John Candy was a Canadian actor; John Candy was a comedian mainly known for his Hollywood film debut. He rose to fame during the 1970s, with many films shot back to back. John Candy’s comedy movies Planes Trains and Automobiles are famous ones. Down below are mentioned the best John Candy movies.
John Candy was not just an actor but also a co-owner of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian League. Unfortunately, at the age of 43, that was in the year 1994; Candy died, which ended his remarkable legacy in the film legacy.
Candy played mainly in comedy films, primarily revolving around physical comedy. John Candy movies have received many fans, usually due to Candy’s role played in the comedy film. Many best John Candy movies are ranked on many sites, and a few are mentioned below.
20. Planes, Trains, And Automobiles
- Director: John Hughes
- Writer: John Hughes
- Cast: Steve Martin, John Candy
- IMDb Rating: 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
- Platforms Available: Netflix
Neal Page is a marketing executive, and he is working in New York. Thanksgiving is near, and he wants to go to his home, which is in Chicago.
Finding a taxi gets difficult for him, and to add to that, the flight he was supposed to travel on gets canceled. He then has to share a cab to Chicago with a man named Del Griffith, who he is not very comfortable with.
However, as the story proceeds, it can be seen how Neal gets to like Griffith and the behavior that comes with it.
19. Spaceballs
- Director: Mel Brooks
- Writer: Mel Brooks, Ronny Graham, Thomas Meehan
- Cast: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, George Wyner, Joan Rivers
- IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 56%
- Platforms Available: Netflix
Druidia is a peaceful planet, and King Roland is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa to Prince Valium. Vespa, however, runs away with her droid Dot Matrix while the wedding takes place.
The fresh air on the planet Spaceball gets wasted, and the President of that planet decides to kidnap Princess Vespa so that they provide him with the code to Druidia’s atmosphere.
18. Uncle Buck
- Director: John Hughes
- Writer: John Hughes
- Cast: John Candy, Amy Madigan
- IMDb Rating: 7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 64%
- Platforms Available: Prime Video
A bachelor named Buck Russell is given the in-charge of taking care of his brother’s three children during a family crisis; he is a person whom nobody would recommend for babysitting.
However, he surprises the family by managing the household chores by providing heartwarming family comedy.
17. Who’s Harry Crumb?
- Director: Paul Flaherty
- Writer: Robert Conte, Peter Martin Wortmann
- Cast: John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Annie Potts, Tim Thomerson, Barry Corbin, Shawnee Smith
- IMDb Rating: 5.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 27%
- Platforms Available: Prime Video
The Crumbs are famous for their extreme talent in being detectives, and Harry is the latest generation among them. Unfortunately, however, the skill passed down seems to have a skipped in age, and Harry is not that great of a detective.
The story shows how the executive wanted an incompetent detective to keep his evil plan covered. However, Crumb shocks everybody by actually making headway in the case.
16. Cool Runnings
- Director: Jon Turteltaub
- Writer: Lynn Siefert, Tommy Swerdlow, Michael Goldberg
- Cast: John Candy, Leon Robinson, Doug E. Doug, Malik Yoba
- IMDb Rating: 7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 76%
- Platforms Available: Disney Hotstar
Derice Bannock is a Jamaican sprinter who gets disqualified from the Olympics for a silly accident. This is when he decides to take part in the Jamaican Bobsled team.
Irving Blitzer has a horrible coach for the team, who has a history of two medal golds and got eliminated for cheating. Derice convinces the coach to give him a chance to coach the first Jamaican Bobsled team.
15. Splash
- Director: Ron Howard
- Writer: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman
- Cast: Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy
- IMDb Rating: 6.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
- Platforms Available: Prime Video
A man named Alan Bauer remembers being drowned as a child and that a young mermaid saved him. His memory remains fresh; however, he continues with his life and his family’s wholesale fruit and vegetable business and is on a journey toward finding true love.
As an adult, one day, he loses his wallet in the surf, and a young mermaid returns his purse, he realizes that she is his soulmate and they are meant to spend their lives together, but the mermaid is afraid to mention it to him that she is not a human.
