Movie Timeline 1950-1959

1950

All About Eve (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

Angry Street (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Annie Get Your Gun (US…George Sidney)

The Asphalt Jungle (US…John Huston)

Aventurera (Mexico…Alberto Gout)

La Beauté du Diable (France…René Clair)

Black Forest Girl (West Germany…Hans Deppe)

The Blue Lamp (UK…Basil Dearden)

Born to Be Bad (US…Nicholas Ray)

Born Yesterday (US…George Cukor)

The Breaking Point (US…Michael Curtiz)

Broken Arrow (US…Delmer Daves)

Café Paradise (Denmark…Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen)

Caged (US…John Cromwell)

Champagne for Caesar (US…Richard Whorf)

Un Chant d’Amour (France…Jean Genet)

Chinnamul (India…Nemai Ghosh)

Chronicle of a Love (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)

Cinderella (US…Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi)

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Cyrano de Bergerac (US…Michael Gordon)

D.O.A. (US…Rudolph Maté)

Dieu a Besoin des Hommes (France…Jean Delannoy)

The Dividing Line (US…Joseph Losey)

Domenica d’Agosto (Italy…Luciano Emmer)

The Drunkard (Greece…Yorgos Javellas)

The Elusive Pimpernel (UK…Michael Powell)

Les Enfants Terribles (France…Jean-Pierre Melville)

Engagement Ring (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Family Portrait (UK…Humphrey Jennings)

Father of the Bride (US…Vincente Minnelli)

The Flame and the Arrow (US…Jacques Tourneur)

Francis, God’s Jester (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

The Furies (US…Anthony Mann)

Genghis Khan (Philippines…Manuel Conde)

The Girl with Hyacinths (Sweden…Hasse Ekman)

The Glass Menagerie (US…Irving Rapper)

Gone to Earth (UK…Michael Powell)

Gun Crazy (US…Joseph H.Lewis)

Guernica (France…Alain Resnais)

The Gunfighter (US…Henry King)

The Happiest Days of Your Life (UK…Frank Launder)

Harvey (US…Henry Koster)

Improvisation (US…Gjon Mili)

In a Lonely Place (US…Nicholas Ray)

L’Ingenue Libertine (France…Jacqueline Audry)

Justice est Faite (France…André Cayatte)

Kala Bazaar (India…Vijay Anand)

Kikyo (Japan…Hideo Oba)

King Lavra (Czechoslovakia…Karel Zeman)

King Solomon’s Mines (US…Compton Bennett)

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (US…Gordon Douglas)

Last Holiday (UK…Henry Cass)

Listen to the Roar of the Ocean (Japan…Hideo Sekigawa)

The Makioka Sisters (Japan…Yutaka Abe)

Manèges (France…Yves Allégret)

La Marie du Port (France…Marcel Carné)

The Men (US…Fred Zinnemann)

Meurtres (France…Richard Pottier)

Millionaires of Naples (Italy…Eduardo de Filippo)

Miquette et sa Mère (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Mirror of Holland (Netherlands…Bert Haanstra)

Morning Escape (Japan…Senkichi Taniguchi)

A Mother’s Love (Japan…Hiroshi Shimizu)

The Munekata Sisters (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Night and the City (UK…Jules Dassin)

No Man of Her Own (US…Mitchell Leisen)

No Peace Under the Olive Trees (Italy…Giuseppe de Santis)

Nous Irons à Paris (France…Jean Boyer)

Los Olvidados (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

Orphée (France…Jean Cocteau)

Outrage (US…Ida Lupino)

Panic in the Streets (US…Elia Kazan)

Plavi 9 (Yugoslavia…Kresimir Golik)

Portrait of Madame Yuki (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Prince Bayaya (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Trnka)

Quai de Grenelle (France…Emil Reinert)

Rabbit of Seville (US…Chuck Jones)

Rashomon (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Rio Grande (US…John Ford)

La Ronde (France…Max Ophuls)

The Scarlet Pumpernickel (US…Chuck Jones)

Seven Days to Noon (UK…John Boulting, Roy Boulting)

The Shiinomi School (Japan…Hiroshi Shimizu)

Side Street (US…Anthony Mann)

So Long at the Fair (UK…Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher)

The Sound of Fury (US/UK…Cy Endfield)

Stars in my Crown (US…Jacques Tourneur)

State Secret (UK…Sidney Gilliat)

Stromboli (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

Sunset Boulevard (US…Billy Wilder)

This Whole Life of Mine (China…Shi Hui)

To Joy (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Tormento (Italy…Raffaelo Matarazzo)

Treasure Island (US…Byron Haskin)

Two Suspicious Persons (Norway…Tancred Ibsen)

Union Station (US…Rudolph Maté)

Until We Meet Again (Japan…Tadashi Imai)

Wagonmaster (US…John Ford)

Where the Sidewalk Ends (US…Otto Preminger)

White Beast (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Winchester ’73 (US…Anthony Mann)

Woman on the Run (US…Norman Foster)

Women Without Names (Italy…Geza von Radvanyi)

Young Man With a Horn (US…Michael Curtiz)

Your Show of Shows (US (until 1954)…various)

 

1951

Ace in the Hole (US…Billy Wilder)

Across the Wide Missouri (US…William A.Wellman)

The African Queen (UK…John Huston)

Alice in Wonderland (US…Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson)

The Amazing Monsieur Fabre (France…Henri Diamant-Berger)

An American in Paris (US…Vincente Minnelli)

And Yet we Live (Japan…Tadashi Imai)

Anna (Italy…Alberto Lattuada)

Apache Drums (US…Hugo Fregonese)

L’Auberge Rouge (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

Awaara (India…Raj Kapoor)

Barefaced Flatfoot (US…John Hubley)

The Barefoot Mailman (US…Earl McEvoy)

Bellissima (Italy…Luchino Visconti)

The Brave Bulls (US…Robert Rossen)

Bright Victory (US…Mark Robson)

The Browning Version (UK…Anthony Asquith)

The Bullfighter and the Lady (US…Budd Boetticher)

Carmen Comes Home (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Caroline Chérie (France…Richard Pottier)

Casanova Cat (US…Joseph Barbera, William Hanna)

Cheese Chasers (US…Chuck Jones)

Cielo Negro (Spain…Manuel Mur Oti)

Clothes of Deception (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura)

Cops and Robbers (Italy…Mario Monicelli, Steno)

Dancing Girl (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Daredevil Droopy (US…Tex Avery)

David (UK…Paul Dickson)

The Day the Earth Stood Still (US…Robert Wise)

Death of a Salesman (US…Laslo Benedek)

The Desert Fox (US…Henry Hathaway)

Detective Story (US…William Wyler)

The Diary of a Country Priest (France…Robert Bresson)

Dispersed Clouds (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)

Don Camillo (France…Julien Duvivier)

Dragnet (US (until 1954)…various)

Drip Along Daffy (US…Chuck Jones)

Early Summer (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Edouard et Caroline (France…Jacques Becker)

The Enforcer (US…Raoul Walsh, Bretaigne Windust)

Fanfan la Tulipe (France…Christian-Jaque)

Fireworks Over the Sea (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Five Men of Edo (Japan…Daisuke Ito)

Four Ways Out (Italy…Pietro Germi)

Fourteen Hours (US…Henry Hathaway)

Fuddy Duddy Buddy (US…John Hubley)

Gerald McBoing Boing (US…Robert Cannon)

Ginza Cosmetics (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

The Good Life (UK…Humphrey Jennings) UNFINISHED

The Great Caruso (US…Richard Thorpe)

