Best Movies of 1955 by Rank
37
1
Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Bannerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Chunibala Devi
Drama
India
Bengali
91
2
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
167
3
Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Margit Carlqvist
Comedy / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
172
4
James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen
Drama / Cult
USA
English
200
5
Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Jean Brochard
Mystery / Thriller / Horror / Film-Noir
France
French
292
7
Preben Lerdorff Rye, Birgitte Federspiel, Emil Hass Christensen
Drama / Religion
Denmark
Danish
311
8
Jean Servais, Carl Mohner
Crime / Thriller / Caper / Gangster / Film-Noir
France
French
315
9
Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Western
USA
English
329
10
Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol
Drama / Period Film / Biography
France / West Germany
French
359
11
Ralph Meeker, Cloris Leachman, Gaby Rodgers, Maxine Copper, Albert Dekker
Thriller / Film-Noir / Crime / Detective / Cult
USA
English
773
14
Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud
Biography / Drama / History / War / Epic
UK
English
780
15
Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel
Drama / Romance
USA
English
797
16
Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin
Romance / Drama
UK / USA
English
808
17
Michel Bouquet, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Julius Streicher
Documentary / Short / History / War
France
French
874
18
Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner
Comedy / Crime / Caper / Family
UK
English
925
19
Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine
Musical / Comedy / Romance / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
967
20
Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1049
21
Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix
Comedy / Musical / Drama / Romance
France / Italy
French
1103
22
Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker, Arnold Stang
Drama
USA
English
1179
23
Henry Fonda, James Cagney, Jack Lemmon
Comedy / Drama / War
USA
English
1231
24
Sidney Poitier, Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern
Drama
USA
English
1439
25
Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock
Mystery / Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
1593
26
Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams
Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Crime / Caper
USA
English
1609
27
Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith, Tom Tully
Biography / Drama / Musical / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
1613
28
Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura
Drama / History / Epic
Japan / Hong Kong
Japanese
1618
29
James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Alex Nicol
Mystery / Western
USA
English
1752
30
Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson
Drama / Family / Animation / Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1762
31
Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood
Musical / Romance / Western
USA
English
1767
32
William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss
Drama / War
USA
English
1775
33
John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
1847
34
Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson
Drama / Religion
UK
English
1956
35
Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin
Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1956
35
Susan Hayward, Patty Duke, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Jo Van Fleet, Don Taylor
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
1964
36
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1995
37
Valentina Cortese, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi
Drama
Italy
Italian
2058
38
Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Cornel Wilde, Brian Donlevy, Robert Middleton
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2069
39
Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Jack Watling, Patricia Medina, Akim Tamiroff
Thriller / Crime / Mystery / Drama
France / Spain / Switzerland
English
2103
40
William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2131
41
Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, Michael Kidd, David Burns
Drama / Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2190
43
Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2209
44
Bill Roberts
Family / Animation / Short / Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2216
45
Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell, Brad Dexter
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2230
46
Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
2234
47
Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox, Denholm Elliott, Ursula Jeans
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
2260
48
Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau, Jill Esmond
Drama / Family / Biography / Religion
USA
English
2286
49
Melina Mercouri, George Foundas, Alekos Alexandrakis
Drama / Romance
Greece
Greek
2288
51
John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes
Drama / War
UK
English
2288
51
Dirk Bogarde, Virginia McKenna, Basil Sydney, Marie Ney, Joseph Tomelty
Drama / Action
UK
English
2310
52
Toshirô Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiyo Kogure
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2314
53
Edward Mulhare, Michael Wager, Margalit Oved, Arik Lavie, Michael Shillo
Adventure / Drama / War
Israel
English
2344
54
Stanley Kramer, Frank Kramer
Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame
Drama
USA
English
2428
55
Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina
Drama / Comedy / Crime
Italy / France
Italian
2453
56
Franco Rossi
Geronimo Meynier, Luigi Tosi, Vera Carmi, Carlo Tamberlani
Comedy / Drama
France / Italy / Spain
Italian
2453
56
Samson Samsonov
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Sergei Bondarchuk, Vladimir Druzhnikov
Drama / Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian
2456
57
Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada, Isao Yamagata
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2459
58
