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Movies Quiz / TSPDT Best Films of the 1950s

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Can you name the greatest films of the 1950s, according to They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? (January 2011 ed.)?

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TSPDT RankMovieDirector (Year)
2Hitchcock (1958)
7Kurosawa (1954)
8Ford (1956)
9Donen/Kelly (1952)
11Ozu (1953)
18Kurosawa (1950)
21Welles (1958)
23Wilder (1959)
30Godard (1959)
31Wilder (1950)
36Truffaut (1959)
39Laughton (1955)
40Dreyer (1955)
47Hitchcock (1954)
49Mizoguchi (1953)
52Fellini (1954)
53Bergman (1957)
56Bergman (1957)
57Hitchcock (1959)
59Hawks (1959)
63Ray (1955)
68Mankiewicz (1950)
82Mizoguchi (1954)
83Kurosawa (1952)
85Ophuls (1953)
87Rossellini (1953)
88Bresson (1959)
90Kazan (1954)
109Resnais (1959)
113Bunuel (1950)
126Wajda (1958)
131De Sica (1952)
145Bresson (1956)
148Ford (1952)
150Minnelli (1953)
167Fellini (1957)
173Mackendrick (1957)
178Clouzot (1952)
187Ray (1959)
192Kubrick (1957)
199Renoir (1951)
202Lean (1957)
204Ray (1958)
206Kurosawa (1957)
209Ray (1954)
222Sirk (1956)
229Tati (1953)
233Sirk (1959)
235Cocteau (1950)
245Cukor (1954)
246Bresson (1950)
251Visconti (1954)
260Mizoguchi (1952)
TSPDT RankMovieDirector (Year)
266Stevens (1953)
272Naruse (1955)
278Ophuls (1955)
286Resnais (1955)
287Sirk (1955)
288Huston (1950)
290Hitchcock (1951)
292Ray (1950)
296Huston (1951)
298Cassavetes (1959)
301De Sica (1951)
302Aldrich (1955)
303Ray (1956)
311Zinnemann (1952)
318Ray (1955)
333Bunuel (1952)
352Franju (1959)
359Wyler (1959)
360Fellini (1953)
362Lang (1953)
373Siegel (1956)
382Becker (1952)
383Tati (1958)
394Kazan (1951)
396Ophuls (1951)
398Kubrick (1956)
401Rossellini (1950)
412Minnelli (1958)
420Dutt (1957)
422Clement (1951)
455Lang (1958)
457Renoir (1955)
462Nyby/Hawks (1951)
463McCarey (1957)
469Chaplin (1952)
471Lamorisse (1956)
479Renoir (1952)
484Lumet (1957)
493Wilcox (1956)
502Wise (1951)
524Stevens (1951)
526Welles (1952)
542Melville (1955)
556Mankiewicz (1954)
568Clouzot (1955)
569Ray (1956)
573Genet (1950)
592Mizoguchi (1955)
596Minnelli (1952)
600Sirk (1958)
601Kalatozov (1957)
610Kazan (1955)
614Bergman (1955)
TSPDT RankMovieDirector (Year)
620Donen (1957)
625Ford (1950)
634Bergman (1953)
641Monicelli (1958)
642Minnelli (1951)
652Wyler (1953)
660Hawks (1953)
661Mann (1958)
666von Sternberg (1953)
677Ophuls (1950)
684Ozu (1951)
686Fuller (1953)
692Sirk (1956)
707Bunuel (1958)
715Dutt (1959)
716Ford (1953)
727Zinnemann (1953)
733Wilder (1951)
736Tourneur (1957)
740Bergman (1959)
760Lang (1955)
762Bunuel (1955)
769Becker (1959)
772Mann (1953)
783Lang (1956)
784Fellini (1955)
785Mann (1955)
788Ray (1952)
791Preminger (1953)
793Haskin (1953)
794Lang (1956)
820Lang (1958)
821Preminger (1959)
822Lerner (1958)
834Rouch (1955)
848Rossellini (1951)
859Mackendrick (1951)
864Hitchcock (1956)
877Ford (1950)
883Mizoguchi (1954)
891Arnold (1957)
935Boetticher (1959)
947Mann (1955)
960Camus (1959)
970Mann (1952)
985Sirk (1958)
989Wajda (1956)
990Mann (1950)
992Fisher (1958)
994Rohmer (1959)
995Berlanga (1952)
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