1950s

 Best of the '50s

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2. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks)
4. SEVEN SAMURAI (Akira Kurosawa)
5. BIGGER THAN LIFE (Nicholas Ray)
6. ORDET (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
7. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (
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1959

1. RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks)

2. PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson)

3. THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut)
4. SOME LIKE IT HOT (Billy Wilder)

5. SLEEPING BEAUTY (Les Clark, Eric Larson & Wolfgang Reitherman)

1958

1. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)

2. TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles)

3. THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (Akira Kurosawa)
4. PARTY GIRL (Nicholas Ray)
5. WIND ACROSS THE EVERGLADES (Nicholas Ray)

MON ONCLE
IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART II
WIND ACROSS THE EVERGLADES

1957

1. WHAT'S OPERA DOC? (Chuck Jones)

2. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (David Lean)

3. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick)

4. PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick)

5. THRONE OF BLOOD (Akira Kurosawa)

1956

1. BIGGER THAN LIFE (Nicholas Ray)
2. THE SEARCHERS (John Ford)

3. A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson)

4. THE KILLING (Stanley Kubrick)

5. THE WRONG MAN (Alfred Hitchcock)

1955

1. ORDET (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

2. LOLA MONTÈS (Max Ophüls)

3. KISS ME DEADLY (Robert Aldrich)

4. THE PHENIX CITY STORY (Phil Karlson)
5. RUN FOR COVER (Nicholas Ray)

1954

1. SEVEN SAMURAI (Akira Kurosawa)

2. JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray)

3. REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock)

1953

1. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks)
2. TOKYO STORY (Yasujiro Ozu)

3. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones)

4. PICKUP AT SOUTH STREET (Samuel Fuller)
5. THE BIG HEAT (Fritz Lang)

1952

1. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)

2. PARK ROW (Samuel Fuller)

3. IKIRU (Akira Kurosawa)

4. THE LUSTY MEN (Nicholas Ray)
5. ON DANGEROUS GROUND (Nicholas Ray)

1951

1. ACE IN THE HOLE (Billy Wilder)
2. THE STEEL HELMET (Samuel Fuller)

3. THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (Robert Wise)

4. ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske)

1950

1. IN A LONELY PLACE (Nicholas Ray)

2. RASHOMON (Akira Kurosawa)

3. SUNSET BLVD. (Billy Wilder)

4. ALL ABOUT EVE (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

5. BORN TO BE BAD (Nicholas Ray)