He Ran All the Way (US…John Berry)

The Heath is Green (West Germany…Hans Deppe)

I Love Lucy (US (until 1957)…various)

The Idiot (Japan…Akira Kurosawa) PARTIALLY LOST

In the Palm of Your Hand (Mexico…Roberto Gavaldón)

It Will Never Happen Again (Poland…Natan Gross)

Juliette ou la Clef des Songes (France…Marcel Carné)

The Kaiser’s Lackey (West Germany…Wolfgang Staudte)

Krane’s Bakery Shop (Denmark…Astrid Henning-Jensen)

The Lady of Musashino (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

The Lavender Hill Mob (UK…Charles Crichton)

M (US…Joseph Losey)

Les Mains Sales (France…Fernand Rivers)

The Man in the White Suit (UK…Alexander Mackendrick)

Man of Straw (West Germany…Wolfgang Staudte)

The Mating Season (US…Mitchell Leisen)

The Medium (Italy…Gian Carlo Menotti)

Miracle in Milan (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

Miracles Only Happen Once (France…Yves Allégret)

Miss Julie (Sweden…Alf Sjöberg)

Miss Oyu (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

The Mob (US…Robert Parrish)

Olivia (France…Jacqueline Audry)

One Summer of Happiness (Sweden…Arne Mattson)

Outcast of the Islands (UK…Carol Reed)

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (UK…Albert Lewin)

A Place in the Sun (US…George Stevens)

La Poison (France…Sacha Guitry)

The Prowler (US…Joseph Losey)

Quo Vadis? (US…Mervyn le Roy)

Rabbit Fire (US…Chuck Jones)

The Racket (US…John Cromwell, Nicholas Ray)

The Red Badge of Courage (US…John Huston) PARTIALLY LOST

Repast (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

The River (India/France/UK…Jean Renoir)

Royal Wedding (US…Stanley Donen)

Sans Laisser d’Adresse (France…Jean-Paul le Chanois)

Scrooge (UK…Brian Desmond-Hurst)

The Secret People (UK…Thorold Dickinson)

Sensualidad (Mexico…Albert Gout)

Showboat (US…George Sidney)

The Sinner (West Germany…Willi Forst)

The Steel Helmet (US…Samuel Fuller)

Storm Clouds Over Hakone (Japan…Satsuo Yamamoto)

Story of a Beloved Wife (Japan…Kaneto Shindo)

Strangers on a Train (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

A Streetcar Named Desire: director’s cut (US (1994)…Elia Kazan)

Summer Interlude (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Susana (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

Symphony in Slang (US…Tex Avery)

A Tale of Genji (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura)

The Tales of Hoffmann (UK…Michael Powell)

The Tall Target (US…Anthony Mann)

The Thing from Another World (US…Christian Nyby)

Traité de bave et d’éternité (France…Isidore Isou)

The Two Mouseketeers (US…Joseph Barbera, William Hanna)

Waters of Time (UK…Basil Wright)

The Well (US…Leo C.Popkin, Russell Rouse)

 

1952

Aan (India…Mehboob Khan)

Adieu Paris (France…Claude Heymann)

Adorable Creatures (France…Christian-Jaque)

Androcles and the Lion (US…Gabriel Pascal)

Angel Face (US…Otto Preminger)

Ascent of Youth (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

The Bad and the Beautiful (US…Vincente Minnelli)

Baiju Bawra (India…Vijay Bhatt)

Beep Beep (US…Chuck Jones)

The Beggar’s Opera (UK…Peter Brook)

Les Belles de Nuit (France…René Clair)

Bend of the River (US…Anthony Mann)

La Bergère et le Ramoneur (France…Paul Grimault)

The Big Sky (US…Howard Hawks)

The Brute (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

The Captive City (US…Robert Wise)

The Card (UK…Ronld Neame)

Carmen’s Pure Love (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Carrie (US…William Wyler)

Casque d’Or (France…Jacques Becker)

Chicago Calling (US…John Reinhardt)

Children of Hiroshima (Japan…Kaneto Shindo)

The City Stands Trial (Italy…Luigi Zampa)

Clash by Night (US…Fritz Lang)

Come Back, Little Sheba (US…Daniel Mann)

The Crimson Curtain (France…Alexandre Astruc)

The Crimson Pirate (US…Robert Siodmak)

Dedication of the Great Buddha (Japan…Teinosuke Kinugasa)

The Dividing Wall (Hong Kong…Zhu Shilin)

The Emperor’s Baker – The Baker’s Emperor (Czechoslovakia…Martin Fric)

Europa ’51 (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

Father’s Dilemma (Italy…Alessandro Blasetti)

Feed the Kitty (US…Chuck Jones)

La Fête à Henriette (France…Julien Duvivier)

Five Fingers (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Forbidden Fruit (France…Henri Verneuil)

The Four Poster (US…Irving Reis)

Girls on the Spanish Steps (Italy…Luciano Emmer)

Going, Going Gosh (US…Chuck Jones)

The Golden Coach (France…Jean Renoir)

The Greatest Show on Earth (US…Cecil B.de Mille)

The Happy Time (US…Richard Fleischer)

Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (US…Douglas Sirk)

High Noon (US…Fred Zinnemann)

Honjitsu Kyoshin (Japan…Minoru Shibuya)

Hoja! Lero! (Yugoslavia…Vjekoslav Afric)

Hôtel des Invalides (France…Georges Franju)

Ikiru (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

The Importance of Being Earnest (UK…Anthony Asquith)

In the Storm (Yugoslavia…Vatroslav Mimica)

Ivanhoe (UK/US…Richard Thorpe)

La Jeune Folle (France…Yves Allégret)

Jeux Interdits (France…René Clément)

Johann Mouse (US…William Hanna, Joseph Barbera)

Leonardo da Vinci (Italy…Lucianno Emmer)

The Life of Oharu (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Lightning (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Limelight (UK…Charles Chaplin)

The Living Desert (US…James Algar)

Lola the Coalgirl (Spain…Luis Lucia)

The Lusty Men (US…Nicholas Ray)

Macao (US…Josef von Sternberg)

Mademoiselle Gobete (Italy…Pietro Germi)

Magical Maestro (US…Tex Avery)

Mandy (UK…Alexander Mackendrick)

Manon des Sources: Parts I & II (France…Marcel Pagnol)

The Marrying Kind (US…George Cukor)

Monkey Business (US…Howard Hawks)

Mother (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Moulin Rouge (US…John Huston)

My Cousin Rachel (US…Henry Koster)

Nagarik (India…Ritwik Ghatak)

The Narrow Margin (US…Richard Fleischer)

Neighbours (Canada…Norman McLaren)

The Night is Long (Finland…Aarne Tarkas)

No abras nunca esa puerta (Argentina…Carlos Hugo Christensen)

Nous sommes tout des assassins (France…André Cayatte)

Okuni and Gohei (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

On Dangerous Ground (US…Nicholas Ray)

Othello (US/Italy…Orson Welles)

The Overcoat (Italy…Alberto Lattuada)

Park Row (US…Samuel Fuller)

Park Window (Argentina…Hugo del Carrill)

Pat and Mike (US…George Cukor)

The Pickwick Papers (UK…Noel Langley)

Le Plaisir (France…Max Ophuls)

The Proud Princess (Czechoslovakia…Borivoj Zeman)

The Quiet Man (US…John Ford)

Rabbit Seasoning (US…Chuck Jones)

Rancho Notorious (US…Fritz Lang)

The Ring (US…Kurt Neumann)

