Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1956

7th Cavalry – Joesph H. Lewis

23 Paces to Baker Street – Henry Hathaway

1984 – Michael Anderson

Accused of Murder – Joseph Kane

Afternoon of the Bulls (Tarde de toros) - Ladislao Vajda

Alexander the Great – Robert Rossen

Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (Alibabavum 40 Thirdargalum) – T.R. Sundaram

The Ambassador’s Daughter – Norman Krasna

Anastasia – Anatole Litvak

And God Created Woman – Roger Vadim

Arashi – Hiroshi Inagaki

At Gunpoint -

Attack – Robert Aldrich

Autumn Leaves – Robert Aldrich

Away All Boats! – Joseph Pevney

Back from Eternity – John Farrow

Backlash – John Sturges

Bandido – Richard Fleisher

The Battle of the Rover Plate – Powell / Pressburger

Behind the Headlines – Charles Saunders

The Benny Goodman Story – Valentine Davis

The Best Things in Life Are Free – Michael Curtiz

Between Heaven and Hell – Richard Fleischer

Bhowani Junction – George Cukor

Bigger Than Life – Nicholas Ray

The Birds and the Bees – Norman Taurog

The Bold and the Brave – Lewis R. Foster

The Boss – Byron Haskin

The Bottom of the Bottle – Henry Hathaway

The Brave One – Irving Rapper

The Burmese Harp (Harp of Burma) – Kon Ichikawa

The Burning Hills – Stuart Heidler

Bus Stop – Joshua Logan

C.I.D. – Raj Khosla

Calabuch (The Rocket From Calabuch) – Luis Garcia Berlanga

Calle Mayor (Main Street) – Juan Antonio Bardem

Carnival Night – Eldar Ryazanov

Child of Sorrow – Lamberto V. Avellana

Chori Chori – Anat Thakur

Christ In Bronze (Seido no Kirisuto) – Minoru Shibuya

Comanche – George Sherman

Come Next Spring – R.G. Springsteen

Congo Crossing – Joseph Pevney

Crazed Fruit (Juvenile Jungle) – Ko Nakahira

Crime in the Streets – Don Siegel

A Cry in the Night – Frank Tuttle

D-Day the Sixth of June – Henry Koster

Dakota Incident – Lewis R. Foster

Dance with Me, Henry – Charles Barton

Death in the Garden (La mort en ce jardin) – Luis Bunuel

Diane – David Miller

Donatella – Mario Monicelli

The Dragon (O Drakos) – Nikos Koundouros

Early Spring – Yasujiro Ozu

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers – Fred F. Sears

The Eddy Duchin Story – George Sidney

Elena and Her Man – Jean Renoir

The Fastest Gun Alive – Russell Rouse

The First Texan – Byron Haskin

Forever, Darling – Alexander Hall

Funtoosh – Chetan Anand

Gaby – Curtis Bernhardt

Gervaise – Rene Clement

The Girl He Left Behind – David Butler

The Girl in Black – Michael Cacoyannis

Great Day in the Morning – Jacques Tourneur

The Great Locomotive Chase – Francis D. Lyon

The Great Man – Jose Ferrer

The Green Man – Robert Day / Basil Dearden

Gun the Man Down – Andrew V. McLaglen

Gunslinger – Roger Corman

Happiness –Alfonso Corona Blake

The Harvest Month (Elokuu) – Matti Kassila

Helen of Troy – Robert Wise

He Laughed Last – Black Edwards

High Society – Charles Walters

Hilda Crane – Philip Dunne

Hold Bck the Night – Allen Dwan

Hollywood or Bust – Frank Tashlin

Hot Blood – Nicholas Ray

The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Jean Delannoy

Ich suche Dich (I Seek You) – O.W. Fischer

The Indian Fighter – Andre De Toth

Invitation to the Dance – Gene Kelly

The Iron Petticoat – Ralph Thomas

Jagte Raho – Amit Maitra / Sombhu Mitra

Johnny Concho – Don McGiure

