Querelle
Querelle is a 1982 West German- French English- language drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Brad Davis, adapted from French author Jean Genet's 1947 novel" Querelle of Brest".
It marked Fassbinder's final film as a writer/ director; it was posthumously released just months after the director died of a drug overdose in June 1982.
Thulasi (1987 film)
Thulasi is a 1987 Tamil romantic drama film directed by Ameerjan.
The film features Murali and Seetha in lead roles.
The film, produced by P. S. V. Hariharan, had musical score by Sampath Selvam and was released on 27 November 1987.
The music director died before the release of the film.
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder( born Samuel Wilder, June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian- born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades.
He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the Hollywood Golden Age of cinema.
With" The Apartment", Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film.
Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin.
After the rise of the Nazi Party, he left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut.
He moved to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay for the romantic comedy" Ninotchka", starring Greta Garbo.
Wilder established his directorial reputation with an adaption of James M. Cain's" Double Indemnity"( 1944), a film noir.
Wilder co-wrote the screenplay with crime novelist Raymond Chandler.
Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story" The Lost Weekend"( 1945), about alcoholism.
In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed" Sunset Boulevard", as well as" Stalag 17" in 1953.
From the mid-1950s on, Wilder made mostly comedies.
Among the classics Wilder created in this period are the farces" The Seven Year Itch"( 1955) and" Some Like It Hot"( 1959), and satires such as" The Apartment"( 1960).
He directed fourteen different actors in Oscar- nominated performances.
Wilder was recognized with the American Film Institute( AFI) Life Achievement Award in 1986.
In 1988, Wilder was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Double Indemnity (film)
Double Indemnity is a 1944 film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom.
The screenplay was based on James M. Cain's 1943 novella of the same name, which originally appeared as an eight- part serial in" Liberty" magazine, beginning in February 1936.
The film stars Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman, Barbara Stanwyck as a provocative housewife who wishes her husband were dead, and Edward G. Robinson as a claims adjuster whose job is to find phony claims.
The term" double indemnity" refers to a clause in certain life insurance policies that doubles the payout in rare cases when the death is accidental, such as falling off a train.
Praised by many critics when first released," Double Indemnity" was nominated for seven Academy Awards but did not win any.
Widely regarded as a classic, it often is cited as having set the standard for film noir.
Deemed" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the U.S. Library of Congress in 1992," Double Indemnity" was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
In 1998, it was ranked No. 38 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 best American films of all time, and in 2007 it placed 29th on their 10th Anniversary list.
Wilder considered" Double Indemnity" his best film in terms of having the fewest scripting and shooting mistakes and always maintained that the two things he was proudest of in his career were the compliments he received from Cain about" Double Indemnity" and from Agatha Christie for his handling of her" Witness for the Prosecution".
Apology for Murder
Apology for Murder is a 1945 American film noir directed by Sam Newfield and starring Ann Savage, Hugh Beaumont, Russell Hicks and Charles D. Brown.
The plot of" Apology for Murder" is a blatant rip-off of the seminal film noir" Double Indemnity" which was released the previous year.
The production company Producers Releasing Corporation, one of the B movie studios of Hollywood ’s Poverty Row, wanted to take advantage of" Double Indemnity's" huge success and originally intended to call the film" Single Indemnity".
However Paramount Pictures, the production company of" Double Indemnity", got wind of it and obtained an injunction.
PRC then changed the title to" Apology for Murder".
Much acclaimed B movie director Edgar G. Ulmer, who was working at PRC at the time" Apology for Murder" was made, claimed during a conversation with Peter Bogdanovich that he wrote the original" Single Indemnity" script for producer Sigmund Neufeld.
However, he erroneously believed that the film made from it was finally released under the title" Blonde Ice", which is a totally different film produced by Film Classics.
Anton Giulio Majano
Anton Giulio Majano (5 July 1909 – 12 August 1994) was an Italian screenwriter and film director.
His career spanned from 1937 to 1986.
Atom Age Vampire
Atom Age Vampire is a 1960 Italian horror film directed by Anton Giulio Majano.
Shot in black- and- white, the film was produced by Elio Ippolito Mellino and stars Alberto Lupo, Susanne Loret, and Sergio Fantoni.
Jism (2003 film)
Jism is a 2003 Indian erotic thriller film edited and directed by Amit Saxena, written by Mahesh Bhatt, produced by Pooja Bhatt and Sujit Kumar Singh under the banner Fish Eye Network[ P] Ltd and Shreya Creations, which starred Bipasha Basu and John Abraham, the latter making his début in Bollywood films.
The music for the film was scored by M. M. Keeravani.
" Jism" ranked 92 in the top 100 sexiest movie scenes poll conducted by Channel 4.
The film is essentially a remake of" Body Heat", which was, in turn, loosely based on Billy Wilder's 1944 film" Double Indemnity", which was a version of James M. Cain's novel" Double Indemnity".
Le Masque de la Méduse
Le masque de la Méduse is a 2009 fantasy horror film directed by Jean Rollin.
The film is a modern-day telling of the Greek mythological tale of the Gorgon and was inspired by the 1964 classic Hammer Horror film of the same name and the 1981 cult classic" Clash of the Titans".
It was Rollin's final film, as the director died in 2010.
Big Trouble (1986 film)
Big Trouble is a 1986 American comedy film.
It was director John Cassavetes' last film.
He took over from screenwriter Andrew Bergman( who was going to direct).
The cast reunited Peter Falk and Alan Arkin, co-stars of" The In- Laws", also featured Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning and Valerie Curtin.
The film's plot was so similar to that of" Double Indemnity" that, prior to production, Columbia Pictures was forced to trade the ownership of their unused script called" Back to the Future" with Universal Pictures( rightsholder for" Double Indemnity") to reuse the plot of the earlier film.

Question: Which film has the director died earlier, Double Indemnity (Film) or Atom Age Vampire?
Answer: Atom Age Vampire