River of Blood (Argentina…Hugo del Carrill)

Rock-A-Bye-Bear (US…Tex Avery)

Rome, 11 O’Clock (Italy…Giuseppe de Santis)

Rooty Toot Toot (US…John Hubley)

Ruby Gentry (US…King Vidor)

Scaramouche (US…George Sidney)

Singin’ in the Rain (US…Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)

Sisters of Nishijin (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura)

Son of Paleface (US…Frank Tashlin)

Song of the Sea (Brazil…Alberto Cavalcanti)

The Sound Barrier (UK…David Lean)

The Stranger Left no Card (UK…Wendy Toye)

Sudden Fear (US…David Miller)

Sword for Hire (Japan…Hiroshi Inagaki)

The Thief (US…Russell Rouse)

The Titfield Thunderbolt (UK…Charles Crichton)

Two Cents Worth of Hope (Italy…Renato Castellani)

Umberto D (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

Vacuum Zone (Japan…Satsuo Yamamoto)

Vendetta of a Samurai (Japan…Kazuo Mori)

Victory at Sea (US (until 1953)…M.Clay Adams)

Viva Zapata! (US…Elia Kazan)

Waiting Women (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Water, Water Every Hare (US…Chuck Jones)

The White Reindeer (Finland…Erik Blomberg)

The White Sheik (Italy…Federico Fellini)

Wienerinnen (Austria…Kurt Steinwendner)

The Witch (Finland…Roland af Hällström)

 

1953

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

All I Desire (US…Douglas Sirk)

Les Amants de Tolède (France/Spain…Henri Decoin, Fernando Palacios)

L’Amour d’une Femme (France…Jean Grémillon)

Anatahan (Japan…Josef von Sternberg)

The Band Wagon (US…Vincente Minnelli)

The Bandit (Brazil…Victor Lima Barreto)

Barabbas (Sweden…Alf Sjöberg)

Beat the Devil (UK…John Huston)

Bienvenido Mr Marshall (Spain…Luis Garcia Berlanga)

The Big Heat (US…Fritz Lang)

The Bigamist (US…Ida Lupino)

The Blue Gardenia (US…Fritz Lang)

The Bread of Love (Sweden…Arne Mattson)

Bully for Bugs (US…Chuck Jones)

Butterfly Lovers (China…Sang Hu, Huang Sha)

Calamity Jane (US…David Butler)

Call Me Madam (US…Walter Lang)

Crin Blanc (France…Albert Lamorisse)

The Cruel Sea (UK…Charles Frend)

Le Défroqué (France…Léo Joannon)

Don’t Give up the Sheep (US…Chuck Jones)

Duck Amuck (US…Chuck Jones)

Eaux d’Artifices (US…Kenneth Anger)

Él (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

The Elephant Will Never Forget (UK…John Krish)

Empty Eyes (Italy…Antonio Pietrangeli)

The End (US…Christopher MacLaine)

Festival Moon (Hong Kong…Zhu Shilin)

Five Boys from Barska Street (Poland…Alexander Ford)

From Here to Eternity (US…Fred Zinnemann)

Gate of Hell (Japan…Teinosuke Kinugasa)

Genevieve (UK…Henry Cornelius)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (US…Howard Hawks)

Gion Festival Music (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Give a Girl a Break (US…Stanley Donen)

Glen or Glenda? (US…Edward D.Wood Jnr)

The Great Adventure (Sweden…Arne Sucksdorff)

The Hitch-Hiker (US…Ida Lupino)

House of Wax (US…André de Toth)

How to Marry a Millionaire (US…Jean Negulesco)

Husband and Wife (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

I Confess (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

I Love Melvin (US…Don Weis)

In the Face of Demolition (Hong Kong…Li Tie)

Indiscretion of an American Wife (Italy/US…Vittorio de Sica)

Inferno (US…Roy Ward Baker)

It Came from Outer Space (US…Jack Arnold)

A Japanese Tragedy (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Jirocho Sangokushi: Parts I & II (Japan…Masahiro Mikano)

Julius Caesar (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

The Kidnappers (UK…Philip Leacock)

Kiss Me Kate (US…George Sidney)

The Lady Without Camellias (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)

Lili (US…Charles Walters)

The Little Fugitive (US…Morris Engel, Ray Ashley, Ruth Orkin)

A Lost Letter (Romania…Sica Alexandrescu, Victor Iliu)

Love Letter (Japan…Kinuyo Tanaka)

Lucrèce Borgia (France…Christian-Jaque)

Madame de… (France…Max Ophuls)

The Maggie (UK…Alexander Mackendrick)

Un Marito de Anna Zacheo (Italy…Giuseppe de Santis)

Martin Luther (US…Irving Pichel)

Marty (US…Delbert Mann, Gordon Duff)

The Milkmaid (Finland…T.J.Särkkä)

The Mistress (Japan…Shiro Toyoda)

Mogambo (US…John Ford)

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (France…Jacques Tati)

The Moon is Blue (US…Otto Preminger)

Muddy Water (Japan…Tadashi Imai)

The Naked Spur (US…Anthony Mann)

Niagara (US…Henry Hathaway)

O Dreamland (UK…Lindsay Anderson)

Old Czech Legends (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Trnka)

Older Brother, Younger Sister (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Les Orgueilleux (France/Mexico…Yves Allégret)

Parineeta (India…Bimal Roy)

Peter Pan (US… Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton S.Luske, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson)

Pickup on South Street (US…Samuel Fuller)

The Pleasure Garden (UK…James Broughton)

Quatermass (UK (until 1959)…Rudolph Cartier)

Remembrance (Czechoslovakia…Frantisek Vlacil)

The Robe (US…Henry Koster)

Roman Holiday (US…William Wyler)

Sawdust and Tinsel (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Shane (US…George Stevens)

Shukuzu (Japan…Kaneto Shindo)

Sincerity (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

Sinji Galeb (Yugoslavia…Branko Bauer)

Spring (Yugoslavia…Frantisek Cap)

Stalag 17 (US…Billy Wilder)

Les Statues Meurent Aussi (France…Alain Resnais, Chris Marker)

Summer With Monika (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

The Sun Shines Bright (US…John Ford)

Sunless Street (Japan…Satsuo Yamamoto)

The Tell-Tale Heart (US…Ted Parmelee)

Thérèse Raquin (France…Marcel Carné)

The Thick-Walled Room (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

Tokyo Story (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (US…Ward Kimball, August Nichols)

Tower of the Lilies (Japan…Tadashi Imai)

Trouble in Store (UK…John Paddy Carstairs)

Two Acres of Land (India…Bimal Roy)

Ugetsu Monogatari (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

The Unicorn in the Garden (US…William T.Hurtz)

I Vinti (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)

I Vitelloni (Italy…Federico Fellini)

The Wages of Fear (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

The War of the Worlds (US…Byron Haskin)

The Wayward Wife (Italy…Mario Soldati)

When You Read This Letter (France…Jean-Pierre Melville)

Where Chimneys are Seen (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)

Wife (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

A Woman Walks the Earth Alone (Japan…Fumio Kamei)

Wuthering Heights (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

 

1954

L’Affaire Maurizius (France…Julien Duvivier)

Ah! Les Belles Bacchantes (France…Jean Loubignac)

Animal Farm (UK…Jon Halas, Joy Batchelor)

Apache (US…Robert Aldrich)

The Art of Getting Along (Italy…Luigi Zampa)

Avant le Deluge (France…André Cayatte)

Bad Day at Black Rock (US…John Sturges)

