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Best Movies of 1957, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
78 films from 1957 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is 12 Angry Men ('1957), at 9.0 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.5. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Mother India, 7.8 on IMDb against 53 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 Angry Men '1957 | Drama | 9.0 | 100% | 97 | 8.6 | Sidney Lumet |
| 2 | Paths of Glory '1957 | War / Drama | 8.4 | 96% | 90 | 8.3 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 3 | Witness for the Prosecution '1957 | Drama / Mystery / Crime | 8.4 | 100% | 76 | 8.2 | Billy Wilder |
| 4 | The Bridge on the River Kwai '1957 | Drama / War | 8.1 | 96% | 88 | 7.8 | David Lean |
| 5 | The Seventh Seal '1957 | Fantasy / Drama | 8.1 | 93% | 88 | 8.1 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 6 | Wild Strawberries '1957 | Drama | 8.1 | 94% | 88 | 8.1 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 7 | The Cranes Are Flying '1957 | Drama / Romance / War | 8.3 | 96% | 76 | 7.9 | Mikhail Kalatozov |
| 8 | Nights of Cabiria '1957 | Drama / Comedy | 8.1 | 100% | - | 8.0 | Federico Fellini |
| 9 | Throne of Blood '1957 | Drama | 8.0 | 96% | - | 7.9 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 10 | Sweet Smell of Success '1957 | Drama | 8.0 | 98% | 100 | 7.6 | Alexander Mackendrick |
| 11 | A Face in the Crowd '1957 | Drama | 8.1 | 95% | 72 | 7.6 | Elia Kazan |
| 12 | What's Opera, Doc? '1957 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 8.3 | - | - | 7.6 | Chuck Jones |
| 13 | Pyaasa '1957 | Drama / Romance | 8.3 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Guru Dutt |
| 14 | Kanal '1957 | War / Drama | 7.9 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Andrzej Wajda |
| 15 | Mother India '1957 | Drama | 7.8 | 86% | 53 | 7.0 | Mehboob Khan |
| 16 | Tokyo Twilight '1957 | Drama | 8.0 | 100% | 87 | 7.7 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 17 | White Nights '1957 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 92% | - | 7.4 | Luchino Visconti |
| 18 | 3:10 to Yuma '1957 | Western / Drama / Thriller | 7.6 | 94% | 80 | 7.3 | Delmer Daves |
| 19 | The Incredible Shrinking Man '1957 | Sci-Fi / Horror | 7.6 | 83% | 73 | 7.5 | Jack Arnold |
| 20 | An Affair to Remember '1957 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 65% | 71 | 7.4 | Leo McCarey |
| 21 | Il Grido '1957 | Drama | 7.6 | 71% | - | 7.5 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 22 | Night of the Demon '1957 | Fantasy / Horror / Mystery | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Jacques Tourneur |
| 23 | The Enemy Below '1957 | War | 7.4 | 86% | - | 7.2 | Dick Powell |
| 24 | Ali Baba Bunny '1957 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 6.9 | Chuck Jones |
| 25 | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison '1957 | War / Drama | 7.3 | 85% | - | 6.9 | John Huston |
| 26 | The Snow Queen '1957 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.5 | - | - | 6.8 | Lev Atamanov |
| 27 | The Tall T '1957 | Western | 7.3 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Budd Boetticher |
| 28 | The Tin Star '1957 | Western | 7.3 | 89% | - | 7.0 | Anthony Mann |
| 29 | Old Yeller '1957 | Drama / Western | 7.2 | 100% | 84 | 6.9 | Robert Stevenson |
| 30 | Desk Set '1957 | Comedy / Romance | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Walter Lang |
| 31 | The Three Faces of Eve '1957 | Drama | 7.2 | 93% | 58 | 7.2 | Nunnally Johnson |
| 32 | Peyton Place '1957 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 65% | 63 | 6.7 | Mark Robson |
| 33 | The Lower Depths '1957 | Drama | 7.2 | 83% | - | 7.1 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 34 | Hell Drivers '1957 | Thriller / Drama / Crime | 7.2 | 83% | - | 6.7 | Cy Endfield |
| 35 | Edge of the City '1957 | Drama / Crime / Romance | 7.2 | - | - | 7.1 | Martin Ritt |
| 36 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral '1957 | Western | 7.1 | 87% | 56 | 7.0 | John Sturges |
| 37 | Love in the Afternoon '1957 | Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 79% | 73 | 7.0 | Billy Wilder |
| 38 | The Spirit of St. Louis '1957 | Drama | 7.1 | 83% | - | 6.7 | Billy Wilder |
| 39 | The Tarnished Angels '1957 | Drama | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Douglas Sirk |
| 40 | El bolero de Raquel '1957 | Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 7.4 | Miguel M. Delgado |
| 41 | Men in War '1957 | War / Drama | 7.1 | 88% | - | 6.6 | Anthony Mann |
| 42 | The One That Got Away '1957 | War / Drama | 7.1 | - | 69 | 6.8 | Roy Ward Baker |
| 43 | Old Man Khottabych '1957 | Fantasy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Gennadi Kazansky |
| 44 | Il conte Max '1957 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Giorgio Bianchi |
| 45 | The Joker is Wild '1957 | Drama | 7.0 | - | - | 8.1 | Charles Vidor |
| 46 | Sayonara '1957 | Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 82% | - | 6.7 | Joshua Logan |
| 47 | A King in New York '1957 | Comedy / Drama | 7.0 | 80% | - | 6.7 | Charlie Chaplin |
| 48 | The Curse of Frankenstein '1957 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.0 | 85% | 59 | 6.8 | Terence Fisher |
| 49 | Poor But Beautiful '1957 | Comedy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.7 | Dino Risi |
| 50 | Funny Face '1957 | Musical / Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 85% | 75 | 7.0 | Stanley Donen |
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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