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.
Pet Peeve (1954)
Hochzeit auf Immenhof (1956)
The Man from the Alamo (1953)
M (1951)
Juliette, or Key of Dreams (1951)
Libel (1959)
The Purple Plain (1954)
The Outriders (1950)
Désirée (1954)
Whirlpool (1950)
Santa Fe (1951)
Room for One More (1952)
Olivia (1951)
Father's Week-End (1953)
The Sound Barrier (1952)
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche (1958)
Samurai Saga (1959)
The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
Posse Cat (1954)
The Marrying Kind (1952)
Robot Rabbit (1953)
Little Johnny Jet (1953)
Hare Brush (1955)
The Ship That Died of Shame (1955)
The Rising of the Moon (1957)
Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
Picnic (1955)
Cowboy (1958)
Across the Bridge (1957)
The Lawless Breed (1952)
The Big Night (1951)
Morning Departure (1950)
Three Sinners (1950)
Fellowship of the Frog (1959)
Past Perfumance (1955)
It Came from Outer Space (1953)
Albert R.N. (1953)
Trial (1955)
Dawn at Socorro (1954)
Venom and Eternity (1952)
Father's Lion (1952)
Carrie (1952)
The Mississippi Gambler (1953)
Side Street (1950)
Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
The Trap (1959)
A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
The Perfect Furlough (1958)
The Man with a Cloak (1951)
The Buccaneer (1958)
Time Without Pity (1957)
The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
Back from Eternity (1956)
Nine Lives (1957)
If All the Guys in the World... (1956)
Hare Lift (1952)
The Sound of Fury (1950)
Forever Female (1953)
The Last Angry Man (1959)
Dark City (1950)