51 Christopher Guest Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Documentary filmmaker Marti DeBergi accompanies the English heavy metal band Spinal Tap, as they begin their big US tour to boost their new album. However, in the tour, problems are numerous - it appears that the band’s popularity is waning, their events get cancelled, the album cover raises objection, there is a stage prop malfunction and the girlfriend of one of the band members arrives.

Adapted from William Goldman’s 1973 novel of the same name, the film The Princess Bride tells the story of a farmhand named Westley, who is on a mission to rescue his true love Princess Buttercup from the odious Prince Humperdinck.

Best in Show is presented as a documentary film, which captures the happenings around the fictitious Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show in Philadelphia, and focuses on the excitement and tension displayed by the participants, their owners and their handlers not only during the show, but also before and after the event.  

After two US Marines kill another, Lieutenant Commander JoAnne Galloway proposes to defend them suspecting that they acted on a "code red" order from above. When the case is instead assigned to Liutentent Daniel Kaffee, known for seeking plea bargains, Galloway convinces him to take the case to court and question Colonel Nathan Jessup despite lack of evidence.

In a small town named Blaine, in Missouri, a few residents prepare for a community theater production led by an eccentric director named Corky St. Clair. They soon learn that someone from Broadway will be attending it, as well.

This musical comedy film revolves around three folk bands who reunite for a TV performance for the first time in decades.  

During a bank robbery by a gang, one of the robbers Ed Miller kills a man impulsively. Their leader is displeased, and insists that the gang scatter until the heat cools down. The groups of brothers go in separate ways, but they soon regroup for another heist.  

After street thugs murder his wife and brutally rape his daughter during home-invasion, mild-mannered architect Paul Kersey turns to police who are unable to apprehend the criminals. When he receives a revolver as gift from a client, Paul, frustrated with a feeling of injustice, starts patrolling the streets, dispensing vigilante justice to the muggers he encounters in the dark of the night.

Susan, a small time photographer, and Anne, an aspiring writer, are both roommates and close friends. Their life takes separate turn when Anne gets married and leaves while Susan continues to struggle with her career. Her first attempt at a serious relationship also proves to be a non-starter. Soon, she begins to resent Anne’s family life while Anne begins to feel jealous of her independence. 

Geeky orphan Seymour works in Mushnik’s failing flower shop and dreams about co-worker Audrey. After a solar eclipse, he finds a strange plant which he names Audrey II. The flourishing plant fetches good business, but weirdly, it has voracious appetite for human blood and flesh. Audrey’s sadistic boyfriend Orin appears to be a fitting candidate; but what about Audrey II’s next meal? 

Mrs Henderson Presents is a comedy drama film about Laura Henderson, who is an eccentric 70 year old widow who purchases a cinema and remodels it to create the Windmill Theater in London. She even starts adding female nudity to her shows, to bring more audiences.

The cast and crew of an independent film crew are hopeful about winning the Oscar, after their performance garners a lot of buzz.  

Mark Bellison is a screenwriter of historical readings in an alternate universe where the concept of lying does not exist and people tell whatever is on their minds. After being fired from his job and warned of being evicted, he blurts out a lie in the bank and realizes how it can change his life forever.

The Last Word is a comedy drama film which tells the story of Danny Travis, a washed-up inventor, who learns that his house is going to be condemned, after which his kids will be left on the street. Travis is so outraged that when a city official comes for the eviction, he takes the man hostage. Meanwhile, Geritty, a police captain tries to defuse the situation. An opportunistic TV journalist named Paula Herbert turns public sympathies both for and against Travis.

A toy company programs their2 sets of toys, ‘The Commando Elite’ and ‘The Gorgonites,’ with military technology that is used for steering missiles, enabling the toys to move and talk. In a suburban community, the two cliques acquire thinking capacity and creating their own weapons, the Commando Elite set out to destroy the peaceful Gorgonites, consequently putting the neighborhood humans in danger. 

In this second installment in the Night at the Museum series, Larry learns that the exhibits will be moved to the Smithsonian Institution without the Tablet of Ahkmenrah. He soon receives a call for help from Jedediah who, along with his other friends, is under attack from Kahmunrah. Kahmunrah intends to raise an army and conquer the world. Larry now must save his friends.

In 1804, Leslie Edwards, an aristocrat, and Bartholomew Hunt, a man with knowledge of the wilderness, unite to compete against the renowned Lewis & Clark to become the first people to chart and make it across the US to the Pacific Ocean.

Mascots is a mockumentary film which shows us a competition between several sports mascots for the Gold Fluffy Award of the World Mascot Association Championship.      

The French-Belgian animated film depicts a pre-historic tribe of cavemen wherein twins O and Ah are born, but O being different is rejected by them. Igua, a brontosaur looks after O; however, later O wanders alone and invents things like wheel and fire. As O meets his tribe, he shares his knowledge, but twin Ah, now tribe’s chief, uses it for destruction.

This French/Belgian adult animated comedy film was also known as Jungle Burger in the United Kingdom. The plot involves the capture of June, the woman of Shame: Ruler of the jungle by the soldiers of Queen Bazonga who wants her hair. To free her, Shame sets off to the dark Bush Country alongside his only loyal friend Flicka