Category:1948, Top Films

1944 -- 1945 -- 1946 -- 1947

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1949 -- 1950 -- 1951 -- 1952

Ranking

My Picks

-- #1. Bicycle Thieves <Best International> -- #2. Rope -- #3. The Red Shoes -- #4. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre -- #5. Germany Year Zero -- #8. Red River -- #9. The Naked City -- #11. Hamlet -- #12. Oliver Twist -- #13. The Fallen Idol -- #15. La Terra Trema -- #16. Key Largo -- #17. Fort Apache -- #21. Portrait of Jennie -- #23. A Foreign Affair -- #26. The Pirate -- #29. 3 Godfathers -- #36. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein -- #43. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House -- #45. The Boy with Green Hair

Limbo

-- #37. Louisiana Story (Flaherty) -- #50+. The Quiet One (Meyers) <doc> -- #50+. Long Is the Road (Fredersdorf & Goldstein)

Critical Reception

MUBI, Best Films

• 50 Top Films of 1948

-- #1. Bicycle Thieves -- #2. Rope -- #3. The Red Shoes -- #4. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre -- #5. Germany Year Zero -- #6. <Letter from an Unknown Woman> -- #7. Drunken Angel -- #8. Red River -- #9. The Naked City

-- #10. <They Live by Night> -- #11. Hamlet -- #12. Oliver Twist -- #13. The Fallen Idol -- #14. Unfaithfully Yours -- #15. La Terra Trema -- #16. Key Largo -- #17. Fort Apache -- #18. <Macbeth> -- #19. Force of Evil

-- #20. Spring in a Small Town -- #21. Portrait of Jennie -- #22. Secret Beyond the Door -- #23. A Foreign Affair -- #24. Meditation on Violence -- #25. <The Snake Pit> -- #26. Sorry, Wrong Number -- #27. The Pirate -- #28. Raw Deal -- #29. 3 Godfathers

-- #30. Women of the Night -- #31. Moonrise -- #32. The Big Clock -- #33. Act of Violence -- #34. <Easter Parade> -- #35. A Hen in the Wind -- #36. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein -- #37. <Louisiana Story> -- #38. The Little Orphan -- #39. Boogie-Doodle

-- #40. Pitfall -- #41. Yellow Sky -- #42. Call Northside 777 -- #43. Port of Call -- #44. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House -- #45. The Boy with Green Hair -- #46. Berlin Express -- #47. They Caught the Ferry -- #48. Cry of the City -- #49. He Walked by Night -- #50. Haredevil Hare

Oscar, Best Films

-- Hamlet -- Johnny Belinda -- The Red Shoes -- The Snake Pit -- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre -- The Search -- Monsieur Vincent (France)

[6^] Golden Globe, Best Films

-- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre -- Johnny Belinda -- Hamlet -- I Remember Mama -- The Search

Top Grossing Films

-- The Red Shoes -- Red River -- The Paleface -- Johnny Belinda -- Easter Parade -- The Three Musketeers -- The Snake Pit -- The Emperor Waltz -- Homecoming -- Sitting Pretty

Schneider, Best Films

-- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre -- The Red Shoes -- Rope -- Red River -- Louisiana Story -- Bicycle Thieves

-- Letter from an Unknown Woman -- The Snake Pit -- The Paleface -- Force of Evil -- Spring in a Small Town

National Board of Review

-- Paisan (1946) -- Day of Wrath -- The Search -- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre -- Louisiana Story -- Hamlet -- The Snake Pit -- Johnny Belinda -- Joan of Arc -- The Red Shoes

National Film Registry

-- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein -- Cab Calloway's home movies <doc> -- Force of Evil -- In the Street <doc> -- Letter from an Unknown Woman -- Louisiana Story -- The Naked City -- Red River -- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

American Film Institute

-- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

NYT, Best Films

-- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre -- The Search -- I Remember Mama -- Sitting Pretty -- The Big Clock -- Hamlet -- Oliver Twist -- A Foreign Affair -- The Red Shoes -- Red River -- They Live by Night -- La terra trema (Italy) -- The Snake Pit -- Bicycle Thieves -- Force of Evil

TSPDT, Best Films

-- Bicycle Thieves -- The Red Shoes -- Red River -- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre -- Germany, Year Zero -- La terra trema -- Fort Apache -- Rope

-- They Live by Night -- Letter from an Unknown Woman -- Spring in a Small Town -- The Lady from Shanghai

Top10ner, Best Films

-- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre -- Rope -- Key Largo -- The Red Shoes -- Red River -- Bicycle Thieves

-- Letter from an Unknown Woman

Film101, Best Films

-- Bicycle Thieves -- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre -- Red River -- The Red Shoes -- Oliver Twist -- Hamlet -- The Fallen Idol -- La Terra Trema -- Key Largo

-- Letter from an Unknown Woman -- Force of Evil -- The Snake Pit -- The Naked City -- Johnny Belinda

Rotten Tomatoes, Best Films

-- #4. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre -- #6. <Letter from an Unknown Woman> -- #8. Red River -- #12. Oliver Twist -- #13. The Fallen Idol -- #17. Fort Apache

ChildActors, Best Films

-- The Bicycle Thief (Italy) -- Border Street (Poland -- The Boy with Green Hair -- Deep Waters -- The Fallen Idol (UK) -- Germany Year Zero (Italy) -- Oliver Twist (UK) -- Our Children (Poland) -- Proibito rubare (Italy) -- Rachel and the Stranger -- The Search

-- <Cuore> (Italy) -- <Louisiana Story> -- <The Quiet One> -- <The Winslow Boy> (UK)

-- April Shower -- Danke, es geht mir gut [Eine reizende Familie] (Germany) -- A Date with Judy -- The Decision of Christopher Blake -- Enchantment -- Family Honeymoon -- Fighting Father Dunne -- Gun Smugglers -- Just William's Luck (UK) -- My Dog Rusty -- Rusty Leads the Way -- Svedomí [Conscience] (Czechoslovakia) -- The Tender Years -- Valahol Európában [Somewhere in Europe] (Hungary) -- Vice versa (UK) -- Who Killed Doc Robbin?

-- Mary Kay and Johnny (TV series)

Best International Films

{Italy} -- Bicycle Thieves (Oscar) -- Germany, Year Zero -- La terra trema

{Japan} -- Children of the Beehive -- Drunken Angel -- A Hen in the Wind -- Women of the Night

Tubi

-- The Bishop's Wife -- The Winslow Boy -- Louisiana Story -- The Quiet One <doc>

Film Limbo

-- Letter from an Unknown Woman (!!) -- Quartet (?) -- The Winslow Boy (?) -- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (?) -- Brighton Rock / Young Scarface (?) -- Cuore -- Louisiana Story -- Joan d'Arc -- 3 Godfathers (?) -- The Quiet One <doc> -- Johnny Belinda -- Amore (Italy) -- Easter Parade -- Macbeth