Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Billy Wilder

35 titles that travel well across time — a personal watchlist for best movies/tv shows written by (or adapted from) billy wilder.

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1 Sunset Boulevard(1950)
Movie | Drama, Film-Noir | USA | English
2 Some Like It Hot(1959)
Movie | Comedy, Music | USA | English, French
3 The Apartment(1960)
Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English
4 Double Indemnity(1944)
Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English
5 Witness for the Prosecution(1957)
Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, German
6 The Lost Weekend(1945)
Movie | Drama, Film-Noir | USA | English
7 Stalag 17(1953)
Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, German
8 Sabrina(1954)
Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, French
9 Ninotchka(1939)
Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English, Russian
10 Ace in the Hole(1951)
Movie | Drama, Film-Noir | USA | English, Spanish
11 One, Two, Three(1961)
Movie | Comedy | USA | English, German
12 Ball of Fire(1941)
Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
13 Menschen am Sonntagaka People on Sunday(1930)
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Germany | German
14 The Seven Year Itch(1955)
Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
15 Irma la Douce(1963)
Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
16 The Fortune Cookie(1966)
Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
17 A Foreign Affair(1948)
Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, German
18 Love in the Afternoon(1957)
Movie | Comedy, Crime | USA | English, French
19 The Major and the Minor(1942)
Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
20 Midnight(1939)
Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English, French
21 Five Graves to Cairo(1943)
Movie | Thriller, War | USA | English, German
22 The Spirit of St. Louis(1957)
Movie | Adventure, Biography | USA | English
23 Emil und die Detektiveaka Emil and the Detectives(1931)
Movie | Adventure, Family | Germany | German
24 Kiss Me, Stupid(1964)
Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
25 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife(1938)
Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English, French
26 The Front Page(1974)
Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English
27 Hold Back the Dawn(1941)
Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English, Spanish
28 Mauvaise graineaka Bad Seed(1934)
Movie | Comedy, Drama | France | French
29 Sabrina(1995)
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Germany, USA | English, French
30 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes(1970)
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | UK, USA | English, Russian
31 Avanti!(1972)
Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA, Italy | English, Italian
32 Fedora(1978)
Movie | Drama, Romance | France, Germany | English, Greek
33 A Song Is Born(1948)
Movie | Comedy, Music | USA | English
34 Buddy Buddy(1981)
Movie | Comedy | USA | English
35 Ein blonder Traumaka A Blonde Dream(1932)
Movie | Comedy, Musical | Germany | German

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Updated November 29, 2025 · FlickRatings