Best Movies of 1957 by Rank
64
1
Ingmar Bergman
Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish
88
2
David Lean
William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald
Adventure / Drama / War
UK / USA
English
168
4
Alexander Mackendrick
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
174
5
Ingmar Bergman
Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
186
7
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura
War / Drama / Action / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
Japan
Japanese
279
8
Federico Fellini
Giulietta Masina, François Périer
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
547
9
Elia Kazan
Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau
Drama
USA
English
557
10
Stanley Donen
Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair
Romance / Comedy / Musical
USA
English
579
11
Mikhail Kalatozov
Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksei Batalov
Drama / Romance / War
Soviet Union
Russian
732
12
Mehboob Khan
Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar
Drama / Musical / Family / Epic
India
Hindi
937
13
Billy Wilder
Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
Drama / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
988
14
Joshua Logan
Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miiko Taka
Drama / Romance / Comedy / War
USA
English
1038
15
Jack Arnold
Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton, Raymond Bailey
Sci-Fi / Horror / Cult
USA
English
1335
16
Leo McCarey
Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Cult
USA
English
1366
17
Rouben Mamoulian
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige, Peter Lorre
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1383
18
Fred Zinnemann
Don Murray, Eva Marie Saint, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan
Drama
USA
English
1445
19
Delbert Mann
Don Murray, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Philip Abbott
Drama
USA
English
1478
20
Billy Wilder
Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, Van Doude
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1484
21
George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney, Eddie Foy Jr., Reta Shaw, Barbara Nichols
Musical / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
1511
22
Andrzej Wajda
Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski
Drama / War
Poland
Polish
1533
23
John Sturges
Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland
Western / Gangster / Romance
USA
English
1560
24
Mark Robson
Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1622
25
Delmer Daves
Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones
Western
USA
English
1641
26
Richard Thorpe
Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Vaughn Taylor
Drama / Musical / Comedy
USA
English
1655
27
George Cukor
Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg
Musical / Comedy
USA
English
1752
28
Frank Tashlin
Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1784
29
Jacques Tourneur
Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Athene Seyler
Horror / Mystery / Cult
UK
English
1889
30
Guru Dutt
Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Mala Sinha, Mehmood, Rehman
Drama / Musical / Romance
India
Hindi
1949
31
John Huston
Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
Drama / War / Comedy / Romance / Religion
USA
English
1954
32
Martin Ritt
John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden, Kathleen Maguire, Ruby Dee
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2106
33
George Sidney
Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Barbara Nichols
Musical / Romance / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2117
34
Robert Mulligan
Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Adam Williams, Perry Wilson
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2131
35
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn, Eddie Albert, Gregory Ratoff
Drama
USA
English
2140
36
Anthony Mann
Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith, Phillip Pine, Nehemiah Persoff
Drama / War
USA
English
2141
37
Billy Wilder
James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson
Drama / Adventure / History / Biography
USA
English
2170
38
Budd Boetticher
Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan
Western
USA
English
2172
39
Nicholas Ray
Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Ruth Roman, Raymond Pellegrin
Action / Drama / War
France / USA
English
2207
40
Chuck Jones
Mel Blanc
Animation / Family / Comedy / Short / Musical
USA
English
2266
41
Walter Lang
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Dina Merrill
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2266
41
Joseph Pevney
James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Marjorie Rambeau, Jim Backus
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2266
41
Nunnally Johnson
Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cobb, Edwin Jerome, Alena Murray
Drama
USA
English
2278
42
