Category:1956, Top Films

1952 -- 1953 -- 1954 -- 1955

-- -- 1956, Top Films -- --

1957 -- 1958 -- 1959 -- 1960

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Ranking

Critical Reception

Oscar, Best Films

-- Around the World in 80 Days -- Friendly Persuasion -- Giant -- The King and I -- The Ten Commandments -- War and Peace -- La Strada (Italy)

-- Around the World in 80 Days -- Moby Dick -- The King and I -- Lust for Life -- Friendly Persuasion -- Somebody Up There Likes Me -- The Catered Affair -- Anastasia -- The Man Who Never Was -- Bus Stop

Top Grossing Films

-- The Ten Commandments -- Around the World in 80 Days -- Giant -- Seven Wonders of the World -- The King and I -- Trapeze -- War and Peace -- High Society -- The Teahouse of the August Moo -- The Eddy Duchin Story

National Film Registry

-- The Court Jester (1955) -- Disneyland Dream <doc> -- Forbidden Planet -- Giant -- Invasion of the Body Snatchers -- Modesta <short> -- The Searchers -- The Ten Commandments

American Film Institute

-- Giant -- The Searchers

NYT, Best Films

-- The Silent World <doc> -- The Searchers -- The King and I -- Lust for Life -- Bob le Flambeur -- Bus Stop -- Written on the Wind -- The Ten Commandments -- Giant -- Friendly Persuasion -- The Girl Can't Help It -- Anastasia -- Baby Doll -- The Great Man

TSPDT, Best Films

-- The Searchers -- A Man Escaped -- Written on the Wind -- The Killing -- Bigger Than Life -- Aparajito -- Invasion of the Body Snatchers -- The Red Balloon -- Street of Shame -- Forbidden Planet -- The Ten Commandments

Top10ner, Best Films

-- Invasion of the Body Snatchers -- The Searchers -- The Killing -- The Ten Commandments -- Giant -- Aparajito -- A Man Escaped

Film101, Best Films

-- The Searchers -- Aparajito -- Invasion of the Body Snatchers -- Written on the Wind -- Giant -- A Man Escaped -- Bob le flambeur -- The Burmese Harp -- The Ten Commandments -- The Killing -- Lust for Life -- Around the World in 80 Days -- Friendly Persuasion -- Forbidden Planet -- Baby Doll -- The King and I -- Bus Stop -- The Wrong Man

Rotten Tomatoes, Best Films

-- #4. A Man Escaped -- Night and Fog

MUBI, Best Films

50 Top Films of 1956

-- #1. The Searchers -- #2. The Red Balloon -- #3. The Killing -- #4. A Man Escaped -- #5. The Man Who Knew Too Much' -- #6. Invasion of the Body Snatchers -- #7. Bob le flambeur -- #8. Bigger Than Life -- #9. Written on the Wind -- #10. The Wrong Man

-- #11. Aparajito -- #12. Forbidden Planet -- #13. Giant -- #14. Street of Shame -- #15. The Burmese Harp -- #16. Early Spring -- #17. Baby Doll -- #18. All the World's Memories -- #19. The Ten Commandments -- #20. Samurai III

-- #22. The Bad Seed -- #23. Lust for Life -- #31. Moby Dick -- #32. The King and I -- #36. Ta and Sympathy -- #41. The Silent World -- #42. Bus Stop -- #50 Anastasia

ChildActors, Best Films

-- Aparajito (India) -- The Bad Seed -- Il ferroviere (Italy) -- Invasion of the Body Snatchers -- The Red Balloon (France)

-- The Brave One

-- The Brass Legend -- El camino de la vida / The Road of Life (Mexico) -- Les carottes sont cuites (France) -- Come Next Spring -- Dolina miru / The Valley of Peace (Yugoslavia) -- Das Donkosakenlied (West Germany) -- El pequeño ruiseñor / The Little Nightingale (Spain) -- Everything But the Truth -- Good-bye, My Lady -- Das Hirtenlied vom Kaisertal (Austria) -- Lauta mancia / Big Jeeter (Italy) -- Magdanas lurja / Magdana's Donkey (URSS) -- Mein Vater der Schauspieler (West Germany) -- Mi tío Jacinto (Spain) -- Ne okreci se, sine / Don't Look Back, My Son (Yugoslavia) -- Peril for the Guy (UK) -- Ransom! -- Smiley (Australia) -- The Spanish Gardener (UK) -- Starik Khottabych / The Flying Carpet (URSS) -- Storm Center -- Supersonic Saucer (UK) -- Tajemnica dzikiego szybu (Poland) -- Toy Tiger -- The Weapon (UK)

-- As the World Turns (TV series) -- Circus Boy (TV series) -- The Hardy Boys (TV series) -- I Love Lucy (TV series) -- Whack-O! (TV series)