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.
Born to Be Bad
1950
Listen to My Song
1959
So Big
1953
The Oregon Trail
1959
Once a Thief
1950
Sea Devils
1953
Halls of Montezuma
1951
Strange Fascination
1952
Sudden Danger
1955
Backfire
1950
Macabre
1958
Sirocco
1951
Marie of the Port
1950
Windom's Way
1957
Gidget
1959
Gorilla at Large
1954
Mohawk
1956
The Whip Hand
1951
Who Done It?
1956
What Price Glory
1952
A Bullet for Joey
1955
Terror at Midnight
1956
Dial Red O
1955
Fire Down Below
1957
The Scheming Women
1954
Safari
1956
Against All Flags
1952
Pony Express
1953
Hidden Homicide
1959
The Big Fisherman
1959
Three Make a Pair
1957
Sea Wife
1957
Rock All Night
1957
I Spit on Your Grave
1959
Totò in the Moon
1958
The Living Idol
1957
Elephant Walk
1954
The Yellow Mountain
1954
The Restless Breed
1957
Copper Canyon
1950
A Woman Like Satan
1958
The Sellout
1952
The Hunters
1958
The Shanghai Story
1954
Face of a Fugitive
1959
The Wayward Bus
1957
Cave of Outlaws
1951
Our Girl Friday
1953
Lone Star
1952
Hong Kong
1952