Julie – Andrew L. Stone

Kanal – Andrzej Wajda

The Killers – Andriel Tarkovsky

The Killer Is Loose – Budd Boetticher

The King and Four Queens – Raoul Walsh

The Last Hunt – Richard Brooks

The Last Wagon – Delmer Daves

The Leech (A Woman’s Youth) – Salah Abu Seif

The Legend of the White Serpent (Byaku fujin no yoren) – Shiro Toyoda

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts – Frank Lashlin

Lisbon – Ray Milland

The Long Arm – Charles Frend

Lust For Life – Vincent Minnelli

Mahiru no ankoku – Tadashi Imai

A Man Escaped – Robert Bresson

The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit – Nunnally Johnson

Man on the Tracks – Andrezj Munk

The Man Who Never Was – Ronald Neame

Marie Antoinette Queen of France – Jean Delannoy

Meet Me in Las Vegas – Roy Rowland

Merry-Go_Round – Zoltan Fabri

Miracle in the Rain – Rudolph Mate

Nagareru (Flowing) – Mikio Naruse

Navy Wife – Edward Bernds

Never Say Goodbye – Jerry Hopper

New Delhi – Mohan Segal

Old Khottabych – L. Mahtin

On the Threshold of Space – Robert D. Webb

Over-Exposed – Lewis Seiler

Padners – Norman Taurog

Patterns – Fielder Cook

Pillars of the Sky – George Marshall

Please Murder Me – Peter Godfrey

Poor, But Handsome (Poveri ma belli) – Dino Risi

The Power and the Prize – Henry Koster

Private’s Progress – John Boulting

Professor Hannibal – Zoltan Fabri

The Proud and Profane – George Seaton

The Proud Ones – Robert D. Webb

The Rack – Arnold Laven

The Railroad Man (Il Ferroviere) – Pietro Germi

The Rainmaker – Joseph Anthony

Ransom! – Alex Segal

Reach for the Sky – Lewis Gilbert

The Road of Life (El camino de la vida) – Alfonso Corona Blake

Rock Around the Clock – Fred F. Sears

Rodan – Ishiro Honda

The Roof (Il tetto) – Vittorio De Sica

Run for the Sun – Roy Boulting

Samurai III: Duel Ganryu Island

Serenade – Anthony Mann

Seven Men from Now – Budd Poetticher

Seven Wonders of the World – many directors

Seven Years in Tibet – Hans Nieter

The Silent World – Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The Silken Affair – Roy Kellino

Sira Fi al-Mine (Struggle in the Pier) – Youssef Chahine

The Solid Gold Cadillac – Richard Quine

Somebody Up There Likes Me – Robert Wise

La Sorciere – Andre Michel

The Spansih Gardener – Philip Leacock

The Square Jungle – Jerry Hopper

Star in the Dust – Charles F. Haas

Stars in Your Eyes – Maurice Elvey

Storm Center – Daniel Taradash

Street of Shame – Kenji Mitzoguchi 

Talpa – Alfredo B. Crevenna

Tea and Sympathy – Vincent Minnelli

The Teahouse of the August Moon – Daniel Mann

Three Men in a Boat – Ken Annakin

These Wilder Years – Ray Rowland

Three Brave Men – Philip Dunne

Time Table – Mark Stevens

Towards the Unknown – Merven LeRoy

A Town Like Alice – Jack Lee

Tribute to a Bad Man – Robert Wise

The Twelve Months – Ivan Ivanov-Vano

Uncle Hyacynth (Mi tio Jacinto) – Ladislao Vajda

Valley of Peace (Dolina miru) – France Stiglic

I Vampi (The Vampires) – Riccardo Freda

War and Peace – King Vidor

What a Woman (Lucky to Be a Woman / La fortuna di donna) Alessandro Blasetti

While the City Sleeps – Friz Lang

Who Done It - Basil Dearden

X the Unknown – Leslie Norman / Joseph Losey

Yield to the Night – J. Lee Thompson

You Can’t Run Away from It – Dick Powell

Zarak – Terence Young