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Elsa Daniel, Lautaro Murúa, Guillermo Battaglia, Berta Ortegosa
Drama / Period Film
Argentina
Spanish
2304
43
René Clair
Pierre Brasseur, Georges Brassens, Henri Vidal, Dany Carrel
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir
Italy / France
French
2342
44
Laurence Olivier
Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Richard Wattis, Jeremy Spenser
Comedy / Romance
UK / USA
English
2402
45
Samuel Fuller
Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson
Western
USA
English
2402
45
Samuel Fuller
Rod Steiger, Sara Montiel, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker
Western
USA
English
2425
46
Luchino Visconti
Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Marcella Rovena
Drama / Romance
Italy / France
Italian
2441
47
David Miller
Joan Crawford, Heather Sears, Rossano Brazzi, Lee Patterson
Drama
UK
English
2473
48
Charles Vidor, John Huston
Jennifer Jones, Rock Hudson, Vittorio De Sica, Mercedes McCambridge
Drama / Romance / War / Epic
USA
English
2494
49
Robert Stevenson
Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Jeff York, Chuck Connors, Beverly Washburn
Family / Drama / Adventure / Western
USA
English
2501
50
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde, Oliver Johnston
Comedy / Drama / Family
UK
English
2538
51
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Will Rogers, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Ben Turpin
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2541
52
Don Siegel
Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke, Leo Gordon, Anthony Caruso
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir / Biography / Gangster
USA
English
2541
52
Josef von Sternberg, Jules Furthman
John Wayne, Janet Leigh, Jay C. Flippen, Paul Fix, Richard Rober, Roland Winters
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Action / Spy
USA
English
2541
52
Roger Vadim
Françoise Arnoul, Christian Marquand, Robert Hossein, O.E. Hasse
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Gangster / Romance
Italy / France
French
2567
53
Charles Walters
Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Earl Holliman, Anne Francis, Keenan Wynn
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / War
USA
English
2591
54
Gillo Pontecorvo
Yves Montand, Alida Valli, Francisco Rabal, Umberto Spadaro, Peter Carsten
Drama / Romance
Italy / France / West Germany
Italian
2606
55
Robert Siodmak
Claus Holm, Annemarie Düringer, Mario Adorf
Drama / Crime / Mystery / Detective
West Germany
German
2606
55
Arne Skouen
Jack Fjeldstad, Henny Moan, Alf Malland, Joachim Holst-Jensen
Action / Drama / Adventure / Thriller / War
Norway
Norwegian
2624
56
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2628
57
Terence Fisher
Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Christopher Lee, Melvyn Hayes
Sci-Fi / Horror / Drama
UK
English
2628
57
Don McGuire
Jerry Lewis, Darren McGavin, Martha Hyer, Robert Ivers, Horace McMahon
Comedy
USA
English
2628
57
Gene Fowler Jr.
Michael Landon, Yvonne Lime, Whit Bissell, Tony Marshall, Dawn Richard
Horror / Sci-Fi / Drama
USA
English
2628
57
Luis García Berlanga
Richard Basehart, José Isbert, Paolo Stoppa, Juan Calvo, Alberto Romea
Comedy / Fantasy / Gangster
Spain / Italy
Spanish
2628
57
Ishirô Honda
Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / War
Japan
Japanese
2628
57
Sergei Gerasimov
Pyotr Glebov, Elina Bystritskaya, Zinaida Kiriyenko, Daniil Ilchenko
Drama / War / Epic / Romance
Soviet Union
Russian
2628
57
Edward Dmytryk
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin
Drama / Romance / Epic
USA
English
2628
57
Vojtech Jasny
Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Kankovský
Drama / War
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2628
57
Joseph Pevney
Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Nielsen, Walter Brennan, Mala Powers, Sidney Blackmer
Musical / Romance / Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2628
57
Cecil Holmes
John McCallum, Edmund Allison, Reg Lye, Alexander Archdale, Charles Tasman
Drama
Australia
English
2635
58
Raoul Walsh
Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Rex Reason
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2635
58
Sidney Franklin
Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Susan Stephen
Biography / Drama / Romance
UK
English
2638
59
John Ford
John Wayne, Dan Dailey, Maureen O'Hara, Ward Bond, Ken Curtis
Drama / Biography / War
USA
English
2645
60
Jerome Hill
Fredric March, Albert Schweitzer, Burgess Meredith, Phillip Eckert
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2645
60
Dick Powell
Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, David Hedison, Theodore Bikel
Action / War / Drama
USA
English
2645
60
John Ford
Noel Purcell, Cyril Cusack, Jimmy O'Dea, Tyrone Power
Comedy / Drama
Ireland / USA
English
2646
61
Jules Dassin
Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Grégoire Aslan, Gert Fröbe
Drama / Religion
Italy / France
French
2646
61
Martin Ritt
