Sunset Boulevard

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Sunset Boulevard

1950 · Movie · 110 min

Scores

  • IMDb8.4/10as of 2026-02-19
  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer98%as of 2026-02-19
  • Rotten Tomatoes average9.3/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic94/100as of 2025-07-14

What it is

Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American black comedy film noir directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder, Charles Brackett, and D. M. Marshman Jr. It is named after a major street that runs through Hollywood and western Los Angeles.

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Genres
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Original language
English

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