The Best Blake Edwards Movies Ranked And Where to Watch them

If you're looking for the best Blake Edwards movies of all time then here is a definitive list. We rank every movie directed by Blake Edwards based on their popularity score from IMDB from best to worst. Click on the ‘see more’ button to find out where to watch them in Australia covering all streaming services. In March 2024 there are 28 films in this list.

List of the Best Movies Directed by Blake Edwards In Order of Popularity

  1. Days of Wine and Roses
  2. Breakfast at Tiffany's
  3. The Party
  4. A Shot in the Dark
  5. The Great Race
  6. The Pink Panther Strikes Again
  7. Experiment in Terror
  8. Operation Petticoat
  9. The Pink Panther
  10. The Return of the Pink Panther
  11. Revenge of the Pink Panther
  12. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
  13. The Tamarind Seed
  14. 10
  15. Darling Lili
  16. The Carey Treatment
  17. Skin Deep
  18. Micki & Maude
  19. Blind Date
  20. Switch
  21. Sunset
  22. The Man Who Loved Women
  23. Trail of the Pink Panther
  24. A Fine Mess
  25. Curse of the Pink Panther
  26. Son of the Pink Panther
  27. Micki + Maude
  28. Gunn

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1. Days of Wine and Roses

Rated: Approved

7.8/10

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

2. Breakfast at Tiffany's

Rated: Approved

7.6/10

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

3. The Party

Rated: Approved

7.5/10

Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone actor from India, is accidentally put on the guest list for an upcoming party at the home of a Hollywood film producer. Unfortunately, from the moment he arrives, one thing after another goes wrong with compounding effect.

4. A Shot in the Dark

Rated: PG

7.4/10

Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon's driver at a country estate. A Shot in the Dark is the second and more successful film from the Pink Panther film series where both animated and real life sequences are mixed. A cult classic from Blake Edwards based on the play L’Idiot by Marcel Achard and Harry Kurnitz.

5. The Great Race

Rated: Passed

7.2/10

Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.

6. The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Rated: PG

7.2/10

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

7. Experiment in Terror

Rated: Not Rated

7.2/10

Kelly Sherwood is terrorized by a man with an asthmatic voice who plans to use her to steal $100,000 from the bank where she works. He threatens to kill her teenage sister Toby, if she tells the police. However she manages to contact F.B.I. agent Ripley.

8. Operation Petticoat

Rated: Approved

7.2/10

A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.

9. The Pink Panther

Rated: PG

7/10

The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for the Tyrolean Alps, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...

10. The Return of the Pink Panther

Rated: G

7/10

The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian manservant – to reveal the identity of 'The Phantom'.

11. Revenge of the Pink Panther

Rated: PG

6.6/10

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.

12. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

Rated: Approved

6.6/10

A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance, they must look like they are fighting. To sort this out an intelligence officer is sent in. Meanwhile the festival gets complicated with the Mayors daughter.

13. The Tamarind Seed

Rated: PG

6.4/10

During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.

14. 10

Rated: Approved

6.1/10

A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.

15. Darling Lili

Rated: G

6.1/10

World War I. Lili Smith is a beloved British music hall singer, often providing inspiration for the British and French troops and general populace singing rallying patriotic songs. She is also half German and is an undercover German spy, using her feminine wiles to gather information from the high ranking and generally older military officers and diplomats she seduces.

16. The Carey Treatment

Rated: M

6.1/10

Dr. Peter Carey is a pathologist at a Boston hospital. The daughter of the hospital's Chief of Staff dies after an illegal abortion goes wrong, and Carey's friend and colleague Dr. David Tao is accused of performing the abortion. Carey doesn't buy it, and so he digs deeper, angering the girl's father in the process. Questions abound: Who performed the abortion? Was the girl really pregnant? And what does it have to do with stolen morphine, blackmail attempts, and a mysterious and dangerous masseur?

17. Skin Deep

Rated: R

6.1/10

Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer's block, Zach slips in and out of casual relationships and one-night stands, while his drinking becomes more and more severe. With the help of a bartender and his therapist, Zach confronts his demons -- women and alcohol -- and rediscovers his writing voice.

18. Micki & Maude

Rated: PG

6/10

TV reporter Rob Salinger is married to Micki, but because she's always busy working, they hardly ever spend time together. One night at which he got stood up by Micki again, Rob meets cellist Maude and they soon get romanticly involved. When it turns out Maude is pregnant with his baby, Rob decides to marry Maude. When he's on the verge of telling Micki, she tells him she's pregnant, so he doesn't have the heart to leave her, but he marries Maude anyway. Now married to two pregnant women who don't know about each other, Rob has a busy time taking care of both and keep them from finding out.

19. Blind Date

Rated: PG-13

5.9/10

When bachelor Walter Davis is set up with his sister-in-law's pretty cousin, Nadia Gates, a seemingly average blind date turns into a chaotic night on the town. Walter's brother, Ted, tells him not to let Nadia drink alcohol, but he dismisses the warning and her behaviour gets increasingly wild. Walter and Nadia's numerous incidents are made even worse as her former lover David relentlessly follows them around town.

20. Switch

Rated: R

5.8/10

Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.

21. Sunset

Rated: R

5.7/10

Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

22. The Man Who Loved Women

Rated: R

5.2/10

A womanizing sculptor seeks help from a psychiatrist to cure him of his obsession with women.

23. Trail of the Pink Panther

Rated: PG

4.8/10

The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.

24. A Fine Mess

Rated: PG

4.7/10

Two friends an actor and a chef discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it. But also have to deal with the two men who fixed it who are trying to silence them. And there's also the mob boss whom the two guys work for who planned the fixing thing whose wife is having an affair with the actor.

25. Curse of the Pink Panther

Rated: PG

4.3/10

Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.

26. Son of the Pink Panther

Rated: PG

3.9/10

The eighth and last of the Pink Panther series. The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.

27. Micki + Maude

Rated: PG-13

/10

TV reporter Rob Salinger is married to Micki, but because she's always busy working, they hardly ever spend time together. One night at which he got stood up by Micki again, Rob meets cellist Maude and they soon get romanticly involved. When it turns out Maude is pregnant with his baby, Rob decides to marry Maude. When he's on the verge of telling Micki, she tells him she's pregnant, so he doesn't have the heart to leave her, but he marries Maude anyway. Now married to two pregnant women who don't know about each other, Rob has a busy time taking care of both and keep them from finding out.

28. Gunn

Rated: Not Rated

/10

The madam of a floating bordello hires private eye Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) to prove a gangster killed a crime boss.