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1. Some Like It Hot (1959)
Passed | 121 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft
Votes: 283,606 | Gross: $25.00M
2. Pather Panchali (1955)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Banerjee, Chunibala Devi
Votes: 38,562 | Gross: $0.54M
3. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
G | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen
Votes: 260,739 | Gross: $8.82M
4. The Seventh Seal (1957)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy
A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe
Votes: 198,521
5. Rear Window (1954)
PG | 112 min | Mystery, Thriller
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 522,237 | Gross: $36.76M
6. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi, Dorian Gray
Votes: 51,951 | Gross: $0.75M
7. Roman Holiday (1953)
Passed | 118 min | Comedy, Romance
A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power
Votes: 147,679
8. Krtek (1957–2002)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Adventures of silent mole who is his own master in this vast world.
Stars: Antonín Jedlicka, Petr Kysela, Viola Zinková, Frantisek Filipovský
Votes: 2,510
9. Vertigo (1958)
PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Votes: 427,065 | Gross: $3.20M
10. Sabrina (1954)
Passed | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur, but it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden
Votes: 70,363
11. War and Peace (1956)
PG | 208 min | Drama, Romance, War
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman
Votes: 10,863 | Gross: $12.50M
12. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama
A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus
Votes: 97,983
13. The Wild One (1953)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Two rival motorcycle gangs terrorize a small town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail.
Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin
Votes: 17,595
14. North by Northwest (1959)
Approved | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis
Votes: 346,279 | Gross: $13.28M
15. Forbidden Planet (1956)
G | 98 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens
Votes: 53,230 | Gross: $3.00M
16. Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
A motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Totò
Votes: 11,521
17. Oedipus Rex (1957)
Approved | 87 min | Drama
The land ruled by King Oedipus is plagued by ill-fortune and the people are promised relief by the gods if the slayer of the former king is apprehended and punished. This does not bode well... See full summary »
Directors: Tyrone Guthrie, Abraham Polonsky | Stars: Douglas Campbell, Eleanor Stuart, Robert Goodier, William Hutt
Votes: 345
18. Lassie (1954–1974)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The ongoing saga of the Martin family and their beloved collie, Lassie.
Stars: Lassie, Jon Provost, June Lockhart, Hugh Reilly
Votes: 3,812
19. The Golden Antelope (1954)
31 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A poor Indian boy saves a magic antelope that can produce gold with its hooves. After a greedy Raja learns about it, he orders to bring him the antelope - or die.
Director: Lev Atamanov | Stars: Valentina Sperantova, Nina Nikitina, Ruben Simonov, Aleksandr Gruzinsky
Votes: 1,516
20. The Twelve Months (1956)
55 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.
Directors: Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Mikhail Botov | Stars: Tatyana Barysheva, Yuliya Yulskaya, Lyudmila Kasatkina, Galina Novozhilova
Votes: 1,501
21. The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish (1950)
32 min | Animation, Short, Family
The tale about an old, henpecked man whose new friend fulfills all desires of his wife.
Director: Mikhail Tsekhanovskiy | Stars: Mariya Babanova, Zhanna Balashova, Yulyen Balmusov, Boris Chirkov
Votes: 433
22. The Frog Princess (1954)
38 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A prince discovers an enchanted beauty turned into a frog by Koschei the Immortal. After Koschei steals her again, the prince goes on a dangerous quest to free the land of the evil.
Director: Mikhail Tsekhanovskiy | Stars: Boris Chirkov, Vladimir Gribkov, Aleksey Gribov, Margarita Kupriyanova
Votes: 326
23. Sister Alenushka and Brother Ivanushka (1953 TV Short)
11 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A classic Russian fairy tale about Alyonushka and her naughty brother turned into a goatling.
Director: Olga Khodatayeva | Stars: Aleksey Konsovskiy, Roza Makagonova, Vera Popova, S. Rozenblyum
Votes: 585
24. The Pipe and the Pitcher (1950)
10 min | Animation, Short, Family
A story about the effectiveness of personal selling.
Director: Viktor Gromov | Stars: Galina Ivanova, Georgiy Millyar
Votes: 76
25. The Mushroom Teremok (1958)
10 min | Animation, Short, Family
The story is about the dangers of staying outdoors during a storm warning.
