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.
I Live in Fear (1955)
The River (1951)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Bread, Love and Dreams (1953)
The Railroad Man (1956)
Les Misérables (1958)
River of No Return (1954)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
125 rue Montmartre (1959)
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
High Society (1956)
Lambert the Sheepish Lion (1952)
The Tin Star (1957)
French Cancan (1955)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
The Tall T (1957)
Some Came Running (1958)
The Dam Busters (1955)
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Desk Set (1957)
The Far Country (1954)
Ivanhoe (1952)
Twelve Angry Men (1954)
Anastasia (1956)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
Auntie Mame (1958)
A Geisha (1953)
The Mummy (1959)
War and Peace (1956)
The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
A King in New York (1957)
Room at the Top (1958)
The Lineup (1958)
The Martyr of Calvary (1952)
Lola Montès (1955)
Gate of Hell (1953)
Violent Summer (1959)
While the City Sleeps (1956)
Scaramouche (1952)
The Furies (1950)
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
Warlock (1959)
On the Beach (1959)
Poison (1951)
The Golden Coach (1952)
The Country Girl (1954)
Dr. Knock (1951)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
The Young Lions (1958)
Fiasco in Milan (1959)
Day of the Outlaw (1959)
The Men (1950)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
The Wild One (1953)
Nightfall (1956)
Variety Lights (1950)
The Facts of Murder (1959)
7 Men from Now (1956)