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Gene Wilder has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1990s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Young Frankenstein.
1976
Comedy

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Max · Included

Blazing Saddles
1974 · Movie · Actor
Top 12%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Producers
1968 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Stir Crazy
1980 · Movie · Actor
Top 43%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
1972 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Woman in Red
1984 · Movie · Actor · Director · Writer
Top 56%Prime Video · Included

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
Dir. Mel Brooks · With Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman

When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.
Dir. Mel Stuart · With Gene Wilder, Peter Ostrum, Jack Albertson

In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
Dir. Arthur Penn · With Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
Dir. Mel Brooks · With Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens

A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.
Dir. Mel Brooks · With Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn
After a pilot is forced to make an emergency landing in the Sahara Desert, he befriends a young prince from outer space; the friendship conjures up stories of journeys through the solar system for the stranded aviator.
Dir. Stanley Donen · With Steven Warner, Richard Kiley, Bob Fosse

A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot, but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor

New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.
Dir. Sidney Poitier · With Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown

as Dr. Doug Ross
Pluto TV · Free w/ ads
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Woody Allen, John Carradine, Lou Jacobi

When a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak out to meet her, he realizes that adultery is not quite as easy as it looks.
Dir. Gene Wilder · With Gene Wilder, Charles Grodin, Joseph Bologna
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy White Knight, a rude caterpillar, and the hot-tempered Queen of Hearts and can grow ten feet tall or shrink to three inches. But will she ever be able to return home?
Dir. Nick Willing · With Tina Majorino, Robbie Coltrane, Ben Kingsley

Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con men to pay for the trip to go west, then they leave him and his belongings scattered along a deserted road. He is befriended by a stranger, Tommy, who is a bank robber and have many adventures during their journey.
Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri

as Sigerson Holmes · Director · Writer
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes... and exposed backsides.
Dir. Gene Wilder · With Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman
George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognise George as a missing millionaire, Eddie wants to take advantage of the situation.
Dir. Maurice Phillips · With Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Mercedes Ruehl

as Larry Abbot · Director · Writer
Radio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they announced their engagement, Larry has been plagued by speech problems and, seeking out an unconventional cure, he returns to his boyhood home, a mansion in the countryside, bringing Vickie along. Larry reunites with numerous family members, but discovers that there are sinister things afoot within the walls of the creepy estate.
Dir. Gene Wilder · With Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Dom DeLuise
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