The Barefoot Contessa (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

The Belles of St Trinian’s (UK…Frank Launder)

The Big Family (USSR…Josef Heifitz)

Billy Boy (US…Tex Avery)

La Blé en Herbe (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

Boris Godunov (USSR…Vera Stroyova)

The Bridal Wreath (Finland…Hannu Leminen)

Brigadoon (US…Vincente Minnelli)

Bugs and Thugs (US…Friz Freleng)

The Caine Mutiny (US…Edward Dmytryk)

Carmen Jones (US…Otto Preminger)

Chikamatsu Monogatari (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

The Creature from the Black Lagoon (US…Jack Arnold)

Crime Wave (US…André de Toth)

Cronache al Poveri Amante (Italy…Carlo Lizzani)

A Day in Court (Italy…Steno)

Demetrius and the Gladiators (US…Delmer Daves)

Dial M for Murder (UK…Alfred Hitchcock)

The Divided Heart (UK…Charles Crichton)

Dixieland Droopy (US…Tex Avery)

Dobu (Japan…Kaneto Shindo)

Doctor in the House (UK…Ralph Thomas)

Don Giovanni (UK…Paul Czinner)

Drive a Crooked Road (US…Richard Quine)

Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (US…Chuck Jones)

The Egyptian (US…Michael Curtiz)

Executive Suite (US…Robert Wise)

The Far Country (US…Anthony Mann)

Father Brown (UK…Robert Hamer)

French Can Can (France…Jean Renoir)

A Generation (Poland…Andrzej Wajda)

The Girl in the Mist (Japan…Hideo Suzuki)

Godzilla (Japan…Ishiro Honda)

Gold of Naples (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

The Golden Demon (Japan…Koji Shima)

The Hand of Fate (South Korea…Han Hyeong-mo)

Hobson’s Choice (UK…David Lean)

Huis Clos (France…Jacqueline Audry)

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (US…Kenneth Anger)

An Inn at Osaka (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)

An Inspector Calls (UK…Guy Hamilton)

Jan Hus (Czechoslovakia…Otakar Vavra)

Joan at the Stake (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

Johnny Guitar (US…Nicholas Ray)

Karin Mansdötter (Sweden…Alf Sjöberg)

Knave of Hearts (UK…René Clément)

Koncert (Yugoslavia…Branko Balan)

The Last Bridge (Yugoslavia/Austria…Helmut Kautner)

Late Chrysanthemums (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

The Lost Child (India…K.A.Abbas)

Magnificent Obsession (US…Douglas Sirk)

Medals (Japan…Minoru Shibuya)

The Night My Number Came Up (UK…Leslie Norman)

1984 (UK…Rudolph Cartier)

No Time for Shame (Sweden…Arne Ragneborn)

Nothing but Trouble (Norway…Edith Carlmar)

L’Ombra (Italy…Giorgio Bianchi)

On the Waterfront (US…Elia Kazan)

Orage (France…Pierre Billon, Giorgio Capitani)

La Paura (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

Picasso (Italy…Lucianno Emmer)

La pointe-courte (France…Agnès Varda)

Pushover (US…Richard Quine)

La Rage au Corps (France…Ralph Habib)

The Raid (US…Hugo Fregonese)

Rear Window (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Red Garters (US…George Marshall)

La Reine Margot (France…Jean Dreville)

Riot in Cell Block 11 (US…Don Siegel)

River and Death (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

River of no Return (US…Otto Preminger)

Romeo and Juliet (UK…Renato Castellani)

Le Rouge et le Noir (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

Sabrina (US…Billy Wilder)

Salt of the Earth (US…Herbert J.Biberman)

Samurai Part One: Musashi Miyamoto (Japan…Hiroshi Inagaki)

Sansho Dayu (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

The Scarlet Week (Finland…Matti Kassila)

Senso (Italy…Luchino Visconti)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (US…Stanley Donen)

The Seven Samurai (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

The Sheep Has Five Legs (France…Henri Verneuil)

Silver Lode (US…Allan Dwan)

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

Sound of the Mountain (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

The Sound of Waves (Japan…Senkichi Taniguchi)

A Star is Born (US…George Cukor)

La Strada (Italy…Federico Fellini)

Stronger Than the Night (East Germany…Slatan Dudow)

Suddenly (US…Lewis Allen)

Susan Slept Here (US…Frank Tashlin)

Them! (US…Gordon Douglas)

There’s No Business Like Show Business (US…Walter Lang)

Tiefland (West Germany…Leni Riefenstahl)

Too Bad She’s Bad (Italy…Alessandro Blasetti)

Touchez pas au Grisbi (France…Jacques Becker)

Track of the Cat (US…William A.Wellman)

Twenty-Four Eyes (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (US…Richard Fleischer)

Under the Phrygian Star (Poland…Jerzy Kawalerowicz)

Vera Cruz (US…Robert Aldrich)

Voyage to Italy (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

White Christmas (US…Michael Curtiz)

The Wild One (US…Laslo Benedek)

Woman of Rumour (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Woman’s World (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Woman’s World (US…Jean Negulesco)

Young at Heart (US…Gordon Douglas)

 

1955

Adolescence (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (UK (until 1960)…various)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (US (until 1961)…various)

All That Heaven Allows (US…Douglas Sirk)

Les Amants du Tage (France/Portugal…Henri Verneuil)

Le Amiche (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)

Artists and Models (US…Frank Tashlin)

Battle Cry (US…Raoul Walsh)

The Bespoke Overcoat (UK…Jack Clayton)

Il Bidone (Italy…Federico Fellini)

The Big Combo (US…Joseph H.Lewis)

The Big Knife (US…Robert Aldrich)

The Blackboard Jungle (US…Richard Brooks)

A Bloody Spear on Mount Fuji (Japan…Tomu Uchida)

Cast a Dark Shadow (UK…Lewis Gilbert)

C’ela S’Appelle L’Aurore (France/Italy…Luis Buñuel)

The Cobweb (US…Vincente Minnelli)

Cold Nights (Hong Kong…Lee Sun-fung)

Confidential Report (Spain…Orson Welles)

The Counterfeit Coin (Greece…Yorgos Javellas)

The Court Jester (US…Norman Panama, Melvin Frank)

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

The Dam Busters (UK…Michael Anderson)

Death of a Cyclist (Spain…Juan-Antonio Bardem)

Dementia (US…John J.Parker)

Devdas (India…Bimal Roy)

Les Diaboliques (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Distant Clouds (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Dreams (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

East of Eden (US…Elia Kazan)

Empress Yang Kwei-Fei (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Floating Clouds (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

A Girl in Black (Greece…Michael Cacoyannis)

Les Grandes Manoeuvres (France…René Clair)

Growing Up (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)

Gunsmoke (US (until 1975)…various)

Guys and Dolls (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

Here is a Spring (Japan…Tadashi Imai)

Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti (Austria…Alberto Cavalcanti)

Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer (Israel…Thorold Dickinson)

The Honeymooners (US (until 1956)…Frank Satenstein)

House of Bamboo (US…Samuel Fuller)

Hvor bjergene sjeler (Denmark…Bjarne Henning-Jensen)

I Live in Fear (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Ikl’s Anniversary (Yugoslavia…Vatroslav Mimica)

It’s Always Fair Weather (US…Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)

Kihlaus (Finland…Erik Blomberg)

Killer’s Kiss (US…Stanley Kubrick)

Kiss Me Deadly (US…Robert Aldrich)

Kokoro (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

Lady and the Tramp (US…Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske)

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (France…Marc Allégret)

