1950
1. The Third Man (Carol Reed, UK)
2. The Gunfighter (Henry King, USA)
3. Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, France)
4. Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)
5. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, UK)
6. Winchester ’73 (Anthony Mann, USA)
7. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, USA)
8. In A Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, USA)

9. Shadow on the Wall (Pat Jackson, USA)
10. Stars in My Crown (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
11. The Baron of Arizona (Samuel Fuller, USA)

12. Rio Grande (John Ford, USA)
13. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)

14. La Ronde (Max Ophuls, France) (Released in USA in 1954)
15. Seven Days to Noon (John Boulting/Ray Boulting, USA)
16. The Killer That Stalked New York (Earl McEvoy, USA)

1951
1. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, USA)
2. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
3. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
4. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, USA)

5. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin, UK)
6. A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, USA)
7. The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller, USA)
8. The Thing from Another World (Howard Hawks, USA)

9. The Tall Target (Anthony Mann, USA)
10. The African Queen (John Huston, USA)

11. The Strange Door (Joseph Pevney, USA)

12. The Big Night (Joseph Losey, USA)

13. M (Joseph Losey, USA)
14. He Ran All the Way (John Berry, USA)
15. Cause for Alarm! (Tay Garnett, USA)

16. The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton, UK)

17. The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick, UK)
18. Roadblock (Harold Daniels, USA)
19. The Red Badge of Courage (John Huston, USA)

1952
1. Limelight (Charles Chaplin, USA)
2. The Quiet Man (John Ford, USA)
3. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, Italy) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1955)
4. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, USA)
5. Sudden Fear (David Miller, USA)
6. High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, USA)

7. The Sniper (Edward Dmytryk, USA)
8. Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang, USA)
9. Bend of the River (Anthony Mann, USA)
10. The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray, USA)

11. The White Sheik (Federico Fellini, Italy) (Released in USA in 1956)
12. The Big Sky (Howard Hawks, USA)

13. Talk About A Stranger (David Bradley, USA)

14. Pat and Mike (George Cukor, USA)
15. The Member of the Wedding (Fred Zinnemann, USA)
16. The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer, USA)
17. Don’t Bother to Knock (Roy Ward Baker, USA)
18. Paula (Rudolph Mate, USA)
 

Macao (Josef von Sternberg, USA)

1953
1. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann, USA)
2. The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1955)
3. Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder, USA)
4. The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, USA)
5. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, USA)
6. House of Wax (Andre de Toth, USA)
7. Laughing Anne (Herbert Wilcox, USA)

8. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, USA)
9. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (Eugene Lourie, USA)
10. The Moon Is Blue (Otto Preminger, USA)

11. Wicked Woman (Russell Rouse, USA)

12. To Kill a Child (Gosta Werner, Sweden)
13. From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann, USA)
14. The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang, USA)


1954
1. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, Japan) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1956)
2. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
3. M. Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati, France)
4. The Far Country (Anthony Mann, USA)
5. Godzilla (Ishiro Honda, Japan) (No USA Release)

6. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)

7. The Earrings of Madame De. . . (Max Ophuls, France/Italy)
8. Sabrina (Billy Wilder, USA)
9. A Story from Chikamatsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1970)

10. White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, USA)
11. Drive a Crooked Road (Richard Quine, USA)
12. The Outcast (William Witney, USA)
13. Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, USA)

14. Human Desire (Fritz Lang, USA)
15. Hell's Half Acre (John H. Auer, USA)

16. A Star Is Born (William Wyler, USA)
17. The Mad Magician (Jack Brahm, USA)

1955
1. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1957)
2. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, USA)
3. Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France)
4. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, USA)
5. Marty (Delbert Mann, USA)
6. The Man from Laramie (Anthony Mann, USA)
7. The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder, USA)
8. Wichita (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
9. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, India) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1958)
10. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, USA)
11. Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges, USA)
12. The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, USA)

13. The Court Jester (Melvin Frank/Norman Panama, USA)
14. Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (Hiroshi Inagaki, Japan) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1967)
15. Mister Roberts (John Ford/Mervyn LeRoy, USA)
16. The Naked Dawn (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
17. Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (Hiroshi Inagaki, Japan)
18. Dementia (John Parker, USA)
19. Stranger on Horseback (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
20. The Desperate Hours (William Wyler, USA)
21. The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
22. Summertime (David Lean, UK/USA)

