The Top 250 Movies of 1956

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The Top 250 Movies of 1956
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Movie Title Release
Year
Director MPAA
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138 The Searchers 1956 John Ford NR -
154 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick NR -
267 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson NR -
519 Night and Fog 1956 Alain Resnais R -
559 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel NR -
587 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
605 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox G -
632 Giant 1956 George Stevens NR -
1007 Bob le Flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville PG -
1194 The Wrong Man 1956 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
1284 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille G -
1437 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray NR -
1521 The Red Balloon 1956 Albert Lamorisse NR -
1632 The Bad Seed 1956 Mervyn LeRoy NR -
1658 Bigger Than Life 1956 NIcholas Ray NR -
1830 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk NR -
1989 The Burmese Harp 1956 Kon Ichikawa NR -
2127 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang G -
2200 Moby Dick 1956 John Huston NR -
2649 Baby Doll 1956 Elia Kazan R -
2675 High Society 1956 Charles Walters NR -
2773 Godzilla, King of the Monsters! 1956 Ishirô Honda, Terry O. Moore NR -
3263 Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956 Robert Wise NR -
3346 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli NR -
3535 Bus Stop 1956 Joshua Logan NR -
3656 Samurai 3: Duel on Ganryu Island 1956 Hiroshi Inagaki NR -
3764 Seven Men from Now 1956 Budd Boetticher NR -
3983 Around the World in 80 Days 1956 Michael Anderson G -
4054 Early Spring 1956 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
4058 The Harder They Fall 1956 Mark Robson NR -
4369 Friendly Persuasion 1956 William Wyler NR -
4696 Nightfall 1956 Jacques Tourneur NR -
4846 While the City Sleeps 1956 Fritz Lang NR -
4997 Anastasia 1956 Anatole Litvak NR -
5036 Earth vs. the Flying Saucers 1956 Fred F. Sears NR -
5048 Attack 1956 Robert Aldrich NR -
5172 Street of Shame 1956 Kenji Mizoguchi NR -
5339 Rodan 1956 Ishirô Honda NR -
5863 The Girl Can't Help It 1956 Frank Tashlin NR -
5882 War and Peace 1956 King Vidor PG -
5944 There's Always Tomorrow 1956 Douglas Sirk NR -
6131 Carousel 1956 Henry King NR -
6695 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956 Fritz Lang NR -
7211 Jubal 1956 Delmer Daves PG -
7301 The Man Who Never Was 1956 Ronald Neame NR -
7359 Crime of Passion 1956 Gerd Oswald NR -
7401 Broom-Stick Bunny 1956 Chuck Jones NR -
7447 Tea and Sympathy 1956 Vincente Minnelli NR -
7598 The Rainmaker 1956 Joseph Anthony NR -
7717 A Kiss Before Dying 1956 Gerd Oswald NR -
7883 ...And God Created Woman 1956 Roger Vadim PG -
8055 Love Me Tender 1956 Robert D. Webb NR -
8312 1984 1956 Michael Anderson NR -
8703 Crazed Fruit 1956 Kô Nakahira NR -
8923 Napoleon Bunny-Part 1956 Friz Freleng NR -
9172 The Mystery of Picasso 1956 Henri-Georges Clouzot NR -
9184 The Fastest Gun Alive 1956 Russell Rouse NR -