The Ladykillers (UK…Alexander Mackendrick)

Land of the Pharaohs (US…Howard Hawks)

The Last Frontier (US…Anthony Mann)

The Legend of Rock-a-Bye Point (US…Tex Avery)

Lola Montes (France…Max Ophuls)

Love Me or Leave Me (US…Charles Vidor)

The Maid’s Kid (Japan…Tomotaka Tasaka)

Le Maitres Fous (France…Jean Rouch)

The Man from Laramie (US…Anthony Mann)

The Man With the Golden Arm (US…Otto Preminger)

Marianne of My Youth (France…Julien Duvivier)

Marital Relations (Japan…Shiro Toyoda)

Marty (US…Delbert Mann)

The Merry-Go Round (Hungary…Zoltán Fabri)

Millions on the Island (Yugoslavia…Branko Bauer)

The Miracle of Marcelino (Spain…Ladislao Vajda)

Mister Roberts (US…Mervyn le Roy, John Ford)

The Moon Has Risen (Japan…Kinuyo Tanaka)

Moonfleet (US…Fritz Lang)

The Naked Dawn (US…Edgar G.Ulmer)

Nana (France…Christian-Jaque)

Napoleon (France…Sacha Guitry)

The Night of the Hunter (US…Charles Laughton)

Not as a Stranger (US…Stanley Kramer)

Nuit et Brouillard (France…Alain Resnais)

Oh, Rosalinda! (UK…Michael Powell)

Oklahoma! (US…Fred Zinnemann)

One Froggy Evening (US…Chuck Jones)

Ordet (Denmark…Carl T.Dreyer)

Othello (USSR…Sergei Yutkevich)

Pather Panchali (India…Satyajit Ray)

Pete Kelly’s Blues (US…Jack Webb)

The Phenix City Story (US…Phil Karlson)

Picnic (US…Joshua Logan)

The Quatermass Experiment (UK…Val Guest)

The Rats (West Germany…Robert Siodmak)

Razzia sur la Chnouf (France…Henri Decoin)

Rebel Without a Cause (US…Nicholas Ray)

The Red Balloon (France…Albert Lamorisse)

Richard III (UK…Laurence Olivier)

Rififi (France…Jules Dassin)

Rio 40 Degrees (Brazil…Nelson Pereira dos Santos)

The Rose Tattoo (US…Daniel Mann)

Samurai Part Two: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (Japan…Hiroshi Inagaki)

The Seven Year Itch (US…Billy Wilder)

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Shin Heike Monogatari (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Smiles of a Summer Night (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Speedy Gonzales (US…Friz Freleng)

Spring (Yugoslavia…Branko Bauer)

Stella (Greece…Michael Cacoyannis)

Summertime (US/UK…David Lean)

The Tall Men (US…Raoul Walsh)

The Tattered Wings (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

This Island Earth (US…Joseph M.Newman)

To Catch a Thief (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Tour de Nesle (France…Abel Gance)

The Trouble With Harry (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Twilight Saloon (Japan…Tomu Uchida)

The Unknown Soldier (Finland…Edvin Laine)

When Magoo Flew (US…John Hubley)

Where Mountains Float (Denmark/Greenland…Bjarne Henning-Jensen)

Wichita (US…Jacques Tourneur)

The Widow (South Korea…Park Nam-ok)

Wolf (Japan…Kaneto Shindo)

The Woman in the Painting (Italy…Franco Rossi)

You’ll Never Get Rich/The Phil Silvers Show (US (until 1959)…Al De Caprio, Charles Friedman, Nat Hiken)

Young Love (Finland…Roland af Hällström)

 

1956

Alexander the Great (US…Robert Rossen)

Anastasia (US…Anatole Litvak)

Aparajito (India…Satyajit Ray)

Around the World in 80 Days (US…Michael Anderson)

Attack! (US…Robert Aldrich)

Autumn Leaves (US…Robert Aldrich)

Baby Doll (US…Elia Kazan)

The Bad Seed (US…Mervyn le Roy)

The Band of Honest Men (Italy…Camillo Mastrocinque)

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (US…Fritz Lang)

Beyond Oblivion (Argentina…Hugo de Carril)

Bhowani Junction (US…George Cukor)

Bigger Than Life (US…Nicholas Ray)

Bob le Flambeur (France…Jean-Pierre Melville)

The Boss (US…Byron Haskin)

The Bridge of Japan (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

The Burmese Harp (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

Bus Stop (US…Joshua Logan)

C.I.D. (India…Raj Khosla)

Calabuch (Spain…Luis Garcia Berlanga)

Calle Mayor (Spain…Juan-Antonio Bardem)

Camilla (Italy…Luciano Emmer)

Carousel (US…Henry King)

Castle of the Banned Lovers (Italy…Riccardo Freda)

Chori Chori (India…Anant Thakur)

The Country I Came From (France…Marcel Carné)

Crazed Fruit (Japan…Ko Nakahira)

Crime in the Streets (US…Don Siegel)

Darkness at Midnight (Japan…Tadashi Imai)

Deadlier Than the Male (France…Julien Duvivier)

Don’t Look Back My Son (Yugoslavia…Branko Bauer)

The Door in the Wall (UK…Glenn H.Alvey Jnr)

Dracos (Greece…Nikos Koundouros)

Early Spring (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Edge of the City (US…Martin Ritt)

Ek Hi Rasta (India…B.R.Chopra)

Eléna et les Hommes (France…Jean Renoir)

Et Dieu Créa la Femme (France…Roger Vadim)

Fire Maidens of Outer Space (UK…Cy Roth)

Flowing (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Forbidden Planet (US…Fred M.Wilcox)

La fortuna di essere donna (Italy…Alessandro Blasetti)

Fountainhead (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

Friendly Persuasion (US…William Wyler)

Gervaise (France…René Clément)

Giant (US…George Stevens)

The Girl Can’t Help It (US…Frank Tashlin)

The Girl With the Oak (Yugoslavia…Kresimir Golik)

Girls Without Rooms (Sweden…Arne Ragneborn)

Graciela (Argentina…Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson)

Great Day in the Morning (US…Jacques Tourneur)

The Halliday Brand (US…Joseph H.Lewis)

Hancock’s Half Hour/Hancock (UK (until 1961)…various)

Heaven and Earth (UK…Peter Brook)

Helen of Troy (US…Robert Wise)

High Society (US…Charles Walters)

Hyperbole of Youth (South Korea…Han Pyeong-mo)

I Will Buy You (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

Ilya Muromets (USSR…Aleksandr Ptushko)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (US…Don Siegel)

Jubal (US…Delmer Daves)

The Killing (US…Stanley Kubrick)

The King and I (US…Walter Lang)

A Kiss Before Dying (US…Gerd Oswald)

Last Pair Out (Sweden…Alf Sjöberg)

The Last Wagon (US…Delmer Daves)

The Legend of the White Serpent (Japan…Shiro Toyoda)

Liane, Jungle Goddess (West Germany…Eduard von Borsody)

Lust for Life (US…Vincente Minnelli)

Madame Freedom (South Korea…Han Pyeong-mo)

Magoo’s Puddle Jumper (US…John Hubley)

The Man Clueless of Details (China…Lu Ban)

A Man Escaped (France…Robert Bresson)

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (US…Nunnally Johnson)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

The Man Who Never Was (UK…Ronald Neame)

Miracle in the Rain (US…Rudolph Maté)

Mitsou (France…Jacqueline Audry)

Moby Dick (US…John Huston)

Le Monde du Silence (France…Louis Malle, Jacques-Yves Cousteau)

