100 English films of 1957 ranked by box office. #1: The Bridge on the River Kwai ($30.6 million).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | $3 million | $30.6 million | 10.20x | |
| 2 | Peyton Place | Mark Robson | $1.8 million | $25.6 million | 14.22x | |
| 3 | A Farewell to Arms | John Huston | $4.1 million | $20 million | 4.88x | |
| 4 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | John Sturges | $2 million | $10.7 million | 5.35x | |
| 5 | Bayou | Harold Daniels | $10 million | |||
| 6 | Raintree County | Edward Dmytryk | $5.5 million | $9.1 million | 1.66x | |
| 7 | Witness for the Prosecution | Billy Wilder | $2 million | $9 million | 4.50x | |
| 8 | The Curse of Frankenstein | Terence Fisher | £65,000 | $8 million | ||
| 9 | Pal Joey | George Sidney | $3 million | $7 million | 2.33x | |
| 10 | Search for Paradise | Otto Lang | $6.5 million | |||
| 11 | Old Yeller | Robert Stevenson | $21.9 million | $6.2 million | 0.29x | |
| 12 | Don't Go Near the Water | Charles Walters | $2.5 million | $6.1 million | 2.46x | |
| 13 | Boy on a Dolphin | Jean Negulesco | $2.8 million | $6 million | 2.14x | |
| 14 | Island in the Sun | Robert Rossen | $2.2 million | $5 million | 2.22x | |
| 15 | Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | Frank Tashlin | $1 million | $4.9 million | 4.90x | |
| 16 | The Prince and the Showgirl | Laurence Olivier | $4.3 million | |||
| 17 | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | John Huston | $2.9 million | $4.2 million | 1.45x | |
| 18 | Jailhouse Rock | Richard Thorpe | $1 million | $4 million | 4.00x | |
| 19 | Les Girls | George Cukor | $3.4 million | $3.9 million | 1.15x | |
| 19 | Battle Hymn | Douglas Sirk | $1.4 million | $3.9 million | 2.79x | |
| 21 | An Affair to Remember | Leo McCarey | $2.1 million | $3.9 million | 1.83x | |
| 22 | The Sun Also Rises | Henry King | $3.5 million | $3.8 million | 1.09x | |
| 23 | Bernardine | Henry Levin | $1.2 million | $3.8 million | 3.05x | |
| 24 | Loving You | Hal Kanter | $3.7 million | |||
| 24 | Designing Woman | Vincente Minnelli | $1.8 million | $3.7 million | 2.06x | |
| 24 | April Love | Henry Levin | $1.4 million | $3.7 million | 2.60x | |
| 27 | The Wings of Eagles | John Ford | $2.6 million | $3.6 million | 1.38x | |
| 28 | The Little Hut | Mark Robson | $1.7 million | $3.6 million | 2.12x | |
| 28 | Something of Value | Richard Brooks | $2.6 million | $3.6 million | 1.41x | |
| 30 | The Pride and the Passion | Stanley Kramer | $3.7 million | $3.5 million | 0.95x | |
| 30 | The Sad Sack | George Marshall | $1.1 million | $3.5 million | 3.18x | |
| 32 | The Delicate Delinquent | Don McGuire | $500,000 | $3.4 million | 6.80x | |
| 33 | Jeanne Eagels | George Sidney | $3.1 million | |||
| 34 | The Joker Is Wild | Charles Vidor | $2.4 million | $3 million | 1.25x | |
| 34 | Tammy and the Bachelor | Joseph Pevney | $1 million | $3 million | 3.00x | |
| 36 | The Way to the Gold | Robert D. Webb | $920,000 | $2.9 million | 3.15x | |
| 37 | Silk Stockings | Rouben Mamoulian | $2.6 million | $2.8 million | 1.08x | |
| 38 | Night Passage | James Neilson | $2.6 million | |||
| 38 | The Spirit of St. Louis | Billy Wilder | $7 million | $2.6 million | 0.37x | |
| 40 | Gun Glory | Roy Rowland | $1.7 million | $2.5 million | 1.49x | |
| 41 | Funny Face | Stanley Donen | $3 million | $2.5 million | 0.83x | |
| 41 | The Pajama Game | Stanley Donen | $2.5 million | |||
| 41 | Band of Angels | Raoul Walsh | $2.5 million | |||
| 41 | The D.I. | Jack Webb | $500,000 | $2.5 million | 5.00x | |
| 45 | Man of a Thousand Faces | Joseph Pevney | $2.4 million | |||
| 46 | Sweet Smell of Success | Alexander Mackendrick | $3.4 million | $2.2 million | 0.66x | |
| 46 | Tokyo 1960 | Ishirō Honda | $900,000 | $2.2 million | 2.50x | |
| 48 | Legend of the Lost | Henry Hathaway | $1.5 million | $2.2 million | 1.47x | |
