Billy Wilder Movies

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...

A young man-about-Paris, cut off from his father's money, falls in with a picaresque gang of car thieves.

When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.

Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send...

Documentary about the famed Hollywood director.

In 1988, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) at his office in Beverly Hills,...

A look back at the making of Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy classic "Some Like It Hot."

A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.

In this pre-WWII German mystery-comedy, a lovely kleptomaniac with a taste for fine jewelry is unable to resist temptation. Strangely, every time she...

French film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and filmmaking.

A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder

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

Banker Rudi Moebius and his counselor arrive in Wien for an arranged marriage which should solve their financial problems. Only they don't know, but...

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 dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies...

Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine...

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 look back at the impact Billy Wilder's comedy classic "Some Like It Hot" has left since it's release in 1959.