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IMDB - Top 50 - 1950s Movies

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

Updated: November 3, 2009

(found at: http://www.imdb.com/chart/1950s)
1. 12 Angry Men
by Sidney Lumet
  
2. Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection - 3-Disc Remastered Edition
by Akira Kurosawa
  
3. Rear Window (Collector's Edition)  
4. Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
by Billy Wilder
  
5. North By Northwest  
6. Paths of Glory
by Stanley Kubrick
  
7. Vertigo (Collector's Edition)  
8. The Bridge on the River Kwai
by David Lean
  
9. All About Eve
by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  
10. Rashomon - Criterion Collection  
11. Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Donen, Stanley
  
12. Some Like It Hot (Special Edition)  
13.
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 Touch of Evil (Restored to Orson Welles' Vision)  
14. Nights of Cabiria - Criterion Collection
by Federico Fellini
  
15. The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
by Ingmar Bergman
  
16. On the Waterfront (Special Edition)  
17. Witness For the Prosecution
by Billy Wilder
  
18. Diabolique - Criterion Collection
by Henri-Georges Clouzot
  
19. Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
20. The Wages of Fear - Criterion Collection
by Henri-Georges Clouzot
  
21. Welcome Mr. Marshall ( ¡Bienvenido, Mister Marshall! ) ( Bienvenido Mr. Marshall ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ]
by Luis García Berlanga
  
22. High Noon (Collector's Edition)
by Fred Zinnemann
  
23. Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection
by Ingmar Bergman
  
24. Umberto D. - Criterion Collection
by Vittorio De Sica
  
25. The Night of the Hunter
by Charles Laughton
  
26. Ben-Hur (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
by William Wyler
  
27. The Killing
by Stanley Kubrick
  
28. Ace in the Hole (1951) - Criterion Collection  
29. Sweet Smell of Success
by Alexander Mackendrick
  
30. La Strada - Criterion Collection
by Federico Fellini
  
31. Harvey
by Henry Koster
  
32. Stalag 17 (Special Collector's Edition)
by Billy Wilder
  
33. Anatomy of a Murder
by Otto Preminger
  
34. East of Eden (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Elia Kazan
  
35. Dial M for Murder
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
36. Rififi - Criterion Collection
by Jules Dassin
  
37. A Streetcar Named Desire (Original Director's Version)
by Elia Kazan
  
38. African Queen [Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn]
by John Huston
  
39. The Caine Mutiny (Collector's Edition)
by Edward Dmytryk
  
40. Los Olvidados  
41. Ikiru - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
  
42. The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection  
43. Sansho the Bailiff - Criterion Collection  
44. Throne of Blood - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
  
45. The Day the Earth Stood Still
by Robert Wise
  
46. Ugetsu - Criterion Collection
by Kenji Mizoguchi
  
47. Roman Holiday (Special Collector's Edition)
by William Wyler
  
48. Fires on the Plain - Criterion Collection
by Kon Ichikawa
  
49. A Night to Remember - Criterion Collection
by Roy Ward Baker
  
50.
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 The Searchers (Blu-Ray)  
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Created by IYG on Aug 24, 2007.