1955 Top Ten List

  • The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
  • Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
  • Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
  • Diabolique (H.G. Clouzot)
  • Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
  • The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger)
  • Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  • Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  • All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
  • Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse)

    • Additional 1955 Films By Rating

  • The Man From Laramie (Anthony Mann)
  • East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
  • Ordet. (Carl Th. Dreyer)
  • Wichita (Jacques Tourneur)
  • The Last Frontier (Anthony Mann)
  • Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem)
  • Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles)
  • A Generation (Andrzej Wajda)
  • It's Always Fair Weather (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
  • Rififi (Jules Dassin)
  • Richard III (Laurence Olivier)
  • Summertime (David Lean)
  • Killer's Kiss (Stanley Kubrick)
  • Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin)
  • French Cancan (Jean Renoir)
  • To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick)
  • Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges)
  • Marty (Delbert Mann)
  • The Tall Men (Raoul Walsh)
  • Guys and Dolls (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  • Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
  • My Sister Eileen (Richard Quine)
  • La Pointe-Courte (Agnès Varda)
  • Lady and the Tramp (Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson)
  • Kismet (Vincente Minnelli)
  • Violent Saturday (Richard Fleischer)
  • The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder)
  • The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson)
  • The Long Gray Line (John Ford)
  • Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (Thorold Dickinson)
  • Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (Hiroshi Inagaki)
  • Man With the Gun (Richard Wilson)
  • Good Morning, Miss Dove (Henry Koster)