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.
    Rashomon (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  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
  18. 18.
    The Wages of Fear (The Criterion Collection)
    by Henri-Georges Clouzot
  19. 19.
    Ikiru (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  20. 20.
  21. 21.
    Diabolique (The Criterion Collection)
    by Henri-Georges Clouzot
  22. 22.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu
  23. 23.
    Umberto D. (The Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica
  24. 24.
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    The Great War (1959)

  25. 25.
    Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  26. 26.
    High Noon (Collector's Edition)

  27. 27.
    Sansho the Bailiff (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  29. 29.
    Ace In The Hole (1951)
    by Billy Wilder
  30. 30.
    Los Olvidados
    by Luis Buñuel
  31. 31.
    La Strada (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini
  32. 32.
    Rififi (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin
  33. 33.
    Ugetsu (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  34. 34.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton
  35. 35.
    Ben-Hur (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Charles Brabin
  36. 36.
    The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut
  37. 37.
    Stalag 17 (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder
  38. 38.
    The Killing

  39. 39.
    Sweet Smell of Success
    by Alexander Mackendrick
  40. 40.
    Throne of Blood (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  42. 42.
    Anatomy of a Murder
    by Otto Preminger
  43. 43.
    Dial M for Murder
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  44. 44.
    The Cranes are Flying (The Criterion Collection)
    by Mikhail Kalatozov
  45. 45.
    Fires on the Plain - Criterion Collection
    by Kon Ichikawa
  47. 47.
    The Life of Oharu (1952) (Import All Region)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  48. 48.
    A Man Escaped
    by Robert Bresson
  49. 49.
    Harvey

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

Updated 8-9-11 — 41 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

Aug 09, 08:31AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

Abor

Untitled — 2 years ago

updated.

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