Joanne Woodward, Sheree North, Tony Randall, Jeffrey Hunter, Cameron Mitchell
Drama
USA
English
2646
61
Leslie Norman
Peter Finch, Dana Wilson, Elizabeth Sellars, George Rose, Rosemary Harris
Drama / Adventure
UK
English
2646
61
John Newland
John Beal, Augusta Dabney, Malcolm Brodrick, Dennis Kohler, Beverly Lunsford
Drama
USA
English
2646
61
Anthony Mann
Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Michel Ray, Neville Brand
Western
USA
English
2646
61
Ronald Neame
Peter Finch, Mary Ure, Natasha Parry, Robert Flemyng, Michael Hordern
Drama
UK
English
2661
62
Lionel Rogosin
Gorman Hendricks, Frank Matthews, Ray Salyer
Drama / Documentary
USA
English
2683
63
Kurt Hoffmann
Horst Buchholz, Liselotte Pulver, Ingrid Andree, Susi Nicoletti
Comedy / Drama
West Germany
German
2683
63
Ismael Rodríguez
Pedro Infante, María Félix, Alicia del Lago
Drama / Romance
Mexico
Spanish
2683
63
Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram
Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram, Sandhya, B.M. Vyas, Ulhas
Musical / Drama / Crime
India
Hindi
2683
63
J. Lee Thompson
Yvonne Mitchell, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Andrew Ray
Drama
UK
English
2683
63
Heinosuke Gosho
Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô, Kinuyo Tanaka
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2697
64
José María Forqué
Francisco Rabal, Luis Peña, Alberto Farnese, Isabel de Pomés
Action / Adventure / Drama / Western
Spain / Italy
Spanish
2697
64
Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre
Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre, Sandhya, Ulhas, Brij Mohan Vyas, Paul Sharma
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller
India
Hindi
2699
65
Aldo Fabrizi, Eduardo Manzanos Brochero
Aldo Fabrizi, Alfredo Mayo, Mary Lamar
Drama
Spain / Italy
Italian
2699
65
André Cayatte
Curd Jürgens, Folco Lulli, Lea Padovani, Paul Frankeur
Drama
Italy / France
French
2699
65
Richard Brooks
Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Sidney Poitier, Wendy Hiller
Drama / History
USA
English
2699
65
Jirí Weiss
Jana Brejchová, Jirina Sejbalová, Miroslav Dolezal
Drama / Romance
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2700
66
François Villiers
Pascale Audret, Charles Blavette, Pierre Moncorbier
Comedy / Drama
France
French
2700
66
George Cukor
Anna Magnani, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Franciosa, Joseph Calleia
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2708
67
Stanley Kramer
Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel, John Wengraf
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / War / Epic
USA
English
2719
68
Ken Annakin
Rod Steiger, David Knight, Marla Landi, Noel Willman, Bernard Lee
Thriller / Drama / Crime
UK
English
2719
68
Budd Boetticher
Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele, Valerie French, Noah Beery Jr.
Western / Action
USA
English
2719
68
Sidney Miller
Walt Disney, Annette Funicello, Tim Considine, Bobby Burgess, Kevin Corcoran
Family
USA
English
2719
68
Cy Endfield
Stanley Baker, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, Herbert Lom, William Hartnell
Drama / Crime
UK
English
2719
68
Ralph Levy, Jerry Thorpe
Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, William Frawley, Vivian Vance
Comedy / Family / Serial
USA
English
2719
68
Roy Lockwood
Kay Medford, Bob Pastine, Paul Carr, Freda Holloway, David King-Wood, Jean Martin
Musical / Romance
USA
English
2719
68
Ken Hughes
Victore Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen, Gene Anderson, Liam Redmond
Drama / Adventure
UK
English
2719
68
Jacques Tourneur
Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft, Jocelyn Brando, James Gregory
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2719
68
Harold D. Schuster
Ed Binns, Carolyn Craig, Virginia Gregg, Russ Conway, Lawrence Dobkin
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Gangster
USA
English
2719
68
James Algar, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Walt Disney
Animation / Documentary / Family
USA
English
2719
68
various
Guy Williams, Henry Calvin, Gene Sheldon, George J. Lewis, Don Diamond
Adventure / Family / Western / Serial / Comic / Action
USA
English
2719
68
Hall Bartlett
Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch
Thriller / Drama / Action / Cult
USA
English
2751
69
Yasuzo Masumura
Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Aiko Mimasu, Eitarô Ozawa
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2754
70
Michelangelo Antonioni
Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair, Gabriella Pallotta, Dorian Gray
Drama
Italy / USA
Italian
2774
71
Samuel Fuller
Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat 'King' Cole, Paul Dubov, Lee Van Cleef
Action / War / Drama / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
NR
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Irwin Allen
Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Fantasy / History / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
