Billy Wilder
1) Stalag 17
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A group of American G.I.s in a POW camp suspect a spy is among them.
5) Irma LaDouce
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A French policeman single-handedly raids a brothel and loses his job because he discovers the chief of police is one of the customers. He soon falls in love with one of the "Ladies".
9) Sabrina
Pub. Date
c2001, c1995
Description
The younger son of the wealthy Larrabee family falls for the chauffeur's daughter when she returns from Paris. The older son decides to woo her away from his brother and then drop her, but love intervenes.
10) Sunset Boulevard
Series
Centennial collection volume 1
Pub. Date
1950
Description
The story of an aging film queen who prepares for her grand comeback to stardom.
11) The Apartment
Pub. Date
c2007, c1960
Description
"C.C. "Bud" Baxter knows the way to success in business-- it's through the door of his apartment. By providing a perfect hideaway for philandering bosses, the ambitious young employee reaps a series of undeserved promotions. But when Bud lends the key to big boss J.D. Sheldrake, he not only advances his career, but his own love life as well. For Sheldrake's mistress is the lovely Fran Kubelik, elevator girl and angel of Bud's dreams. Convinced that...
13) Sabrina
Description
Sabrina, the naive daughter of the chauffeur for an immensely wealthy family, is obsessed with David, the family's younger son. When Sabrina returns to Long Island from Paris as a sophisticated young woman, she begins a romance with David, who has meanwhile become engaged to the daughter of a wealthy family. This new romance threatens the business interests of Linus, the older son, so he pretends to court Sabrina in order to woo her away from David,...
14) The Lost Weekend
Pub. Date
2000
Description
A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. This film gives an uncompromising look at the devestating effects of alcoholism.
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
A plain, middle-aged married man, Richard Sherman sends his wife Helen and his young son Ricky off to vacation at the seashore in Maine during a sultry summer in New York City. They escape but he must remain behind in the heat, to make money. He sees them off at the train station, promising to eat properly, and neither smoke nor drink. He will be sensible, not play around as soon as his wife leaves like so many other men. That is until he meets his...
16) Ball of fire
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Breakfast at Tiffany's: Holly Golightly, a charming, eccentric New York City playgirl, is determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire until she meets her new next-door neighbor, a gigolo and struggling writer ; Funny face: a fashion photographer pulls a shy Greenwich Village bookstore clerk from obscurity to become a model in Paris -- My fair lady: A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady -- Paris when it sizzles:...
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES: A musical about two showgirls from Little Rock -- an apparently stupid blonde golddigger and her provocative brunette friend -- searching for love and marriage aboard a luxury liner bound for France. HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE: Three fashion models pool their resources to rent an expensive penthouse with the hopes of snagging rich husbands. After several hilarious encounters with the wealthy opposite sex, the three discover...
19) Ninotchka
Pub. Date
p2005
Description
A romantic comedy in which Ninotchka, a humorless, dedicated Soviet envoy, and Leon, a gigolo, are transformed when they fall in love in Paris.
20) Ace in the hole
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
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.