Billy Wilder — Director (28)
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Five Graves to Cairo (1943) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Five Graves to Cairo
director: Billy Wilder actor: Franchot Tone / Anne Baxter …
other title: I cinque segreti del deserto / Cinco Covas no Egipto …
During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use.
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Death Mills (1945) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Die Todesmühlen
director: Hans Burger / Billy Wilder actor: Anton Reimer
other title: I mulini della morte / Die Todesmühlen
Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder.
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Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kiss Me, Stupid
director: Billy Wilder actor: Dean Martin / Kim Novak …
other title: Baciami stupido / Küss mich, Dummkopf …
While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.
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Buddy Buddy (1981) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Buddy Buddy
director: Billy Wilder actor: Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau …
other title: Amigos, Amigos, Negócios a Parte / Victor la gaffe …
During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed neighbor contemplates suicide over marital problems.
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The Fortune Cookie (1966) IMDb TMDB
The Fortune Cookie
director: Billy Wilder actor: Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau …
other title: Non per soldi... ma per denaro / Knald eller fald …
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 cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.
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The Major and the Minor (1942)
The Major and the Minor
director: Billy Wilder actor: Ginger Rogers / Ray Milland …
other title: Frutto proibito / Der Major und das Mädchen …
Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old to travel for half the price. She hides from the conductors in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor, who takes the "child" under his wing.
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Sabrina (1954)
Sabrina
director: Billy Wilder actor: Humphrey Bogart / Audrey Hepburn …
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 wife and family. David is all play – technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who goes away to Paris for two years, and returns to capture David's attention, while falling in love with Linus.
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Irma la Douce (1963) Douban
Irma la Douce
director: Billy Wilder actor: Shirley MacLaine / Jack Lemmon …
other title: Irma la dolce / Das Mädchen Irma la Douce …
When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.
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Irma la Douce (1963) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Irma la Douce
director: Billy Wilder actor: Shirley MacLaine / Jack Lemmon …
other title: Irma la dolce / Das Mädchen Irma la Douce …
When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.
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Love in the Afternoon (1957)
Love in the Afternoon
director: Billy Wilder actor: Gary Cooper / Audrey Hepburn …
other title: Arianna / Ariane …
A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with a client's wife.
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Some Like It Hot (1959)
Some Like It Hot
★ 8.6 (16 ratings) director: Billy Wilder actor: Tony Curtis / Jack Lemmon …
other title: A qualcuno piace caldo / Ingen er fuldkommen …
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
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Double Indemnity (1944)
Double Indemnity
★ 8.5 (18 ratings) director: Billy Wilder actor: Fred MacMurray / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: La fiamma del peccato / Kvinden uden samvittighed …
A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's life insurance.
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The Apartment (1960)
The Apartment
★ 8.6 (20 ratings) director: Billy Wilder actor: Jack Lemmon / Shirley MacLaine …
other title: L'appartamento / Nøglen under måtten …
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 the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
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Avanti! (1972)
Avanti!
director: Billy Wilder actor: Jack Lemmon / Juliet Mills …
other title: Che cosa è successo tra mio padre e tua madre? / Avanti - kom ind! …
A successful businessman travels to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body, only to learn that dear old dad died with his longtime mistress.
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
director: Billy Wilder actor: Robert Stephens / Colin Blakely …
other title: Vita privata di Sherlock Holmes / Sherlock Holmes' privatliv …
Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments.
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Fedora (1978)
Fedora
director: 比利·怀尔德 actor: 威廉·霍尔登 / 玛尔特·克勒尔 …
other title: 丽人劫 / 迷情(港) …
Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement, only to discover the horrifying truth behind her success.