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Amelie

Amelie dedicates herself to helping others find love and happiness. But will she have the courage to do for herself what she has done for others?
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Starring Audrey Tautou.
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Annie Hall

New York comedian Alvy Singer recalls the ups and downs in the love affair with Allison. Directed by Woody Allen. Starring Diane Keaton and Paul Simon.
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Big business

Stan and Ollie are trying to sell Christmas trees in sunny California. But their prospects are not willing to buy a tree.
Directed by James W. Horne. Starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and James Finlayson.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid

Butch and The Kid are a pair of bank- and train robbers in the late 1800’s. They find themselves hotly pursued by the authorities and run to Bolivia. Directed by George Roy Hill. Starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
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Dr. Strangelove

A deranged general orders a nuclear attack on Russia because of his belief that the Communists are polluting his bodily fluids.
Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden.
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Four weddings and a funeral

Charles is serial monogamist. He meets an attractive American at a wedding and falls in love with her, but his inability to express his feelings gets in his way of true bliss.
Directed by Mike Newell. Starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell.
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The goldrush

A lone prospector heads North in order to find his fortune. Unfortunately, he is forced to face poverty and his menacing cabin mates before he has a chance to achieve his goal.
Directed by and starring Charles Chaplin.
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Manhattan

Black and White New York, 42 year old Isaac, his small circle of friends and Tracy, 17, who’s in love with Isaac.
Directed by Woody Allen. Starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep.
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Mash

The 4077th M*A*S*H is a frontline hospital staffed mainly by draftees who spend their time drinking, playing practical jokes and trying to seduce each other.
Directed by Robert Altman. Starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould and Robert Duvall.
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Modern times

After cracking under the strain, a young man finds himself unemployed on the streets of depression era America.
Directed by Charles Chaplin. Starring Charles Chaplin and Paulette Goddard.
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The music box

Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy decided to reorganize and resupervise their entire financial structure- so they took the $3.80 and went into business. It became Laurel and Hardy’s fight against gravity.
Directed by James Parrott. Starring Laurel and Hardy.
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Singing in the rain

Hollywood’s changeover from silents to talkies is the backdrop for this musical. Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a famous on-screen romantic pair. Lina, however, mistakes the on-screen romance for real love.
Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. Starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds
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Some like it hot

Joe and Jerry, two out-of-work musicians, get into drag in order to land jobs with an all girls band and avoid the gangsters who are after them.
Directed by Billy Wilder. Starring Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.
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Sunset boulevard

Joe Gillis is a bankrupt screenwriter caught up in the sticky web of sleaze and insanity spun by a faded star.
Directed by Billy Wilder. Starring Gloria Swanson, William Holden and Buster Keaton.
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The wizard of Oz

Dorothy is told to follow the yellow brick road by the Munchkins, she meets the Lion, Tin Man and the Scarecrow... and finally, the Wizard himself.
Directed by Victor Fleming. Starring Judy Garland.
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Spotlight

Billy Wilder

Humphrey Bogart

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore.
The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut

Remarkable:

Billy about his longtime producer Samuel Goldwyn: “Just because Sam Goldwyn is a shit, doesn’t mean that being a shit makes you Sam Goldwyn”

Born:

June 22, 1906

Born as:

Samuel Wilder

Died:

March 27, 2002

Billy Wilder was born in Sucha, Poland. From 1929 he worked as a screenwriter for silent films in Berlin until the Nazis came to power and the Jewish Wilder left for America.

Wilder knew little or no English when he arrived in Hollywood but was helped by film star Peter Lorre, with whom he once shared an apartment.

A turning point in his career came in 1938 when he began a long and succesful collaboration with screenwriter Charles Brackett which was expanded into a producer-director one in 1942. The duo turned such classics as Double Indemnity (1944), Five Graves to Cairo (1943) , The Lost Weekend (1945) and Sunset Boulevard (1950), after which the partnership dissolved.

During the 1950s Wilder continued a string of hit films including Sabrina (1954), The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Some like it hot (1959). Through the 1960s and 1970s, Wilder worked on several more films, although none was as successful as his previous ones.

Though his last film was made in 1981, Billy Wilder was still turning up to work at his Hollywood office well into his 80s.

Remarkable:

He became the first filmmaker to win three Academy Awards in a year.

Academy awards:

Selected Movies: