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.
Private Eye Popeye
1954
Black Patch
1957
Woman of Rome
1954
Mr. Peek-a-Boo
1951
Casanova's Big Night
1954
Untamed
1955
The Young Stranger
1957
Come Dance with Me!
1959
Pull My Daisy
1959
Gigi
1958
Stage Struck
1958
Trip to the Moon
1958
The Diamond Wizard
1954
Watusi
1959
Thunder Bay
1953
What a Woman!
1956
Beware, My Lovely
1952
Duck and Cover
1952
Attention! Bandits!
1951
My Favorite Spy
1951
Crazy in the Noodle
1957
Her Bridal Night
1956
An Eye for an Eye
1957
Step Down to Terror
1958
I Was a Shoplifter
1950
The Midnight Story
1957
Torpedo Run
1958
One Minute to Zero
1952
Inferno
1953
Angels One Five
1952
Our Very Own
1950
Toward the Unknown
1956
Bold Adventure
1956
The Last Couplet
1957
Lovers of Paris
1957
Robbers' Roost
1955
My Son John
1952
Johnny Tremain
1957
Kansas Raiders
1950
The Strip
1951
Vacations in Majorca
1959
I, the Jury
1953
Ride Clear of Diablo
1954
Daddy's Gang
1956
Hot Summer Night
1957
A Prize of Gold
1955
Naked Alibi
1954
Quicksand
1950