Search results for "Billy Wilder"
The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend
IMDb: 8.2
101

Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst… but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend…

Genre: Drama
A Foreign Affair

A Foreign Affair

A Foreign Affair
IMDb: 7.4
116

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Apartment

The Apartment

The Apartment
IMDb: 8.3
125

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sunset Blvd.

Sunset Blvd.

Sunset Blvd.
IMDb: 8.5
110

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Avanti!

Avanti!

Avanti!
IMDb: 7.2
140

A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father’s body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution
IMDb: 8.4
116

When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a…

Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot
IMDb: 8.3
122

Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
One Two Three

One Two Three

One Two Three
IMDb: 8.0
115

A Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin tries to keep the boss’s daughter from marrying a Communist.

Genre: Comedy, Family
Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity
IMDb: 8.3
107

A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners…

Fedora

Fedora

Fedora
IMDb: 6.9
114

An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star whom he tries to lure out of retirement.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Front Page

The Front Page

The Front Page
IMDb: 7.4
105

A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
IMDb: 7.2
125

Director Billy Wilder adds a new and intriguing twist to the personality of intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes. One thing hasn’t changed however: Holmes’ crime-solving talents. Holmes and Dr. Watson take…

Ace in the Hole

Ace in the Hole

Ace in the Hole
IMDb: 8.2
111

A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career, but the situation quickly…

Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Kiss Me, Stupid

Kiss Me, Stupid

Kiss Me, Stupid
IMDb: 7.0
125

A jealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife, Zelda, away for the night while he tries to sell a song to a famous nightclub singer Dino, who is…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Love in the Afternoon

Love in the Afternoon

Love in the Afternoon
IMDb: 7.3
130

Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold.

The Spirit of St. Louis

The Spirit of St. Louis

The Spirit of St. Louis
IMDb: 7.2
135

Charles ‘Slim’ Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.

Sabrina

Sabrina

Sabrina
IMDb: 7.7
113

Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work — busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch
IMDb: 7.2
105

With his family away for their annual summer holiday, Richard Sherman decides he has the opportunity to live a bachelor’s life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from the apartment above…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stalag 17

Stalag 17

Stalag 17
IMDb: 8.0
120

It’s a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17. For the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem – there seems…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
The Fortune Cookie

The Fortune Cookie

The Fortune Cookie
IMDb: 7.3
125

A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother in law as the king of the ambulance chasing lawyers starts a suit while he’s still knocked out. The…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Irma la Douce

Irma la Douce

Irma la Douce
IMDb: 7.4
135

Nester Patou, a naive police officer, is transferred to the red light district in Paris and organizes a raid on a dodgy hotel running as a brothel – inadvertently disrupting…

Genre: Comedy, Romance