1955

1. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
2. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
3. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
4. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
5. Night and Fog (Alain Renais)
6. The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis)
7. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
8. The Man From Laramie (Anthony Mann)
9. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
10. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)

Honorable Mentions:
The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich), A Lawless Street (Joseph H. Lewis), Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles), Rififi (Jules Dassin), To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock), Lola Montes (Max Ophuls), The Man With the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger), Stranger On Horseback (Jacques Tourneur), East of Eden (Elia Kazan), Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot)