1951 Top Ten List

  • Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
  • Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • The Prowler (Joseph Losey)
  • Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
  • The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (Orson Welles)
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
  • The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)
  • Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin)
  • A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)

    • Additional 1951 Films By Rating

  • His Kind of Woman (John Farrow)
  • The African Queen (John Huston)
  • A Christmas Carol (Brian Desmond-Hurst)
  • The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton)
  • On the Riviera (Walter Lang)
  • He Ran All the Way (John Berry)
  • Repast (Mikio Naruse)
  • M (Joseph Losey)
  • The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith)
  • Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi & Hamilton Luske & Wilfred Jackson)
  • An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
  • The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick)
  • The Tales of Hoffmann (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  • My Favorite Spy (Norman Z. McLeod)
  • Rawhide (Henry Hathaway)
  • Lightning Strikes Twice (King Vidor)
  • I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (Gordon Douglas)
  • The Man From Planet X (Edgar G. Ulmer)
  • Miss Julie (Alf Sjöberg)
  • The River (Jean Renoir)
  • Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)