For fans of Billy Wilder: what to watch, read & play next

A woman using a clever disguise to escape trouble finds it only deepens — sharp, breezy gender-reversal comedy.

Romance and murder intertwine as a widow navigates deceit and danger with quick-witted Parisian charm.

Small-town calm shatters when violence arrives uninvited, testing everyday people's courage under pressure.

A backstage farce about studio ambition and labour trouble — industry satire laced with romantic mishap.

A matchmaker schemes to keep the man she is supposed to find for someone else — desire disguised as duty.

A man too comfortable in his own bubble delays adulthood, juggling chaos and charm in equal measure.

A happily married man's obsession with a stranger unravels his tidy life — wry, rue-drenched comedy of desire.

Two friends deceive their wives with elaborate lies, generating compounding chaos from a single bad decision.

Women navigate power, survival and desire inside gilded captivity — a period drama with unsentimental moral clarity.

A well-meaning but bumbling everyman keeps derailing domestic life with cheerful, unstoppable incompetence.

A working-class blowhard clashes with his family over ideas he barely understands — sharp satire with genuine heart.

Two friends enter show business together, but only one rises to stardom — a bittersweet comedy of luck and drift.

A reporter embedded in Chicago's underworld balances cynicism and danger across the gangster era.

A Depression-era woman builds a life from scratch only to have her sacrifices exploited — a portrait of dignity under pressure.

Romance and ambition collide inside a glamorous retail world where power quietly rules every relationship.

A Jewish family swept into the Nazi maelstrom — intimate and unflinching, history made humanly unbearable.

Two soldiers on opposite sides cling to humanity as war consumes everything around them.

A 1930s gumshoe navigates Prohibition's chaotic final hours in a noirish adventure dripping with period atmosphere.

Choose a side in corrupt Prohibition-era Chicago — strategy and moral compromise folded together.

A post-war detective thriller where cold deduction is the only weapon against history's worst fugitives.

A noir private eye in 1950s Tokyo untangles a grotesque murder case — atmosphere, dread and moral complexity.

A hapless romantic's relentless, oblivious pursuit of women is played for absurdist, self-deflating comedy.

A biker framed for murder has to outrun both the law and the truth — hard-boiled, kinetic and darkly funny.

A woman driven to desperate acts by betrayal narrates her own moral unravelling in a claustrophobic thriller.

A sheltered heiress briefly free in Paris discovers romance and consequence beyond her gilded upbringing.

An heiress entangled in a cousin's dangerous past finds glamour and scandal inseparable — melodrama with nerve.

A headstrong society beauty courts scandal until desire and consequence catch up with her.

Foreboding shadows a newly wed couple as an obsessive twin senses something irretrievably wrong — slow-burn dread.

Two parallel deaths, one suspicious detective — an innocent man's life narrows to a nightmare of circumstance.

Two novellas of women drawn into wealthy households where something quietly, persistently does not add up.

A young woman's Washington dream job plunges her into family intrigue and political danger she never anticipated.

A pulp adventure where loyalty is tested and villainy arrives wearing a respectable face — propulsive and sharp.