The Best Movies Directed by Billy Wilder
List of all movies directed by Billy Wilder ranked from best to worst with photos. Films directed by Billy Wilder are listed here and include movie posters and Billy Wilder movie trailers whenever possible. This is a collection of the best movies directed by Billy Wilder as voted on by film buffs. If you think the greatest Billy Wilder movie isn't as high as it should be on this list, then make sure to vote so that your opinion of what the top Billy Wilder film is can be factored into this list.
From Billy Wilder's studio films to Billy Wilder's independent films, this Billy Wilder filmography keeps tabs on all Billy Wilder movies, and lets the cream of the crop rise to the top.
List ranges from Some Like It Hot to The Apartment, plus much more.
If you’re wondering “what movies did Billy Wilder direct?” or “who is Billy Wilder?” then this list will explain how most people know this director. This list also answers questions like “what are the all-time best movies directed by Billy Wilder?” and “what's a good selection of good Billy Wilder movies?”
If you're wanting to get into Billy Wilder films, then this list is a great starting point for at least starting with the most decent Billy Wilder works.
All Billy Wilder director credits are included. This list of every movie that Billy Wilder has directed can be sorted for specific information such as what genre the Billy Wilder movie is and which actors starred in the Billy Wilder film.
Impact the order of the list by having your social network vote too. {#nodes}Woody Allen and James Stewart both worked on a Billy Wilder directed movie, as have many other great actors. We have lists of the best movies directed by John Huston and David Lean too, which you might like if you're a fan of Billy Wilder.
- 1William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
- Released: 1950
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended. She hires a young screenwriter to help set up her movie comeback. The screenwriter believes he can manipulate her, but he soon ...more - 2Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
- Released: 1957
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
The affable Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power) is being tried for the murder of a wealthy woman, and legendary lawyer Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Charles Laughton) has chosen to represent him. Unfortunately, ...more - 3Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe
- Released: 1959
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
After witnessing a Mafia murder, slick saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his long-suffering buddy, Jerry (Jack Lemmon), improvise a quick plan to escape from Chicago with their lives. Disguising ...more - 4Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
- Released: 1960
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
Insurance worker C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) lends his Upper West Side apartment to company bosses to use for extramarital affairs. When his manager Mr. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) begins using Baxter's ...more - 5Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Porter Hall
- Released: 1951
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
With flaws that outweigh his talent, reporter Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas) has bounced across the country from job to job. Winding up in New Mexico, Tatum gets work from the local newspaper, but finds ...more - 6William Holden, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss
- Released: 1953
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
One night in 1944 in a German POW camp housing American airmen, two prisoners try to escape the compound and are quickly discovered and shot dead. Among the remaining men, suspicion grows that one of ...more - 7Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Howard Da Silva
- Released: 1945
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
Writer Don Birnam (Ray Milland) is on the wagon. Sober for only a few days, Don is supposed to be spending the weekend with his brother, Wick (Phillip Terry), but, eager for a drink, Don convinces ...more - 8Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden
- Released: 1954
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
Chauffeur's daughter Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn) returns home from two years in Paris a beautiful young woman, and immediately catches the attention of David (William Holden), the playboy son of her ...more - Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
- Released: 1944
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
In this classic film noir, insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) gets roped into a murderous scheme when he falls for the sensual Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), who is intent on ...more - 10Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund
- Released: 1948
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
Idealistic Iowa congresswoman Phoebe Frost (Jean Arthur) touches down in postwar Berlin on a fact-finding mission about legendary cabaret singer Erika von Schlütow (Marlene Dietrich), long rumored to ...more - 11Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett
- Released: 1974
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
Successful Chicago newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson (Jack Lemmon) is hanging up his journalist's hat to marry Peggy Grant (Susan Sarandon). When his editor, the arrogant, self-important Walter Burns ...more - 12James Cagney, Pamela Tiffin, Horst Bucholz
- Released: 1961
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
C.R. MacNamara (James Cagney) will do anything to get a promotion within the Coca-Cola company, including looking after boss W.P. Hazeltine's (Howard St. John) rebellious teenage daughter, Scarlett ...more - 13Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich
- Released: 1966
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
While taping a football game, cameraman Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) ends up slightly injured after a collision with star player "Boom Boom" Jackson (Ron Rich). When Hinkle's scheming brother-in-law, ...more - 14Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill
- Released: 1972
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
Based on the play by Samuel Taylor, this comedy finds Wendell Armbruster Jr. (Jack Lemmon) journeying to the Italian island of Ischia to claim the body of his millionaire father, who died while on ...more - 15James Stewart, Patricia Smith, Murray Hamilton
- Released: 1957
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
This lauded biopic follows legendary pilot Charles Lindbergh (James Stewart) as he makes his historic solo transatlantic flight from New York to Paris. The film details earlier events in Lindbergh's ...more - 16Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson
- Released: 1942
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
Susan Applegate (Ginger Rogers) decides to leave New York City and take a train back to Iowa, but she has only enough money for a child's ticket. She disguises herself as a young girl and, after ...more - 17Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes
- Released: 1955
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
In the midst of a summer heat wave, New Yorker Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) ships his wife, Helen (Evelyn Keyes), and their son off to Maine for vacation. Left alone to work back in Manhattan, Richard ...more - 18Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston
- Released: 1964
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
When popular singer Dino (Dean Martin) stops for gas in a small town near Las Vegas, mechanic Barney (Cliff Osmond) disables his car. Barney, who writes songs with local teacher Orville (Ray ...more - 19Christopher Lee, Frank Thornton, Miklós Rózsa
- Released: 1970
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 film directed and produced by Billy Wilder; he also shared writing credit with his longtime collaborator I. A. L. Diamond. It starred Robert Stephens as ...more - 20Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, Maurice Chevalier
- Released: 1957
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
French private investigator Claude Chavasse (Maurice Chevalier) discovers his client's wife has been having an affair with an American playboy, Frank Flannagan (Gary Cooper). When the client decides ...more - 21Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi
- Released: 1963
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
This entertaining comedy finds disgraced former police officer Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon) falling for beautiful Parisian prostitute Irma La Douce (Shirley MacLaine). Though Nestor becomes Irma's ...more - 22Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich von Stroheim
- Released: 1943
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
It's World War II, and British soldier John Bramble (Franchot Tone) is the lone survivor of a brutal battle in Egypt. After wandering through the desert, Bramble finds a remote hotel. There, in order ...more - 23William Holden, Marthe Keller, José Ferrer
- Released: 1978
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
When movie legend Fedora (Marthe Keller) commits suicide, the world grieves, and no one more so than writer and old flame Barry "Dutch" Detweiler (William Holden). Two weeks prior, he had visited the ...more - Death Mills is a 1945 American film directed by Billy Wilder and produced by the United States Department of War. The film was intended for German audiences to educate them about the atrocities ...more
- 25Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss
- Released: 1981
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
A suicidal businessman (Jack Lemmon) and a mob hit man (Walter Matthau) thwart each other through adjoining hotel rooms.