1953

1. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
2. The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford)
3. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4. I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. M. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)
6. Madame de... (Max Ophuls)
7. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
8. Forbidden Games (Rene' Clement)
9. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
10. Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Honorable Mentions:
From Here To Eternity (Fred Zinnemann), I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini), Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller), Beat the Devil (John Huston), The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino), El (Luis Bunuel), Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman), Appointment In Honduras (Jacques Tourneur), Shane (George Stevens), Invaders From Mars (William Cameron Menzies)