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Best Movies of 1955, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
92 films from 1955 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Pather Panchali ('1955), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.5. Biggest split between audiences and critics: We're No Angels, 7.3 on IMDb against 51 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pather Panchali '1955 | Drama | 8.2 | 98% | - | 7.8 | Satyajit Ray |
| 2 | Diabolique '1955 | Thriller / Mystery | 8.1 | 95% | - | 7.9 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 3 | Rififi '1955 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 8.1 | 92% | 97 | 7.8 | Jules Dassin |
| 4 | Ordet '1955 | Drama | 8.2 | 100% | - | 7.9 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 5 | The Night of the Hunter '1955 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.9 | 93% | 97 | 7.9 | Charles Laughton |
| 6 | One Froggy Evening '1955 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 8.4 | - | - | 7.7 | Chuck Jones |
| 7 | East of Eden '1955 | Drama | 7.8 | 86% | 72 | 7.5 | Elia Kazan |
| 8 | The Unknown Soldier '1955 | Drama / War | 8.0 | - | - | 7.2 | Edvin Laine |
| 9 | The Court Jester '1955 | Musical / Comedy | 7.8 | 97% | - | 7.3 | Norman Panama |
| 10 | Rebel Without a Cause '1955 | Drama | 7.6 | 91% | 89 | 7.5 | Nicholas Ray |
| 11 | The Ladykillers '1955 | Comedy / Crime | 7.6 | 100% | 91 | 7.3 | Alexander Mackendrick |
| 12 | Smiles of a Summer Night '1955 | Comedy / Romance | 7.7 | 100% | - | 7.4 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 13 | Marty '1955 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 96% | 82 | 7.5 | Delbert Mann |
| 14 | Bad Day at Black Rock '1955 | Western / Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.6 | 97% | - | 7.3 | John Sturges |
| 15 | Mister Roberts '1955 | Comedy / Drama / War | 7.6 | 93% | 72 | 7.0 | John Ford |
| 16 | All That Heaven Allows '1955 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 91% | - | 7.3 | Douglas Sirk |
| 17 | Kiss Me Deadly '1955 | Mystery / Thriller / Crime | 7.5 | 98% | - | 7.2 | Robert Aldrich |
| 18 | To Catch a Thief '1955 | Mystery / Romance / Thriller | 7.4 | 95% | 82 | 7.3 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 19 | The Desperate Hours '1955 | Crime / Thriller | 7.5 | 88% | - | 7.0 | William Wyler |
| 20 | Death of a Cyclist '1955 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.7 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Juan Antonio Bardem |
| 21 | The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz '1955 | Comedy / Drama / Crime | 7.6 | 92% | - | 7.3 | Luis Buñuel |
| 22 | The Swindle '1955 | Drama / Crime | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Federico Fellini |
| 23 | Lady and the Tramp '1955 | Animation / Romance / Comedy | 7.3 | 91% | 78 | 7.1 | Hamilton Luske |
| 24 | The Dam Busters '1955 | Drama / War | 7.4 | 100% | - | 6.9 | Michael Anderson |
| 25 | Blackboard Jungle '1955 | Crime / Drama | 7.4 | 75% | 67 | 6.9 | Richard Brooks |
| 26 | Floating Clouds '1955 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | - | - | 7.7 | Mikio Naruse |
| 27 | The Man with the Golden Arm '1955 | Drama / Crime | 7.3 | 81% | 63 | 7.1 | Otto Preminger |
| 28 | We're No Angels '1955 | Comedy / Crime | 7.3 | - | 51 | 7.2 | Michael Curtiz |
| 29 | The Man from Laramie '1955 | Drama / Western | 7.3 | 93% | - | 7.1 | Anthony Mann |
| 30 | The Big Combo '1955 | Drama / Crime | 7.3 | 93% | - | 7.0 | Joseph H. Lewis |
| 31 | Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple '1955 | Drama / Action | 7.3 | - | - | 7.2 | Hiroshi Inagaki |
| 32 | I Live in Fear '1955 | Drama | 7.3 | 73% | - | 7.3 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 33 | Richard III '1955 | Drama | 7.3 | 81% | 88 | 7.2 | Laurence Olivier |
| 34 | School for Tramps '1955 | Comedy / Musical / Romance | 8.1 | - | - | 8.0 | Rogelio A. González |
| 35 | French Cancan '1955 | Comedy / Drama / Romance / Musical | 7.3 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Jean Renoir |
| 36 | Lola Montès '1955 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 82% | - | 6.9 | Max Ophüls |
| 37 | The Phenix City Story '1955 | Crime | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.5 | Phil Karlson |
| 38 | The Miracle of Marcelino '1955 | Drama | 7.2 | - | - | 7.4 | Ladislao Vajda |
| 39 | Speedy Gonzales '1955 | Animation / Comedy / Western | 7.2 | - | - | 7.0 | Friz Freleng |
| 40 | Guys and Dolls '1955 | Comedy / Crime / Romance | 7.1 | 91% | 77 | 6.6 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 41 | Summertime '1955 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 92% | - | 6.7 | David Lean |
| 42 | Mr. Arkadin '1955 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.1 | 72% | - | 6.8 | Orson Welles |
| 43 | To Hell and Back '1955 | Action / Romance / Drama / War | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.6 | Jesse Hibbs |
| 44 | Le Amiche '1955 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 45 | A Generation '1955 | War / Drama | 7.1 | - | - | 6.9 | Andrzej Wajda |
| 46 | Journey to the Beginning of Time '1955 | Fantasy / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | - | - | 7.2 | Karel Zeman |
| 47 | Don Camillo's Last Round '1955 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.3 | Carmine Gallone |
| 48 | Princess Yang Kwei-fei '1955 | Romance / Drama | 7.1 | - | - | 6.7 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 49 | Are We Men or Corporals? '1955 | Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.7 | Camillo Mastrocinque |
| 50 | Bearly Asleep '1955 | Animation / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.6 | Jack Hannah |
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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