1950 Orphe (Cocteau)*
Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson)
Rashomon (Kurosawa)

1951 Early Summer (Ozu)
Miss Oyu (Mizoguchi)
The Lady from Musashino (Mizoguchi)
The Lavender Hill Mob (Crichton)
The River (Renoir)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise)
A Place in the Sun (Stevens)

1952 Singin in the Rain (Donen, Kelly)*
The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi)*
Casque d'Or (Becker)
The Quiet Man (Ford)
Baiju Bawra (Bhatt)
Le Plaisir (Ophuls)
El (Bunuel)
Othello (Welles) 

1953 Tokyo Story (Ozu)*
The Band Wagon (Minnelli)*
Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)*
Madame de (Ophuls)
Voyage to Italy (Rossellini)
Roman Holiday (Wyler)
The Big Heat (Lang)
Duck Amuck (Jones)

1954 Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)*
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)*
Senso (Visconti)
Johnny Guitar (N.Ray)
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
Chikamatsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)
The Far Country (A.Mann)
Twenty Four Eyes (Kinoshita)

1955 Pather Panchali (S.Ray)*
Tales of the Taira Clan (Mizoguchi)*
Night of the Hunter (Laughton)*
Ordet (Dreyer)
Kiss me Deadly (Aldrich)
Lola Montes (Ophuls)
East of Eden (Kazan)
Yang Kwei Fei (Mizoguchi)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman)

1956 The Searchers (Ford)*
A Man Escaped (Bresson)
Aparajito (S.Ray)
Early Spring (Ozu)
The Court Jester (Panama, Frank)
Street of Shame (Mizoguchi)
The Killing (Kubrick)
The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa)
Giant (Stevens)

1957 Funny Face (Donen)
Twelve Angry Men (Lumet)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick)
Throne of Blood (Kurosawa)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
Tokyo Twilight (Ozu)

1958 Vertigo (Hitchcock)*
Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa)
Touch of Evil (Welles)
The Music Room (S.Ray)
The Magician (Bergman)
Nazarin (Bunuel)

1959 North by Northwest (Hitchcock)*
Some Like it Hot (Wilder)*
Hiroshima mon Amour (Resnais)
The World of Apu (S.Ray)
Ballad of a Soldier (Chukhrai)
Paper Flowers (Dutt)
Les 400 Coups (Truffaut)