The Mystery of Picasso (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Paris Palace Hotel (France…Henri Verneuil)

Patterns (US…Fielder Cook)

People of no Importance (France…Henri Verneuil)

Playing with the Devil (Czechoslovakia…Josef Mach)

Plucking the Daisy (France…Marc Allégret)

Private’s Progress (UK…John Boulting)

Punishment Room (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

Qivitoc (Denmark/Greenland…Erik Balling)

Reach for the Sky (UK…Lewis Gilbert)

Requiem for a Heavyweight (US…Ralph Nelson)

Revenge of the Pearl Queen (Japan…Toshio Shimura)

River of the Night (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura)

Rose on his Arm (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Samurai Part Three: Duel at Ganryu Island (Japan…Hiroshi Inagaki)

Sången om den eldröda blomman (Sweden…Gustaf Molander)

The Searchers (US…John Ford)

Season of the Sun (Japan…Takumi Furukawa)

Seven Men from Now (US…Budd Boetticher)

Shozo, Two Women and a Cat (Japan…Shiro Toyoda)

Somebody Up There Likes Me (US…Robert Wise)

Street of Shame (Japan…Kenji Mizoguchi)

Sudden Rain (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Suzaki Paradise Red Light District (Japan…Yuzo Kawashima)

Los Tallos Amargos (Argentina…Fernando Ayala)

The Ten Commandments (US…Cecil B.de Mille)

Il Tetto (Italy…Vittorio de Sica)

There They Go Go Go (US…Chuck Jones)

There’s Always Tomorrow (US…Douglas Sirk)

The Tin Wood Man (US…Harry Smith)

Toute la Mémoire du Monde (France…Alain Resnais)

La Traversée de Paris (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

El Trueno Entre las Hojas (Argentina…Armando Bo)

I Vampiri (Italy…Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava)

War and Peace (US…King Vidor)

While the City Sleeps (US…Fritz Lang)

A Wife’s Heart (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Women in the Attic (Japan…Keigo Kimura)

Written on the Wind (US…Douglas Sirk)

The Wrong Man (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

 

1957

Across the Bridge (UK…Ken Annakin)

An Affair to Remember (US…Leo McCarey)

Ali Baba Bunny (US…Chuck Jones)

And Quiet Flows the Don (USSR…Sergei Gerasimov)

The Army Game (UK (until 1961)…various)

Assassins et Voleurs (France…Sacha Guitry)

At Great Cost (USSR…Mark Donskoi)

Baby Face Nelson (US…Don Siegel)

The Bachelor Party (US…Delbert Mann)

Bakumatsu Taiyoden (Japan…Yuzo Kawashima)

Banka (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)

Behold the Sun (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)

Birds Anonymous (US…Friz Freleng)

Bitter Victory (UK/US…Nicholas Ray)

Black River (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

Blue Sky Maiden (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (UK/US…David Lean)

The Brothers Rico (US…Phil Karlson)

The Burglar (US…Paul Wendkos)

The Case of Dr Laurent (France…Jean-Paul le Chanois)

A Chairy Tale (Canada…Norman McLaren)

Le Chômeur de Clochemerle (France…Jean Boyer)

City of Gold (Canada…Colin Low, Wolf Koenig)

City Without Night (China…Tang Xiaodan)

The Comedian (US…John Frankenheimer)

The Cranes are Flying (USSR…Mikhail Kalatozov)

Crime of Passion (US…Gerd Oswald)

The Crowded Streetcar (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

The Curse of Frankenstein (UK…Terence Fisher)

Daughter of Dr Jekyll (US…Edgar G.Ulmer)

Decision at Sundown (US…Budd Boetticher)

The Devil Strikes at Night (West Germany…Robert Siodmak)

Don Quixote (USSR…Grigori Kozintsev)

8×8: A Chess Sonata in Eight Movements (France…Jean Cocteau, Hans Richter)

Eroica (Poland…Andrzej Munk)

Les Espions (France…Henri-Georges Clouzot)

A Face in the Crowd (US…Elia Kazan)

Floating Vessel (Japan…Teinosuke Kinugasa)

Forty Guns (US…Samuel Fuller)

Funny Face (US…Stanley Donen)

Les Girls (US…George Cukor)

The Golden Age of Comedy (US…Robert Youngson)

Il Grido (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)

Gunfight at the OK Corral (US…John Sturges)

Det Händer I Natt (Sweden…Arne Ragneborn)

A Hatful of Rain (US…Fred Zinnemann)

He Who Must Die (France…Jules Dassin)

Hell Drivers (UK…Cy Endfield)

The Hole (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

The Horse That Cried (USSR…Mark Donskoi)

The House I Live In (USSR…Lev Kulidzhanov, Yakov Segel)

The House of the Angel (Argentina…Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson)

I am Waiting (Japan…Koreyoshi Kurahara)

I Never Sleep (Egypt…Salah Abouseif)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (US…Jack Arnold)

Jailhouse Rock (US…Richard Thorpe)

Jan Zizka (Czechoslovakia…Otakar Vavra)

Jet Pilot (US (shot 1950)…Josef von Sternberg)

Kanal (Poland…Andrzej Wajda)

A King in New York (US…Charles Chaplin)

Kisses (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

Leave it to Beaver (US (until 1963)…various)

Letter from Siberia (France…Chris Marker)

Look for Vanda Kos (Yugoslavia…Zivorad Mitrovic)

The Lower Depths (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Mambo Girl (Hong Kong…Wen Yi)

Une Manche et la Belle (France…Henri Verneuil)

A Matter of Dignity (Greece…Michael Cacoyannis)

Men in War (US…Anthony Mann)

Les Mistons (France…François Truffaut)

Mother India (India…Mehboob Khan)

The Mysterians (Japan…Ishiro Honda)

Naya Daur (India…B.R.Chopra)

Night Butterflies (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura)

Night of the Demon (UK…Jacques Tourneur)

Night Passage (US…James Neilson)

Nightfall (US…Jacques Tourneur)

Nights of Cabiria (Italy…Federico Fellini)

Nine Lives (Norway…Arne Skouen)

Not of This Earth (US…Roger Corman)

La Notti Bianche (Italy…Luchino Visconti)

The One That Got Away (UK…Roy Ward Baker)

Only People (Yugoslavia…Branko Bauer)

An Osaka Story (Japan…Kozaburo Yoshimura)

The Pajama Game (US…Stanley Donen)

Une Parisienne (France…Michel Boisrand)

Paths of Glory (US…Stanley Kubrick)

Patrouille choc (France…Claude Bernard-Aubert)

Perry Mason (US (until 1965)…various)

Peyton Place (US…Mark Robson)

Port de Désir (France…Edmond T.Gréville)

Pot-Bouille (France…Julien Duvivier)

The Prince and the Showgirl (UK…Laurence Olivier)

Pyaasa (India…Guru Dutt)

Quatermass II (UK…Val Guest)

Resistance of the Flesh (Japan…Hiroshi Noguchi)

Rice (Japan…Tadashi Imai)

The River’s Edge (US…Allan Dwan)

Rock All Night (US…Roger Corman)

Run of the Arrow (US…Samuel Fuller)

Sait-on Jamais (France…Roger Vadim)

September Nights (Czechoslovakia…Vojtech Jasny)

The Seventh Seal (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Showbiz Bugs (US…Friz Freleng)

Silk Stockings (US…Rouben Mamoulian)

Snow Country (Japan…Shiro Toyoda)

Stakeout (Japan…Yoshitaro Nomura)

