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James Stewart: The Shop Around the Corner / The Stratton Story / The FBI Story / The Spirit of St Louis (1940)

8.9/10
Director: Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch, Mervyn LeRoy, Sam Wood
Starring: Agnes Moorehead, Frank Morgan, James Stewart, June Allyson, Margaret Sullavan, M...

James Stewart Box Set. 'The Shop Around the Corner' (1940) - Alfred Kralik (Stewart) and Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) are employees at Matuschek an... Read more

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

8.5/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Buster Keaton, Erich Von Stroheim, Fred Clark, Gloria Swanson, Jack Webb, Nancy...

Billy Wilder's classic drama stars Gloria Swanson as reclusive silent movie queen Norma Desmond. Sharing a mansion with her live-in butler/former husb... Read more

Sunset Boulevard ( Blu-ray ) (1950)

8.5/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Buster Keaton, Erich Von Stroheim, Fred Clark, Gloria Swanson, Jack Webb, Nancy...

Billy Wilder's classic drama stars Gloria Swanson as reclusive silent movie queen Norma Desmond. Sharing a mansion with her live-in butler/former husb... Read more

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

8.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, Charles Laughton

Agatha Christie's play about a sensational London murder trial features great performances from Charles Laughton as the ageing lawyer, and from Tyrone... Read more

Witness for the Prosecution ( Blu-ray ) (1957)

8.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power

Agatha Christie's play about a sensational London murder trial features great performances from Charles Laughton as the ageing lawyer, and from Tyrone... Read more

Double Indemnity (1944)

8.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G Robinson

A masterpiece of film noir cinema from director Billy Wilder, who also co-scripted with Raymond Chandler. Barbara Stanwyck is the definitive femme fat... Read more

The Apartment (1960)

8.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

This Oscar-winning Best Picture stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine as they wheel and deal over a New York apartment in a comedy of morality. This... Read more

Some Like It Hot ( Blu-ray ) (1959)

8.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: George Raft, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Pat O'Brien, Tony Curtis, Joe E Brown

Perhaps the funniest American film of the 1950's, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play two second rate musicians on the run from the Chicago mob, who take... Read more

Some Like It Hot (1959)

8.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E Brown

Perhaps the funniest American film of the 1950's, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play two second rate musicians on the run from the Chicago mob, who take... Read more

Ace in the Hole (1951)

8.2/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling

Aka 'The Big Carnival'. Billy Wilder's biting, ahead-of-its-time commentary on the sensationalized nature of the news media stars Kirk Douglas as a st... Read more

One, Two, Three (1961)

8/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: James Cagney, Arlene Francis, Horst Buchholz

James Cagney's 'retirement' film was this hilarious comedy about a Coke executive in contemporary West Berlin freaking out when the boss's visiting da... Read more

Stalag 17 (1952)

8/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger

This fine tale of a POW Camp is laced with director Billy Wilder's special brand of comedy and cynicism. William Holden (Academy Award for Best Actor)... Read more

Stalag 17 ( Blu-ray ) (1952)

8/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, William Holden

This fine tale of a POW Camp is laced with director Billy Wilder's special brand of comedy and cynicism. William Holden (Academy Award for Best Actor)... Read more

The Lost Weekend (Blu-ray) (1945)

7.9/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Ray Milland, Phillip Terry, Jane Wyman

Billy Wilder's Oscar-winning social drama stars Ray Milland as an alcoholic writer who falls into a maelstrom of delusion and dementia and winds up in... Read more

Sabrina (1954)

7.7/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: William Holden, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn

Aka 'Sabrina Fair'. Audrey Hepburn is the shy chauffeur's daughter who becomes a stunning beauty, and William Holden and Humphrey Bogart are the socia... Read more

Sabrina ( Blu-ray ) (1954)

7.7/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden

Aka 'Sabrina Fair'. Audrey Hepburn is the shy chauffeur's daughter who becomes a stunning beauty, and William Holden and Humphrey Bogart are the socia... Read more

The Major and the Minor (1942)

7.5/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn

Goofball comedy with Ginger Rogers pretending to be a twelve-year-old so she can afford the train fare back to Iowa, having fallen foul of one-too-man... Read more

Irma La Douce (1963)

7.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi

Jack Lemmon plays a bumbling Paris gendarme who is fired for raiding the red light district (where his chief is a customer) and becomes an equally bum... Read more

The Fortune Cookie (1966)

7.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Ron Rich, Cliff Osmond, Judi West

Jack Lemmon and Oscar-winning Walter Matthau star in Billy Wilder's hilarious, cynical fable about a TV cameraman who is injured while shooting a foot... Read more

The Front Page (1974)

7.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, David Wayne, Alle...

BIlly Wilder's sharp remake of the classic 'His Girl Friday' (in turn a remake of a 1931 film, based on a play from 1928!) stars Jack Lemmon as ace re... Read more

Five Graves to Cairo (1943)

7.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich Von Stroheim, Peter Van Eyck

Filmed almost concurrently with events in North Africa during WWII, Billy Wilder's take on the propaganda genre is adapted from WWI play, 'Hotel Imper... Read more

Love in the Afternoon (1957)

7.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver

The winning combination of Billy Wilder and writer I.A.L Diamond ('Some Like It Hot', 'The Apartment') and acting greats Audrey Hepburn and Gary Coope... Read more

The Spirit of St Louis (1957)

7.2/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: James Stewart, Patricia Smith, Murray Hamilton

Jimmy Stewart plays America's greatest flying hero, Charles A. Lindbergh, in Billy Wilder's filming of the aviator's autobiography. Follow 'Lucky Lind... Read more

The Seven Year Itch (1955)

7.2/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Tom Ewell, Marilyn Monroe

While Hollywood censors carefully watched the filming of this notoriously racy production, Marilyn was pure perfection as a sexy, yet innocent, starle... Read more

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)

7.2/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Stanley Holloway, Christopher Lee

Billy Wilder's controversial look at the great sleuth's most dangerous mission, a mystery that blends a lovely amnesiac, monks, missing dwarves, Queen... Read more

Avanti! (1972)

7.2/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Clive Revill, Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills

A wonderful comedy about a stuffy millionaire who falls in love with the daughter of his late father's mistress when he comes to Italy to claim the ol... Read more

Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

7/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Felicia Farr

The story plays out in Climax, Nevada, a name not lost on the sleazy Vegas entertainer, Dino (played to a tee by sleazy Vegas entertainer, Dean Martin... Read more

Burt Lancaster: Local Hero / The Flame and the Arrow / Executive Action / Seven Days in May (1950)

5.5/10
Director: Bill Forsyth, David Miller, Jacques Tourneur, John Frankenheimer
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Fredric March, Kirk Douglas, Peter Riegert, Robert Ryan, Virgini...

Burt Lancaster Box Set. 'Local Hero' (1983) - Burt Lancaster and Peter Riegert star in the wonderfully whimsical comedy of an oil company's planned bu... Read more

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / The Emperor Waltz (1949)

Director: Billy Wilder, Tay Garnett
Starring: Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix, Joan Fontaine, Ro...

This classic Bing Crosby Double Feature begins with 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' (1949). Adapted from Mark Twain's story, Bing is a... Read more