1950's

1950:
1. Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
2. Rashômon (Kurosawa)
3. In a Lonely Place (Ray)
4. Los Olvidados (Buñuel)
5. Gun Crazy (Lewis)
6. All About Eve (Mankiewicz)
7. The Asphalt Jungle (Huston)
8. Rabbit of Seville (Jones)
9. Harvey (Koster)
10. Cinderella (Geronimi/Jackson/Luske)

Almost there:

Night and the City (Dassin)
Winchester ’73 (Mann)
Orpheus (Cocteau)
Rabbit’s Moon (Anger)


1951:
1. Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock)
2. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise)
3. Ace in the Hole (Wilder)
4. Early Summer (Ozu)
5. Alice in Wonderland (Geronimi/Jackson/Luske)
6. A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan)
7. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson)
8t. The Thing from Another Planet (Nyby/Hawks)
8t. The African Queen (Huston)
10. The Browning Version (Asquith)

Close:
The Man in the White Suit (Mackendrick)


1952:
1. Ikiru (Kurosawa)
2. Umberto D. (De Sica)
3. Singin' in the Rain (Donen/Kelly)
4. High Noon (Zinnemann)
5. The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi)
6. Forbidden Games (Clément)
7. The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Welles)
8. On Dangerous Ground (N. Ray)
9. Rabbit Seasoning (Jones)


1953:
1. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi)
2t. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
2t. The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
4. Duck Amuck (Jones)
5. Roman Holiday (Wyler)
6. Pickup on South Street (Fuller)
7. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (Tati)
8t. The Tell-Tale Heart (Parmelee)
8t. The Earrings of Madame de … (Ophüls)
10. Eaux d’artifice (Anger)

Not quite:
El (Buñuel)


1954:
1. The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
2. Rear Window (Hitchcock)
3. On the Waterfront (Kazan)
4. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
5. Johnny Guitar (N. Ray)
6. La Strada (Fellini)
7. Animal Farm (Batchelor/Halas)
8. Gojira (Honda)
9. Dial M for Murder (Hitchcock)
10. Touchez pas au Grisbi (Becker)


1955:
1. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
2. Les Diaboliques (Clouzot)
3. Rebel Without a Cause (N. Ray)
4. Rififi (Dassin)
5. Ordet (Dreyer)
6. Pather Panchali (S. Ray)
7. Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman)
8. Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich)
9. Lady and the Tramp (Geronimi/Jackson/Luske)
10. Night and Fog (Resnais)

Close:
The Trouble with Harry (Hitchcock)


1956:
1. A Man Escaped (Bresson)
2. The Searchers (Ford)
3. The Killing (Kubrick)
4. Baby Doll (Kazan)
5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel)
6. The Wrong Man (Hitchcock)
7. Written on the Wind (Sirk)
8. Bigger than Life (N. Ray)
9. The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa)
10. The Red Balloon (Lamorisse)

Not quite:
Aparajito (S. Ray)
Bob le flambeur (Melville)


1957:
1. Throne of Blood (Kurosawa)
2. The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
3. Paths of Glory (Kubrick)
4. 12 Angry Men (Lumet)
5. Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
6. The Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean)
7. Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
8. What's Opera, Doc? (Jones)
9. The Cranes are Flying (Kalatozov)
10. Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick)


1958:
1. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
2. Touch of Evil (Welles)
3. The Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa)
4. Elevator to the Gallows (Malle)
5. Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda)
6. Mon Oncle (Tati)
7. The Music Room (S. Ray)
8. Ivan the Terrible II (Eisenstein/Filimonova)
9. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brooks)
10t. A Movie (Conner)
10t. Big Deal on Madonna Street (Monicelli)

Almost There:
Equinox Flower (Ozu)
Horror of Dracula (Fisher)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Geronimi/Kinney)

1959:

1. The 400 Blows (Truffaut)

2. North By Northwest (Hitchcock)

3. Some Like It Hot (Wilder)

4. Pickpocket (Bresson)

5. Rio Bravo (Hawks)

6. Hiroshima mon amour (Resnais)

7. Imitation of Life (Sirk)

8. Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger)

9t. Black Orpheus (Camus)

9t. Sleeping Beauty (Geronimi)

Almost there:

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Kobayashi)

Ballad of a Soldier (Chukhrai)

A Bucket of Blood (Corman)

Ben-Hur (Wyler)