Robert L. Bendick, Philippe De Lacy
Betty Marsh, John Marsh, Beatrice Troller, Fred Troller
Documentary
USA
English
2459
58
Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane, Jerry Jarret, Mike Dana, Felice Orlandi
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2512
59
Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne, Celeste Holm
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2572
60
Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Wallace Ford
Western / Action
USA
English
2599
61
Curd Jürgens, Marianne Koch, Viktor de Kowa, Karl John, Eva Ingeborg Scholz
Drama / War
West Germany
German
2599
61
Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters, Ron Randell, Lea Seidl
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2599
61
Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar, Dick York
Musical / Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2599
61
Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith, Lucy Marlow, Lorne Greene
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2599
61
Alastair Sim, Bill Travers, Norah Gorsen, Molly Urquhart, Francis De Wolff
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sports
UK
English
2619
62
Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Francis, Donald Crisp
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2638
63
Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whitmore, Raymond Massey
Drama / War / Romance
USA
English
2638
63
Miroslava Stern, Ernesto Alonso, Rita Macedo, Ariadna Welter, Eva Calvo
Comedy / Crime / Drama
Mexico
Spanish
2638
63
Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar, Janusz Paluszkiewicz
Drama / War / Romance
Poland
Polish
2638
63
Vera Maretskaya, Aleksey Batalov, Tatyana Piletskaya, Andrei Petrov, Sergei Kurilov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2638
63
Lucia Bosé, Alberto Closas, Otello Toso, Carlos Casaravilla
Drama / Crime
Spain / Italy
Spanish
2638
63
Charles Boyer, Martine Carol, Walter Chiari, Paul Frankeur, Elisa Cegani
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Italy
French
2638
63
Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Andrei Popov, Vladimir Soshalsky
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2638
63
Jesse Hibbs
Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, Jack Kelly, Gregg Palmer
Action / Biography / Drama / War
USA
English
2638
63
Silvana Mangano, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Rossana Podestà
Adventure / History / Fantasy / Romance
Italy
Italian
2645
64
Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson, Jonathan Ashmore
Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy
UK
English
2655
65
Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills, Peter Cushing
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English
2656
66
David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Noelle Middleton, Allan Cuthbertson
Drama / Comedy
UK
English
2693
67
Alice Treff, Marianne Sinclair, Beate Koepnick
Drama / War
West Germany
German
2700
68
Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Gustav Knuth, Ilse Steppat
Drama
West Germany
German
2710
69
Andrzej Munk, Jan Riesser
Gustaw Holoubek, Wojciech Siemion, Stanislaw Wawrytko
War / Drama / Action / Adventure
Poland
Polish
2710
69
Dick Van Der Velde, Berta Drews, Kees Brusse
Drama
Netherlands / West Germany
Dutch
2710
69
Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman, Emlyn Williams
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2710
69
Burt Lancaster, Diana Lynn, Dianne Foster, John McIntire
Drama / Western
USA
English
2710
69
Yves Ciampi
Yves Montand, María Félix, Jean Servais
Adventure / Drama / Crime / Romance
France / West Germany
French
2718
70
Rafael Rivelles, Antonio Vico, Juan Calvo, José Marco Davó
Drama
Spain / Italy
Spanish
2733
71
Tim Considine, David Stollery, Roy Barcroft, Harry Carey Jr., Leonard P. Geer
Adventure / Western / Family / Serial
USA
English
2733
71
Claude Rains, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Edmund Gwenn, Herbert Marshall
Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2733
71
Richard Denning, Angela Stevens, S. John Launer, Michael Granger, Gregory Gaye
Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2733
71
Alan Crosland Jr., Herschel Daugherty
James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Tom Brown, Dabbs Greer, Hank Patterson
Drama / Western
USA
English
2733
71
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James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis, Glenn Strange, Dennis Weaver
Drama / Western / Serial
USA
English
2733
71
Dick Tufeld, Walt Disney, Wernher von Braun, Heinz Haber, Willy Ley
Documentary / Animation / Short / Family
USA
English
2733
71
Al De Caprio, Charles Friedman, Nat Hiken
Phil Silvers, Harvey Lembeck, Herbie Faye, Paul Ford, Maurice Gosfield
Comedy / Family
USA
English
2733
71
Dick Tufield, Dr. Heinz Haber, Wernher Von Braun, Willy Ley, Ward Kimball
Documentary / Animation / Family
USA
English
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2733
71
Joel McCrea, Miroslava Stern, Kevin McCarthy, John McIntire, John Carradine
Western
USA
English
2733
71
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Diana Lynn, Nina Foch, Raymond Burr, Mitzi McCall
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2735
72
Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy, John Hodiak, Katy Jurado
Drama
USA
English
2752
73
Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors
Adventure
USA
English
2760
74
Kinuyo Tanaka
Yumeji Tsukioka, Ryôji Hayama, Junkichi Orimoto, Hiroko Kawasaki
Biography / Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2766
75
Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame
Drama
USA
English
2766
75
Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin, Alex Minotis
Drama / History / Epic
USA
English
2766
75
Raizô Ichikawa, Michiyo Kogure, Mitsusaburô Ramon
Drama / History / Epic
Japan
Japanese
2776
76
Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort, Marcel Jouet, Albert Lubrano, Anna Banegas
Drama / Romance
France
French
2791
78
Arthur Kennedy, Betta St. John, Eugene Iglesias, Charlita
Crime / Drama / Western / Action / Romance
USA
English
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