| 49 | Arrivederci Roma | Roy Rowland | $908,000 | $2.2 million | 2.37x | |
| 50 | Fire Down Below | Robert Parrish | $2.3 million | $2 million | 0.89x | |
| 51 | 12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | $340,000 | $2 million | 5.88x | |
| 51 | Love in the Afternoon | Billy Wilder | $2.1 million | $2 million | 0.95x | |
| 51 | I Was a Teenage Werewolf | Gene Fowler Jr. | $82,000 | $2 million | 24.39x | |
| 51 | The Deerslayer | Kurt Neumann | $200,000 | $2 million | 10.00x | |
| 51 | Blood of Dracula | Herbert L. Strock | $82,000 | $2 million | 24.39x | |
| 56 | 3:10 to Yuma | Delmer Daves | $1.9 million | |||
| 56 | Operation Mad Ball | Richard Quine | $1.9 million | |||
| 58 | Kiss Them for Me | Stanley Donen | $1.9 million | $1.8 million | 0.93x | |
| 59 | The Wayward Bus | Victor Vicas | $1.4 million | $1.8 million | 1.25x | |
| 59 | Beau James | Melville Shavelson | $1.8 million | |||
| 59 | Perri | Ralph Wright | $1.8 million | |||
| 62 | Ten Thousand Bedrooms | Richard Thorpe | $1.8 million | $1.7 million | 0.95x | |
| 63 | Desk Set | Walter Lang | $1.9 million | $1.7 million | 0.91x | |
| 64 | Action of the Tiger | Terence Young | $863,000 | $1.6 million | 1.90x | |
| 65 | Man in the Shadow | Jack Arnold | $600,000 | $1.5 million | 2.55x | |
| 66 | This Could Be the Night | Robert Wise | $1.6 million | $1.5 million | 0.97x | |
| 67 | The Bachelor Party | Delbert Mann | $960,000 | $1.5 million | 1.56x | |
| 67 | Men in War | Anthony Mann | $1.5 million | |||
| 67 | The True Story of Jesse James | Nicholas Ray | $1.6 million | $1.5 million | 0.95x | |
| 67 | A Hatful of Rain | Fred Zinnemann | $1.8 million | $1.5 million | 0.82x | |
| 67 | Wild Is the Wind | George Cukor | $1.5 million | |||
| 67 | The Tarnished Angels | Douglas Sirk | $1.5 million | |||
| 73 | The Tattered Dress | Jack Arnold | $1.4 million | |||
| 74 | Until They Sail | Robert Wise | $1.8 million | $1.4 million | 0.77x | |
| 75 | Man on Fire | Ranald MacDougall | $1.2 million | $1.4 million | 1.20x | |
| 76 | The Three Faces of Eve | Nunnally Johnson | $965,000 | $1.4 million | 1.45x | |
| 76 | The Tin Star | Anthony Mann | $1.4 million | |||
| 76 | Interlude | Douglas Sirk | $1.4 million | |||
| 79 | Joe Butterfly | Jesse Hibbs | $1.3 million | |||
| 80 | The Vintage | Jeffrey Hayden | $1.7 million | $1.3 million | 0.77x | |
| 81 | Time Limit | Karl Malden | $1.2 million | |||
| 81 | Baby Face Nelson | Don Siegel | $250,000 | $1.2 million | 5.00x | |
| 83 | Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick | $935,000 | $1.2 million | 1.28x | |
| 83 | Omar Khayyam | William Dieterle | $1.2 million | |||
| 83 | My Man Godfrey | Henry Koster | $1.2 million | |||
| 83 | No Down Payment | Martin Ritt | $995,000 | $1.2 million | 1.21x | |
| 87 | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Sidney Franklin | $2.2 million | $1.1 million | 0.50x | |
| 87 | House of Numbers | Russell Rouse | $1 million | $1.1 million | 1.09x | |
| 89 | The Guns of Fort Petticoat | George Marshall | $1.1 million | |||
| 90 | The Story of Esther Costello | David Miller | $1.1 million | |||
| 91 | Tip on a Dead Jockey | Richard Thorpe | $1.5 million | $1.1 million | 0.72x | |
| 92 | The Deadly Mantis | Nathan Juran | $350,000 | $1 million | 2.86x | |
| 92 | Not of This Earth | Roger Corman | $100,000 | $1 million | 10.00x | |
| 92 | Mister Cory | Blake Edwards | $1 million | |||
| 92 | The Delinquents | Robert Altman | $63,000 | $1 million | 15.87x | |
| 92 | Gun for a Coward | Abner Biberman | $1 million | |||
| 92 | Four Girls in Town | Jack Sher | $1 million | |||
| 92 | The Devil's Hairpin | Cornel Wilde | $1 million | |||
| 92 | The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm | Virgil W. Vogel | $1 million | |||
| 100 | Barnacle Bill | Charles Frend | $659,000 | $950,000 | 1.44x |
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