1956

1. The Searchers (John Ford)
2. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
4. Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
5. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
6. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
7. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)
8. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
10. The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin)
11. Elena and her Men (Jean Renoir)

Almost There: Attack! (Robert Aldrich), Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang), The Court Jester (Norman Panama, Melvin Frank), Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox), The Man who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock), While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang).

Have Yet to See: Bus Stop (Joshua Logan), Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (Nunnally Johnson).