1959: Top 100

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  1. 16
  2. Ben-Hur (William Wyler)
  3. 12
  4. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
  5. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
  6. 11
  7. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
  8. The Nun's Story (Fred Zinnemann)
  9. 10
  10. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
  11. 9
  12. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
  13. 8
  14. Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus)
  15. The Bridge (Bernhard Wicki)
  16. Room at the Top (Jack Clayton)
  17. 7
  18. The Diary of Anne Frank (George Stevens)
  19. General della Rovere (Roberto Rossellini)
  20. 6
  21. Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai)
  22. Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
  23. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
  24. On the Beach (Stanley Kramer)
  25. Porgy and Bess (Otto Preminger)
  26. The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
  27. 5
  28. Compulsion (Richard Fleischer)
  29. The Five Pennies (Melville Shavelson)
  30. The Human Condition I (Masaki Kobayashi)
  31. The Human Condition II (Masaki Kobayashi)
  32. Li'l Abner (Melvin Frank)
  33. Odd Obsession (Kon Ichikawa)
  34. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
  35. Pillow Talk (Michael Gordon)
  36. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
  37. Shadows (John Cassavetes)
  38. 4
  39. The Facts of Murder (Pietro Germi)
  40. The Great War (Mario Monicelli)
  41. Hell in the City (Renato Castellani)
  42. A Hole in the Head (Frank Capra)
  43. Kapo (Gillo Pontecorvo)
  44. El Lazarillo de Tormes (Cesar Fernandez Ardavin)
  45. Nazarin (Luis Bunuel)
  46. Operation Petticoat (Blake Edwards)
  47. Say One for Me (Frank Tashlin)
  48. Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L Mankiewicz)
  49. 3
  50. Ask Any Girl (Charles Walters)
  51. El Baile (Edgar Neville)
  52. Career (Joseph Anthony)
  53. Kaagaz Ke Phool (Guru Dutt)
  54. Kiku to Isamu (Tadashi Imai)
  55. The Last Angry Man (Daniel Mann)
  56. Leap to Fame (Leon Klimovsky)
  57. Molokai (Luis Lucia)
  58. Nianchan (Shohei Imamura)
  59. Paw (Astrid Henning-Jensen)
  60. Sapphire (Basil Dearden)
  61. Serengeti (Bernhard Grzimek)
  62. Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi)
  63. Take a Giant Step (Philip Leacock)
  64. Tiger Bay (J Lee Thompson)
  65. The Turn of the Screw (John Frankenheimer)
  66. Untouchable Girl (Bimal Roy)
  67. Violent Summer (Valerio Zurlini)
  68. The Young Philadelphians (Vincent Sherman)
  69. 2
  70. The Apple (George Dunning)
  71. Araya (Margot Benacerraf)
  72. Blessings of the Land (Manuel Silos)
  73. Donald in Mathmagic Land (Hamilton Luske)
  74. The Eagle (Leonard Buczkowski)
  75. The Fall (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson)
  76. Fate of a Man (Sergei Bondarchuk)
  77. Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
  78. Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu)
  79. The Hanging Tree (Delmer Daves & Karl Malden)
  80. The House Under the Rocks (Karoly Makk)
  81. I'm All Right Jack (John Boulting)
  82. Journey to the Center of the Earth (Henry Levin)
  83. Kingdom and the Beauty (Han Hsiang Li)
  84. The Lovers of Teruel (Michael Powell)
  85. The Magliari (Francesco Rosi)
  86. Middle of the Night (Delbert Mann)
  87. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Jiri Trnka)
  88. The Moon and Sixpence (Robert Mulligan)
  89. Mysteries of the Deep (unknown)
  90. Never Steal Anything Small (Charles Lederer)
  91. The Nightingale's Prayer (Henry Barakat)
  92. La Notte Brava (Mauro Bolognini)
  93. Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise)
  94. Our Man in Havana (Carol Reed)
  95. Paradise and Fire Oven (Herbert Viktor)
  96. El Pisito (Marco Ferreri)
  97. Policarpo (Mario Soldati)
  98. A Private's Affair (Raoul Walsh)
  99. The Race for Space (David L Wolper)
  100. The Rest Is Silence (Helmut Kautner)
  101. Roses for the Prosecutor (Wolfgang Staudte)
  102. The Scarface Mob (Phil Karlson)
  103. The Shaggy Dog (Charles Barton)
  104. The Siege of Pinchgut (Harry Watt)
  105. Stars (Konrad Wolf)
  106. Telegrams (Gheorghe Naghi & Aurel Miheles)
  107. Ten Ready Rifles (Jose Luis Saenz de Heredia)
  108. The Unmailed Letter (Mikhail Kalatozov)
  109. Vi Er Allesammen Tossede (Sven Methling)
  110. The Violinist (Ernest Pintoff)
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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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1958: Top 100