9340 Deduce, You Say 1956 Chuck Jones NR -
10120 The Killer Is Loose 1956 Budd Boetticher NR -
10199 To Hare Is Human 1956 Chuck Jones NR -
10305 The Battle of the River Plate 1956 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger NR -
10640 X: The Unknown 1956 Leslie Norman NR -
10661 Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z 1956 Chuck Jones NR -
10677 Ransom 1956 Alex Segal NR -
10776 Trapeze 1956 Carol Reed NR -
10869 Bugs' Bonnets 1956 Chuck Jones NR -
10968 Stupor Duck 1956 Robert McKimson NR -
11173 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit 1956 Nunnally Johnson NR -
11456 Gervaise 1956 René Clément NR -
11572 Death in the Garden 1956 Luis Buñuel NR -
11612 Elena and Her Men 1956 Jean Renoir NR -
11667 The Green Man 1956 Robert Day NR -
11675 The Teahouse of the August Moon 1956 Daniel Mann NR -
11779 The Solid Gold Cadillac 1956 Richard Quine NR -
11876 The Creature Walks Among Us 1956 John Sherwood NR -
12107 Davy Crockett and the River Pirates 1956 Norman Foster G -
12152 There They Go-Go-Go! 1956 Chuck Jones NR -
12356 Invitation to the Dance 1956 Gene Kelly NR -
12483 The Werewolf 1956 Fred F. Sears NR -
12496 Slightly Scarlet 1956 Allan Dwan NR -
12506 Rocket Squad 1956 Chuck Jones NR -
12554 A Star Is Bored 1956 Friz Freleng NR -
12753 The Catered Affair 1956 Richard Brooks NR -
12791 Flowing 1956 Mikio Naruse NR -
12792 The Last Wagon 1956 Delmer Daves NR -
12803 23 Paces to Baker Street 1956 Henry Hathaway NR -
12881 Four Bags Full 1956 Claude Autant-Lara NR -
13102 Autumn Leaves 1956 Robert Aldrich NR -
13230 The Swan 1956 Charles Vidor NR -
13319 Barbary-Coast Bunny 1956 Chuck Jones NR -
13344 Heaven Scent 1956 Chuck Jones NR -
13504 Meet Me in Las Vegas 1956 Roy Rowland NR -
13517 The Mole People 1956 Virgil W. Vogel NR -
13537 Toute la mémoire du monde 1956 Alain Resnais NR -
13600 The Great Locomotive Chase 1956 Francis D. Lyon NR -
13672 Hollywood or Bust 1956 Frank Tashlin NR -
14081 World Without End 1956 Edward Bernds NR -
14169 Alexander the Great 1956 Robert Rossen NR -
14263 Bundle of Joy 1956 Norman Taurog NR -
14275 It Conquered the World 1956 Roger Corman NR -
14556 Patterns 1956 Fielder Cook NR -
15133 Yankee Dood It 1956 Friz Freleng NR -
15169 Sissi: The Young Empress 1956 Ernst Marischka NR -
15202 I'll Buy You 1956 Masaki Kobayashi NR -
15235 Disneyland, U.S.A. 1956 Hamilton Luske NR -
15326 Anything Goes 1956 Robert Lewis NR -
15378 Crime In The Streets 1956 Don Siegel NR -
15570 Our Miss Brooks 1956 Al Lewis NR -
15776 In the Bag 1956 Jack Hannah NR -
15855 Los tallos amargos 1956 Fernando Ayala NR -
15960 Plucking the Daisy 1956 Marc Allégret NR -
15970 Forever, Darling 1956 Alexander Hall NR -
16100 The Mountain 1956 Edward Dmytryk NR -
16264 Francis in the Haunted House 1956 Charles Lamont NR -
16287 The Black Sleep 1956 Reginald Le Borg NR -
16395 Farewell to Dream 1956 Keisuke Kinoshita NR -
16472 Pardners 1956 Norman Taurog NR -
16608 Accused of Murder 1956 Joseph Kane NR -
16709 Backlash 1956 John Sturges NR -
16710 The Rack 1956 Arnold Laven NR -
16859 The Lone Ranger 1956 Stuart Heisler NR -
16898 Bang the Drum Slowly 1956 Daniel Petrie NR -
17014 Deadlier Than the Male 1956 Julien Duvivier NR -
