10 Essential Billy Wilder Movies

8º – Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)A declining reporter in his career decides to take advantage of a situation in which a man presents himself trapped in a cave to try to return a success in his profession. “Ace in the Hole” works on the sense of trivialization of news in the media, the moral limits intrinsic to a society and a will to power human insertion. Timeless, the themes included in the film can easily be inserted into a current reality.

 

7º – The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder, 1955)Your suitcase is going to travel, a middle-aged man and his charms of his soul and his marriage. Restricted to a few episodes, the film will help a lot, the figure of his script is also worked to govern his trajectory, also having, always, direction of Billy Wilder.

 

6º – The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1945)The degenerative of a woman exposed to alcohol addiction. Drama touches on what the instances of the world can cause an individual and on the aspect of redemption intrinsic to the human being. Billy Wilder’s masterpiece.

 

5º – Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)After being witnesses of the attack of gangs, two musicians are necessarily fleeting, have that pretending to be sex of the opposite. Bringing a trio of simply legendary (Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), “Some Like It Hot” is one of the great comedies already conceived in the cinema.

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