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.
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Winchester '73 (1950)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
The Life of Oharu (1952)
What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
Journey to Italy (1954)
Bob le Flambeur (1956)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
An American in Paris (1951)
The Fly (1958)
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
I Confess (1953)
La Traversée de Paris (1956)
Kanal (1957)
Floating Weeds (1959)
Moby Dick (1956)
The Return of Don Camillo (1953)
Rabbit of Seville (1950)
The Gunfighter (1950)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
A Star Is Born (1954)
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)
Senso (1954)
The Court Jester (1955)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Rabbit Seasoning (1952)
The Band Wagon (1953)
General Della Rovere (1959)
The Vikings (1958)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
The Man from Laramie (1955)
We're No Angels (1955)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Don Camillo's Last Round (1955)
Born Yesterday (1950)
The Nun's Story (1959)
Julius Caesar (1953)
House of Wax (1953)
Them! (1954)
The Browning Version (1951)
The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
The Naked Spur (1953)
Sudden Fear (1952)
La Ronde (1950)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Bend of the River (1952)
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
The Thing from Another World (1951)
Rio Grande (1950)
Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953)
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
Mister Roberts (1955)
The Harder They Fall (1956)