17068 Julie 1956 Andrew L. Stone NR -
17390 Merry-Go-Round 1956 Zoltán Fábri NR -
17407 Storm Center 1956 Daniel Taradash NR -
17561 The Forty-first 1956 Grigoriy Chukhray NR -
17574 Notre-Dame de Paris 1956 Jean Delannoy PG -
17576 Foreign Intrigue 1956 Sheldon Reynolds NR -
17656 Back from Eternity 1956 John Farrow NR -
17658 Warning from Space 1956 Koji Shima NR -
17756 Weasel Stop 1956 Robert McKimson NR -
17770 The Scarlet Hour 1956 Michael Curtiz NR -
17829 Great Day in the Morning 1956 Jacques Tourneur NR -
17844 The Iron Petticoat 1956 Ralph Thomas NR -
17881 Please Murder Me! 1956 Peter Godfrey NR -
18101 The Opposite Sex 1956 David Miller NR -
18151 Main Street 1956 Juan Antonio Bardem NR -
18446 The Brave One 1956 Irving Rapper NR -
18623 Tension at Table Rock 1956 Charles Marquis Warren NR -
18947 Three Violent People 1956 Rudolph Maté NR -
19010 Blonde Sinner 1956 J. Lee Thompson NR -
19035 The King and Four Queens 1956 Raoul Walsh NR -
19123 The Roof 1956 Vittorio De Sica NR -
19412 Helen of Troy 1956 Robert Wise NR -
19535 O drakos 1956 Nikos Koundouros NR -
19648 Millionaire Droopy 1956 Tex Avery NR -
19732 Requiem for a Heavyweight 1956 Ralph Nelson NR -
19768 Man from Del Rio 1956 Harry Horner NR -
19993 Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy 1956 Camillo Mastrocinque NR -
20029 The Silent World 1956 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle NR -
20096 Gun the Man Down 1956 Andrew V. McLaglen NR -
20126 The Rose on His Arm 1956 Keisuke Kinoshita NR -
20176 Run for the Sun 1956 Roy Boulting NR -
20213 7th Cavalry 1956 Joseph H. Lewis NR -
20249 The Brass Legend 1956 Gerd Oswald NR -
20349 A Town Like Alice 1956 Jack Lee NR -
20401 Raw! Raw! Rooster! 1956 Robert McKimson NR -
20623 The Railroad Man 1956 Pietro Germi NR -
20648 Rock Rock Rock! 1956 Will Price NR -
20780 Diane 1956 David Miller NR -
20786 Sunday in Peking 1956 Chris Marker NR -
20995 The Proud Ones 1956 Robert D. Webb NR -
21213 The Revolt of Mamie Stover 1956 Raoul Walsh NR -
21372 Blue Cat Blues 1956 Joseph Barbera, William Hanna NR -
21420 Zarak 1956 Terence Young NR -
21526 Nightmare 1956 Maxwell Shane NR -
21535 Bhowani Junction 1956 George Cukor NR -
21591 Serenade 1956 Anthony Mann NR -
21650 The Animal World 1956 Irwin Allen NR -
21749 The Captain from Köpenick 1956 Helmut Käutner NR -
21816 Beyond Mombasa 1956 George Marshall NR -
21936 That Certain Feeling 1956 Melvin Frank, Norman Panama NR -
22153 Le coup du berger 1956 Jacques Rivette NR -
22510 Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo 1956 Robert Cannon NR -
22528 Reach for the Sky 1956 Lewis Gilbert NR -
22541 Suzaki Paradise Red Light 1956 Yûzô Kawashima NR -
22638 The Eddy Duchin Story 1956 George Sidney NR -
22822 Naughty Girl 1956 Michel Boisrond NR -
22971 Rabbitson Crusoe 1956 Friz Freleng NR -
23000 Time Table 1956 Mark Stevens NR -
23019 Hot Rod Girl 1956 Leslie H. Martinson NR -
23108 Whistle and I'll Come to You! 1956 Unknown NR -
23126 Tribute to a Bad Man 1956 Robert Wise NR -
23201 The Last Hunt 1956 Richard Brooks NR -
23291 These Wilder Years 1956 Roy Rowland NR -
23553 Secrets of Life 1956 James Algar NR -
23631 Pillars of the Sky 1956 George Marshall NR -
