Sijmen's List of Mainstream Classics
of World Cinema


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1959
Ben Hur (William Wyler)
The Four Hundred Blows (François Truffaut / France)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman / Sweden)


1958
The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer)
Gigi (Vincente Minnelli)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman / Sweden)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)


1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean / United Kingdom)
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)


1956
Giant (George Stevens)
The King and I (Walter Lang)
La Strada (Federico Fellini / Italy)
The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa / Japan)
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica / Italy)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)


1955
East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
Marty (Delbert Mann)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati / France)
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi / Japan)


1954
The Country Girl (George Seaton)
The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophüls / France)
Forbidden Games (René Clément / France)
Gate of Hell (Teinsuke Kimugasa / Japan)
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls / France)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)


1953
From Here to Enternity (Fred Zinnemann)
Roman Holliday (William Wyler)


1952
The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)
The Quiet Man (John Ford)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa / Japan)
Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)


1951
The African Queen (John Huston)
An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
La Ronde (Max Ophüls / France)
A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)


1950
All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
Bitter Rice (Giuseppe De Santis / Italy)
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
The Third Man (Carol Reed / United Kingdom)



















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