| # | Rank ▲ | Film | Year | Director | Country | Genre | Keywords | Votes | IMDb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 49 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Philip Kaufman | USA | Science Fiction | Psychological Horror, New Hollywood, Alien Invasion, Body Horror, Cosmic Horror | 193 | IMDb ↗ |
| 2 | 50 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | Don Siegel | USA | Science Fiction | Thriller, Alien Invasion, Satire, Survival, Film noir | 185 | IMDb ↗ |
| 3 | 237 | The Bad Seed | 1956 | Mervyn LeRoy | USA | Psychological | Psychological Thriller, Melodrama, Family Drama, Psychological Drama | 46 | IMDb ↗ |
| 4 | 691 | X the Unknown | 1956 | Leslie Norman | UK | Science Fiction | — | 10 | IMDb ↗ |
| 5 | 1698 | The Werewolf | 1956 | Fred F. Sears | USA | Werewolf | Science Fiction | 9 | IMDb ↗ |
| 6 | 1714 | The Creature Walks Among Us | 1956 | John Sherwood | USA | Science Fiction | — | 7 | IMDb ↗ |
| 7 | 1942 | The Black Sleep | 1956 | Reginald Le Borg | USA | Science Fiction | — | 7 | IMDb ↗ |
| 8 | 1948 | Earth vs. the Flying Saucers | 1956 | Fred F. Sears | USA | Science Fiction | — | 9 | IMDb ↗ |
| 9 | 2288 | Notre-Dame de Paris | 1956 | Jean Delannoy | France | Drama | Romance, Medieval, Epic | 7 | IMDb ↗ |
| 10 | 2295 | Forbidden Planet | 1956 | Fred M. Wilcox | USA | Science Fiction | — | 6 | IMDb ↗ |
| 11 | 2336 | Sora no daikaijû Radon | 1956 | Ishirô Honda | Japan | Monster | — | 7 | IMDb ↗ |
| 12 | 2783 | The She-Creature | 1956 | Edward L. Cahn | USA | Science Fiction | — | 4 | IMDb ↗ |
| 13 | 3315 | It Conquered the World | 1956 | Roger Corman | USA | Science Fiction | — | 3 | IMDb ↗ |
| 14 | 3334 | The Mole People | 1956 | Virgil W. Vogel | USA | Science Fiction | — | 3 | IMDb ↗ |
| 15 | 4064 | Swamp Women | 1956 | Roger Corman | USA | Exploitation | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 16 | 4165 | Indestructible Man | 1956 | Jack Pollexfen | USA | Science Fiction | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 17 | 6039 | Fire Maidens from Outer Space | 1956 | Cy Roth | UK | Science Fiction | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 18 | 6144 | A Kiss Before Dying | 1956 | Gerd Oswald | USA | Thriller | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 19 | 6147 | Bigger Than Life | 1956 | Nicholas Ray | USA | Drama | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 20 | 6321 | Julie | 1956 | Andrew L. Stone | USA | Mystery | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 21 | 6437 | Godzilla: King of the Monsters! | 1956 | Ishirô Honda, Terry O. Morse | USA | Monster | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 22 | 6519 | Yotsuya kaidan | 1956 | Masaki Mori | Japan | Supernatural | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 23 | 8455 | Run for the Sun | 1956 | Roy Boulting | USA | Adventure | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 24 | 9251 | Man Beast | 1956 | Jerry Warren | USA | Science Fiction | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 25 | 9338 | World Without End | 1956 | Edward Bernds | USA | Science Fiction | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 26 | 9342 | Curucu, Beast of the Amazon | 1956 | Curt Siodmak | USA | Adventure | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 27 | 9447 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille | USA | Fantasy | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 28 | 9470 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford | USA | Western | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 29 | 9570 | The Killer Is Loose | 1956 | Budd Boetticher | USA | — | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
Keyword data is still being added, so some films have incomplete or missing keywords.