Director: Vladimir Polkovnikov | Stars: Zinaida Bokareva, Galina Govorukhina, Galina Novozhilova, Leonid Pirogov
Votes: 112
26. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Director: Charles Laughton | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason
Votes: 97,391 | Gross: $0.65M
27. To Catch a Thief (1955)
PG | 106 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams
Votes: 79,780 | Gross: $8.75M
28. The Scarlet Flower (1952)
42 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
Nastenka asks her good father to bring her a scarlet flower from his journey One thing she doesn't know: the flower belongs to a horrible beast.
Director: Lev Atamanov | Stars: Mariya Babanova, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Olga Chepurova, Vladimir Gribkov
Votes: 1,250
29. The Flying Carpet (1957)
G | 86 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A boy finds a special jug and releases an ancient genie. The powerful and kind wizard is ready to fulfill all desires, but he doesn't know anything about the reality of the 20th century.
Director: Gennadiy Kazanskiy | Stars: Nikolay Volkov, Aleksei Litvinov, Gennadi Khudyakov, Lev Kovalchuk
Votes: 1,488
30. Rooster's Golden Comb (1955)
10 min | Animation, Short, Family
The cunning fox takes the cockerel "behind the dark forests", but there are true friends nearby. A colorful story with beautiful music.
Directors: Dmitriy Anpilov, Pyotr Nosov
Votes: 74
31. A Little Ship (1956)
11 min | Animation, Short
Four friends - the ant, the chicken, the worm and the mouse - are contested by the frog and go on a dangerous water trip by a hand-made ship to test their friendship and after all get a new member of their group.
Director: Leonid Amalrik | Stars: Zinaida Bokareva, Georgiy Vitsin, Galina Ivanova, Galina Novozhilova
Votes: 80
32. The Cat's House (1958)
29 min | Animation, Short, Family
A rich and ignorant cat loses her big house in a fire. Only then she realizes that a friend in need is a friend indeed.
Director: Leonid Amalrik | Stars: Anastasiya Georgievskaya, Viktoriya Ivanova, Sergey Martinson, Vera Orlova
Votes: 424
33. An Unusual Match (1955)
21 min | Animation, Short, Sport
During the night in a toy shop, two teams of toys have a football game. One team respect fair play, another - not at all.
Directors: Boris Dyozhkin, Mstislav Pashchenko | Stars: Boris Andreyev, Yuliya Yulskaya, Yuriy Khrzhanovskiy, Viktoriya Ivanova
Votes: 554
34. Gadkiy utyonok (1956 TV Short)
19 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Every family has its beauties. The classic tale of Ugly Duckling.
Director: Vladimir Degtyaryov | Stars: Nikolay Litvinov, Georgiy Millyar, Georgiy Vitsin, Yuliya Yulskaya
Votes: 959
35. Moydodyr - Wash 'til Holes (1954)
17 min | Animation, Short, Family
The adventures of a boy who did not like to wash. The screen version of the fairy tale by Korney Chukovskiy is a bright Soviet classic.
Director: Ivan Ivanov-Vano | Stars: Yuriy Khrzhanovskiy, Mikhail Ryba
Votes: 437
36. Once Upon a Time (1957)
30 min | Animation, Short
The tale about a magic fish and resentful lover whose fiancee went to a lazy fool.
Directors: Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Mikhail Botov | Stars: Serafim Anikeyev, Georgiy Vitsin, Vera Orlova, Lev Potyomkin
Votes: 145
37. Kolobok (1956)
10 min | Animation, Short, Family
"Kolobok" - Soviet short animation film of 1956 by the famous director-animator Roman Davydov. The second screen version of the fairy tale of the same name, the first was shot at the same ... See full summary »
Director: Roman Davydov
Votes: 57
38. Lola Montès (1955)
Not Rated | 116 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
When she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol
Votes: 6,052 | Gross: $0.11M
39. Band of Angels (1957)
Passed | 125 min | Drama
Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 2,628
40. Sissi (1955)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In the first of a trilogy of movies about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria, the vibrant young princess catches the eye of her sister's fiancé, Emperor Franz Josef.
Director: Ernst Marischka | Stars: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Uta Franz
Votes: 9,983
41. Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin (1957)
109 min | Drama, History, Romance
The final film in a highly romanticized trilogy about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria finds the young empress traveling throughout Europe.
Director: Ernst Marischka | Stars: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Gustav Knuth
Votes: 5,995
42. Christine (1958)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Vienna in 1906: Frantz Lobheimer has just broken off the discrete love affair he was having with the baroness Eggersdorf, now that he's discovered true love with the young and tender Christine.
Director: Pierre Gaspard-Huit | Stars: Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Jean-Claude Brialy, François Chaumette
Votes: 1,186
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