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Top 10 Greatest Jack Nicholson Movies

Top 10 Greatest Jack Nicholson Movies

Though Jack Nicholson achieved fame through his portrayal of intense, slightly neurotic characters, he has since played a wide variety of roles from a cool biker to a cartoonish villain in the last three decades of his career. He has played small, supporting roles to powerful leads with the same aplomb and sense of enjoyment. We bring together the top ten most memorable jack Nicholson movies, movies that bear his unforgettable mark.

10. Anger Management

This movie has Adam Sandler in the lead, as a businessman who is forced to go in for anger management therapy due to a series of misunderstandings. However, the real teeth to the movie is provided by Jack Nicholson, as the unorthodox doctor whose methods of treatment that almost border on the psychotic but amazingly, manage to get results.




9. As Good As It Gets

Jack plays the compulsive writer, who hates the sudden changes his life is going through, to near perfection. Forced to take care a neighbor’s dog and having to handle a difficult relationship, Nicholson nevertheless manages to finally see what he has been missing in his life.




8. The Departed

When Scorsese first offered him a role in this movie, Nicholson declined, refusing to play another run-of-the-mill gangster boss role. So Scorsese and his team set about adding meat to the role and came up with a character that was so brutal, yet unique in nature that only a Jack Nicholson could do justice to it.





7. Batman

Michael Keaton had the title role in this film but it was Jack Nicholson who made the movie his own playing the unpredictable ‘The Joker’. In this dark and foreboding movie, the sadistic humor of The Joker provided some comic relief and at the same time enhanced the feeling of menace.




6. Something’s Gotta Give


Jack Nicholson plays an aging playboy who dates women a third of his age and is afraid of serious commitments till he meets the mother of a young woman he is dating. Reflecting shades of his personal life and obviously having fun with it, Nicholson shows why he is getting better and better with each passing day.


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