Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1951

The 13th Letter – Otto Preminger

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man – Charles Lamont

Across the Wide Missouri – William A. Wellman

The Adventurers – David MacDonald

Along the Great Divide – Raoul Walsh

Angels in the Outfield – Clarence Brown

Anna – Alberto Lattuada

Another Man’s Poison – Irving Rapper

Apache Drums – Hugo Fregonese

Appointment with Danger – Lewis Allen

Appointment with Venus – Ralph Thomas

As Young as You Feel – Harmon Jones

Atoll K – Leo Joannon

Awaaro (Tramp) – Raj Kappor

The Axe of Wandsbek (Das Beil von Wandsbek) – Falk Harnack

Baazi – Guru Dutt

Bedtime for Bonzo – Frederick de Cordova

Bellissima – Luchino Visconti

Bird of Paradise – Delmer Daves

Blackmailed – Marc Allegret

The Blue Veil – Curtis Bernhardt

Bright Victory – Mark Robson

The Browneing Version – Anthony Asquith

The Bullfighter and the Lady – Budd Boetticher

Callaway Went Thataway – Melvin Frank / Norman Panama

Calling Bulldog Brummond – Victor Saville

Call Me Mister -

Captain Horatio Hornblower – Raoul Walsh

Cattle Drive – Kurt Neumann

Cause for Alarm! – Tay Garnett

China Corsair – Ray Nazarro

Circle of Danger – Jacques Tourneur

Cloudburst – Francis Searle

The Clouded Yellow – Raplh Thomas

Come Fill the Cup – Gordon Douglas

Comin’ Round the Mounthain – Charles Lamont

Cops and Robbers (Guardie e ladri) – Steno Mario Monicelli

Cry Danger – Robert Parrish

Cry, the Beloved Country – Zoltan Korda

Darling, How Could You! – Mitchell Leisen

The Daughter of Deceit (La hija del engano) – Luis Bunuel

David and Bathsheba – Henry King

Death of a Salesman -  Laszlo Benedek

Decision Before Dawn – Anatole Litvak

Distant Drums – Raoul Walsh

Double Dynamite – Irving Cummings

Dream of a Cossack – Yuli Raizman

Daar doer in die bosveld (Far Away in the Bushveld) – Jamie Uys

The Enforcer – Bretaigne Windust

The Evil Forest – Daniel Mangrane

Father’s Little Dividend – Vincente Minnelli

FBI Girl – William A. Berke

The Fighting Seventh – Charles Marquis Warren

The Flying Leathernecks – Nicolas Ray

Follow the Sun – Sidney Lanfield

The Forbidden Chris (Il Cristo proibito) – Curzio Malaparte

Fort Worth – Edwin L. Martin

Four in a Jeep (Die Vier im Jeep) – Leopold Lindtberg / Elizabeth Montagu

Fourteen Hours – Henry Hathaway

The Frogmen – Lloyd Bacon

Furrows (Surcos) – Jose Antonio Nieves Conde

Go For Broke! – Robert Pirosh

Golden Girl – Lloyd Bacon

The Golden Horde – George Sherman

Goodbye, My Fancy – Vincent Sherman

The Great Caruso – Richard Thorpe

Grounds for Marriage – Robert Z. Leonard

The Guy Who Came Back – Joseph M. Newman

Half Angel – Richard Sale

Happy Go Lovely – H. Bruce Humberstone

He Ran All the Way – John Berry

Here Comes the Groom – Frank Capra

His Kind of Woman – John Farrow

The House in Montevideo (Das Haus in Montevideo) – Curt Goetz / Valerie von Martens

