Billy Wilder
41) Sunset Boulevard
Series
Paramount centennial collection volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Struggling Hollywood writer Joe Gillis becomes entangled with reclusive silent film star Norma Desmond, whose madness destroys them both.
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
It's every man's fantasy--a summer romance with the sexist woman he can imagine. Richard Sherman is a happily married man whose wife and son are off on vacation when his tempting new neighbor sneaks in one hot summer night to cool off in his air-conditioned apartment. How does an ordinary man deal with this irresistible temptation after seven years of marriage?
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) : Sherlock Holmes is confronted with the mystery of a supernatural hound that supposedly takes revenge upon the Baskerville family. Private life of Sherlock Holmes (1970): When a beautiful woman claims her husband has disappeared, the investigation takes Sherlock Holmes and Watson to Scotland, where they uncover a shocking plot involving a clandestine society. Without a clue (1988): Dr. John Watson is secretly a crime-solving...
Series
Criterion collection volume 396
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Chuck Tatum is an amoral newspaper reporter caught in dead-end Albuquerque who happens upon the story of a lifetime. He will do anything to ensure he gets the scoop.
46) Some like it hot
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Blu-ray version.
Language
English
Description
Two unemployed musicians accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians in an all-girl band.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
John J. Bramble, the sole survivor of a British tank crew, makes his way to a desolate desert town where he is given refuge by a hotel owner and chambermaid who prepare to receive General Erwin Rommel and his German staff. Posing as the hotel's waiter, Bramble attempts to infiltrate Rommel's inner circle and report the general's plans to the Allies.
48) Kiss me, stupid
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen edition (2.35:first).
Language
English
Description
Two would-be songwriters hijack Dino as he passes through their town. Their attempts to charm him into listening to their songs encounter a problem when one man's wife is the head of Martin's fan club. A substitute is hired to claim his attentions. Things do not exactly work out as planned.
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The emperor waltz: an American salesman melts the heart of a Viennese countess amidst Strauss waltzes and lush scenery.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court: musical version of Mark Twain's humorous novel about a turn-of-the-century blacksmith who is knocked unconscious and awakens in sixth-century Camelot.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Language
English
Description
In this romantic story, Romanian immigrant George Ivonescu sneaks onto the Paramount studio lot in Hollywood to sell a story idea to director Saxon. Desperate for $500, George convinces Saxon to listen to the true story of George's life for the past year. At the outbreak of World War II, George flees from Europe to Mexico, from where he hopes to gain entry into the USA. Due to the quota system he is told he must wait five to eight years to immigrate....
52) Midnight
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A penniless showgirl impersonates a Hungarian countess, and with the help of an aristocrat, quickly adapts to her new lifestyle. But can she stop herself from falling in love with yet another poor man?
53) Fedora
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A film producer travels to the Greek isles to coax a Garbo-like screen idol out of seclusion. But the deeper he infiltrates the remote villa, evading an overprotective countess and a mysterious plastic surgeon, the closer he comes to discovering the terrible secret behind the actress's timeless beauty.
56) Double indemnity
Series
Criterion collection volume 1126
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Language
English
Description
Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously evil as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? When slick salesman Walter Neff walks into the swank home of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson, he intends to sell her insurance, but he winds up becoming entangled with her in a\ far more sinister way. It is one of the most wickedly perverse stories ever told...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Up in arms: Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe.
Wonder man: Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn....
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