59 Rob Reiner 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.

This biographical film focuses on the rise of Jordan Belfort from an entry-level employee at a brokerage firm to founding his own firm that engaged in massive security scams involving widespread corruption on Wall Street. However, his decadent lifestyle of sex, drugs and excess led to his downfall by attracting the attention of the FBI.

Stand by Me is a coming-of-age movie centering on the lives of four friends, Gordon ‘Gordie’ Lachance, Christopher ‘Chris’ Chambers, Theodore ‘Teddy’ Duchamp, and Vernon ‘Vern’ Tessio. On their quest to find a dead body, the four boys battle personal demons and a gang led by John ‘Ace’ Merill, only to return home permanently changed by their experience. 

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.

Novelist Paul Sheldon, known for creating the character Misery Chastain meets with a car accident. Nurse Annie Wilkes rescues him and claims to be his number one fan. However, she transforms into a violent psychopath, takes Paul captive, and tortures him when she realizes Paul is killing Misery in his latest novel. 

Harry and Sally first meet as newly graduates when they share a long drive together from Chicago to New York City, and along the way, they argue about whether men and women can be just friends. They meet over and over in the following decades and become close friends, but are concerned about sexual relationship ruining their friendship.

Navin Johnson, an adopted son of a poor black family, is a simple-minded youth who decides to explore the world and travels to St. Louis on his 18th birthday. As he struggles to find his place in the world, his naiveté lands him in trouble but also helps him out. Though initially exploited by everyone, soon his invention changes everything for him. 

At their very first meeting second grader, Julie Baker, falls in love with Bryce Loski, But Bryce is not sure and tries his best to avoid her, going to the extent of dating other girls. Now in eighth grade, Julie begins to realize that she has been wrong in thinking that Bryce is the love of her life. At the same time Bryce too begins to feel that he has been wrong about Julie. 

When elderly blue-collar mechanic Carter Chambers learns he has lung cancer, he befriends fellow cancer patient billionaire health care magnate Edward Cole, and the two men embark on a road trip with a wish list of things to do before they "kick the bucket".

David Shayne is a young and idealistic playwright who moves to Broadway in 1928. A gangster agrees to fund his debut play on the condition that David casts his demanding and talentless girlfriend as the actress. David turns into a cheating writer by the time of the opening night.

The Magic of Belle Isle is a comedy drama film which is about an alcoholic novelist who moves to a small village hoping that he will regain his writing strength. He soon meets and befriends a mother of three children, and with her help, he tries to rejuvenate his life and his work. 

Sam cannot get over the death of his wife. On Christmas, his eight year old son Jonah, calls up the radio station and Sam is forced to speak about his feelings. The show is heard by Annie Reed, a reporter who writes to Sam, but he has started dating someone and does not show interest. However, Jonah promises to meet her on Empire State Building on Valentine's Day.

Set in 1951, an up-and-coming Hollywood screenwriter, Peter Appleton, is accused of being a communist. An accident after getting drunk, results in amnesia. Found near town of Lawson, he is mistaken as the MIA son of the community. He brings life to the town and rebuilds movie theater, the Majestic. As he regains his memory, the authorities also come looking for him.  

The Sure Thing is a romantic comedy film which tells the story of Gib, who decides to meet his friend in California, who has arranged a meeting for him with a beautiful girl. He travels to California but he is forced to ride with Alison, a girl with whom he doesn’t have a very good relationship.

Enter Laughing is a comedy film, which tells the story of an aspiring actor David, who joins a theater company. However, he lacks talent and continues to make effort to make his acting debut.  

The US President Andrew Shepherd is running for re-elections and has a high approval rating. As the widower with a young daughter meets environmental lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade, both are drawn towards each other. But this gives a chance to his opponent, Senator Bob Rumson, to question the popular president’s character. With plummeting approval rating, Shepherd has a hard decision to make.

This critically acclaimed film was based on former US President Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign in 1992. The film tells the story of Henry Burton who joins the presidential campaign of Jack Stanton, Governor of Arkansas, who is running for President.

Suzanne is an actress who is a recovering drug addict. Her production company says that she has to stay with her mother, if she wants to continue working. However, the problem is that her mother, who is a former actress, still treats her like a child. In addition, she is manipulative and self-absorbed.  

