Favorite Billy Wilder films?

I'm no expert on older films, but I think I've liked every one he's done. "Some Like it Hot" is rated as one of the top comedies of all time, and I finally watched it. I never laugh at old films, but this one was funny.

Wilder had a risque streak that was obvious in everything, including Some Like it Hot. But he did two films later in his career that were downright scandalous.

Kiss Me, Stupid starred Dean Martin, Ray Walston and Kim Novak, and was basically a fantasy about a housewife who gets to be a hooker and sleep with her idol while the hooker she takes the place of sleeps with her husband.

Avanti! is my favorite Jack Lemmon film, which is saying a lot, and costars Juliet Mills. It's about a rich man who goes to Italy to collect the body of his father and has an affair with the daughter of his father's mistress.

No point to this. Just wondering what others think of Billy Wilder.

He's directed many classics. Some of his earlier movies are: Double Indemnity, Stalag 17, and Sunset Boulevard. These are very highly regarded, and none of them are comedies--Wilder seem to do more comedies as he matured in his career. Sabrina (avoid the '95 remake!) with A. Hepburn, H. Bogart, and W. Holden. I think of it as a modern fairy tale, and in my opinion, it's believable for the early '50's, and yet not for any later era. The Apartment may well become your new favorite Jack Lemmon film, made in 1960, with Shirley MacLaine (and Ray Walston in a supporting role). The Seven Year Itch is a classic comedy w/Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell. The Fortune Cookie is a comedy, and the first pairing of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Billy Wilder is said to be a director who viewed contemporary life with a certain amount of cynicism and morbid humor concerning human nature. I think he's terrific, and envy you seeing all these movies for the first time!