Billy Wilder — Playwright (29)
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The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Spirit of St. Louis
director: Billy Wilder actor: James Stewart / Murray Hamilton …
other title: L'aquila solitaria / A Águia Solitária …
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
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Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData 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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The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht
director: 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) [Movie] 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) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
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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Ball of Fire (1941) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Ball of Fire
director: 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) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
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) [Movie] 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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Ninotchka (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban
Ninotchka
7.2 (5 ratings) director: 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) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
Menschen am Sonntag
director: 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) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
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) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
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) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Skybridge TMDB Douban
Some Like It Hot
8.6 (13 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) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Double Indemnity
8.6 (12 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) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData Skybridge
The Apartment
8.6 (13 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) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
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) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
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) [Movie] Douban NeoDB WikiData IMDb TMDB
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.
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The Front Page (1974) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Front Page
director: Billy Wilder actor: Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau …
other title: Prima pagina / Ryd Forsiden …
Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.