The House on Telegraph Hill – Robert Wise

I Can Get It for You Wholesale – Michael Gordon

The Idiot (Hakuchi) – Akira Kurosawa

I Want You – Mark Robson

Ibn el-Nil – Youssef Chahine

Journey into Light – Stuart Heisler

Juliette, or Key of Dreams – Marcel Carne

Kind Lady – John Sturges

The Last Outpost – Lewis R. Foster

Laughter in Paradice – Mario Zampi

The Lemon Drop Kid – Sidney Lanfield

Let’s Go Crazy – Alan Cullimore

Leva pa Hoppet – Goran Gentele

Lightnig Stikes Twice – King Vidor

Little Big Horn – Charles Marquis Warren

Little Egypt – Frederick de Cordova

The Long Dark Hall – Reginald Beck

Lost Continent – Sam Newfield

Love Nest – Joseph Newman

The Magic Box – John Boulting

Malliswari – B.N. Reddi

The Magnificent Yankee – John Sturges

Maria Morena – Jose Maria Forque / Pedro Lazaga

The Mating Season – Mitchell Leisen

The Medium – Gian Carlo Menotti

Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano) – Vittorio De Sica

Miss Julie – Alf Sjoberg

Mister Drake’s Duck – Val Guest

The Modle and the Marriage Broker – George Cukor

Monte Carlo Baby – Jean Boyer / Lester Fuller

Mr. Imperium – Don Hartman

My Outlaw Brother – Elliott Nugent

Nami – Noboru Nakamura

New Mexico – Irving Reis

No Highway in the Sky – Henry Koster

On Moonlight Bay – Roy Del Ruth

On the Riviera – Walter Lang

One Summer of Happiness (Hon dansade en sommar) – Arne Mattsson

Only the Valiant – Gordon Douglas

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman – Albert Lewin

Paris Vice Squad (Identite judiciaire) – Herve Bromberger

Payment on Demand – Curtis Bernhardt

Penny Points to Paradice – Tony Young

A Place in the Sun – George Stevens

Pool of London – Basil Dearden

The Prowler – Joseph Losey

Quo Vadis – Mervan LeRoy

The Racket – John Cromwell

The Raging Tide – George Sherman

Rawhide – Henry Hathaway

The Red Badge of Courage – John Houston

Red Mountain – William Dieterle

Repast (Meshi) – Miko Naruse

Rhubarb – Arthur Lubin

Rich, Young and Pretty – Norman Taurog

The River (Le Fleuve) – Jean Renoir

…Sans laisser d’adresse (No Forwarding Address) – Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Santa Fe – Irving Pichel

Saturday’s Hero – David Miller

The Secret of Convict Lake – Michael Gordon

Show Boat – George Sidney

Silver City –

Sirocco – Curtis Bernhardt

Spring Season (Bahar) – M.V. Raman

Starlift – Roy Del Ruth

The Steel Helmet – Samuel Fuller

Storm Warning – Stuart Heisler

The Strange Door – Joseph Pevney

Strickly Dishonorable – Melvin Frank / Norman Panama

The Strip – Laszlo Kardos

Sugarfoot – Edwin L. Marin

Summer Interlude (Sommarlek) – Ingmar Bergman

Susana (Susanan, demonio y carne) The Devil and the Flesh – Luis Bunuel

Take Care of My Little Girl – Jean Negulesco

A Tale of Five Cities – many directors

The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) – Kozaburo Yoshimura

The Tall Target – Anthony Mann

That Happy Couple (Esa pareja feliz) – Jaun Antonio Bardem

That’s My Boy – Hal Walker

There Is Another Sun – Lewis Gilbert

Three Guys Named Mike – Charles Walters

Tom Brown’s Schooldays – Gordon Parry

Tomajawk – George Sherman

Two of a Kind – Henry Levin

Two on the Tiles – John Guillermin

Two Tickets to Broadway – James V. Kern

Vengeance Valley – Richard Thrope

La Virgen gitana – Ramon Torrado

Warpath – Byron Haskin

The Well – Leo C. Popkin / Russell Rouse

Westward the Women – William A. Wellman

When Worlds Collide – Rudolph Mate

Young Wives’ Tale – Henry Cass

You’re in the Navy ow – Henry Hathaway

Your Day Will Come (Lak Yawm Ya Zalem) – Salah Abouseif