My Top 20 by Year - 1951

Under construction and always in progress.

The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).

Out of (only) 152 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb). (Apr 2024)

Notes:

• Features, shorts, docs and TV movies eligible ("A film is a film is a film.").
• TV mini-series are NOT (unless stated otherwise).
• My humble rates added (for films with the same rate just once or twice though).
• Films with the same rate are ordered arbitrarily. Feel free to re-order them at your will.
• When I saw more than 20 excellent films (9/10 or above in my book) from a certain year I'll try and list them ALL. That would make some lists much longer but all the excellentia deserves to be mentioned.

Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing TV = TV viewing PC = download OL = online viewing VHS = VHS viewing

Yet to see (among many):

Decision Before Dawn (Litvak, 1951) People Will Talk (Mankiewicz, 1951) Musashino fujin (The Lady of Musashino, Mizoguchi, 1951) Bright Victory (Robson, 1951) The Blue Weil (Bernhardt/Berkeley, 1951) The Model and the Marriage Broker (Cukor, 1951) Filumena Marturano (De Filippo, 1951) Jim Thorpe -- All-American (Curtiz, 1951) Captain Horatio Hownblower R.N. (Walsh, 1951) The First Legion (Sirk, 1951) The Mating Season (Leisen, 1951) The Tall Target (A. Mann, 1951) The Mob (Parrish, 1951) Knock (Dr. Knock, Lefranc, 1951) His Kind of Woman (Farrow, 1951) Il Cristo proibito (The Forbidden Christ, Malaparte, 1951) Sous le ciel de Paris (Under the Paris Sky, Duvivier, 1951) Kind Lady (Sturges, 1951) La città si difende (Four Ways Out, Germi, 1951) Tomorrow Is Another Day (Feist, 1951) The Well (Popkin/Rouse, 1951) Father's Little Dividend (Minnelli, 1951) Shônenki (Boyhood, Kinoshita, 1951) Topaze (Pagnol, 1951) Los isleros (Demare, 1951) Das Haus in Montevideo (The House in Montevideo, C. Goetz/von Martens, 1951) No Highway in the Sky (Koster, 1951)