Best award winning movies with amateur directing from 1957

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with amateur directing from 1957! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with amateur directing from 1957, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)

An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.

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1957-06-13 | Comedy / Romance

Cast

Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #13 for
    pin-up girl
  2. Ranked #49 for
    flirtatious
  3. Ranked #75 for
    waggish

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2 Funny Face (1957)

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

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1957-02-13 | Music / Comedy

Cast

Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #41 for
    wallflower
  2. Ranked #81 for
    bubblegum
  3. Ranked #85 for
    tetchy

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3 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

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1957-10-11 | Drama / History

Cast

William Holden, Alec Guinness

Rating

rating icon 7.829
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #18 for
    remarkable
  2. Ranked #39 for
    with mercenaries
  3. Ranked #42 for
    deservedly won awards

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4 12 Angry Men (1957)

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

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1957-04-10 | Drama

Cast

Martin Balsam, John Fiedler

Rating

rating icon 8.542
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #54 for
    proof positive
  2. Ranked #76 for
    Courtroom Drama
  3. Ranked #138 for
    good

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5 Nights of Cabiria (1957)

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.

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1957-10-03 | Drama

Cast

Giulietta Masina, François Périer

Rating

rating icon 8.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #51 for
    tetchy
  2. Ranked #74 for
    neo-realism
  3. Ranked #96 for
    non-professional cast

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6 Paths of Glory (1957)

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

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1957-10-25 | War / Drama

Cast

Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker

Rating

rating icon 8.27
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #49 for
    vertiginous
  2. Ranked #74 for
    hubristic
  3. Ranked #99 for
    life and limb story

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7 Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of bland, civil suits—but the lure of the criminal courts is too much for him, especially when the case is so difficult.

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1957-12-17 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power

Rating

rating icon 8.212
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #16 for
    cantankerous
  2. Ranked #33 for
    with cockney accent
  3. Ranked #37 for
    Courtroom Drama

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8 The Pajama Game (1957)

An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.

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1957-08-29 | Music / Comedy

Cast

Doris Day, John Raitt

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #44 for
    sassy
  2. Ranked #49 for
    rambunctious
  3. Ranked #86 for
    memorable tune

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9 Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.

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1957-08-15 | Drama

Cast

James Cagney, Dorothy Malone

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #7 for
    vaudevillian
  2. Ranked #30 for
    afterschool special
  3. Ranked #71 for
    Biography

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10 Throne of Blood (1957)

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

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1957-01-15 | Drama / History

Cast

Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada

Rating

rating icon 7.942
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #59 for
    backstabbing
  2. Ranked #63 for
    misty
  3. Ranked #160 for
    implacable

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