In 1970, Jerry, a college student, visits his parents and tells them that he wants to drop out of university to find his true purpose. His parents get worried, as they had spent a significant sum of money for his education. He soon falls for a woman older to him, and they start living together. Meanwhile, as the Vietnam War is going on, he tries various ways to avoid being drafted into the army.

After a civil rights leader named Medgar Evers is killed by a racist, an assistant district attorney helps his widow to find justice.

Due to a court order, an all-black inner city school is to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transferred there, but the black students oppose this vehemently. Therefore the school brings a tough black teacher to handle the situation.  

After their husbands leave them for younger women, three women are determined to get their revenge. Since all three of them had played an important role in making their husbands rich, now they plan to take away all their money. 

This black comedy film revolves around a bitter writing instructor who wants his former spouse dead and his student who wants his mother dead.  They come up with a plan: The boy will kill the instructor’s spouse and the instructor will kill his student’s mother.

Benny owns a department store that is soon to undergo bankruptcy. As he prepares to go on a vacation, he plans a scheme that would solve all his financial problems. He would get his mentally ill brother-in-law to set fire to the store and burn it down, and then he would claim the insurance money. 

Bye Bye Love is a romantic comedy film which revolves around the lives and lifestyles of three divorced men living in the Los Angeles area. The film is shown from their perspectives, and it revolves around their relationships with their kids, their girlfriends, former wives, friends, etc.

While on his annual fishing vacation in the Pacific, Jerry Lewis accidentally saves an infamous gangster who totally looks like him. When the gangster tells him about diamonds hidden around a hotel, Jerry tries to recover them but soon finds himself being chased by two rival gangster group as well as a hotel employee and a stewardess. To escape them and stay ahead, Jerry dons various disguises.

When a television channel decides to telecast the daily life of an ordinary person they choose a video store clerk and begin filming his life 24X7.  Very soon, the show becomes very popular and he becomes a celebrity. But it also invites complications in his life and he starts looking for ways to quit the show without breaching his contract. 

Ben and Katie have been married for fifteen years. Although they have grown apart from each other, they keep up the facade of a happy marriage. However, one day, while the kids are away at camp, they think of separating and reassessing their relationship to see if they should stay together or split up.

Oren Little, a real-estate agent is deliberately mean to people around him and prefers it that way. His aim is to sell one final house and retire but life has something else for him in store. Suddenly, a nine-year-old child is dropped off at his place by his estranged son. Clueless Oren is forced to change his attitude and take help from Leah, his neighbour who helps him to take care of the child.

A former childhood star wants to regain the spotlight and hires a foster family to recreate the childhood which he never had.

The Muse

Alex Sheldon is a struggling writer who finds himself in a complicated situation. Although he is heavily in debt, and suffering from writer’s block, he needs to repay a significant sum of money to Cuban loan sharks. Since his publisher will give him the money when he finishes the novel, he is given 30 days to finish his novel and return the sum, or else he would be killed. He decides to seek the help of a stenographer named Emma.

Recently engaged journalist, Sarah Huttinger, visits her Pasadena family with her fiancé, Jeff Daly, for her sister’s wedding. She learns that probably the book and film The Graduate were based on her family and her father may not be her biological parent. For an answer, she must meet the man concerned, Beau Burroughs, now an internet tycoon, who could be her real father.

Philip is the head of a suicide prevention hotline named ‘Lifesavers’. His life gets complicated after he receives an eviction notice from his landlord, as he has been unable to pay his rent for months. In addition to his, he is also having a problem with his neurotic colleague, Mrs. Blanche. Philip tries to convince his girlfriend Susan, who is a loan officer to try to get him a small loan, but she refuses and breaks up with him after telling him that she is dating someone else.

This comedy film tells the story of Sandy Wexler, a talent manager, who is working in Los Angeles in the 1990s, representing several eccentric clients. His life takes a turn when he falls for one of his clients, Courtney Clarke, a talented singer, after discovering her at an amusement park.

North is a talented eleven year old boy, who doesn’t feel valued by his parents. Fed up of the daily quarrel of his parents, he sets out on a quest to explore the world,  to know himself, and to find the perfect parents.

This animated adventure sports comedy film tells the story of a young boy named Yankee who teams up with a sassy young girl, and sets out on a perilous journey from Chicago to return Babe Ruth’s baseball bat, before the end of the World Series.