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Directed by Billy Wilder
From the late 1930s to the early 1960s, Billy Wilder dominated Hollywood’s Golden Age, making over fifty films and winning six Academy Awards. One of the most brilliant and versatile Hollywood directors of all-time, Wilder produced accessible yet critically acclaimed films. He is responsible for two of the film noir era's most definitive titles,... show more > Recommended Films directed by Billy Wilder
Some Like It Hot (Special Edition)1959, Billy Wilder, DVD Without a doubt one of the finest films ever made, Billy Wilder's gender-bending comedy blends madcap capers with some of the sharpest dialogue this side of a stiletto. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play two musicians on the run from the mob who dr... £15.99 RRP: £19.99
Save £4.00 The Apartment1960, Billy Wilder, DVD Songs of Innocence and Experience replayed as a strip-lit corporate nightmare, The Apartment charts C. C. Baxter's rise from timid clerk to team player and descent from mensch to monster in exchange for lending his apartment for his boss's cinq-a-... £5.99 RRP: £15.99
Save £10.00 Sunset Boulevard1950, Billy Wilder, DVD A silent screen diva longing for a return. A young screenwriter longing for a break. A career girl waylaid by a broken heart. Throwing in a mysterious butler and a dead chimp, Wilder's film is one of the most painful studies of fractured innocence... £6.49 RRP: £15.99
Save £9.50 The Lost Weekend1945, Billy Wilder, DVD Failed writer and chronic alcoholic Don Birnam has been on the wagon for ten days, but finding himself alone falls off spectacularly and hits the bottle on a 48 hour bender, flashing back to the events in his life that alcohol has ruined. Wilder's... £5.99 RRP: £15.99
Save £10.00 Irma La Douce1963, Billy Wilder, DVD Paris, the present. A gendarme falls for a tart, wondering what she does by night, whilst she wonders what he does by day... Saucy, raucous, Wilder at his cockiest. £13.99 RRP: £15.99
Save £2.00 The Fortune Cookie1966, Billy Wilder, DVD As Harry Hinkle is strapped into his wheelchair following a slight concussion sustained at a Cleveland Browns play-off, his lawyer brother-in-law casts around for someone to sue. Would you buy a used car from Whiplash Willie? Wilder foresees the... £13.99 RRP: £15.99
Save £2.00 The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes1970, Billy Wilder, DVD One of the most perfectly realised films of Wilder's later period - a witty and exquisitely-crafted revisionist interpretation of the life of the great fictional detective. Robert Stephens, in a rare screen outing, is memorably three-dimensional i... £11.99 RRP: £12.99
Save £1.00 Sabrina Fair (AKA Sabrina 1954)1954, Billy Wilder, DVD A chauffeur's daughter arouses the amorous interest of her employer's sons when she returns from a trip to Paris. Billy Wilder's classic romance features typically strong performances from Bogart and Holden - and Hepburn, as always, is charming. £5.99 RRP: £15.99
Save £10.00 Avanti1972, Billy Wilder, DVD The sunniest of Wilder's late works, this picture postcard Ischian romp finds Lemmon's puritanical executive shocked by revelations about his late father's peccadilloes before finding himself seduced by an English rose on an Italian patio. Old sty... £11.99 RRP: £12.99
Save £1.00 Double Indemnity1944, Billy Wilder, DVD The archetypal film noir with Stanwyck as the femme fatale in this tale of an insurance agent conniving with a beautiful client to kill her husband. Adapted from James M. Cain's novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, this is simply one of the best ... £5.99 RRP: £9.99
Save £4.00 Some Like It Hot (Cinema Reserve)1959, Billy Wilder, DVD Without a doubt one of the finest films ever made, Billy Wilder's gender-bending comedy blends madcap capers with some of the sharpest dialogue this side of a stiletto. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play two musicians on the run from the mob who dr... £15.99 RRP: £17.99
Save £2.00 One, Two, Three1961, Billy Wilder, DVD A tribute to Cagney and Coca-Colonialism, this re-packaging of Old Berlin for New World consumption remains thoroughly blinkered to its simplistic All-American assumptions. Cutting the ragged disputes of Cold War politics to fit the smooth cloth ... £11.99 RRP: £12.99
Save £1.00 Billy Wilder Box Set1942-8, Billy Wilder, DVD A box set featuring some of Billy Wilder's greatest work celebrating the director's centenary. Includes his classic noir Double Indemnity, his Oscar-winning The Lost Weekend, and two new releases to DVD - The Major And The Minor, in which Ginger R... £34.99 RRP: £34.99
Save £ Billy Wilder Collection (Vol 2)Billy Wilder, DVD Five more classics from one of the most celebrated filmmakers of all time. Includes The Apartment, The Seven Year Itch, Witness for the Prosecution, The Fortune Cookie and The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes. £32.99 RRP: £34.99
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