The Story of Esther Costello (UK…David Miller)

The Story of Pure Love (Japan…Tadashi Imai)

The Sun Also Rises (US…Henry King)

A Sunday Romance (Hungary…Imre Fehér)

Sweet Smell of Success (US…Alexander Mackendrick)

The Tall T (US…Budd Boetticher)

The Tarnished Angels (US…Douglas Sirk)

This Angry Age (Italy/US…René Clément)

The Three Faces of Eve (US…Nunnally Johnson)

Three Little Bops (US…Friz Freleng)

3:10 to Yuma (US…Delmer Daves)

Throne of Blood (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Time Limit (US…Karl Malden)

Time Without Pity (UK…Joseph Losey)

Times of Joy and Sorrow (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

The Tin Star (US…Anthony Mann)

Tokyo Twilight (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

Twelve Angry Men (US…Sidney Lumet)

Two Lottery Tickets (Romania…Aurel Miheles, Georghe Naghi)

The Unbalanced Wheel (Japan…Minoru Shibuya)

Unfinished Comedy (Hong Kong…Ban Lu)

Untamed (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Les Violents (France…Henri Calef)

Warm Current (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

What’s Opera, Doc? (US…Chuck Jones)

The Wide Blue Road (Italy…Gillo Pontecorvo)

Wild Strawberries (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (US…Frank Tashlin)

The Wings of Eagles (US…John Ford)

Winter Twilight (Poland…Stanislaw Lenartowicz)

The Witches of Salem (France…Raymond Rouleau)

Witness for the Prosecution (US…Billy Wilder)

Yellow Crow (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)

 

1958

Against All (Czechoslovakia…Otakar Vavrá)

Ajantrik (India…Ritwik Ghatak)

Les Amants (France…Louis Malle)

Anticipation of the Night (US…Stan Brakhage)

Ashes and Diamonds (Poland…Andrzej Wajda)

Auntie Mame (US…Morton da Costa)

The Ballad of Narayama (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Le Beau Serge (France…Claude Chabrol)

The Big Country (US…William Wyler)

The Blob (US…Irvin S.Yeaworth Jnr)

Bonjour Tristesse (US/UK…Otto Preminger)

Cairo Station (Egypt…Youssef Chahine)

Carnival Stories (Romania…Aurel Miheles, Georghe Naghi)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (US…Richard Brooks)

Le chant du styrène (France…Alain Resnais)

China Doll (US…Frank Borzage)

Cowboy (US…Delmer Daves)

Damn Yankees (US…Stanley Donen, George Abbott)

Day Shall Dawn (Pakistan…Aaejay Kardar)

The Defiant Ones (US…Stanley Kramer)

Don’t Believe in Monuments (Yugoslavia…Dusan Makavejev)

Le Dos au mur (France…Édouard Molinero)

Dracula (UK…Terence Fisher)

The Eighth Day of the Week (Poland…Aleksandr Ford)

En Cas de Malheur (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

Endless Desire (Japan…Shohei Imamura)

Enjo (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

Equinox Flower (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

The Eternal Rainbow (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Eve Wants to Sleep (Poland…Tadeusz Chmielewski)

Fanfare (Netherlands…Bert Haanstra)

Fiend Without a Face (US…Arthur Crabtree)

The Flower in Hell (South Korea…Shin Sang-ok)

44 Mutineers (Czechoslovakia…Palo Bielik)

Free Radicals (UK…Lenny Lye)

From the Earth to the Moon (US…Byron Haskin)

Giants and Toys (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

Gigi (US…Vincente Minnelli)

Glass (Netherlands…Bert Haanstra)

God’s Little Acre (US…Anthony Mann)

H-8 (Yugoslavia…Nikola Tanhofer)

Harikomi (Japan…Yoshitaro Nomura)

The Hidden Fortress (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Hook, Line & Stinker (US…Chuck Jones)

The Horse’s Mouth (UK…Ronald Neame)

I Want to Live! (US…Robert Wise)

Ice Cold in Alex (UK…J.Lee Thompson)

The Idiot (USSR…Ivan Pyryev)

The Inn in Front of the Train Station (Japan…Shiro Toyoda)

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (UK…Mark Robson)

Invention of Destruction (Czechoslovakia…Karel Zeman)

It Happened in Broad Daylight (West Germany/Switzerland…Ladislao Vajda)

The Kidnapper (Argentina…Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson)

The Lady Vampire (Japan…Nobuo Nakagawa)

Lake of the Dead (Norway…Kare Bergström)

The Last Day of Summer (Poland…Tadeusz Konwicki)

The Last Hurrah (US…John Ford)

The Law and Jake Wade (US…John Sturges)

Let Me Borrow Your Wife (Norway…Edith Carlmar)

Lift to the Scaffold (France…Louis Malle)

The Lineup (US…Don Siegel)

Little Peach (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

The Long Hot Summer (US…Martin Ritt)

Lovers in Yurakucho (Japan…Koji Shima)

The Loyal 47 Ronin (Japan…Kunio Watanabe)

Lydia Ate the Apple (Poland…Wojciech Has)

Das Mädchen Rosemarie (West Germany…Rolf Thiele)

Madhumati (India…Bimal Roy)

The Magician (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Maigret Sets a Trap (France…Jean Delannoy)

Man of the West (US…Anthony Mann)

Les Misérables (France…Jean-Paul la Chanois)

Moi, un Noir (France…Jean Rouch)

Mon Oncle (France…Jacques Tati)

Montparnasse 19 (France…Jacques Becker)

A Movie (US…Bruce Conner)

Murder by Contract (US…Irving Lerner)

The Music Room (India…Satyajit Ray)

The Naked City (US (until 1962)…various)

Night Drum (Japan…Tadashi Imai)

A Night to Remember (UK…Roy Ward Baker)

No Time for Sergeants (US…Mervyn le Roy)

The Nude Model Murder (Japan…Nagayoshi Akasaka)

Party Girl (US…Nicholas Ray)

Persons Unknown (Italy…Mario Monicelli)

Petla (Poland…Wojciech Has)

La Première Nuit (France…Georges Franju)

The Quiet American (UK…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

Rendezvous du Diable (France…Haroun Tazieff)

Rickshaw Man (Japan…Hiroshi Inagaki)

The Road a Year Long (Yugoslavia…Giuseppe de Santis)

Rosaura at 10 O’Clock (Argentina…Mario Soffici)

Run Silent, Run Deep (US…Robert Wise)

Sabaleros (Argentina…Armando Bo)

Schwechater (Austria…Peter Kubelka)

Separate Tables (US/UK…Delbert Mann)

The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (US…Nathan Juran)

So Close to Life (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Some Came Running (US…Vincente Minnelli)

South Pacific (US…Joshua Logan)

Summer Clouds (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

Sweet Anna (Hungary…Zoltan Fabri)

Terror in a Texas Town (US…Joseph H.Lewis)

A Time to Love and a Time to Die (US…Douglas Sirk)

Touch of Evil: Special Edition (US (1998)…Orson Welles)

Tread Softly Stranger (UK…Gordon Parry)

Les Tricheurs (France…Marcel Carné)

Two Men and a Wardrobe (Poland…Roman Polanski)

Underworld Beauty (Japan…Seijun Suzuki)

Unser Sandmannchen (East Germany…various)

The Venetian (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Vertigo (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

The Very Eye of Night (US…Maya Deren)

Une Vie (France…Alexandre Astruc)

The Vikings (US/UK…Richard Fleischer)

La Violetera (Spain…Luis-Cesar Amadori)

