Billy Wilder — Playwright (37)
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A Song Is Born (1948)
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Howard Hawks actor: Danny Kaye / Virginia Mayo …
other title: Venere e il professore / A Canção Prometida …
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.
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Double Indemnity (1973)
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Jack Smight actor: Richard Crenna / Lee J. Cobb …
other title: Assurance sur la mort
A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.
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Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
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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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Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
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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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The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)
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Robert Siodmak actor: Heinz Rühmann / Lien Deyers …
other title: Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht / The man in search of his murderer …
A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.
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Buddy Buddy (1981)
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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)
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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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Ball of Fire (1941)
Ball of Fire
Howard Hawks actor: Gary Cooper / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: Colpo di fulmine / Die merkwürdige Zähmung der Gangsterbraut Sugarpuss …
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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Sabrina (1954)
Sabrina
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)
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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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Ninotchka (1939)
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★ 7.2 6 ratings
恩斯特·刘别谦 actor: 葛丽泰·嘉宝 / 茂文·道格拉斯 …
other title: 妮诺契卡 / 异国鸳鸯 …
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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People on Sunday (1930)
Menschen am Sonntag
Robert Siodmak / Edgar G. Ulmer actor: Erwin Splettstößer / Brigitte Borchert …
other title: Uomini di domenica / Menschen am Sonntag …
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
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Irma la Douce (1963)
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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.