14. Stripes
- Director: Ivan Reitman
- Writer: Len Blum, Dan Goldberg, Harold Ramis
- Cast: Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P.J. Soles, Sean Young, John Candy
- IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
- Platforms Available: Prime Video
Two friends, John Winger and Russell Ziskey, decide to join the army, though they both are not built to be a part of the army. During the training, they turn out to be misfits in the team.
Stella and Louise are always helping the two escape the trouble they get in with drill sergeant Hulka.
13. The Blues Brothers
- Director: Ivan Reitman
- Writer: Len Blum, Dan Goldberg, Harold Ramis
- Cast: Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P.J. Soles, Sean Young, John Candy
- IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
- Platforms Available: Prime Video
Jake Blues spends three long years in the Joliet Penitentiary and is reunited with his brother, Elwood, after all those years. They have a small R&B band.
The brothers grew up in a Catholic orphanage, and they decide to pay a visit to the place they grew up in and discover that the institution is in need of $ 5,000 to pay their taxes. So the Blues Brothers decide to help get their band back and play a few gigs.
12. Brewster’s Millions
- Director: Allan Dwan
- Writer: Sig Herzig, Charles Rogers, Wilkie C. Mahoney
- Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Helen Walker, June Havoc, Eddie “Rochester,” Anderson
- IMDb Rating: 6.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 56%
- Platforms Available: Prime Video
Montgomery Brewster, also called “Monty,” is a baseball player who failed and plays for the Hackensack Bulls in New Jersey as a minor league baseball player. Unfortunately, Monty seems to be on the headlines for reasons that take place off the field than on the field.
A huge turning point occurs in his life when his uncle dies with $300,000,000 left behind in his will, but there is a challenge that he needs to complete to inherit the assets.
11. Delirious
- Director: Tom Mankiewicz
- Writer: Lawrence J. Cohen, Fred Freeman
- Cast: John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, Raymond Burr, David Rasche, Dylan Baker, Charles Rocket
- IMDb Rating: 5.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 30%
- Platforms Available: Prime Video
A successful soap opera head writer, Jack, is delightful to the star of the show Laura. Everyone knows she is taking advantage of Jack, except for himself.
But one day, Jack gets a conk on his head, which gifts him a few insights and powers, and whatever he writes for his soap opera starts turning to be true. This is a romantic comedy film.
10. Armed and Dangerous
- Director: Mark L. Lester
- Writer: Brian Grazer, James Keach, Harold Ramis, Peter Torokvei
- Cast: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Robert Loggia, Kenneth McMillan, Meg Ryan
- IMDb Rating: 5.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 10%
- Platforms Available: Prime Video
An ex-cop, Frank Dooley, gets thrown out of the force after his colleagues framed him. Herman Kane is another character, an attorney who quit the post because he lost his nerve.
Both these characters get into a private firm as security guards, but with the warehouse being robbed, they smell something fishy happening in the security firm’s union; they investigate the case together, which provides meaning to their life, which they had given up on.
9. The Great Outdoors
- Director: Howard Deutch
- Writer: John Hughes
- Cast: Dan Aykroyd, John Candy
- IMDb Rating: 6.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 41%
- Platforms Available: Prime Video
In The Great Outdoors, we get to see a Chicago family man with a big heart who has brought a lakeside resort area for his family, although it turns out that his wife and kids do not seem as excited as he is.
Chet has high expectations about the holiday season, and his expectations get destroyed when his brother-in-law drops in unexpectedly along with his family. This makes it difficult for Chet’s family to enjoy their holiday season.
8. National Lampoon’s Vacation
- Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
- Writer: John Hughes
- Cast: Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Randy Quaid, John Candy
- IMDb Rating: 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 67%
- Platforms Available: Prime Video
In this John Candy movie, Clark W, Wife Ellen, daughter Audrey ii, and son Rusty belong to the Griswold family, and the family decides to spend their vacation going to Walley World, which is on the West Coast.
Griswolds faces much bad luck, which seems to back them up one after another, but Clark had promised his family that they would have one of their best vacations. Will it be possible for him to keep his promises?
