1957 Top Ten List

  • Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
  • Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
  • Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
  • Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (John Sturges)
  • The Tarnished Angels (DouglasSirk)
  • The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold)
  • 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves)
  • The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
  • Additional 1957 Films By Rating

  • The Tall T (Budd Boetticher)
  • 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
  • Kanał (Andrzej Wajda)
  • Men in War (Anthony Mann)
  • Le notti bianche (Luchino Visconti)
  • A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan)
  • Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
  • The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
  • Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
  • The Spirit of St. Louis (Billy Wilder)
  • The River's Edge (Allan Dwan)
  • Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray)
  • Tokyo Twilight (Yasujirō Ozu)
  • Funny Face (Stanley Donen)
  • China Gate (Samuel Fuller)
  • An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey)
  • Jailhouse Rock (Richard Thorpe)
  • Il grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  • Time Without Pity (Joseph Losey)
  • The Lower Depths (Akira Kurosawa)
  • Brink of Life (Ingmar Bergman)
  • Campbell's Kingdom (Ralph Thomas)