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- SUNSET BLVD. (1950) Directed by Billy Wilder. Written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D.M. Marshman Jr., Starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Cecil B. DeMille.
- THE APARTMENT (1960) Directed by Billy Wilder. Written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond. Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Jack Kruschen, Ray Walston, Edie Adams.
- SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) Directed by Billy Wilder. Screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, based on the story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan.
- DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) Directed by Billy Wilder. Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, based on the novel by James M. Cain. Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines, John Philliber.
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- 'One, Two, Three' (1961) Starring: James Cagney, Liselotte Pulver, Horst Buchholz. Going from one extreme to another, while Ace in the Hole is one of the most bitter and downbeat Billy Wider films, One, Two, Three – made a decade later – is one of his funniest and breeziest.
- 'Ace in the Hole' (1951) Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur. Ace in the Hole is a movie that shows how movies can be satirical without necessarily also being comedies.
- 'Stalag 17' (1953) Starring: Robert Strauss, William Holden, Don Taylor. While Stalag 17 is, on the surface, a movie about prisoners of war, it does manage to be surprisingly funny for a film within such a genre.
- 'Irma la Douce' (1963) Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi. Shortly after the immensely successful The Apartment, Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, and Shirley MacLaine re-teamed to make the good – yet not quite as great – Irma la Douce three years on from that aforementioned Oscar winner.
- The Apartment (1960) In "The Apartment," Jack Lemon plays C.C. Baxter, a milksop who works a boring desk job at a New York City insurance company. He's trying to get ahead at his company, and to do so he lets four executives borrow his apartment as a love nest for trysts with their extramarital lady friends in exchange for a good word on his behalf to the personnel director Mr. Sheldrake.
- Sunset Blvd. (1950) Joe Gillis is a once-successful screenwriter who is struggling to sell his latest script, racked up considerable debt, lost most of his friends in the film industry, and is considering getting out of the entertainment business to get a regular desk job.
- Some Like It Hot (1959) "Some Like It Hot" follows the story of two musicians who accidentally stumble into the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, and decide to skip town before mob boss Spats Colombo — who was behind the massacre — finds them.
- Double Indemnity (1944) Fred MacMurray plays Walter Neff, a salesman for an insurance company who develops a relationship with the flirtatious Phyllis Dietrichson, played by Barbara Stanwyck.
A ranking of the films directed by Billy Wilder that I have seen, presented in order of best to worst.
Before he left us in 2002, he graced us with 26 features that he directed. As a tribute, follow us as we rank them, from worst, at least as “bad” as a Wilder film could be, to the very best.
May 22, 2023 · The Austrian-born filmmaker counts on an astounding five decades-long career that features many recognizable films — including Sabrina and Sunset Boulevard — and gracefully stands the test of...
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26 titles. 1. Double Indemnity (1944) Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. 8.3. Rate. 95 Metascore. A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.
