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.
Ruby Gentry
1952
A Day in Court
1954
The Turning Point
1952
Macao
1952
The Big Caper
1957
The Journey
1959
Green Fire
1954
Dancing Girl
1951
Garden of Evil
1954
Apache Ambush
1955
Napoleon
1955
Storm Over the Nile
1955
Plucking the Daisy
1956
Stain on the Snow
1954
Rosauro Castro
1950
The Spanish Gardener
1956
The Glass Web
1953
Danger Within
1959
A Bullet Is Waiting
1954
The Student Prince
1954
The Last Posse
1953
Sunday Encounter
1958
The Merry Widow
1952
Young Love
1951
The Light Touch
1951
Black Dossier
1955
Sleepless
1957
The Clouded Yellow
1950
Two Flags West
1950
The Two-Headed Spy
1958
The Far Horizons
1955
Toto in Paris
1958
Arrow In The Dust
1954
Flaming Feather
1952
The King's Thief
1955
The Wide Blue Road
1957
Raw Edge
1956
The Lone Ranger
1956
Little Big Horn
1951
Follow a Star
1959
Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi
1958
We, the Women
1953
Call Me Madam
1953
Branded
1950
Escape to Burma
1955
They Stole a Tram
1954