Best Movies of the 1950s
The 1950s were widescreen ambition and simmering anxiety - epics and musicals up front, paranoia and rebellion underneath. Hitchcock at his peak, Kurosawa reshaping world cinema, and Hollywood at full power, ranked by rating. Find where the decade's best are streaming now.
711 Ocean Drive
1950
Fright to the Finish
1954
The Bachelor
1955
A Time Out of War
1954
A Man Called Peter
1955
Decision at Sundown
1957
The Desert Rats
1953
These Thousand Hills
1959
Canaris
1954
The Gambler
1958
Son of Paleface
1952
The Big Circus
1959
Me and the Colonel
1958
Folly to Be Wise
1952
Of Life and Love
1954
Best of the Badmen
1951
A Hill in Korea
1956
They Rode West
1954
Home at Seven
1952
Mad About Men
1954
Rabbit Romeo
1957
Joe Dakota
1957
Hell Road
1951
The Long Dark Hall
1951
Hellgate
1952
Top Gun
1955
Lo scocciatore
1953
Winter Holidays
1959
Ride a Crooked Trail
1958
Ten Tall Men
1951
Affair in Trinidad
1952
Silver City
1951
Cast a Long Shadow
1959
Woman Obsessed
1959
The Big Land
1957
The Cariboo Trail
1950
The Rats
1955
The First Texan
1956
The Last Mile
1959
April Love
1957
Thunder on the Hill
1951
The 'Maggie'
1954
The Left Hand of God
1955
Gun the Man Down
1956
The Scarlet Coat
1955
The Mudlark
1950
Social Lion
1954
El inquilino
1958
Waterfront
1950