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.
Miss Oyu (1951)
Frisky (1954)
Ride Lonesome (1959)
The Cruel Sea (1953)
The Million Pound Note (1954)
The Last Hurrah (1958)
Along the Great Divide (1951)
It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Tiger Bay (1959)
Woman on the Run (1950)
Indiscreet (1958)
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
Oklahoma! (1955)
The Red Inn (1951)
Last Holiday (1950)
Jubal (1956)
Executive Suite (1954)
Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
The Sign of Venus (1955)
The Woman in the Rumor (1954)
Treasure Island (1950)
The Hanging Tree (1959)
The Brute (1953)
Artists and Models (1955)
The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
A Bucket of Blood (1959)
The Star (1952)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
Autumn Leaves (1956)
The Catered Affair (1956)
School for Buglars (1958)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
The Prowler (1951)
Too Bad She's Bad (1954)
To Hare Is Human (1956)
The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)
The Bravados (1958)
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
The Long Gray Line (1955)
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
Harriet Craig (1950)
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
The Sheepman (1958)
Dunkirk (1958)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
Forty Guns (1957)
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
Sapphire (1959)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
Yesterday's Enemy (1959)
The Hunchback of Paris (1959)
The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
Ransom! (1956)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)