The 1950s
- 1950Los OlvidadosLuis Buñuel
- 1950OrpheusJean Cocteau
- 1950RashomonAkira Kurosawa
- 1950Sunset BoulevardBilly Wilder
- 1950The Flowers of St. FrancisRoberto Rossellini
- 1950Wagon MasterJohn Ford
- 1951Diary of a Country PriestRobert Bresson
- 1951Early SummerYasujirō Ozu
- 1951The IdiotAkira Kurosawa
- 1951The Steel HelmetSamuel Fuller
- 1952IkiruAkira Kurosawa
- 1952The Life of OharuKenji Mizoguchi
- 1952Umberto D.Vittorio De Sica
- 1953I VitelloniFederico Fellini
- 1953Summer with MonikaIngmar Bergman
- 1953The Wages of FearHenri-Georges Clouzot
- 1953Tokyo StoryYasujirō Ozu
- 1953UgetsuKenji Mizoguchi
- 1953ÉlLuis Buñuel
- 1954An Inn at OsakaHeinosuke Gosho
- 1954AndrieshSergei Parajanov
- 1954DiaboliqueHenri-Georges Clouzot
- 1954Lewat Djam MalamUsmar Ismail
- 1954Sansho the BailiffKenji Mizoguchi
- 1954Seven SamuraiAkira Kurosawa
- 1954Twenty-Four EyesKeisuke Kinoshita
- 1954UlyssesMario Camerini, Mario Bava
- 1955Journey to the Beginning of TimeKarel Zeman
- 1955La Pointe CourteAgnès Varda
- 1955OrdetCarl Theodor Dreyer
- 1955She Was Like a Wild ChrysanthemumKeisuke Kinoshita
- 1955Smiles of a Summer NightIngmar Bergman
- 1955The Long Gray LineJohn Ford
- 1956A Man EscapedRobert Bresson
- 1956Crazed FruitKō Nakahira
- 1956Ilya MurometsAleksandr Ptushko
- 1956Magdana's DonkeyTengiz Abuladze, Revas Chkheidze
- 1957And Quiet Flows the DonSergei Gerasimov
- 1957CanalAndrzej Wajda
- 1957Nights of CabiriaFederico Fellini
- 1957PyaasaGuru Dutt
- 1957The Cranes Are FlyingMikhail Kalatozov
- 1957The Seventh SealIngmar Bergman
- 1957Throne of BloodAkira Kurosawa
- 1957White NightsLuchino Visconti
- 1957Wild StrawberriesIngmar Bergman
- 1958AjantrikRitwik Ghatak
- 1958Ashes and DiamondsAndrzej Wajda
- 1958Cairo StationYoussef Chahine
- 1958Elevator to the GallowsLouis Malle
- 1958Invention for DestructionKarel Zeman
- 1958The Ballad of NarayamaKeisuke Kinoshita
- 1958The First LadSergei Parajanov
- 1958The Hidden FortressAkira Kurosawa
- 1959Ballad of a SoldierGrigori Chukhrai
- 1959Black OrpheusMarcel Camus
- 1959Hiroshima mon amourAlain Resnais
- 1959Other People's ChildrenTengiz Abuladze
- 1959PickpocketRobert Bresson
- 1959SampoAleksandr Ptushko, Risto Orko
- 1959SapovnelaOtar Iosseliani
- 1959The 400 BlowsFrançois Truffaut
- 1959The Nightingale's PrayerHenry Barakat