23717 Safari 1956 Terence Young NR -
23751 Fountainhead 1956 Masaki Kobayashi NR -
23925 Lovers and Lollipops 1956 Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin NR -
24026 The Maverick Queen 1956 Joseph Kane NR -
24094 Port Afrique 1956 Rudolph Maté NR -
24228 Canyon River 1956 Harmon Jones NR -
24543 Come Next Spring 1956 R.G. Springsteen NR -
24584 Shadow 1956 Jerzy Kawalerowicz NR -
24590 The Great Man 1956 José Ferrer NR -
24654 Contadini del mare 1956 Vittorio De Seta NR -
24690 Star in the Dust 1956 Charles F. Haas NR -
24925 If All the Guys in the World... 1956 Christian-Jaque NR -
25108 The Burning Hills 1956 Stuart Heisler NR -
25113 The Harvest Month 1956 Matti Kassila NR -
25195 A Girl in Black 1956 Mihalis Kakogiannis NR -
25302 The Star of Bethlehem 1956 Lotte Reiniger, Vivian Milroy, Jan Sadlo NR -
25321 The Price of Fear 1956 Abner Biberman NR -
25425 Up in the World 1956 John Paddy Carstairs NR -
25763 Santiago 1956 Gordon Douglas NR -
25853 The Sword and the Dragon 1956 Aleksandr Ptushko NR -
25856 Beyond Oblivion 1956 Hugo del Carril NR -
26119 Westward Ho, the Wagons! 1956 William Beaudine NR -
26213 A Cowboy Needs a Horse 1956 Bill Justice NR -
26258 The Weapon 1956 Val Guest NR -
26327 Carnival in Moscow 1956 Eldar Ryazanov NR -
26346 Girls in Prison 1956 Edward L. Cahn NR -
26420 Indestructible Man 1956 Jack Pollexfen NR -
26438 The Benny Goodman Story 1956 Valentine Davies NR -
26458 Busy Buddies 1956 Joseph Barbera, William Hanna NR -
26518 Screaming Eagles 1956 Charles F. Haas NR -
26548 The Ambassador's Daughter 1956 Norman Krasna NR -
26632 Wicked as They Come 1956 Ken Hughes NR -
26664 Das Mädchen Marion 1956 Wolfgang Schleif NR -
26680 Death of a Scoundrel 1956 Charles Martin NR -
26703 The High and the Flighty 1956 Robert McKimson NR -
26747 The Balloon 1956 Yûzô Kawashima NR -
26753 The Long Arm 1956 Charles Frend NR -
27005 The Come On 1956 Russell Birdwell NR -
27013 Never Say Goodbye 1956 Jerry Hopper, Douglas Sirk NR -
27056 Flame of the Islands 1956 Edward Ludwig NR -
27104 A Cat, Two Women, and One Man 1956 Shirô Toyoda NR -
27188 The Intimate Stranger 1956 Joseph Losey, Alec C. Snowden G -
27202 I Don't Scare 1956 Izzy Sparber NR -
27298 Nero's Mistress 1956 Steno NR -
27313 Between Heaven and Hell 1956 Richard Fleischer NR -
27408 Bandido 1956 Richard Fleischer NR -
27461 Our Mr. Sun 1956 Frank Capra, William T. Hurtz NR -
27542 You Can't Run Away from It 1956 Dick Powell NR -
27563 Tragedy in a Temporary Town 1956 Sidney Lumet NR -
27578 Raw Edge 1956 John Sherwood NR -
27625 The Unguarded Moment 1956 Harry Keller NR -
27680 That Is the Dawn 1956 Luis Buñuel NR -
27690 Private's Progress 1956 John Boulting NR -
27706 Qivitoq 1956 Erik Balling NR -
27753 The Proud and Profane 1956 George Seaton NR -
27819 Spring on Zarechnaya Street 1956 Marlen Khutsiev, Feliks Mironer NR -
27830 Full of Life 1956 Richard Quine NR -
27840 Uncle Hyacynth 1956 Ladislao Vajda NR -
27864 Blackjack Ketchum, Desperado 1956 Earl Bellamy NR -
28002 Good-bye, My Lady 1956 William A. Wellman NR -
28087 Three Bad Sisters 1956 Gilbert Kay NR -
28219 My Son Don't Turn Round 1956 Branko Bauer NR -

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