Best Movies of 1955 by Rank
36
1
Satyajit Ray
Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Bannerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Chunibala Devi
Drama
India
Bengali
91
2
Charles Laughton
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
167
3
Ingmar Bergman
Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Margit Carlqvist
Comedy / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
172
4
Nicholas Ray
James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen
Drama / Cult
USA
English
200
5
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Jean Brochard
Mystery / Thriller / Horror / Film-Noir
France
French
290
7
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Preben Lerdorff Rye, Birgitte Federspiel, Emil Hass Christensen
Drama / Religion
Denmark
Danish
310
8
Jules Dassin
Jean Servais, Carl Mohner
Crime / Thriller / Caper / Gangster / Film-Noir
France
French
314
9
John Sturges
Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Western
USA
English
329
10
Max Ophüls
Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol
Drama / Period Film / Biography
France / West Germany
French
360
11
Robert Aldrich
Ralph Meeker, Cloris Leachman, Gaby Rodgers, Maxine Copper, Albert Dekker
Thriller / Film-Noir / Crime / Detective / Cult
USA
English
778
14
Douglas Sirk
Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel
Drama / Romance
USA
English
795
15
David Lean
Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin
Romance / Drama
UK / USA
English
807
16
Alain Resnais
Michel Bouquet, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Julius Streicher
Documentary / Short / History / War
France
French
844
17
Laurence Olivier
Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson
Drama / War / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
875
18
Alexander Mackendrick
Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner
Comedy / Crime / Caper / Family
UK
English
923
19
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine
Musical / Comedy / Romance / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
968
20
Daniel Mann
Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1047
21
Jean Renoir
Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix
Comedy / Musical / Drama / Romance
France / Italy
French
1101
22
Otto Preminger
Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker, Arnold Stang
Drama
USA
English
1179
23
John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan
Henry Fonda, James Cagney, Jack Lemmon
Comedy / Drama / War
USA
English
1230
24
Richard Brooks
Sidney Poitier, Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern
Drama
USA
English
1439
25
Alfred Hitchcock
Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock
Mystery / Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
1593
26
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams
Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Crime / Caper
USA
English
1610
27
Charles Vidor
Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith, Tom Tully
Biography / Drama / Musical / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
1613
28
Kenji Mizoguchi
Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura
Drama / History / Epic
Japan / Hong Kong
Japanese
1618
29
Anthony Mann
James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Alex Nicol
Mystery / Western
USA
English
1758
30
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson
Drama / Family / Animation / Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1768
31
Fred Zinnemann
Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood
Musical / Romance / Western
USA
English
1773
32
Mark Robson
William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss
Drama / War
USA
English
1781
33
Phil Karlson
John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
1851
34
Peter Glenville
Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson
Drama / Religion
UK
English
1958
35
William Wyler
Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin
Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1958
35
Daniel Mann
Susan Hayward, Patty Duke, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Jo Van Fleet, Don Taylor
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
1966
36
Frank Tashlin
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1996
37
Michelangelo Antonioni
Valentina Cortese, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi
Drama
Italy
Italian
2070
38
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Jack Watling, Patricia Medina, Akim Tamiroff
Thriller / Crime / Mystery / Drama
France / Spain / Switzerland
English
2103
39
Henry King
William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2131
40
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, Michael Kidd, David Burns
Drama / Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2189
42
Billy Wilder
Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2207
43
Chuck Jones
Bill Roberts
Family / Animation / Short / Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2214
44
Samuel Fuller
Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell, Brad Dexter
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2227
45
Robert Aldrich
Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
2231
46
Leslie Norman
Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox, Denholm Elliott, Ursula Jeans
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
2253
47
Joseph H. Lewis
Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Cornel Wilde, Brian Donlevy, Robert Middleton
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2257
48
Henry Koster
Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau, Jill Esmond
Drama / Family / Biography / Religion
USA
English
2283
49
Michael Cacoyannis
Melina Mercouri, George Foundas, Alekos Alexandrakis
Drama / Romance
Greece
Greek
2285
51
Guy Hamilton
John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes
Drama / War
UK
English
2285
51
Brian Desmond Hurst
Dirk Bogarde, Virginia McKenna, Basil Sydney, Marie Ney, Joseph Tomelty
Drama / Action
UK
English
2307
52
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiyo Kogure
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2311
53
Thorold Dickinson
Edward Mulhare, Michael Wager, Margalit Oved, Arik Lavie, Michael Shillo
Adventure / Drama / War
Israel
English
2341
54
Stanley Kramer, Frank Kramer
Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame
Drama
USA
English
2425
55
Federico Fellini
Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina
Drama / Comedy / Crime
Italy / France
Italian
2450
56
Franco Rossi
Geronimo Meynier, Luigi Tosi, Vera Carmi, Carlo Tamberlani
Comedy / Drama
France / Italy / Spain
Italian
2450
56
Samson Samsonov
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Sergei Bondarchuk, Vladimir Druzhnikov
Drama / Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian
2453
57
Mikio Naruse
Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada, Isao Yamagata
