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.
Something of Value (1957)
Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
3 Ring Circus (1954)
Roadhouse Girl (1953)
The Tricyclist (1957)
Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955)
The Unknown Man (1951)
The Limping Man (1953)
The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954)
Satellite in the Sky (1956)
The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959)
Francis in the Navy (1955)
La Parisienne (1957)
Battle in Outer Space (1959)
Burning Fuse (1957)
Ambush at Cimarron Pass (1958)
The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951)
Murió hace quince años (1954)
The Tattered Dress (1957)
The Kid from Texas (1950)
Nero's Mistress (1956)
Lovers' Net (1955)
Apache Woman (1955)
Chief Crazy Horse (1955)
Nearlyweds (1957)
At Sword's Point (1952)
The King and Four Queens (1956)
Highway Dragnet (1954)
Green Mansions (1959)
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)
Return of the Frontiersman (1950)
Vicki (1953)
Carnival Rock (1957)
The Opposite Sex (1956)
The Respectful Prostitute (1952)
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
Appointment with Danger (1950)
April in Paris (1952)
Blood Alley (1955)
Innocents in Paris (1953)
Captive Girl (1950)
Jesse James' Women (1954)
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
Expresso Bongo (1959)
Borderline (1950)
Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958)
Beautiful Stranger (1954)
Seminole (1953)
The H-Man (1958)
Away All Boats (1956)
The Naked Hills (1956)
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
The Cobweb (1955)
Wicked as They Come (1956)
Knights of the Round Table (1953)
The Night the World Exploded (1957)
I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
My Gun Is Quick (1957)
Attila (1954)