Stalag 17 (1953)
Comedy | Drama | War
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
Starring: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Richard Erdman
Director: Billy Wilder
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver, Van Doude, Lise Bourdin
Director: Billy Wilder
One, Two, Three (1961)
Comedy
In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.
Starring: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Arlene Francis, Liselotte Pulver, Leon Askin, Pamela Tiffin
Director: Billy Wilder
The Apartment (1960)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis
Director: Billy Wilder
Sabrina (1954)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur, but it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden, Martha Hyer, Marcel Dalio
Director: Billy Wilder
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
Starring: Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Geneviève Page, Christopher Lee, Irene Handl, Clive Revill
Director: Billy Wilder
Fedora (1978)
Drama | Romance
Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress out of retirement.
Starring: William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, José Ferrer, Frances Sternhagen, Gottfried John, Arlene Francis
Director: Billy Wilder
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Sir Wilfrid Robarts is an ailing barrister who has been told that he should accept fewer legal cases for the sake of his health. However, he cannot resist defending Leonard Stephen Vole, a man accused of murder whose only alibi is provided by his devoted wife, Christine. The police are convinced of Vole's guilt as he stands to benefit financially from the murder, but Robarts believes that he can prove the man's innocence in court.
Starring: Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, Elsa Lanchester, Henry Daniell, John Williams
Director: Billy Wilder
Ace in the Hole / The Human Interest Story (1951)
Drama | Film-Noir
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Ray Teal, Frank Cady
Director: Billy Wilder
Double Indemnity (1944)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client's death.
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers
Director: Billy Wilder
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927.
Starring: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson, Marc Connelly, Arthur Space, Charles Watts
Director: Billy Wilder
Sunset Blvd. / Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Drama | Film-Noir
Noir-comic classic about death and decay in Hollywood. Joe Gillis, a handsome but bankrupt screenwriter, is hired by washed-up silent screen star Norma Desmond to pen her a comeback star vehicle. Gillis has had his latest screenplay rejected by the studios, and, desperate, takes up Desmond's offer to write Salome for her. She demands that he stay with her while he writes, and soon he becomes a virtual prisoner of the actress and her gloomy house.
Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough
Director: Billy Wilder
Irma la Douce (1963)
Comedy | Romance
In Paris, an ex-cop falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of that life by paying for all of her time.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi, Bruce Yarnell, Herschel Bernardi
Director: Billy Wilder
The Front Page (1974)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1920s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans though. It's the day before guilty (but insane) murderer, Earl Williams, is due to go to the gallows and Burns tempts Johnson to stay and write the story.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, David Wayne
Director: Billy Wilder
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Comedy
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Pat O'Brien, George Raft, Joe E. Brown
Director: Billy Wilder
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Comedy | Romance
It's every man's fantasy – a summer romance with the sexiest woman he can imagine. Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) is a happily married man whose wife and son are off on vacation when his tempting new neighbor (Monroe) sneaks in one hot summer night to cool off in his air-conditioned apartment. How does an ordinary man deal with this irresistible temptation after seven years of marriage? Find out in this 1955 treasure featuring Evelyn Keyes and Marguerite Chapman and directed by Oscar winner Billy Wilder.
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts, Robert Strauss, Oskar Homolka
Director: Billy Wilder
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Drama
Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been "on the wagon" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen, he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wrong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last…one way or the other.
Starring: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva
Director: Billy Wilder
Avanti! (1972)
Comedy | Romance
When Wendell Armbruster, a wealthy businessman from the US goes to Italy to claim his dead father's body, he finds himself falling in love with the daughter of his father's mistress.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills
Director: Billy Wilder
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The Major and the Minor (1942)
Comedy | Romance
New York working girl Susan Applegate is desperate to go home to Iowa but does not have the railway fare so she disguises herself as a child to ride half fare. Enroute she meets Philip Kirby, an Army major teaching at a military school.
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn
Director: Billy Wilder
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The Fortune Cookie (1966)
Comedy | Romance
A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Judi West, Cliff Osmond, Lurene Tuttle
Director: Billy Wilder
