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Best Movies of the '50s

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Top 100 movies of the 50s decade rated on FilmAffinity

1

12 Angry Men 12 Angry Men

1957

Sidney Lumet

Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, E.G. Marshall, Martin Balsam ...

8.7

73,422
2

Witness for the Prosecution Witness for the Prosecution

1957

Billy Wilder

Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams ...

8.6

46,488
3

Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard

1950

Billy Wilder

William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Lloyd Gough ...

8.5

48,412
4

Paths of Glory Paths of Glory

1957

Stanley Kubrick

Kirk Douglas, George Macready, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Meeker, Wayne Morris ...

8.4

57,860
5

All About Eve All About Eve

1950

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Marilyn Monroe ...

8.4

36,764
6

Seven Samurai Seven Samurai

1954

Akira Kurosawa

Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki ...

8.4

44,058
7

The Young and the Damned The Young and the Damned

1950

Luis Buñuel

Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán, Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo, Alma Delia Fuentes ...

8.3

15,139
8

Some Like It Hot Some Like It Hot

1959

Billy Wilder

Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, George Raft, Pat O'Brien ...

8.3

84,370
9

Sansho the Bailiff Sansho the Bailiff

1954

Kenji Mizoguchi

Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayaki, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô, Akitake Kôno ...

8.3

6,325
10

To Live To Live

1952

Akira Kurosawa

Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyôko Seki, Makoto Kobori, Kumeko Urabe ...

8.3

12,527
11

North by Northwest North by Northwest

1959

Alfred Hitchcock

Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll ...

8.2

71,658
12

Limelight Limelight

1952

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Sydney Chaplin, Norman Lloyd ...

8.2

14,318
13

Tokyo Story Tokyo Story

1953

Yasujirō Ozu

Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Sô Yamamura, Haruko Sugimura ...

8.2

13,338
14

Vertigo Vertigo

1958

Alfred Hitchcock

James Stewart, Kim Novak, Henry Jones, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore ...

8.2

73,448
15

The World of Apu The World of Apu

1959

Satyajit Ray

Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty, Swapan Mukherjee, Dhiresh Majumdar ...

8.2

4,590
16

Ordet (The Word) Ordet (The Word)

1955

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Cay Kristiansen, Brigitte Federspiel ...

8.2

12,279
17

Rear Window Rear Window

1954

Alfred Hitchcock

James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn, Wendell Corey

8.2

79,654
18

Pather Panchali Pather Panchali

1955

Satyajit Ray

Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Subir Bannerjee, Chunibala Devi

8.2

6,756
19

Nights of Cabiria Nights of Cabiria

1957

Federico Fellini

Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Amedeo Nazzari, Aldo Silvani, Franca Marzi ...

8.2

9,220
20

Dial M for Murder Dial M for Murder

1954

Alfred Hitchcock

Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson ...

8.2

29,944
21

Touch of Evil Touch of Evil

1958

Orson Welles

Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Calleia ...

8.2

31,422
22

A Man Escaped A Man Escaped

1956

Robert Bresson

François Leterrier, Roland Monod, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Jacques Ertaud

8.1

9,633
23

Tales of Ugetsu Tales of Ugetsu

1953

Kenji Mizoguchi

Machiko Kyô, Mitsuko Mito, Kinuyo Tanaka, Masayuki Mori, Eitarô Ozawa ...

8.1

10,112
24

La Strada La Strada

1954

Federico Fellini

Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovere, Livia Venturini

8.1

13,699
25

Aparajito (The Unvanquished) Aparajito (The Unvanquished)

1956

Satyajit Ray

Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Pinaki Sengupta, Ramani Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal ...

8.1

4,393
26

Umberto D. Umberto D.

1952

Vittorio De Sica

Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Memmo Carotenuto, Alberto Albani Barbieri

8.1

8,526
27

The Big Heat The Big Heat

1953

Fritz Lang

Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby ...

8.1

12,188
28

The Wages of Fear The Wages of Fear

1953

H.G. Clouzot

Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Véra Clouzot, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli ...

8.1

10,671
29

The Seventh Seal The Seventh Seal

1957

Ingmar Bergman

Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Nils Poppe, Bibi Andersson, Bengt Ekerot ...

8.1

36,646
30

Singin' in the Rain Singin' in the Rain

1952

Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

Gene Kelly, Donald O´Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell ...

8.1

49,870

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