Billy Wilder Movie Rankings
1
3.7262
Phyllis Dietrichson and insurance salesman Walter Neff begin an affair and plot to kill her husband for his life insurance money. But after the murder they each become suspicious of each other and paranoia takes over. ... more about Double Indemnity
2
3.6863
Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) just happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time when they witness a murder by the mob. Now, to evade the gangsters the men dress up as women and join an all girl musical band. ... more about Some Like It Hot
3
3.6422
Struggling screenwriter, Joe Gillis, accidentally stumbles upon the mansion of washed up and eccentric actress Norma Desmond while hiding from his creditors. When Desmond discovers him, she immediately hires him to pen her cinematic comeback. ... more about Sunset Blvd.
4
3.1823
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. ... more about Witness for the Prosecution
5
3.0700
Like many other Manhattan husbands, Richard Sherman sends his wife and son to the country for the summer, while he stays behind to toil. ... more about Seven Year Itch
6
3.0413
Set in a German POW Camp for enlisted American airmen, a spy is discovered to be living in one of the prison barracks after an escape attempt fails resulting in the deaths of two inmates. ... more about Stalag 17
7
3.0014
Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been "on the wagon" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen, he begins a four-day bender. ... more about Lost Weekend
8
2.9308
Bud Baxter is a struggling clerk in a huge New York insurance company. He's discovered a quick way to climb the corporate ladder - by lending out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. ... more about Apartment
9
2.8662
Linus and Davis 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. ... more about Sabrina
10
2.8609
New York working girl Ginger Rogers is desparate to go home to Iowa but does not have the railway fare so she disguises herself as a child to ride half fare. Enroute she meets Ray Milland, an Army major teaching at a military school. ... more about Major and the Minor
Not Available on DVD
11
2.8469
Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927. ... more about Spirit of St. Louis
12
2.8174
Director Billy Wilder salutes his idol, Ernst Lubitsch, with this comedy about a middle-aged playboy fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client. ... more about Love in the Afternoon
13
2.7790
Debauched big-time second-rate crooner Dino is stranded in a small town, Climax, Nevada, while driving from Vegas to L.A. to star in a Bing Crosby t.v. special. ... more about Kiss Me
14
2.7464
Naive, by the book French police officer Nester Patou, is transferred to the Red Light district. Upon witnessing what must be a brothel, he calls the station and organizes a raid, transporting all the 'ladies' to the jail. ... more about Irma la Douce
15
2.6827
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. ... more about Fortune Cookie
16
2.6678
A congressional committee visits occupied Berlin to investigate G.I. morals. ... more about Foreign Affair
Not Available on DVD
17
2.5314
June, 1942. The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border--Corporal John Bramble, who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel...soon to be German HQ. ... more about Five Graves to Cairo
Not Available on DVD
18
2.5155
Director Billy Wilder adds a new and intriguing twist to the personality of intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes. One thing hasn't changed however: Holmes' crime-solving talents. Holmes and Dr. ... more about Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
19
2.3544
Berlin, after the Second World War: C.R. MacNamara presides over the Coca-Cola branch of Germany. ... more about One
20
2.2803
Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1930s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans though. ... more about Front Page
21
2.1593
Wendell (Lemmon) goes to Italy to pick up his father's body after an automobile accident. ... more about Avanti!
22
2.0570
Fedora, an aging and reclusive film star, dies in Paris, struck by a train. At her funeral, a film producer thinks back over the past two weeks and the part he might have played in her death. ... more about Fedora
Not Available on DVD
23
1.9497
Traveling Salesman Virgil Smith wants to sell his Grammophones in pre-WWI Austria. To enhance this, he especially wants to sell one to Emperor Franz Joseph, but at first the Austrian palace guards think he is carrying a bomb. ... more about Emperor Waltz
24
1.4903
Walter Matthau plays a professional killer going by the name of Trabucco, who is on his way to rub out gangster Rudy "Disco" Gambola, set to testify against the mob. ... more about Buddy Buddy
Not Available on DVD
25
0.3003
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