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The Best Films of 1957

by Christopher Beaubien • March 08, 2008 • Start the Discussion!

12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Paths of Glory (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Seventh Seal (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
What’s Opera, Doc? (dir. Chuck Jones)
Sweet Smell of Success (dir. Alexander Mackendrick)
Witness for the Prosecution (dir. Billy Wilder)

The Best Films of 1956

by Christopher Beaubien • March 08, 2008 • Start the Discussion!

The Searchers (dir. John Ford)
The Killing (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Bigger Than Life (dir. Nicholas Ray)
The Bad Seed (dir. Mervyn LeRoy)
The Red Balloon (dir. Albert Lamorisse)
Giant (dir. George Stevens)
Written on the Wind (dir. Douglas Sirk)

The Best Films of 1955

by Christopher Beaubien • March 08, 2008 • Start the Discussion!

Ordet (dir. Carl Dreyer)
Marty (dir. Delbert Mann)
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (dir. Jacques Tati)
Bob le Flambeur (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
Lady and the Tramp (dir. Clyde Geronimi)
Rififi (dir. Jules Dassin)
Rebel Without a Cause (dir. Nicholas Ray)
All That Heaven Allows (dir. Douglas Sirk)
Le Amiche (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)

The Best Films of 1954

by Christopher Beaubien • March 08, 2008 • Start the Discussion!

Seven Samurai (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Rear Window (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (dir. Jacques Becker)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (dir. Stanley Donen)
La Strada (dir. Federico Fellini)
On the Waterfront (dir. Elia Kazan)
Hobson’s Choice (dir. David Lean)
Twenty-Four Eyes (dir. Keisuke Kinoshita)
A Star Is Born (dir. George Cukor)
Dial M for Murder (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

The Best Films of 1953

by Christopher Beaubien • March 08, 2008 • Start the Discussion!

The Earrings of Madame de… (dir. Max Ophuls)
Tokyo Story (dir. Yasujiro Ozu)
The Big Heat (dir. Fritz Lang)
Ugetsu (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
Beat the Devil (dir. John Huston)
The Band Wagon (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
I Vitelloni (dir. Federico Fellini)
Roman Holiday (dir. William Wyler)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (dir. Howard Hawks)
The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. (dir. Roy Rowland)
Peter Pan (dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske)
Little Fugitive (dir. Ray Ashley)
Calamity Jane (dir. David Butler)