 

Land of the Pharaohs (Howard Hawks, USA)

1956
1. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, USA)
2. The Searchers (John Ford, USA)
3. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, USA)
4. Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
5. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, USA)
6. The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick, UK)
7. Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox, USA)
8. While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang, USA)
9. Attack (Robert Aldrich, USA)

10. The Harder They Fall (Mark Robson, USA)

11. There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk, USA)
12. The Bad Seed (Mervyn LeRoy, USA)
13. Giant (George Stevens, USA)
14. The Black Sleep (Reginald Le Borg, USA)
15. Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (Hiroshi Inagaki, Japan) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1967)
16. A Woman's Devotion (Paul Henreid, USA)
17. Great Day in the Morning (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
18. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (Nunnally Johnson, USA)
19. Indestructible Man (Jack Pollexfen, USA)

1957
1. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1958)
2. A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, USA)
3. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden) (RLEEASED IN USA IN 1959)
4. The Tall T (Budd Boetticher, USA)

5. Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan) (Released in USA in 1972)
6. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, Italy)

7. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, UK/USA)
8. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, USA)
9. Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder, USA)

10. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, USA)
11. Funny Face (Stanley Donen, USA)

12. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (John Sturges, USA)
13. The Curse of Frankenstein (Terence Fisher, UK)
14. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, USA)

15. The Yellow Crow (Heinosuke Gosho, Japan) (No Official USA Release)
16. The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov, Soviet Union) (Released in USA in 1960)
17. Rodan (Ishiro Honda, Japan)
18. A King in New York (Charles Chaplin, USA)

19. The Rising of the Moon (John Ford, USA)

1958
1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
2. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa, Japan) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1960)
3. Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, France) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1961)
4. The Lineup (Don Siegel, USA)
5. A Night to Remember (Roy Ward Baker, UK)
6. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati, France)
7. Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)
8. Horror of Dracula (Terence Fisher, USA)
9. I Bury the Living (Albert Band, USA)
10. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, USA)
11. Attack of the Puppet People (Bert I. Gordon, USA)
12. Fiend Without a Face (Arthur Crabtree, UK)
13. The Blob (Irvin S. Yeaworth, USA)
14. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks, USA)
15. Bonjour tristesse (Otto Preminger, USA)
16. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (Nathan Juran, UK/USA)
17. The Return of Dracula (Paul Landres, USA)

18. Corridors of Blood (Robert Day, USA/UK)

19. Stakeout on Dope Street (Irvin Kershner, USA)

20. The World, the Flesh and the Devil (Ronald MacDougall, USA)
21. It! The Terror From Beyond Space (Edward L. Cahn, USA)
22. Showdown at Boot Hill (Gene Fowler Jr., USA)
23. The Tunnel of Love (Gene Kelly, USA)


1959
1. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, USA)
2. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
3. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, USA)
4. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, France)
5. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, USA)
6. The Magician (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
7. Ivan the Terrible: Part Two (Sergei M. Eisenstein, Soviet Union)

8. Ben-Hur (William Wyler, USA)
9. Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson, UK)
10. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher, USA)
11. Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1962)
12. The Ghost of Yotsuya (Nobuo Nakagawa, Japan) (NO USA RELEASE)

13. The Tingler (William Castle, USA)
14. The Glass Tower (Harald Braun, West Germany)
15. A Bucket of Blood (Roger Corman, USA)
16. Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus, Brazil/France/Italy)

17. The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang, West India/France/Germany)
18. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, France) (RELEAED IN USA IN 1963)
19. Face of Fire (Albert Band, USA)
20. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi, Japan)
21. Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)

22. The Diary of Anne Frank (George Stevens, USA)
23. The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi, Japan) (RELEASED IN USA 1961)
24. Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi, USA) 
25. The Gunfight at Dodge City (Joseph M. Newman, USA)
26. Magic Boy (Akira Daikuhara/Taiji Yabushita, Japan) (RELEASED IN USA IN 1961)
27. House on Haunted Hill (William Castle, USA)