Billy Wilder – Stream On Demand

Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton in Billy Wilder's adaptation of the Agatha Christie play

‘Witness for the Prosecution’ with Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adapted from the stage, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Free, Hollywood Classic, Hoopla, Kanopy, Mystery, SVOD 07/24/2023 Sean Axmaker

Director Billy Wilder takes on the classic Agatha Christie mystery in this stylish and witty adaptation of her hit stage play, costarring Tyrone Power and Elsa Lanchester.

TITLE: SUNSET BOULEVARD PERS: VON STROHEIM, ERICH / SWANSON, GLORIA YEAR: 1950 DIR: WILDER, BILLY REF: SUN025AL CREDIT: [ THE KOBAL COLLECTION / PARAMOUNT ]

‘Sunset Blvd.’ – Ready for her close-up on Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, film noir, Free, Hollywood Classic, Kanopy, movies about movies, National Film Registry, Paramount+, SVOD 03/08/2023 Sean Axmaker

William Holden and Gloria Swanson star in this Gothic Hollywood noir, the darkest of Hollywood’s self-portraits, directed by Billy Wilder.

Last chance: Billy Wilder’s WWII thriller ‘Five Graves to Cairo’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a play, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hollywood Classic, spies and espionage, suspense, VOD, war 08/01/2022 Sean Axmaker

Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter star in this espionage thriller set in North Africa and Erich von Stroheim is German Field Marshall Rommel.

Last chance: ‘Double Indemnity’ – Barbara Stanwyck, femme fatale on Criterion Channel

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Billy Wilder’s 1944 film of James M. Cain’s pulp crime thriller is a masterpiece of film noir double dealing.

Kirk Douglas stars in Billy's Wilder's noir-tinged newspaper drama from 1951

‘Ace in the Hole’ – newspaper noir on Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, film noir, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic, suspense, SVOD 11/06/2021 Sean Axmaker

Billy Wilder is the American cinema’s most famous cynic, but nothing in his career is as scathing as this noir-tinged newspaper drama, an indictment of the American media circus.

Colin Blakely is Sherlock Holmes in the film by Billy Wilder

‘The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Mystery, Romance, SVOD 08/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

Bill Wilder’s sly, bittersweet, autumnal film approaches the Holmes legacy with both a sense of humor and a sense of respect.

Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills star in the Billy Wilder comedy

‘Avanti!’ with Jack Lemmon

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a play, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Comedy, DVD, Romance, SVOD 07/17/2021 Sean Axmaker

Billy Wilder was one of the great directors of classic American comedy. Avanti! (1972), based on the play by Samuel Taylor, is one of the director’s attempts to adapt his trademark mix of wit, romance, and sex to the more permissive era of the 1970s and one of the best films in the last act […]

Dean Martin in ‘Kiss Me, Stupid’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a play, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Comedy, DVD, music, SVOD 03/04/2021 Sean Axmaker

Billy Wilder was a master at sneaking sex into films like The Apartment and Irma la Douce in the years before the ratings system, but this is his most gleefully cynical and brash sex comedy Kiss Me, Stupid (1965) was so maligned on release it almost sunk Billy Wilder’s career. Dean Martin plays a parody […]

‘People on Sunday’ on Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Documentary, DVD, Have You Seen...?, International Classics, Max, Romance, silent film, SVOD 10/30/2018 Sean Axmaker

This delightful, effervescent rarity from the late silent era helped launch the careers of filmmakers Billy Wilder, Fred Zinneman, and Robert Siodmak.