The White Heron (Japan…Teinosuke Kinugasa)

Woman of Osaka (Japan…Teinosuke Kinugasa)

The Young Lions (US…Edward Dmytryk)

 

1959

Á Double Tour (France…Claude Chabrol)

Al Capone (US…Richard Wilson)

Anatomy of a Murder (US…Otto Preminger)

Annushka (USSR…Boris Barnet)

Araya (Venezuela…Margot Benacerraf)

Les Astronautes (France…Walerian Borowczyk, Chris Marker)

Ballad of a Soldier (USSR…Grigori Chukhrai)

Ben Hur (US…William Wyler)

The Big Fisherman (US…Frank Borzage)

The Birth of Japan (Japan…Hiroshi Inagaki)

Black Orpheus (Brazil…Marcel Camus)

The Black Pit of Dr M (Mexico…Fernando Méndez)

Blessing of the Land (Philippines…Manuel Silos)

Blind Date (UK…Joseph Losey)

Blue Denim (US…Philip Dunne)

Bonanza (US (until 1973)…various)

The Bridge (West Germany…Bernhard Wicki)

Caged (Italy…Renato Castellani)

The Chasers (Norway…Erik Lochen)

Captain Dabac (Czechoslovakia…Palo Bielik)

Chikamatsu’s Love in Osaka (Japan…Tomu Uchida)

City of Fear (US…Irving Lerner)

Compulsion (US…Richard Fleischer)

Corridors of Blood (US…Robert Day)

Les Cousins (France…Claude Chabrol)

The Cow and I (France…Henri Verneuil)

A Cry of Jazz (US…Ed Bland)

Danger Man (UK (until 1962)…various)

Darby O’Gill and the Little People (US…Robert Stevenson)

The Day of the Outlaw (US…André de Toth)

Dejeuner sur l’Herbe (France…Jean Renoir)

Depot of the Dead (Poland…Czeslaw Petelski)

Destiny of a Man (USSR…Sergei Bondarchuk)

Deux Hommes à Manhattan (France…Jean-Pierre Melville)

The Diary of an Unknown Soldier (UK…Peter Watkins)

The Diary of Anne Frank (US…George Stevens)

Les Dragueurs (France…Jean-Pierre Mocky)

The Eighth Door (Yugoslavia…Nikola Tanhofer)

Face to Face (UK (until 1962)…John Freeman)

The Facts of Murder (Italy…Pietro Germi)

The Fall (Argentina…Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson)

La Fièvre Monte à el Pao (France/Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

Fires on the Plain (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

Floating Weeds (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

The Fugitive Kind (US…Sidney Lumet)

Ganga (India…Rajen Tarafder)

Il Generale Della Rovere (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)

The Ghost Story of Yotsuya (Japan…Nobuo Nakagawa)

Goodbye Hello (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

The Great War (Italy…Mario Monicelli)

The Hanging Tree (US…Delmer Daves)

The Head (West Germany…Viktor Trivas)

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (France…Alain Resnais)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (UK…Terence Fisher)

The House on Haunted Hill (US…William Castle)

The Human Condition Part I: No Greater Love (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

The Human Condition Part II: The Road to Eternity (Japan…Masaki Kobayashi)

I’m All Right Jack (UK…John Boulting)

Imitation of Life (US…Douglas Sirk)

India (France/India…Roberto Rossellini)

The Indian Tomb (West Germany…Fritz Lang)

Jirocho Fuji (Japan…Kazuo Mori)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (US…Henry Levin)

La Jument Verte (France…Claude Autant-Lara)

Kapò (Italy…Gillo Pontecorvo)

The Key (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

Kiku and Isamu (Japan…Tadashi Imai)

The Kingdom and the Beauty (Hong Kong…Li Han-hsiang)

The Lady With the Little Dog (USSR…Josef Heifits)

Lazarillo (Spain…Cesar Ardovin)

Let Me Borrow Your Wife (Sweden…Arne Mattson)

Letter Never Sent (USSR…Mikhail Kalatozov)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses (France…Roger Vadim)

L’il Abner (US…Melvin Frank)

The Little Island (UK…Richard Williams)

Look Back in Anger (UK…Tony Richardson)

Martha Graham: Dance on Film (US…Nathan Kroll)

Middle of the Night (US…Delbert Mann)

The Most Valuable Wife (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)

The Mouse That Roared (UK…Jack Arnold)

Nazarin (Mexico…Luis Buñuel)

Night Train (Poland…Jerzy Kawalerowicz)

No Name on the Bullet (US…Jack Arnold)

North by Northwest (US…Alfred Hitchcock)

Northwest Frontier (UK…J.Lee Thompson)

The Nun’s Story (US…Fred Zinnemann)

Odds Against Tomorrow (US…Robert Wise)

Ohayo (Japan…Yasujiro Ozu)

On the Beach (US…Stanley Kramer)

1,001 Arabian Nights (US…Jack Kinney)

Our Man in Havana (UK…Carol Reed)

The Overcoat (USSR…Alexei Batalov)

Paper Flowers (India…Guru Dutt)

Pickpocket (France…Robert Bresson)

Pillow Talk (US…Michael Gordon)

Plan 9 from Outer Space (US…Edward D.Wood Jnr)

Poem of the Sea (USSR…Julia Solntseva)

Pork Chop Hill (US…Lewis Milestone)

Pull My Daisy (US…Robert Frank)

The Purple Hairpin (Hong Kong…Li Tie)

Les Quatre Cents Coups (France…François Truffaut)

Rear Entrance (Hong Kong…Li Han Hsiang)

Ride Lonesome (US…Budd Boetticher)

Rio Bravo (US…Howard Hawks)

Romeo, Juliet & Darkness (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Weiss)

Room at the Top (UK…Jack Clayton)

Saga of the Vagabonds (Japan…Toshio Sugie)

Samurai Vendetta (Japan…Kazuo Mori)

The Savage Innocents (US…Nicholas Ray)

Shadows (US…John Cassavetes)

The Sign of Leo (France…Eric Rohmer)

Une Simple Histoire (France…Marcel Hanoun)

Sleeping Beauty (US…Clyde Geronimi)

Snow Flurry (Japan…Keisuke Kinoshita)

Some Like it Hot (US…Billy Wilder)

Stars (East Germany…Konrad Wolf)

A Stranger Knocks (Denmark…Johan Jacobson)

Suddenly Last Summer (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)

The Testament of Dr Cordelier (France…Jean Renoir)

La Tête Contre les Murs (France…Georges Franju)

Their Own World (Japan…Tomu Uchida)

Three Girls Named Anna (Yugoslavia…Branko Bauer)

Tiger Bay (UK…J.Lee Thompson)

The Tiger of Eschnapur (West Germany…Fritz Lang)

Time Stood Still (Italy…Ermanno Olmi)

The Tingler (US…William Castle)

Train Without a Timetable (Yugoslavia…Velkjo Bulajic)

The Twilight Zone (US (until 1964)…various)

Under the Blue Sky (India…Mrinal Sen)

Ung Flukt (Norway…Edith Carlmar)

The Untouchables (US (until 1962)…various)

Verboten! (US…Samuel Fuller)

Violent Summer (Italy…Valerio Zurlini)

Warlock (US…Edward Dmytryk)

Wedlock House: An Intercourse (US…Stan Brakhage)

When a Woman Loves (Japan…Heinosuke Gosho)

Whistling in Kotan (Japan…Mikio Naruse)

The Wonderful Country (US…Robert Parrish)

The World of Apu (India…Satyajit Ray)

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