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.
Li'l Abner
1959
Border River
1954
That Kind of Woman
1959
Meat in Prison
1952
Anna Lucasta
1958
The Naked Street
1955
Donovan's Brain
1953
Blackout
1954
Column South
1953
Gambling House
1950
Iron Man
1951
Six Bridges to Cross
1955
The Night Affair
1958
Way of Youth
1959
Diplomatic Courier
1952
The Cat
1958
The Man Inside
1958
Pete Kelly's Blues
1955
Silver Lode
1954
Air of Paris
1954
Black Hand
1950
China Gate
1957
Venetian Bird
1952
The Capture
1950
Bunco Squad
1950
Spy Hunt
1950
Just My Luck
1957
Carson City
1952
Calling Homicide
1956
Drive a Crooked Road
1954
Above Us the Waves
1955
God's Little Acre
1958
The Frogmen
1951
The Vampire
1957
Man in the Dark
1953
Fort Massacre
1958
The Vagabond King
1956
Account Rendered
1957
The Coyote
1955
Teresa
1951
Happy Go Lovely
1951
Night People
1954
Not as a Stranger
1955
Cry of the Hunted
1953