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.
Battle Cry (1955)
Lost Souvenirs (1950)
Happy Ever After (1954)
Francis (1950)
The Beat Generation (1959)
Bengal Brigade (1954)
The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
Sierra Baron (1958)
Blue Denim (1959)
The Iron Mistress (1952)
Young Wives' Tale (1951)
The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959)
Les Miserables (1952)
Mr. Imperium (1951)
Shotgun (1955)
Sinners of Paris (1958)
The Secret Fury (1950)
It Started with a Kiss (1959)
5 Against the House (1955)
Take Care of My Little Girl (1951)
The Captain's Paradise (1953)
Doctor at Large (1957)
Love on the Riviera (1958)
Pillars of the Sky (1956)
The Black Pirates (1954)
Black Orchid (1953)
Dial 999 (1955)
A Man Alone (1955)
The Quiet American (1958)
Foreign Intrigue (1956)
T-Bird Gang (1959)
Hell and High Water (1954)
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)
The Last of the Fast Guns (1958)
Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)
Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951)
Double Jeopardy (1955)
Here Comes the Groom (1951)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Times Gone By (1952)
The Sundowners (1950)
Stamp Day for Superman (1954)
How to Make a Monster (1958)
South Sea Woman (1953)
Track of the Cat (1954)
Hell's Half Acre (1954)
My Forbidden Past (1951)
Cover Girl Killer (1959)
The Sun Also Rises (1957)
Outcast of the Islands (1951)
The Miami Story (1954)
Death in Small Doses (1957)
Taxi, Trailer and Bullfight (1958)
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
The Groom Wore Spurs (1951)
The Big Boodle (1957)
The Atomic Kid (1954)
A Farewell to Arms (1957)
Donatella (1956)
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)