7. Once Upon a Crime
- Director: Eugene Levy
- Writer: Charles Shyer, Nancy Meyers, Steve Kluger
- Cast: John Candy, James Belushi, Cybill Shepherd, Sean Young, Richard Lewis, Ornella Muti, Giancarlo Giannini, George Hamilton
- IMDb Rating: 5.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 35%
- Platforms Available: Prime Video
The story is about Little Red Riding Hood, who goes on a trip with some cookies and wine but encounters an incident.
Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Princess, and Match-selling Girl are also underlay in the story, and many tricks are used as props in the movie.
The story has a big mystery hidden in it, and the whole story is about finding out what the secret is all about, doesn’t that sound very exciting?
6. Summer Rental
- Director: Carl Reiner
- Writer: Mark Reisman, Jeremy Stevens
- Cast: John Candy, Richard Crenna
- IMDb Rating: 6.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 17%
- Platforms Available: Prime Video
In this John Candy movie, Jack Chester takes his family on vacation to the beach, he is an overworked air traffic controller, and this break is a needed one for him.
Things take a turn when things start to get nasty for Jack Chester and their family, as Jack gets into a feud with a local yachtsman and takes a race to regain the pride and respect of his family.
5. Home Alone
- Director: Chris Columbus
- Writer: John Hughes
- Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Catherine O’Hara, John Candy
- IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 67%
- Platforms Available: Disney Hotstar
McCallister’s family is planning for a Christmas vacation to Paris, France. One day before their trip, the youngest in the family, Kevin, fights with his older brother and is grounded to his room on the third floor of their house.
The next day, the family leaves for the trip and forgets about Kevin. However, Kevin had a great time eating Pizzas and jumping on his parent’s bed. Unfortunately, this is when his alone time gets interrupted by two burglars making their way into the house.
Kevin plays smart and comes up with many ways not to let the burglars rob anything from the house.
4. The Rescuers Down Under
- Director: Hendel Butoy, Mike Gabriel
- Writer: Jim Cox, Karey Kirkpatrick, Byron Simpson, Joe Ranft, John Candy
- Cast: John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, Raymond Burr, David Rasche, Dylan Baker, Charles Rocket
- IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 71%
- Platforms Available: Disney Hotstar
Cody is a nine-year-old boy who makes a distress call about a trapped giant Golden Eagle, Marahute, and makes friends with the bird.
Cody gets kidnapped by Percival McLeach, a murderous poacher, and he wants the bird as it belongs to an endangered species, making it an extremely profitable business. So Cody tries his best to save his friend, the bird.
3. 1941
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Writer: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
- Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Christopher Lee, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Warren Oates, Robert Stack, Treat Williams, Nancy Allen, Eddie Deezen, Bobby Di Cicco, Dianne Kay, Slim Pickens, Wendie Jo Sperber, Lionel Stander
- IMDb Rating: 5.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 44%
- Platforms Available: Prime Video
The movie is taken during the year 1941, and it shows the reaction of the Japanese as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor during the World war.
An egg is shown, smashed by a hammer, followed by the frame being dominated by red with white and then blue color, denoting many meanings.
2. Nothing But Trouble
- Director: Dan Aykroyd
- Writer: Dan Aykroyd
- Cast: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Demi Moore
- IMDb Rating: 5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 13%
- Platforms Available: Prime Video
In this John Candy movie, Chris Thorne is a publisher traveling with his neighbor, Diane Lightson, a lawyer, and with the siblings Fausto and Renalda Squiriniszu for a lecture located in Atlantic City.
Chris does not stop the car while going to the mining area and gets arrested. All of them are taken to a mansion that looks like a weird world in a junkyard and gets locked up in a cell.
They are later invited to have dinner with the judge and his family, but they try to flee from the place but get hunted down.
1. Going Berserk
- Director: David Steinberg
- Writer: David Steinberg, Dana Olsen
- Cast: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy
- IMDb Rating: 5.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 31%
- Platforms Available: Prime Video
A clumsy chauffeur gets hypnotized by a cult, and he is asked to kill the father of his fiancee, who is a congressman. Candy plays the role of the chauffeur.
The cult wants him dead as he sues the cult for fraud, and many weird tales and characters turn up days after the wedding
