1950
10. Les Enfants Terribles [Jean-Pierre Melville] France
09. Gun Crazy [Joseph H. Lewis] USA
08. Harvey [Henry Koster] USA
07. Orpheus [Jean Cocteau] France
06. Rashômon [Akira Kurosawa] Japan
05. All About Eve [Joseph L. Mankiewicz] USA
04. The Flowers of St. Francis [Roberto Rossellini] Italy
03. Stromboli [Roberto Rossellini] Italy
02. Sunset Blvd. [Billy Wilder] USA
01. Los Olvidados [Luis Buñuel] Mexico
1951
12. Miracle in Milan [Vittorio De Sica] Italy
11. An American in Paris [Vincente Minnelli] USA
10. Miss Julie [Alf Sjöberg] Sweden
09. The River [Jean Renoir] France / India / USA
08. Early Summer [Yasujirô Ozu] Japan
07. The Tales of Hoffmann [Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger] UK
06. Strangers on a Train [Alfred Hitchcock] USA
05. A Streetcar Named Desire [Elia Kazan] USA
04. Alice in Wonderland [Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske] USA
03. Othello [Orson Welles] Morocco / Italy
02. Bellissima [Luchino Visconti] Italy
01. Diary of a Country Priest [Robert Bresson] France
1952
10. The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice [Yasujirō Ozu] Japan
09. Ikiru [Akira Kurosawa] Japan
08. Limelight [Charles Chaplin] USA
07. Rome 11:00 [Giuseppe De Santis] Italy
06. The King and the Mockingbird [Paul Grimault] France
05. Singin’ in the Rain [Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly] USA
04. Umberto D. [Vittorio De Sica] Italy
03. Forbidden Games [René Clément] France
02. The Life of Oharu [Kenji Mizoguchi] Japan
01. Children of Hiroshima [Kaneto Shindo] Japan
1953
10. The Wages of Fear [Henri-Georges Clouzot] France / Italy
09. Sawdust and Tinsel [Ingmar Bergman] Sweden
08. Love Letter [Kinuyo Tanaka] Japan
07. Peter Pan [Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske] USA
06. Ugetsu [Kenji Mizoguchi] Japan
05. Hiroshima [Hideo Sekigawa] Japan
04. Él [Luis Buñuel] Mexico
03. Anatahan [Josef von Sternberg] Japan
02. Summer with Monika [Ingmar Bergman] Sweden
01. Tokyo Story [Yasujirô Ozu] Japan
1954
10. Creature from the Black Lagoon [Jack Arnold] USA
09. The Crucified Lovers [Kenji Mizoguchi] Japan
08. Dial M For Murder [Alfred Hitchcock] USA
07. Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto [Hiroshi Inagaki] Japan
06. Twenty-Four Eyes [Keisuke Kinoshita] Japan
05. On The Waterfront [Elia Kazan] USA
04. La Strada [Federico Fellini] Italy
03. Rear Window [Alfred Hitchcock] USA
02. Sansho the Bailiff [Kenji Mizoguchi] Japan
01. Seven Samurai [Akira Kurosawa] Japan
1955
12. Rio, 40 Degrees C. [Nelson Pereira dos Santos] Brazil
11. Death of a Cyclist [Juan Antonio Bardem] Spain
10. Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji [Tomu Uchida] Japan
09. Lady and the Tramp [Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi] USA
08. She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum [Keisuke Kinoshita] Japan
07. The Night of the Hunter [Charles Laughton] USA
06. East of Eden [Elia Kazan] USA
05. Mr. Arkadin [Orson Welles] France / Spain / Switzerland
04. Rebel Without a Cause [Nicholas Ray] USA
03. Smiles of a Summer Night [Ingmar Bergman] Sweden
02. Pather Panchali [Satyajit Ray] India
01. Ordet [Carl Theodor Dreyer] Denmark
1956
10. Giant [George Stevens] USA
09. The Red Balloon [Albert Lamorisse] France
08. Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island [Hiroshi Inagaki] Japan
07. Early Spring [Yasujirô Ozu] Japan
06. Night and Fog [Alain Resnais] France
05. The Burmese Harp [Kon Ichikawa] Japan
04. Crazed Fruit [Kô Nakahira] Japan
03. A Man Escaped [Robert Bresson] France
02. Street of Shame [Kenji Mizoguchi] Japan
01. Aparajito [Satyajit Ray] India
1957
13. Paths of Glory [Stanley Kubrick] USA
12. Il Grido [Michelangelo Antonioni] Italy / USA
11. Tokyo Twilight [Yasujirô Ozu] Japan
10. Wild Strawberries [Ingmar Bergman] Sweden
09. The Blue Sky Maiden [Yasuzō Masumura] Japan
08. Le Notti Bianche [Luchino Visconti] Italy / France
07. Mother India [Mehboob Khan] India
06. Throne of Blood [Akira Kurosawa] Japan
05. 12 Angry Men [Sidney Lumet] USA
04. Kanal [Andrzej Wajda] Poland
03. Nights of Cabiria [Federico Fellini] Italy
02. The Cranes Are Flying [Mikhail Kalatozov] Soviet Union
01. The Seventh Seal [Ingmar Bergman] Sweden
1958
12. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [Richard Brooks] USA
11. Ashes and Diamonds [Andrzej Wajda] Poland
10. The Music Room [Satyajit Ray] India
09. Touch of Evil [Orson Welles] USA
08. The Magician [Ingmar Bergman] Sweden
07. Ivan the Terrible, Part II [Sergei M. Eisenstein] Soviet Union
06. The Ballad of Narayama [Keisuke Kinoshita] USA
05. The Defiant Ones [Stanley Kramer] USA
04. Vertigo [Alfred Hitchcock] USA
03. Elevator to the Gallows [Louis Malle] France
02. Cairo Station [Youssef Chahine] Egypt
01. The Hidden Fortress [Akira Kurosawa] Japan
1959
13. Suddenly, Last Summer [Joseph L. Mankiewicz] USA
12. Sleeping Beauty [Clyde Geronimi, Les Clark, Eric Larson, Wolfgang Reitherman] USA
11. Ben-Hur [William Wyler] USA
10. Pickpocket [Robert Bresson] France
09. Black Orpheus [Marcel Camus] Brazil / France / Italy
08. Ballad of a Soldier [Grigori Chukhrai] Soviet Union
07. Ohayo [Yasujirô Ozu] Japan
06. The Bridge [Bernhard Wicki] West Germany
05. Nazarin [Luis Buñuel] Mexico
04. Hiroshima Mon Amour [Alain Resnais] France / Japan
03. Apur Sansar [Satyajit Ray] India
02. Floating Weeds [Yasujirô Ozu] Japan
01. The 400 Blows [François Truffaut] France