IMDB Top 50 - 1950s Movies

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The Top 50 1950s Movies as voted by the users of the Internet Movie Database.

Updated: August 9, 2011

  1. 1.
    12 Angry Men
    by Sidney Lumet

  2. 2.
    Seven Samurai (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  3. 3.
    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  4. 4.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

  5. 5.
    North By Northwest
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  6. 6.
    Paths of Glory
    by Stanley Kubrick

  7. 7.
    The Human Condition (The Criterion Collection)
    by Masaki Kobayashi

  8. 8.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  9. 9.
    All About Eve
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  10. 10.

  11. 11.
    Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Gene Kelly

  12. 12.
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    by David Lean

  13. 13.
    Some Like It Hot
    by Billy Wilder

  14. 14.
    Witness For the Prosecution

  15. 15.
    On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan

  16. 16.
    Wild Strawberries (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ingmar Bergman

  17. 19.
    Ikiru (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  18. 20.

  19. 21.
    Diabolique (The Criterion Collection)
    by Henri-Georges Clouzot

  20. 22.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu

  21. 23.
    Umberto D. (The Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica

  22. 24.
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    The Great War (1959)

  23. 25.
    Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  24. 26.
    High Noon (Collector's Edition)

  25. 29.
    Ace In The Hole (1951)
    by Billy Wilder

  26. 30.

  27. 31.
    La Strada (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini

  28. 32.
    Rififi (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin

  29. 33.
    Ugetsu (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

  30. 34.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

  31. 35.
    Ben-Hur (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Charles Brabin

  32. 36.
    The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut

  33. 37.
    Stalag 17 (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

  34. 38.
    The Killing

  35. 39.
    Sweet Smell of Success
    by Alexander Mackendrick

  36. 42.
    Anatomy of a Murder

  37. 43.
    Dial M for Murder

  38. 44.
    The Cranes are Flying (The Criterion Collection)
    by Mikhail Kalatozov

  39. 45.
    Fires on the Plain - Criterion Collection
    by Kon Ichikawa

  40. 47.
    The Life of Oharu (1952) (Import All Region)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

  41. 48.
    A Man Escaped
    by Robert Bresson

  42. 49.
    Harvey

  43. 50.
    The Browning Version (The Criterion Collection)
    by Anthony Asquith

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Created by IYG on Aug 24, 2007.
 

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Updated 8-9-11 — 26 weeks ago

New additions:

*The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

*Tokyo Story

*The Great War

*Ballad of a Solider

*The Cranes are Flying

*Life of Oharu

*A Man Escaped

*The Browning Version

Bubbling Under:

*East of Eden

*African Queen

*The Caine Mutiny

*Roman Holiday

*The Day the Earth Stood Still

*A Face in the Crowd

*Welcome Mr. Marshall

*The Searchers


Untitled — 2 years ago

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