Billy Wilder Movies

One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.

For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of...

Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers...

Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version...

A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder

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...

A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a filmmaker who never was a boring man, a superb...

Out of unlikely circumstances an underground ticket vending girl and a mail pilot fall in love.

A documentary featuring film historians, directors and authors discussing the making of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity."

Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.

Rival window cleaners Willy I and Willy 2 befriend Jou-Jou, an aspiring dancer, who has been tricked out of money by a con-man posing as an American...

Simultaneously made French version of "Ihre Hoheit Befiehlt": An officer, posing as a deli clerk, and a princess, posing as a manicurist, meet at a...

In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss...

A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.

A meek clerk can no longer abide the nastiness of his boarding house proprietress and takes drastic action.

Documentary discussing the casting and making of "Some Like It Hot", the film voted as the Best Comedy ever made by the American Film Institute.

Rebellious Princess Marie "Mitzi" Christine must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry.

Amiable and unassuming, Fred MacMurray went from small-town boy to one of Hollywood and television's most enduring stars.

When both husband and wife find romance outside their marriage, it's a shock to everyone. Robert and Annemarie break up to elope with their...