1956: Top 100

Submitted by konekonoir on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 12:38
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  1. -
  2. Giant (William Wyler)
  3. -
  4. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
  5. Around the World in Eighty Days (Michael Anderson)
  6. Friendly Persuasion (William Wyler)
  7. The Ten Commandments (Cecil B DeMille)
  8. -
  9. Gervaise (Rene Clement)
  10. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
  11. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
  12. The Searchers (John Ford)
  13. The Silent World (Jacques-Yves Cousteau & Louis Malle)
  14. War and Peace (King Vidor)
  15. -
  16. Anastasia (Anatole Litvak)
  17. The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
  18. Bus Stop (Joshua Logan)
  19. The King and I (Walter Lang)
  20. Moby Dick (John Huston)
  21. The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse)
  22. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
  23. -
  24. Baby Doll (Elia Kazan)
  25. The Bespoke Overcoat (Jack Clayton)
  26. Flowing (Mikio Naruse)
  27. Forbidden Planet (Fred M Wilcox)
  28. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
  29. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
  30. The Railroad Man (Pietro Germi)
  31. The Rainmaker (Joseph Anthony)
  32. The Solid Gold Cadillac (Richard Quine)
  33. Somebody Up There Likes Me (Robert Wise)
  34. The Teahouse of the August Moon (Daniel Mann)
  35. La Traversee de Paris (Claude Autant-Lara)
  36. -
  37. Afternoon of the Bulls (Ladislao Vajda)
  38. Attack (Robert Aldrich)
  39. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
  40. Calle Mayor (Juan Antonio Bardem)
  41. The Captain from Köpenick (Helmut Kautner)
  42. A Cat, Two Women, and One Man (Shiro Toyoda)
  43. Darkness at Midnight (Tadashi Imai)
  44. The Eddy Duchin Story (George Sidney)
  45. Embajadores en el Infierno (Jose Maria Forque)
  46. Flaming Sunset (Keisuke Kinoshita)
  47. A Girl in Black (Mihalis Kakogiannis)
  48. The Great Man (Jose Ferrer)
  49. The Harder They Fall (Mark Robson)
  50. The Harvest Month (Matti Kassila)
  51. High Society (Charles Walters)
  52. I'll Buy You (Masaki Kobayashi)
  53. If All the Guys in the World... (Christian-Jaque)
  54. The Legend of the White Serpent (Shiro Toyoda)
  55. Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli)
  56. The Man Who Never Was (Ronald Neame)
  57. Meet Me in Las Vegas (Roy Rowland)
  58. The Mystery of Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
  59. No Place for Wild Animals (Bernhard & Michael Grzimek)
  60. The Rocket from Calabuch (Luis Garcia Berlanga)
  61. The Roof (Vittorio De Sica)
  62. The Rose on His Arm (Keisuke Kinoshita)
  63. Rythmetic (Norman McLaren)
  64. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  65. Torero! (Carlos Velo)
  66. Uncle Hyacynth (Ladislao Vajda)
  67. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
  68. -
  69. Anastasia: The Czar's Last Daughter (Falk Harnack)
  70. The Bad Seed (Mervyn LeRoy)
  71. Before Sundown (Gottfried Reinhardt)
  72. Bhowani Junction (George Cukor)
  73. Blithe Spirit (Noel Coward & Frederick De Cordova)
  74. Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  75. The Brave One (Irving Rapper)
  76. Carousel (Henry King)
  77. Child of Sorrow (Lamberto V Avellana)
  78. Dolina Miru // Valley of Peace (France Stiglic)
  79. Don't Look Back, My Son (Branko Bauer)
  80. The Forty-First (Grigori Chukhrai)
  81. Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo (Stephen Bosustow)
  82. The Hidden One (Roberto Gavaldon)
  83. Ich Suche Dich (OW Fischer)
  84. The Innocent (Rogelio A Gonzalez)
  85. Invitation to the Dance (Gene Kelly)
  86. Jagte Raho (Amit & Sombhu Mitra)
  87. The Long Arm (Charles Frend)
  88. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (Nunnally Johnson)
  89. Merry-Go-Round (Zoltan Fabri)
  90. Patterns (Fielder Cook)
  91. Professor Hannibal (Zoltan Fabri)
  92. Qivitoq (Erik Balling)
  93. The Road of Life (Alfonso Corona Blake)
  94. Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (Hiroshi Inagaki)
  95. Secrets of Life (James Algar)
  96. Seven Men from Now (Budd Boetticher)
  97. Shadow (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
  98. A Short History (Ion Popescu-Gopo)
  99. Talpa (Alfredo B Crevenna)
  100. Three Men in a Boat (Ken Annakin)
  101. Toto, Peppino e i... Fuorilegge (Camillo Mastrocinque)
  102. A Town Like Alice (Jack Lee)
  103. Trapeze (Carol Reed)
  104. Typhoon (Satsuo Yamamoto)
  105. Yield to the Night (J Lee Thompson)
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Criteria used were

IMDB Awards Page
IMDB at least 7.5 with 25 votes
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
The Alternative 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They Top 1000

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1955: Top 100