The Apartment
“Movie-wise, there has never been anything like it - laugh-wise, love-wise, or otherwise-wise!”
Billy WilderCast
Jack Lemmon 
Shirley MacLaine 
Fred MacMurray
Credits
Written by: Billy Wilder
Plot
A clerk lends his flat to executives for their affairs and falls for a lift operator.
Sinekatalog’s take
A lowly clerk lends his flat to his bosses for their affairs. Billy Wilder blends romantic comedy with real melancholy, and Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine are wonderful. Bittersweet and humane.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 8.3 / 10 (223,673 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset; Rotten Tomatoes snapshot from October 2026. Scores change over time.
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