63 Garry Marshall Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Dottie and Kit, two Oregon farm sisters, along with other girls, are selected by the Women’s Baseball Association. Their team manager, Jimmy Dugan, who is a former star player but now an alcoholic, doesn’t take his job very seriously. However, as the girls take up all the challenges head-on, their enthusiasm and grit makes Dugan take a proud interest in his team. 

Edward Lewis, a corporate raider who buys and tears down companies, is ditched by his girlfriend after he asks her to escort him during a business trip. He hires a prostitute, Vivian Ward, to pose as his girlfriend for a week, but things get complicated when he falls in love with her despite their disparate lifestyles.

Overboard is a romantic comedy film, which tells the story of a wealthy and spoilt heiress, Annie, who mocks and cheats a carpenter she hired. When she gets amnesia after being in an accident, he decides to introduce her to her regular life, as well as brainwash her into believing that he is her husband.      

Max Dennison has recently moved with his younger sister Dani and their family to Salem, Massachusetts. While trick-or-treating during Halloween, Max unknowingly resurrects three evil witches, Winifred, Sarah, and Mary Sanderson. Now with the help of an immortal black cat Thackery, they must stop the witches from sucking the soul of every child in town.  

Cecilia Carol ‘CC’ Bloom and Hillary Whitney meet on a New Jersey beach as 11-year-olds, and become best friends. Over the years, the two share a turbulent relationship, yet a strong bond. Though residing on opposite coasts, they keep in touch and despite their jealousies, fights and rivalries, both are always there for each other, because it is a friendship for lifetime. 

Lost in America is a comedy film which tells the story of David and Linda, a couple living in Los Angeles, who are dissatisfied with their lives. While David works at an advertising agency, Linda works for a departmental store. David ends up losing his job, after he insults his boss for not giving him a promotion. He convinces Linda to quit her job as well, and the two decide to sell their assets, drop out of society and set out on a soul searching journey across the country.       

Launching Anne Hathaway into stardom, The Princess Diaries is a teen comedy film that showcases the transformation of an ordinary 16-year-old schoolgirl from San Francisco into the princess of Genovia. Mia Thermopolis is a high school student who suddenly discovers that she is royalty and tries to learn the nuances of becoming a princess from her grandmother whilst navigating school life.

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.  

A former convict Johnny gets released from prison and starts working as a cook in a local diner. He soon falls in love with a waitress named Frankie, who is a loner and emotionally wounded. However, Frankie is determined to win her love.  

The Other Sister is a romantic comedy film which revolves around a young woman Carla, who has a mild psychological disability. She returns home to her overprotective mother, after completing her schooling, and shortly after, falls for a young man named Daniel, who has a similar condition.

This romantic comedy film shows us the backstage lives of the cast and crew of a popular day-time soap opera. Along with her producer, a new actress plans to sabotage and end the career of the leading lady of the show.

When photographer Grif Henderson is assigned to accompany a group of students in France, he decides to take his wife Jenny and son Davey with him. But problem starts from the very beginning. On the ship, they are assigned bunk beds in separate rooms while in Paris, the hotel Jenny booked for herself turns out to be the home of a womanizing lawyer.  

A nineteen year old Christine Adams decides to leave her broken family life in a small town and move to Los Angeles and live with Eddie Molina, her boyfriend. However, she finds a lot of difficulties and restlessness in her life with Eddie.

A 25 years old copy editor in a Chicago newspaper has been ordered to pose as a teenager and enroll in a high school so that she can give a firsthand report on students’ behavior. Adhering to the instruction, she enrolls at South Glen South High School; but despite her youthful look finds it hard to make friends. It becomes more complicated when she falls in love with the English teacher. 

Princess Mia Thermopolis has just graduated from Princeton. She returns to Genovia, only to find that she must marry within a month or lose her right as heir to the throne. She must also contend with her feelings for Lord Devereaux whose scheming uncle Viscount Mabrey wants his nephew to become the next king. 

After his application is rejected at Stanford University, Shaun finds out that his academic transcript got mixed up with that of another student. Due to his determination to get accepted at the university, Shaun decides to use any means necessary. 

Rachel is a promiscuous, rebellious and uncontrollable teenage girl, who is sent by her dysfunctional family to spend the summer with her grandmother. Her grandmother gets her a receptionist job for Dr Simon Ward, and soon, Rachel attempts to seduce him, but he doesn’t show interest. Eventually, Rachel targets another virgin man named Harlan.

Raising Helen is a comedy drama film, which tells the story of a young woman, Helen, who becomes the guardian of her sister and brother-in-law’s three children after they die in a car accident. However, she discovers that raising them is much more difficult than she imagined.  

Terry is a bank employee who works with computers and talks with others routinely through it. Things take a turn when one day, she connects with a mysterious user named Jumpin’ Jack Flash, and she receives a coded message from him. She manages to decode it and learns that he is a secret agent trapped behind enemy lines.

Jack, a taxi driver, comes across two alien siblings, who appear to be like human children, and also claim that they are on a mission to save Earth as well as themselves from a dangerous killer from outer space. 

David Basner is a successful advertising executive who seems to have everything in life. However, things get complicated when his parents decide to divorce after 36 years of marriage, leading to troublesome consequences.   

Scared of commitment, a small town woman, Maggie Carpenter, ditches her fiance every time at the altar. Ike Graham is a New York based weary journalist who travels to Maggie’s town to write an expose on her. The two inevitably fall in love as they get to know more of each other, but the big question is – Will Maggie again run away from her marriage?

A Valentine’s Day witnesses remarkable ups and downs in some intersecting relationships in Los Angeles. Married-for-many-years grandparents wither a crisis, a lady army officer chats for hours with a businessman co-passenger, a florist plans to propose to his school-teacher girlfriend who has inadvertently fallen for a married man, whereas a sports-reporter is assigned to cover ‘Valentine’s Day’ ……which holds many more twists. 

The film depicts several intertwined stories involving varied incidents and emotions experienced by different individuals on the night of the New Year’s Eve and highlights different human elements such as love, hope, and forgiveness, second chance and promise. Second of the three romantic comedy films directed by Garry Marshall, it was a huge box office success.

Mother’s Day is an American romantic comedy film which revolves around the lives of several seemingly unconnected people living in Atlanta, who come to terms with their relationships with their mothers, as Mother’s Day approaches.

Maryjane is a drama film which takes us to a high school in a small town where marijuana use is quite widespread. An art teacher tries to persuade his students to stop using them, but he is instead framed himself for possession of marijuana and arrested.

Life after Beth is a horror comedy film which tells the story of a guy named Zach, whose girlfriend passes away. However, he finds himself in a surprise when she mysteriously returns from the dead. Slowly he realizes that Beth is no longer the same person.

At the wedding of a friend, the remaining bachelors bet on staying single. Seven years later, one of them, Michael tries to get his friend Kyle married, so that he can win the bet and get out of a sticky situation. However, things get quite complicated, when he starts developing feelings for Kyle’s future bride.

A photographer named Elliot Slater is the only one who has been able to snap photos of Omar, a jewelry thief. When he heads for an island for a vacation, he is followed by Omar and his partner Nina, as well as two police officers, who want to grab the photos. However, Elliot is unaware that he is being followed by so many people.

Chicken Little throws his little town in panic by claiming that a piece of sky has fallen on his head. But when the panic subsides and he fails to produce that piece, he becomes a laughingstock. To redeem his reputation, he joins the baseball team and helps his team to win.  But that is not enough. He must now convince his town folks, still very skeptical, that an alien invasion is imminent.