Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1955

5 Against the House – Phil Karlson

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops – Charles Lamont

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy – Charles Lamont

Above Us the Waves – Ralph Thomas

The Adventures of Quentin Durward – Richard Thorpe

Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Edward Buzzell

The Americano – William Castle

Le Amiche (The Girlfriends) – Michelangelo Antonioni

Apache Ambush – Fred F. Sears

Artists and Models – Frank Tashlin

Battle Cry – Raoul Walsh

Bedevilled – Mitchell Leisen

Blood Alley – William Wellman

The Brain Machine – Ken Hughes

Bring Your Smile Along – Black Edwards

A Bullet for Joey – Lewis Allen

Captain Lightfoot – Douglas Sirk

Carrington V.C. – Anthony Asquith

Cast a Dark Shadow – Lewis Gilbert

Chief Crazy Horse – George Sherman

Cinerama Holiday – Robert L. Bendick / Phillipe De Lacy

Ciske de Rat – Wolfgang Staudte

The Cobweb – Vincente Minnelli

The Cockleshell Heroes – Jose Ferrer

The Colditz Story – Guy Hamilton

Confession – Ken Hughes

The Constant Husband – Sidney Gilliat

Count Three and Pray – Gerge Sherman

The Counterfeit Coin – Yorgos Javellas

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

Crashout – Lewis R. Foster

The Crimina Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz – Luis Bunuel

Daddy Long Legs – Jean Negulesco

The Dam Busters – Michael Anderson

Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier – Norman Foster

Death of a Cyclist – Juan Antonio Bardem

The Deep Blue Sea – Anatole Litvak

Devas – Bimal Roy

Die Ratten (The Rats) – Robert Siodmak

Dreams – Ingmar Bergman

The Enchanted Boy – Vladimir Polkovnikov

The End of the Affair – Edward Dmytryk

Ensayo de un crimen – Luis Bunuel

Escuela de vagabundos (Scholl for Tramps) – Rogelio A. Gonzalez

A Far Country – Anthony Mann

The Fast and the Furious – John Ireland / Edward Sampson

Female on the Beach – Joseph Pevney

Female Jungle – Bruno VeSota

Fire in the Night (Det Brenner I natt!) – Arne Skouen

Floating Clouds – Mikio Naruse

Footsteps in the Fog – Arthur Lubin

Foxfire – Joseph Pevney

Francis in the Navy – Arthur Lubin

Galapago – Thor Heyerdahl

A Generation – Andrez Wajda

The Girl Rush – Robert Pirosh

Godzilla Raids Again – Motoyoshi Oda

Good Morning, Miss Dove – Henry Koster

The Grand Maneuver – Rene Clair

Hell on Frisco Bay – Frank Tuttle

Hell’s Island – Phil Karlson

The Hidden One (La Escondida) – Roberto Gavaldon

Hit the Deck – Roy Rowland

How to Be Very, Very Popular – Nunnally Johnson

I Am a Camera – Henry Cornelius

I Died a Thousand Times – Stuart Heisler

I Live In Fear – Akira Kurosawa

I’ll Cry Tomorrow – Daniel Mann

Illegal – Lewis Allen

Interrupted Melody – Curtis Bernhardt

It Came from Beneath the Sea – Robert Gordon

It Happened on July 20th (Jackboot Mutiny) – Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Jedda – Charles Chauvel

John and Julie – William Fairchild

Journey to the Beginning of Time – Karel Zeman

Jupiter’s Darling – George Sidney

Kanyasulkam – P. Pullaiah

A Kid for Two Farthings – Carol Reed

Killer’s Kiss – Stanley Kubrick

Kismet – Albert Marre

Land of the Pharaohs – Howard Hawks

The Last Frontier – Anthony Mann

The Last Ten Days (Der letzte akt) – George Wihelm Pabst

The Left Hand of God – Edward Dmytryk

Little Red Monkey – Ken Hughes

Lola Montes – Max Ophuls

The Long Gray Line – John Ford

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing – Henry King

Love Me or Leave Me – Charles Vidor

Love Never Dies (El Amor nunca muere) – Luis Cesar Amadori

Lucy Gallant – Robert Parrish

Magic Fire – William Dieterle

Mambo – Robert Rossen

A Man Alone – Ray Milland

The Man Who Loved Redheads – Harold French

Man with the Gun – Richard Wilson

Man Without a Star – King Vidor

Marty – Delbert Mann

The McConnell Story – Alan Ladd / June Allyson

The Mill of Good Luck (La Moara cu noroc) – Victor Iliu

The Miracle of Marcelino – Ladislao Vajda

Missamma – L.V. Prasad

Mr. & Mrs. ’55 – Guru Dutt

My Sister Eileen – Richard Quine

Napoleon – Sacha Guitry

New York Confidential – Russell Rouse

Night and Fog – Alain Resnais

The Night My Number Came Up – Leslie Norman

Not as a Stranger – Stanley Kramer

Oh… Roselinda!! – Powell / Pressburger

Ordet – Carl Theodor Dreyer

Othello – Sergei Yutkevich

Pete Kelly’s Blues – Jack Webb

The Phantom Hose – Koji Shima

The Phenix City Story – Phil Karlson

Picnic – Joshua Logan

Prince of Players – Philip Dunne

Princess Tang Kwei-Fei – Kenji Mizoguchi

The Prisoner – Peter Glenville

The Private War of Major Benson – Jerry Hopper

The Prodigal – Richard Thorpe

Queen Bee – Ranald MacDougall

The Racers – Henry Hathaway

Radio Stories (Historias de la radio) – Jose Luis Saenz de Heredia

Rage at Dawn – Tim Whelan

The Rains of Ranchipur – Jean Negulesco

Red Fish (Los Peces rojos) – Jose Antonio Nieves Conde

Romeo and Juliet – Lev Arnshtam / Leonid Lavrosky

Roots (Raices) – Benito Alazraki

The Rose Tattoo – Daniel Mann

Run for Cover – Nicholas Ray

Safari – Terence Young

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji – Hiroshi Inagaki

Scandal in Sorrento (Pane, amore e…) - Dino Risi

The Scarles Coat – John Sturges

The Sea Chase – John Farrow

Seema – Amiya Chakrabarty

The Seven Little Foys – Melville Shavelson

Shin Heike Monogatari – Kenji Mizoguchi

Shree 420 – Raj Kappor

The Shrike – Jose Ferrer

The Sign of Venus – Dino Risi

Simba – Brian Desmond Hurst

Sissi – Ernst Marischka

Six Bridges to Cross – Joseph Pevney

So This Is Paris – Richard Quine

The Spoilers – Jesse Hibbs

Strategic Air Command – Anthony Mann

Stella – Michael Cacoyannis

The Swindlers (Il bidone) – Frederico Fellini

Tall Man Riding – Lesley Selander

Tarantula – Jack Arnold

The Tender Trap – Charles Walters

That Lady – Terence Young

Three for the Show – H.C. Potter

Tennessee’s Partner – Allan Dwan

Tight Spot – Phil Karlson

To Hell and Back – Jesse Hibbs

The Treasure of Pancho Villa – George Sherman

Trail – Mark Robson

Unknown Soldier – Edvin Laine

Unchained – Hall Bartlett

Underwater! – John Sturges

Untames – Henry King

Violent Saturday – Richard Fleischer

White Feather – Robert D. Webb

Wichita – Jacques Tourneur

The Woman in the Painting (Amici per la pelle) - Franco Rossi

Women’s Prison – Lewis Seiler

You’re Never Too Young – Norman Taurog