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Best Movies of 1954, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
77 films from 1954 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Seven Samurai ('1954), at 8.6 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.4. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Journey to Italy, 7.2 on IMDb against 100 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven Samurai '1954 | Action / Drama | 8.6 | 100% | 98 | 8.5 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 2 | Rear Window '1954 | Thriller / Mystery / Drama | 8.4 | 99% | 100 | 8.3 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 3 | Dial M for Murder '1954 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 8.1 | 90% | 75 | 8.0 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 4 | On the Waterfront '1954 | Crime / Drama / Romance | 8.1 | 99% | 91 | 7.8 | Elia Kazan |
| 5 | Sansho the Bailiff '1954 | Drama | 8.3 | 100% | 96 | 8.1 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 6 | La Strada '1954 | Drama | 8.0 | 97% | - | 7.9 | Federico Fellini |
| 7 | Sabrina '1954 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.6 | 89% | 72 | 7.5 | Billy Wilder |
| 8 | White Christmas '1954 | Comedy / Musical / Romance | 7.6 | 76% | 56 | 7.2 | Michael Curtiz |
| 9 | Godzilla '1954 | Thriller / Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.6 | 94% | 79 | 7.6 | Ishirō Honda |
| 10 | Chikamatsu Monogatari '1954 | Drama / Romance | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.8 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 11 | The Caine Mutiny '1954 | Drama / War | 7.6 | 95% | 63 | 7.2 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 12 | Johnny Guitar '1954 | Western | 7.6 | 94% | 83 | 7.4 | Nicholas Ray |
| 13 | Hobson's Choice '1954 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.7 | 91% | - | 7.4 | David Lean |
| 14 | A Star Is Born '1954 | Drama / Musical / Romance | 7.5 | 98% | 89 | 7.1 | George Cukor |
| 15 | Touchez Pas au Grisbi '1954 | Crime / Thriller | 7.6 | 100% | 85 | 7.2 | Jacques Becker |
| 16 | Twenty-Four Eyes '1954 | Drama | 7.9 | 60% | - | 7.7 | Keisuke Kinoshita |
| 17 | An Inspector Calls '1954 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.5 | - | - | 7.2 | Guy Hamilton |
| 18 | Senso '1954 | Romance / Drama / War | 7.4 | 88% | - | 7.2 | Luchino Visconti |
| 19 | Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto '1954 | Drama / Action | 7.4 | 85% | - | 7.2 | Hiroshi Inagaki |
| 20 | Sound of the Mountain '1954 | Drama | 7.7 | - | - | 7.4 | Mikio Naruse |
| 21 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers '1954 | Comedy / Drama / Western | 7.3 | 89% | 75 | 7.1 | Stanley Donen |
| 22 | Executive Suite '1954 | Drama | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Robert Wise |
| 23 | The Glenn Miller Story '1954 | Drama / Musical / Romance | 7.3 | 89% | - | 7.0 | Anthony Mann |
| 24 | Poverty and Nobility '1954 | Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 8.0 | Mario Mattoli |
| 25 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea '1954 | Sci-Fi / Fantasy | 7.2 | 91% | 83 | 7.1 | Richard Fleischer |
| 26 | Them! '1954 | Sci-Fi / Horror | 7.2 | 93% | 74 | 6.8 | Gordon Douglas |
| 27 | Salt of the Earth '1954 | Drama | 7.3 | 100% | 74 | 7.0 | Herbert J. Biberman |
| 28 | Devil May Hare '1954 | Animation / Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 7.0 | Robert McKimson |
| 29 | Animal Farm '1954 | Animation / Drama | 7.2 | 69% | - | 7.1 | Joy Batchelor |
| 30 | Journey to Italy '1954 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 96% | 100 | 7.2 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 31 | The Country Girl '1954 | Drama | 7.2 | 78% | - | 7.0 | George Seaton |
| 32 | The Gold of Naples '1954 | Drama / Comedy | 7.3 | 71% | - | 7.3 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 33 | It Should Happen to You '1954 | Comedy / Romance | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | George Cukor |
| 34 | The Far Country '1954 | Western | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.9 | Anthony Mann |
| 35 | Human Desire '1954 | Crime / Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 60% | - | 6.7 | Fritz Lang |
| 36 | Pushover '1954 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.1 | 86% | - | 6.6 | Richard Quine |
| 37 | The Count of Monte Cristo '1954 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | - | - | 6.7 | Robert Vernay |
| 38 | Il medico dei pazzi '1954 | Comedy | 6.8 | - | - | 7.1 | Mario Mattoli |
| 39 | The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome '1954 | Fantasy / Horror | 7.0 | - | - | 6.4 | Kenneth Anger |
| 40 | Riot in Cell Block 11 '1954 | Crime / Drama | 7.0 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Don Siegel |
| 41 | A Lesson in Love '1954 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 42 | The Long, Long Trailer '1954 | Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 55% | - | 7.0 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 43 | An American in Rome '1954 | Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 7.1 | Steno |
| 44 | Magnificent Obsession '1954 | Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 88% | 77 | 6.8 | Douglas Sirk |
| 45 | A Day in Court '1954 | Comedy / Drama | 6.5 | - | - | 6.3 | Steno |
| 46 | Vera Cruz '1954 | Western | 7.0 | 93% | - | 6.7 | Robert Aldrich |
| 47 | Too Bad She's Bad '1954 | Romance / Comedy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.9 | Alessandro Blasetti |
| 48 | Frisky '1954 | Comedy / Romance | 6.6 | - | - | 7.2 | Luigi Comencini |
| 49 | Silver Lode '1954 | Western | 6.8 | - | - | 6.2 | Allan Dwan |
| 50 | Broken Lance '1954 | Drama / Western | 6.9 | 86% | - | 6.5 | Edward Dmytryk |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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