Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1954

3 Ring Circus – Joseph Pevney

Aar Paar (This or That) – Guru Dutt

About Mrs. Leslie – Daniel Mann

Adventures of the Barber of Seville – Ladislao Vajda

All Is Possible in Granada (Todo es possible en Granada) – Jose Luis Saenz de Heredia

Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe (Robinson Crusoe) – Luis Bunuel

L’affaire Maurizius – Julien Duvivier

Alaska Seas – Jerry Hopper

An American in Rome (Un Americano a Roma) – Steno

Andha Naal (That Day) – Veenai S. Balachander

Animal Farm – John Halas / Joy Batchelor

Apache – Robert Aldrich

Attila (Attila, il flagello di Dio) – Pietro Francisci

The Back of Beyond – John Heyer

Beachhead – Stuart Heisler

Beau Brummell – Curtis Bernhardt

Beautiful Stranger (Twist of Fate) – David Miller

Before the Deluge – Andre Cayatte

The Belles of St. Trinian’s – Frank Launder

Betrayed – Gottfried Reinhardt

A Big Family (Bolshaya semya) – Iosif Kheifits

The Black Knight – Tay Garnett

The Black Shield of Falworth – Rudolph Mate

Black Tuesday – Hugo Fregonese

Black Widow – Nunnally Johnson

Boot Polish – Parkash Arora

Boris Godunov – Vera Stroyeva

The Bridge at Toko-Ru – Mark Robson

Broken Lance – Edward Dmytryk

Canaris – Alfred Weidenmann

Carmen Jones – Otto Preminger

Casanova’s Big Night – Norman Z. McLeod

Chronicle of Poor Lovers (Cronache di poveri amanti) – Carlo Lizzani

The Country Girl – George Seaton

Crime Wave – Andre De Toth

The Crucified Lovers (Chikamatsu Monogatan) – Kenji Mizoguchi

Dangerous Mission – Louis King

Deep in My Heart – Standley Donen

Demetrius and the Gladiators – Delmer Daves

Desiree – Henry Koster

Delavine Affair – Douglas Peirce

Docotor in the House – Ralph Thomas

Down Three Dark Streets – Arnold Laven

Drive a Crooked Road – Richard Quine

Drum Beat – Delmer Daves

The Egyptian – Michael Curtiz

The Eight O’Clock Walk – Lance Comfort

Elephant Walk – William Dieterle

Father Brown – Robert Hamer

Fear (La Paura) – Roberto Rossellini

Flame and the Flesh – Richard Brooks

French Cancan – Jean Renoir

The French Line – Lloyd Bacon

Garden of Evil – Henry Hathaway

The Glenn Miller Story – Anthony Mann

Le Grand Jeu – Ribert Siodmak

The Gold of Naples (L’oro di apoli) – Vittorio De Sica

The Good Die Young – Lewis Gilbert

Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy – Micheal Myerberg / John Paul

Happy Ever After – Mario Zampi

Hell and High Water – Samuel Fuller

Hell Below Zero – Mark Robson

The High and the Mighty – William A. Wellman

Highway Dragnet – Nathan Juran

The House Across the Lake – Ken Hughes

La illusion viaja en tranvia (Illusion Travels by Streetcar) – Luis Bunuel

An Inspector Calls – Guy Hamilton

It Should Happen to You – George Cukor

Jagriti (The Awakening) – Satyen Bose

Joan of Arc at the Stake (Giovanna d’Arco al rogo) – Roberto Rossellini

King Richard and the Crusaders – David Butler

Knock on Wood – Melvin Frank / Norman Panama

The Last Bridge (Die Letzte Brucke) – Helmut Kautner

The Last Time I Saw Paris – Richard Brooks

Late Chrysanthemums – Mikio Naruse

A Lesson in Love – Ingmar Bergman

A Life at Stake – Paul Guilfoyle

Liliomfi – Karoly Makk

Living It Up – Norman Taurog

The Long Long Trailer – Vincent Minelli

The Long Wait – Victor Saville

The Love Lottery – Charles Crichton

Maddalena – Augusto Genina

The Maggie (High and Dry) – Alexander Mackendrick

Magnificent Obsession – Douglas Sirk

The Million Pound Note – Ronald Neame

Nagin – Nandial Jaswantlal

Naked Alibi – Jerry Hopper

The Naked Jungle – Byron Haskin

Neapolitan Carousel – Ettore Giannini

Neelakuyil – P. Bhaskaran / Ramu Kariat

Night People – Nunnally Johnson

Nothing but Trouble (Aldri annet enn brak) – Edith Carlmar

Onna no koyomi – Seiji Hisamatsu

The Outcast – William Witney

Phantom of the Rue Morgue – Roy Del Ruth

Phffft! – Mark Robson

Prince Valiant – Henry Hathaway

Prisoner of War – Andrew Marton

Private Hell 36 – Don Siegel

Purple Plain – Robert Parrish

Pushover – Richard Quine

Radio Cab Murder – Vernon Sewell

The Raid – Hugo Fregonese

Red Garters – George Marshall

Return to Treasure Island – Ewald Andre Dupont

Riot in Cell Block 11 – Don Siegel

Robinson Crusoe – Luis Bunuel

Rogue Cop – Roy Rowland

Romeo and Juliet – Renato Castellani

Salt of the Earth – Herber J. Biberman

Samurai I: Masashi Miyamoto – Hiroshi Inagaki

Sansho the Bailiff – Kenji Mizoguchi

Saskatchewan – Raoul Walsh

The Sea Shall Not Have Them – Lewis Gilbert

Secret of the Incas – Jerry Hopper

Senso – Luchino Visconti

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – Stanley Donen

Shield for Murder – Edmond O’Brien

The Silver Chalice – Victor Saville

Silver Lode – Allan Dwan

Sira Fi al-Wadi (Striggle in the Valley) – Youssef Chahine

Sitting Bull – Sidney Salkow

Sound of the Mountain (Yama no Oto) – Mikio Naruse

Star of India – Arhtur Lubin

La Strada – Frederico Fellini

Suddenly – Lewis Allen

Susan Selt Here – Frank Tashlin

Tanganyika – Andre De Toth

Taza, Son of Cochise – Douglas Sirk

There’s No Business Like Show Business - Walter Lang

They Who Dare – Lewis Milestone

Three Young Texans – Henry Levin

Too Bad She’s Bad (Peccato che sia una canaglia) – Alessandro Blasetti

Top Banana – Alfred E. Green

Touchez pas au grisbi (Don’t Touch The Loot) – Jacques Becker

Track of the Cat – William Wellman

Trouble in the Glen – Herbert Wilcox

Twenty-Four Eyes – Keisuke Kinoshita

Vera Cruz – Robert Aldrich

The Week and the Wicked – J. Lee Thompson

Woman’s World – Jean Negulesco

Wyoming Renegades – Fred F. Sears

Young at Heart – Gordon Douglas

The Young Lovers – Anthony Asquith