1948 Top Ten List

  • They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray)
  • The Big Clock (John Farrow)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
  • Brighton Rock (John Boulting)
  • The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)
  • Red River (Howard Hawks)
  • Easter Parade (Charles Walters)
  • Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges)
  • Escape (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  • Fort Apache (John Ford)

    • Additional 1948 Films By Rating

  • The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  • Moonrise (Frank Borzage)
  • Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica)
  • Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Opuls)
  • Hamlet (Laurence Olivier)
  • Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann)
  • The Pirate (Vincente Minnelli)
  • Bodyguard (Richard Fleischer)
  • Germany in Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
  • Oliver Twist (David Lean)
  • Call Northside 777 (Henry Hathaway)
  • A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder)
  • The Naked City (Jules Dassin)
  • The Paleface (Norman Z. McLeod)
  • A Woman's Vengeance (Zoltan Korda)
  • Macbeth (Orson Welles)
  • Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa)
  • Louisiana Story (Robert Flaherty)
  • Corridor of Mirrors (Terence Young)
  • Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)