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.
Man in Space (1955)
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
The Troublemaker (1951)
Jet Storm (1959)
The Little Rebels (1955)
Gypped in the Penthouse (1955)
They Came to Cordura (1959)
The Gates of Paris (1957)
The Violent Men (1955)
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
French Rarebit (1951)
Hollywood Story (1951)
Mouse for Sale (1955)
The Sound and the Fury (1959)
The President's Lady (1953)
Hangman's Knot (1952)
Lizzie (1957)
Nowhere to Go (1958)
A Dog’s Life (1950)
The Proud Ones (1956)
Rue de Paris (1959)
You Never Can Tell (1951)
Only the Valiant (1951)
Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957)
The Flying Sorceress (1956)
Crashout (1955)
The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
Kind Lady (1951)
Mi permette babbo! (1956)
Damn Yankees (1958)
The Love of a Woman (1953)
When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
Red Mountain (1951)
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)
The Rack (1956)
The Golden Blade (1953)
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Embajadores en el infierno (1956)
Ferdinand I King of Naples (1959)
The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
This Is a Life? (1955)
The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954)
Fortune Is a Woman (1957)
Deep in My Heart (1954)
Love Is My Profession (1958)
Pat and Mike (1952)
Living It Up (1954)
Laughter in Paradise (1951)
Battle Hymn (1957)
Tight Spot (1955)
Beau Brummell (1954)
The Light in the Forest (1958)
Hilda Crane (1956)
The Challenge (1958)
White Feather (1955)
Tom Thumb (1958)
The Hangman (1959)
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957)
Gift Horse (1952)
Night Falls (1952)