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Best Movies of 1958, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
93 films from 1958 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Vertigo ('1958), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.5. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Touch of Evil, 7.9 on IMDb against 99 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vertigo '1958 | Mystery / Romance / Thriller | 8.2 | 94% | 100 | 8.1 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 2 | The Hidden Fortress '1958 | Drama / Action | 8.0 | 96% | 89 | 8.0 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 3 | Touch of Evil '1958 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.9 | 96% | 99 | 7.7 | Orson Welles |
| 4 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof '1958 | Drama | 7.9 | 97% | 84 | 7.6 | Richard Brooks |
| 5 | Elevator to the Gallows '1958 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.9 | 93% | 94 | 7.6 | Louis Malle |
| 6 | The Big Country '1958 | Drama / Western / Romance | 7.9 | 100% | 61 | 7.6 | William Wyler |
| 7 | A Night to Remember '1958 | Drama / Action | 7.9 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Roy Ward Baker |
| 8 | Auntie Mame '1958 | Comedy / Drama | 7.9 | 88% | - | 7.0 | Morton DaCosta |
| 9 | Big Deal on Madonna Street '1958 | Comedy / Crime | 7.9 | 89% | - | 8.1 | Mario Monicelli |
| 10 | Ashes and Diamonds '1958 | Drama / War / Romance | 7.7 | 96% | - | 7.4 | Andrzej Wajda |
| 11 | Mon Oncle '1958 | Comedy | 7.6 | 94% | 84 | 7.4 | Jacques Tati |
| 12 | Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot '1958 | Drama | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Sergei Eisenstein |
| 13 | The Music Room '1958 | Drama / Musical | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Satyajit Ray |
| 14 | The Defiant Ones '1958 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 90% | 69 | 7.2 | Stanley Kramer |
| 15 | Ice Cold in Alex '1958 | War / Drama | 7.7 | - | - | 7.3 | J. Lee Thompson |
| 16 | Equinox Flower '1958 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 89% | 83 | 7.4 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 17 | It Happened in Broad Daylight '1958 | Crime / Thriller | 7.7 | - | - | 7.4 | Ladislao Vajda |
| 18 | The Magician '1958 | Drama | 7.5 | 100% | 86 | 7.3 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 19 | The Ballad of Narayama '1958 | Drama | 7.8 | 86% | - | 7.6 | Keisuke Kinoshita |
| 20 | Room at the Top '1958 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 100% | 84 | 6.9 | Jack Clayton |
| 21 | I Want to Live! '1958 | Drama / Crime | 7.5 | 94% | - | 7.0 | Robert Wise |
| 22 | Robin Hood Daffy '1958 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.0 | Chuck Jones |
| 23 | Cairo Station '1958 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.4 | Youssef Chahine |
| 24 | Run Silent, Run Deep '1958 | Drama / War | 7.3 | 100% | 62 | 7.0 | Robert Wise |
| 25 | A Time to Love and a Time to Die '1958 | Drama / War / Romance | 7.6 | - | - | 7.2 | Douglas Sirk |
| 26 | The Long, Hot Summer '1958 | Drama | 7.3 | 85% | - | 7.0 | Martin Ritt |
| 27 | Separate Tables '1958 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 67% | 68 | 7.1 | Delbert Mann |
| 28 | Dracula '1958 | Horror | 7.2 | 89% | 67 | 7.2 | Terence Fisher |
| 29 | Hare-Way to the Stars '1958 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 8.0 | - | - | 7.2 | Chuck Jones |
| 30 | The Fabulous World of Jules Verne '1958 | Sci-Fi | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Karel Zeman |
| 31 | The Lineup '1958 | Crime | 7.3 | 86% | - | 7.1 | Don Siegel |
| 32 | The Last Hurrah '1958 | Drama | 7.3 | 83% | - | 7.2 | John Ford |
| 33 | Some Came Running '1958 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 78% | 68 | 6.9 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 34 | The Fly '1958 | Sci-Fi / Horror / Drama | 7.1 | 95% | 62 | 7.0 | Kurt Neumann |
| 35 | Knighty Knight Bugs '1958 | Animation / Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 7.2 | Friz Freleng |
| 36 | The Inn of the Sixth Happiness '1958 | War / Drama | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Mark Robson |
| 37 | Brink of Life '1958 | Drama | 7.3 | 50% | - | 7.5 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 38 | Murder by Contract '1958 | Thriller / Crime | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Irving Lerner |
| 39 | Les Misérables '1958 | Drama | 7.4 | - | - | 7.2 | Jean-Paul Le Chanois |
| 40 | Along the Coast '1958 | Documentary | 7.4 | - | - | 7.3 | Agnès Varda |
| 41 | The Young Lions '1958 | War / Drama / Action | 7.1 | 75% | - | 6.7 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 42 | The Lovers '1958 | Romance / Drama | 7.1 | - | - | 6.6 | Louis Malle |
| 43 | Teacher's Pet '1958 | Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 88% | - | 6.8 | George Seaton |
| 44 | Maigret Sets a Trap '1958 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.2 | - | - | 7.0 | Jean Delannoy |
| 45 | Dunkirk '1958 | Drama / War | 7.1 | - | - | 6.9 | Leslie Norman |
| 46 | The Law Is the Law '1958 | Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.2 | Christian-Jaque |
| 47 | The 7th Voyage of Sinbad '1958 | Action / Fantasy | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.9 | Nathan Juran |
| 48 | The Vikings '1958 | Action | 7.0 | 77% | - | 7.0 | Richard Fleischer |
| 49 | Man of the West '1958 | Western | 7.0 | 95% | - | 6.6 | Anthony Mann |
| 50 | Neither Seen Nor Recognized '1958 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.8 | Yves Robert |
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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