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TSPDT Best Films of the 1950s
Can you name the greatest films of the 1950s, according to They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? (January 2011 ed.)?
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Movie
Director (Year)
2
Hitchcock (1958)
7
Kurosawa (1954)
8
Ford (1956)
9
Donen/Kelly (1952)
11
Ozu (1953)
18
Kurosawa (1950)
21
Welles (1958)
23
Wilder (1959)
30
Godard (1959)
31
Wilder (1950)
36
Truffaut (1959)
39
Laughton (1955)
40
Dreyer (1955)
47
Hitchcock (1954)
49
Mizoguchi (1953)
52
Fellini (1954)
53
Bergman (1957)
56
Bergman (1957)
57
Hitchcock (1959)
59
Hawks (1959)
63
Ray (1955)
68
Mankiewicz (1950)
82
Mizoguchi (1954)
83
Kurosawa (1952)
85
Ophuls (1953)
87
Rossellini (1953)
88
Bresson (1959)
90
Kazan (1954)
109
Resnais (1959)
113
Bunuel (1950)
126
Wajda (1958)
131
De Sica (1952)
145
Bresson (1956)
148
Ford (1952)
150
Minnelli (1953)
167
Fellini (1957)
173
Mackendrick (1957)
178
Clouzot (1952)
187
Ray (1959)
192
Kubrick (1957)
199
Renoir (1951)
202
Lean (1957)
204
Ray (1958)
206
Kurosawa (1957)
209
Ray (1954)
222
Sirk (1956)
229
Tati (1953)
233
Sirk (1959)
235
Cocteau (1950)
245
Cukor (1954)
246
Bresson (1950)
251
Visconti (1954)
260
Mizoguchi (1952)
TSPDT Rank
Movie
Director (Year)
266
Stevens (1953)
272
Naruse (1955)
278
Ophuls (1955)
286
Resnais (1955)
287
Sirk (1955)
288
Huston (1950)
290
Hitchcock (1951)
292
Ray (1950)
296
Huston (1951)
298
Cassavetes (1959)
301
De Sica (1951)
302
Aldrich (1955)
303
Ray (1956)
311
Zinnemann (1952)
318
Ray (1955)
333
Bunuel (1952)
352
Franju (1959)
359
Wyler (1959)
360
Fellini (1953)
362
Lang (1953)
373
Siegel (1956)
382
Becker (1952)
383
Tati (1958)
394
Kazan (1951)
396
Ophuls (1951)
398
Kubrick (1956)
401
Rossellini (1950)
412
Minnelli (1958)
420
Dutt (1957)
422
Clement (1951)
455
Lang (1958)
457
Renoir (1955)
462
Nyby/Hawks (1951)
463
McCarey (1957)
469
Chaplin (1952)
471
Lamorisse (1956)
479
Renoir (1952)
484
Lumet (1957)
493
Wilcox (1956)
502
Wise (1951)
524
Stevens (1951)
526
Welles (1952)
542
Melville (1955)
556
Mankiewicz (1954)
568
Clouzot (1955)
569
Ray (1956)
573
Genet (1950)
592
Mizoguchi (1955)
596
Minnelli (1952)
600
Sirk (1958)
601
Kalatozov (1957)
610
Kazan (1955)
614
Bergman (1955)
TSPDT Rank
Movie
Director (Year)
620
Donen (1957)
625
Ford (1950)
634
Bergman (1953)
641
Monicelli (1958)
642
Minnelli (1951)
652
Wyler (1953)
660
Hawks (1953)
661
Mann (1958)
666
von Sternberg (1953)
677
Ophuls (1950)
684
Ozu (1951)
686
Fuller (1953)
692
Sirk (1956)
707
Bunuel (1958)
715
Dutt (1959)
716
Ford (1953)
727
Zinnemann (1953)
733
Wilder (1951)
736
Tourneur (1957)
740
Bergman (1959)
760
Lang (1955)
762
Bunuel (1955)
769
Becker (1959)
772
Mann (1953)
783
Lang (1956)
784
Fellini (1955)
785
Mann (1955)
788
Ray (1952)
791
Preminger (1953)
793
Haskin (1953)
794
Lang (1956)
820
Lang (1958)
821
Preminger (1959)
822
Lerner (1958)
834
Rouch (1955)
848
Rossellini (1951)
859
Mackendrick (1951)
864
Hitchcock (1956)
877
Ford (1950)
883
Mizoguchi (1954)
891
Arnold (1957)
935
Boetticher (1959)
947
Mann (1955)
960
Camus (1959)
970
Mann (1952)
985
Sirk (1958)
989
Wajda (1956)
990
Mann (1950)
992
Fisher (1958)
994
Rohmer (1959)
995
Berlanga (1952)
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