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.
Boy on a Dolphin (1957)
The Left Handed Gun (1958)
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)
Never Wave at a WAC (1953)
Affair with a Stranger (1953)
Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak (1951)
The Big Knife (1955)
A Life of Her Own (1950)
Underwater! (1955)
Adorable Creatures (1952)
No Escape (1953)
The Cosmic Man (1959)
Back from the Dead (1957)
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Son of Sinbad (1955)
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
Action of the Tiger (1957)
The French Line (1954)
Alexander the Great (1956)
Marguerite of the Night (1955)
Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959)
Liane, Jungle Goddess (1956)
The Impure Ones (1954)
A Lawless Street (1955)
Be Beautiful and Shut Up (1958)
A Lady Without Passport (1950)
Accused of Murder (1956)
Bus Stop (1956)
The James Dean Story (1957)
Paris Is Always Paris (1951)
This Side of the Law (1950)
Babette Goes to War (1959)
The Maze (1953)
Dream Wife (1953)
Flat Top (1952)
Secret of the Incas (1954)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
...And God Created Woman (1956)
Count Three and Pray (1955)
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
Hellcats of the Navy (1957)
Chicago Confidential (1957)
The Scarlet Hour (1956)
World Without End (1956)
The Gamma People (1956)
Return of the Fly (1959)
The Magnetic Monster (1953)
The Big Trees (1952)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
The High and the Mighty (1954)
The Woman on Pier 13 (1950)
The Colossus of New York (1958)
Sombrero (1953)
No Man's Woman (1955)
One Way Street (1950)
The Night Heaven Fell (1958)
Star in the Dust (1956)
Home Town Story (1951)
Destination Moon (1950)