4º – The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
Trying to move up the company where he works, a man accepts that a local executive uses his apartment for extramarital affairs. However, when one of the girls taken to the place does not react well to a disenchantment with one of the executives, it is up to the man to solve the situation in the best way. The comedy, in addition to all the brightness of its dynamic script and the impeccable direction of Billy Wilder, brings a memorable performance of Jack Lemmon to the front of the protagonist role.
3º – Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder, 1957)
An experienced lawyer decides to defend a man accused of murder, unveiling unimaginable consequences. In a plot permeated by twists, ‘Witness for the Prosecution’ is a film class. Billy Wilder, always in a slow way, without ever losing his rhythm or becoming insipid, manages to build a plot based on the mystery, where each scene works by disorienting the spectator about what he is seeing, all done in a verisimilar way. And of course, much of the film’s success is due to its superb cast, with names like Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and the unmatched Charles Laughton.
2º – Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
Icon of the cinema noir, ‘Sunset Blvd.’ shows in its plot the desperate attempt of an actress, in a decadent period of its race, in the attempt to revive its better days when hiring a young writer to help her. There are 110 minutes inserted in a simply irreproachable masterpiece. A study of human greed and its possible dangers.
1º – Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
In the best film of the genre Noir already made, we will have a plot that will follow in the footsteps of an insurance salesman who is manipulated by a beautiful woman to kill her husband, aiming for the man’s insurance money. After a series of setbacks after deciding to go ahead with the idea of the woman, the seller will have to deal with a relentless investigation by an insurance agent about the unevenness of the crime.
