress…..she is currently scheduled to return to our house on the 20th…..she has made great strides at rehab…..the lady is kicking some butt!……Two days ago she was working on stairs….and yesterday she rode a stationary bike for 18 minutes…..she seems pretty determined to be one of the good stats of elderly people breaking their hip
4. If only there was a “Joel fright” ticking clock….that would be sweet!….lol.
Thanks for all the feedback on all the pages…..you are the man.
Happy to hear that your mother is doing so well, Bruce!
Thanks Flora…BERN1960 has been working very very hard….and her efforts are paying. Pretty incredible….that less than two weeks ago she broke her hip…..and today she was walking around the gym at the rehab facility. Appreciate the kind words and good thoughts.
HI BRUCE
Thanks for the explanations and I’m sure that we can all live with the absence of the correction button if the Good News is that your mother will be returning to your house in much improved health. Anyway I don’t make as much mistakes as the rest of you so what am I bitching about!
Hey Bob…..the progress BERN1960 has made since breaking her hip two weeks ago is amazing. Two weekends ago I was convinced she would never live in her house again…..now I can see….that I was so wrong….she might be back in 6 more weeks…..as I am sure all the activity in our house will only motivate her more…lol. thanks for the nice thoughts.
Bob, I watched The Shuttered Room late last night I had a copy ‘floating’ somewhere. Different from how I remembered it, Oliver Reed was sort of typecast as a young thug back in the 60s, when he starts to get angry I keep imagining him turning into a werewolf (as he did in Hammers Curse of the Werewolf). 🙂 Lynley’s hubby Gig Young uses karate to defend himself from a gang of thugs let by Olly.
Warning spoilers ahoy –
I thought the creature in the attic was a deformed hairy cannibal, which is how I dimly remembered it but it turned out to be Carol Lynley’s insane twin sister (also played by Lynley with unkempt kair, mad eyes and razor sharp fingernails) cruelly locked up in the attic by her parents and never spoken about to anyone except eccentric aunt Flora Robson who has looked after her ever since her parents died (by a bolt of lightning no less, how’s that for a cursed family?).
Sorry about the speelling mistakes in the post above, I was typing too fast and the edit button is missing.
Hey Steve….the edit button is back……so now you have 5 minutes to correct your issues.
HI BRUCE
Hadn’t seen your post to Steve before my last one to you – so Hello again old friend the Correction Button! Well done Bruce,
Hey Steve….interesting reading about how your mind remembered the movie versus how the movie really is. Sounds interesting……especially with Oliver Reed being in peak form.
1 Great that you were able to catch up on The Shuttered Room again. You must have quite DVD/Video library. But SNAP! I’ve just started watching the 1972 Horror Express again with Cushing/Lee. It’s proving great fun but in some ways a bit dated with all the bad guys/minor characters “foreign” and made to look like Peter Lorre with a toothache. How relatively young the two stars looked in those days though.
2. It’s been half a century since I saw 1967’s Shuttered Room so I’m glad that my memory was correct and the inhabitant of the Room was just a mortal who had gone mad and not some Cthulhu-type monster. I’m indebted to you for confirming the fact.
2 Thanks also for sharing with me that Carol played a double role in the movie as I was not aware of that even when I saw the film – the young eyes are sharper but not as perceptive!
3 Of course I could not have missed it if Myrna Loy had taken two roles in a movies as they would never have stopped talking about it on this site. That would have been a pain in the proverbial but still it would not have altered the normal billing CLARK GABLE, WILLIAM POWELL, MYRNA LOY AND MYRNA LOY. Sounds right because if any leading actress in her day could have got herself last billed twice among the stars of the one movie that would have been our Myrna!
4 One scene that I HAVE always remembered clearly though from Shuttered Room is Gig Young’s high-powered action sequence that you describe. It was a bit out of type for him however as he often played the wimp that the hero laughed at – see for example Teacher’s Pet with Gable or Come Fill the Cup in which weakling alcoholic Gig is nursed to sobriety by tough-guy Cagney. And in Strange Bedfellow there was no way Gig was going to end up with La Lollo with Rock also in the movie!
5 Haven’t got a chance yet to look at your catalogue because I was in bed all day yesterday with a 24 hour tummy bug which thankfully has gone away so I’ll have to look now and see if there’s anything new from you. Meanwhile have a good weekend.
HI BRUCE
1 Have just now discovered that the correction facility is back with us and indeed it seems improved in that the text if more clearly presented and therefore slightly easier to amend.
2 Well done!
Happy 85th Birthday to Sir Michael Caine. My favourite Caine movie is Sleuth.
Hey Flora….thanks for returning to our Caine page on his birthday….Sleuth is one of my favorite Caine movies too.
Happy Birthday Michael.
I think I’ll watch a film of his at the weekend to mark his birthday – Zulu is a big favorite of mine… how about Batman Begins? [cue Bob groaning]… The Swarm? Sleuth! Can’t go wrong with Sleuth, I love Sleuth! “…a jumped up pantry boy who doesn’t know his place!”
Hey Steve…..85 and still a movie making machine…..3 movies in post production…..he might work until he is 90……if Plummer can do it….then Caine can do it too. When I was younger it seemed like Caine and Gene Hackman were in every movie…..here is an interesting stat….since Hackman retired in 2004…Caine has made 24 more movies…and that does not even count his direct to dvd movies. When I was attaching the trailers…..I found Surrender to look funny….I actually saw that one in theaters…..but it is ranked way way down the list…..but I remember liking it. So check out Surrender for his birthday…lol. Thanks for the feedback.