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2456
58
Robert L. Bendick, Philippe De Lacy
Betty Marsh, John Marsh, Beatrice Troller, Fred Troller
Documentary
USA
English
2456
58
Stanley Kubrick
Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane, Jerry Jarret, Mike Dana, Felice Orlandi
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2507
59
Charles Walters
Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne, Celeste Holm
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2566
60
Jacques Tourneur
Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Wallace Ford
Western / Action
USA
English
2591
61
Helmut Käutner
Curd Jürgens, Marianne Koch, Viktor de Kowa, Karl John, Eva Ingeborg Scholz
Drama / War
West Germany
German
2591
61
Henry Cornelius
Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters, Ron Randell, Lea Seidl
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2591
61
Richard Quine
Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar, Dick York
Musical / Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2591
61
Phil Karlson
Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith, Lucy Marlow, Lorne Greene
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2591
61
Frank Launder
Alastair Sim, Bill Travers, Norah Gorsen, Molly Urquhart, Francis De Wolff
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sports
UK
English
2610
62
John Ford
Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Francis, Donald Crisp
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2628
63
Raoul Walsh
Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whitmore, Raymond Massey
Drama / War / Romance
USA
English
2628
63
Luis Buñuel
Miroslava Stern, Ernesto Alonso, Rita Macedo, Ariadna Welter, Eva Calvo
Comedy / Crime / Drama
Mexico
Spanish
2628
63
Andrzej Wajda
Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar, Janusz Paluszkiewicz
Drama / War / Romance
Poland
Polish
2628
63
Mark Donskoy
Vera Maretskaya, Aleksey Batalov, Tatyana Piletskaya, Andrei Petrov, Sergei Kurilov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2628
63
Juan Antonio Bardem
Lucia Bosé, Alberto Closas, Otello Toso, Carlos Casaravilla
Drama / Crime
Spain / Italy
Spanish
2628
63
Christian-Jaque
Charles Boyer, Martine Carol, Walter Chiari, Paul Frankeur, Elisa Cegani
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Italy
French
2628
63
Sergei Yutkevich
Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Andrei Popov, Vladimir Soshalsky
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2628
63
Jesse Hibbs
Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, Jack Kelly, Gregg Palmer
Action / Biography / Drama / War
USA
English
2628
63
Mario Camerini, Mario Bava
Silvana Mangano, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Rossana Podestà
Adventure / History / Fantasy / Romance
Italy
Italian
2635
64
Carol Reed
Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson, Jonathan Ashmore
Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy
UK
English
2645
65
Edward Dmytryk
Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills, Peter Cushing
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English
2646
66
Anthony Asquith
David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Noelle Middleton, Allan Cuthbertson
Drama / Comedy
UK
English
2683
67
László Benedek
Alice Treff, Marianne Sinclair, Beate Koepnick
Drama / War
West Germany
German
2690
68
Robert Siodmak
Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Gustav Knuth, Ilse Steppat
Drama
West Germany
German
2699
69
Andrzej Munk, Jan Riesser
Gustaw Holoubek, Wojciech Siemion, Stanislaw Wawrytko
War / Drama / Action / Adventure
Poland
Polish
2699
69
Wolfgang Staudte
Dick Van Der Velde, Berta Drews, Kees Brusse
Drama
Netherlands / West Germany
Dutch
2699
69
Anatole Litvak
Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman, Emlyn Williams
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2699
69
Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster, Diana Lynn, Dianne Foster, John McIntire
Drama / Western
USA
English
2699
69
Yves Ciampi
Yves Montand, María Félix, Jean Servais
Adventure / Drama / Crime / Romance
France / West Germany
French
2706
70
Ladislao Vajda
Rafael Rivelles, Antonio Vico, Juan Calvo, José Marco Davó
Drama
Spain / Italy
Spanish
2706
70
Laurence Olivier
Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud
Biography / Drama / History / War / Epic
UK
English
2719
71
William Beaudine
Tim Considine, David Stollery, Roy Barcroft, Harry Carey Jr., Leonard P. Geer
Adventure / Western / Family / Serial
USA
English
2719
71
Alfred Hitchcock
Claude Rains, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Edmund Gwenn, Herbert Marshall
Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2719
71
Edward L. Cahn
Richard Denning, Angela Stevens, S. John Launer, Michael Granger, Gregory Gaye
Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2719
71
Alan Crosland Jr., Herschel Daugherty
James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Tom Brown, Dabbs Greer, Hank Patterson
Drama / Western
USA
English
2719
71
various
James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis, Glenn Strange, Dennis Weaver
Drama / Western / Serial
USA
English
2719
71
Ward Kimball
Dick Tufeld, Walt Disney, Wernher von Braun, Heinz Haber, Willy Ley
Documentary / Animation / Short / Family
USA
English
2719
71
Al De Caprio, Charles Friedman, Nat Hiken
Phil Silvers, Harvey Lembeck, Herbie Faye, Paul Ford, Maurice Gosfield
Comedy / Family
USA
English
2719
71
William Beaudine
Dick Tufield, Dr. Heinz Haber, Wernher Von Braun, Willy Ley, Ward Kimball
Documentary / Animation / Family
USA
English
2719
71
Jacques Tourneur
Joel McCrea, Miroslava Stern, Kevin McCarthy, John McIntire, John Carradine
Western
USA
English
2719
71
Norman Taurog
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Diana Lynn, Nina Foch, Raymond Burr, Mitzi McCall
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2721
72
Mark Robson
Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy, John Hodiak, Katy Jurado
Drama
USA
English
2737
73
Fritz Lang
Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors
Adventure
USA
English
2745
74
Kinuyo Tanaka
Yumeji Tsukioka, Ryôji Hayama, Junkichi Orimoto, Hiroko Kawasaki
Biography / Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2751
75
Vincente Minnelli
Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame
Drama
USA
English
2751
75
Howard Hawks
Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin, Alex Minotis
Drama / History / Epic
USA
English
2751
75
Kenji Mizoguchi
Raizô Ichikawa, Michiyo Kogure, Mitsusaburô Ramon
Drama / History / Epic
Japan
Japanese
2761
76
Agnès Varda
Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort, Marcel Jouet, Albert Lubrano, Anna Banegas
Drama / Romance
France
French
2776
78
Edgar G. Ulmer
Arthur Kennedy, Betta St. John, Eugene Iglesias, Charlita
Crime / Drama / Western / Action / Romance
USA
English
