1957: Top 100

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  1. 17
  2. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
  3. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
  4. 13
  5. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
  6. 11
  7. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
  8. 9
  9. Funny Face (Stanley Donen)
  10. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
  11. 8
  12. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
  13. Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder)
  14. 6
  15. An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey)
  16. The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
  17. A Hatful of Rain (Fred Zinnemann)
  18. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (John Huston)
  19. Mother India (Mehboob Khan)
  20. Sayonara (Joshua Logan)
  21. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
  22. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
  23. Wild Is the Wind (George Cukor)
  24. 5
  25. The Enemy Below (Dick Powell)
  26. Les Girls (George Cukor)
  27. Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder)
  28. The Lower Depths (Akira Kurosawa)
  29. Le Notti Bianche (Luchino Visconti)
  30. Peyton Place (Mark Robson)
  31. 4
  32. 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves)
  33. A Chairy Tale (Claude Jutra & Norman McLaren)
  34. City of Gold (Wolf Koenig & Colin Low)
  35. Confessions of Felix Krull (Kurt Hoffmann)
  36. The Devil Strikes at Night (Robert Siodmak)
  37. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (John Sturges)
  38. Kanal (Andrzej Wajda)
  39. Pal Joey (George Sidney)
  40. The Prince and the Showgirl (Laurence Olivier)
  41. Rice (Tadashi Imai)
  42. Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (Yuzo Kawashima)
  43. The Three Faces of Eve (Nunnally Johnson)
  44. Tizoc (Ismael Rodriguez)
  45. 3
  46. The Bachelor Party (Delbert Mann)
  47. The Crucible (Raymond Rouleau)
  48. Designing Woman (Vincente Minnelli)
  49. Don't Go Near the Water (Charles Walters)
  50. Downtown (Yasuki Chiba)
  51. Gates of Paris (Rene Clair)
  52. Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  53. He Who Must Die (Jules Dassin)
  54. The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold)
  55. Jonas (Ottomar Domnick)
  56. A Matter of Dignity (Mihalis Kakogiannis)
  57. Nine Lives (Arne Skouen)
  58. Raintree County (Edward Dmytryk)
  59. The Story of Esther Costello (David Miller)
  60. The Story of Pure Love (Tadashi Imai)
  61. Two Eyes, Twelve Hands (Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram)
  62. Whom God Forgives (Jose Maria Forque)
  63. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
  64. Woman in a Dressing Gown (J Lee Thompson)
  65. 2
  66. ...Y eligio el infierno (Cesar Fernandez Ardavin)
  67. 1918 (TJ Sarkka)
  68. And Quiet Flows the Don (Sergei Gerasimov)
  69. Annie Get Your Gun (Vincent J Donehue)
  70. April Love (Henry Levin)
  71. Be Dear to Me (Annelise Hovmand)
  72. Birds Anonymous (Friz Freleng)
  73. Cinderella (Ralph Nelson)
  74. The Comedian (John Frankenheimer)
  75. Dobry Vojak Svejk (Karel Stekly)
  76. Don Quixote (Grigori Kozintsev)
  77. A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan)
  78. Faustina (Jose Luis Saenz de Heredia)
  79. Foothold on Antarctica (unknown)
  80. The Foreigner (Khwaja Ahmad Abbas & Vasili Pronin)
  81. Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
  82. A Geisha in the Old City (Hiroshi Inagaki)
  83. Guendalina (Alberto Lattuada)
  84. The Happy Road (Gene Kelly)
  85. Hell Drivers (Cy Endfield)
  86. Hemo the Magnificent (Frank Capra & William T Hurtz)
  87. The House of the Angel (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson)
  88. Jailhouse Rock (Richard Thorpe)
  89. The Joker Is Wild (Charles Vidor)
  90. The Last Torch Song (Juan de Orduna)
  91. Man on the Tracks (Andrzej Munk)
  92. Manuela (Guy Hamilton)
  93. Miracles of Thursday (Luis Garcia Berlanga)
  94. Mundo Ajeno (Francisco del Villar)
  95. N.Y., N.Y. (Francis Thompson)
  96. Naya Daur (BR Chopra)
  97. Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
  98. No Down Payment (Martin Ritt)
  99. On the Bowery (Lionel Rogosin)
  100. Operation Mad Ball (Richard Quine)
  101. The Pajama Game (George Abbott & Stanley Donen)
  102. Perri (Paul Kenworthy & Ralph Wright)
  103. Pyaasa (Guru Dutt)
  104. Rose Bernd (Wolfgang Staudte)
  105. Silk Stockings (Rouben Mamoulian)
  106. Snow Country (Shiro Toyoda)
  107. Stepbrothers (Miyoji Ieki)
  108. Suzakumon (Kazuo Mori)
  109. The Tall T (Budd Boetticher)
  110. Tammy and the Bachelor (Joseph Pevney)
  111. Tausend Kleine Zeichen (Herbert Seggelke)
  112. The Teacher and the Miracle (Aldo Fabrizi & Eduardo Manzanos Brochero)
  113. That Night! (John Newland)
  114. The Tin Star (Anthony Mann)
  115. The Truth About Mother Goose (Bill Justice & Wolfgang Reitherman)
  116. The Unbalanced Wheel (Minoru Shibuya)
  117. What's Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones)
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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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1956: Top 100