The Top 250 Movies of the 1950s

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The Top 250 Movies of the 1950s
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
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9 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa NR -
15 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
26 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa NR -
36 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton NR -
38 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
44 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa NR -
51 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot NR -
54 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet NR -
55 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick NR -
62 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
63 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles NR -
76 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
83 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut NR -
86 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman NR -
87 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman NR -
88 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder NR -
90 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder NR -
93 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
97 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan NR -
104 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray NR -
108 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa NR -
109 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick NR -
113 All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz NR -
138 The Searchers 1956 John Ford NR -
140 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot NR -
141 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger NR -
154 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick NR -
155 Rififi 1955 Jules Dassin NR -
157 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks NR -
176 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder NR -
182 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder NR -
193 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa NR -
204 Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
207 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi NR -
215 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean PG -
225 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann NR -
231 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly NR -
246 A Face in the Crowd 1957 Elia Kazan NR -
247 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler NR -
250 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder PG13 -
266 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi NR -
267 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson NR -
278 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini NR -
319 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini NR -
324 Harvey 1950 Henry Koster NR -
352 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray PG13 -
367 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang NR -
369 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica NR -
379 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan NR -
393 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
394 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Louis Malle NR -
399 The African Queen 1951 John Huston NR -
407 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer NR -
425 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges NR -
437 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann NR -
447 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray NR -
459 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich NR -
460 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston NR -
483 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan PG -
495 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens NR -
507 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais NR -
519 Night and Fog 1956 Alain Resnais R -
522 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 Richard Brooks NR -
540 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder NR -
552 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann NR -
555 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise G -
559 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel NR -
584 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford NR -
587 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
605 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox G -
619 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller NR -
632 Giant 1956 George Stevens NR -
650 The Cranes are Flying 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov NR -
695 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 Ingmar Bergman NR -
697 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson NR -
714 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk NR -
742 The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 Max Ophüls NR -
744 Mon Oncle 1958 Jacques Tati NR -
753 Shane 1953 George Stevens NR -
770 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann NR -
822 The Court Jester 1955 Melvin Frank, Norman Panama NR -
825 Night and the City 1950 Jules Dassin NR -
830 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli NR -
839 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray NR -
847 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk NR -
852 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli NR -
887 Godzilla 1954 Ishirô Honda NR -
904 The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959 Masaki Kobayashi NR -
911 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler NR -
940 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis NR -
950 Horror of Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher NR -
963 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy NR -
997 Los olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel NR -
1007 Bob le Flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville PG -
1035 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton NR -
1052 Floating Weeds 1959 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
1056 Forbidden Games 1952 René Clément NR -
1074 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin G -
1095 The Defiant Ones 1958 Stanley Kramer NR -
1112 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Robert Bresson NR -
1114 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks NR -
1123 Curse of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur NR -
1130 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor PG -
1148 Duck Amuck 1953 Chuck Jones NR -
1153 The World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray NR -
1170 Orpheus 1950 Jean Cocteau NR -
1173 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati NR -
1175 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor NR -
1194 The Wrong Man 1956 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
1219 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder NR -
1233 3:10 to Yuma 1957 Delmer Daves NR -
1252 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey NR -
1262 A Night to Remember 1958 Roy Ward Baker NR -
1283 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick NR -
1284 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille G -
1296 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby NR -
1300 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda NR -
1303 Alice in Wonderland 1951 Clyde Geronimi G -
1343 The Trouble with Harry 1955 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
1346 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann NR -
1367 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk NR -
1371 House on Haunted Hill 1959 William Castle NR -
1387 The Magician 1958 Ingmar Bergman NR -
1409 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 Jack Arnold NR -
1416 Early Summer 1951 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
1417 Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954 Jack Arnold G -
1437 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray NR -
1452 Summer with Monika 1953 Ingmar Bergman NR -
1455 Black Orpheus 1959 Marcel Camus PG -
1490 I Vitelloni 1953 Federico Fellini NR -
1504 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954 Richard Fleischer G -
1515 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen NR -
1520 Peter Pan 1953 Clyde Geronimi G -
1521 The Red Balloon 1956 Albert Lamorisse NR -
1528 Good Morning 1959 Yasujirô Ozu PG -
1537 Guys and Dolls 1955 Joseph L. Mankiewicz NR -
1553 What's Opera, Doc? 1957 Chuck Jones NR -
1572 House of Wax 1953 André De Toth NR -
1592 The Man from Laramie 1955 Anthony Mann NR -
1594 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin G -
1595 The Big Country 1958 William Wyler NR -
1599 White Christmas 1954 Michael Curtiz G -
1607 Twelve Angry Men 1954 Franklin J. Schaffner NR -
1611 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli NR -
1632 The Bad Seed 1956 Mervyn LeRoy NR -
1658 Bigger Than Life 1956 NIcholas Ray NR -
1688 The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity 1959 Masaki Kobayashi PG -
1747 Lady and the Tramp 1955 Clyde Geronimi NR -
1791 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King NR -
1804 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 Terence Fisher NR -
1823 Rio Grande 1950 John Ford NR -
1830 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk NR -
1845 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick NR -
1851 I Confess 1953 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
1888 Sleeping Beauty 1959 Clyde Geronimi G -
1899 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi NR -
1919 Cinderella 1950 Clyde Geronimi G -
1920 Them! 1954 Gordon Douglas NR -
1962 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 1958 Nathan Juran G -
1977 On the Beach 1959 Stanley Kramer NR -
1980 D.O.A. 1950 Rudolph Maté NR -
1989 The Burmese Harp 1956 Kon Ichikawa NR -
2031 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges NR -
2045 Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto 1954 Hiroshi Inagaki NR -
2127 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang G -
2135 The Fly 1958 Kurt Neumann NR -
2187 Seven Brides For Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen G -
2197 Niagara 1953 Henry Hathaway NR -
2200 Moby Dick 1956 John Huston NR -
2229 The River 1951 Jean Renoir NR -
2249 The Narrow Margin 1952 Richard Fleischer NR -
2275 The Man With the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger NR -
2278 Pillow Talk 1959 Michael Gordon NR -
2290 Journey to Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini NR -
2318 Rabbit of Seville 1950 Chuck Jones NR -
2324 How to Marry a Millionaire 1953 Jean Negulesco NR -
2347 The Desperate Hours 1955 William Wyler NR -
2356 Hobson's Choice 1954 David Lean NR -
2364 The Music Room 1958 Satyajit Ray NR -
2384 Othello 1951 Orson Welles PG -
2389 Where the Sidewalk Ends 1950 Otto Preminger NR -
2404 Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century 1953 Chuck Jones NR -
2466 Sawdust and Tinsel 1953 Ingmar Bergman NR -
2476 A Christmas Carol 1951 Brian Desmond Hurst NR -
2503 Shadows 1959 John Cassavetes NR -
2527 Desk Set 1957 Walter Lang NR -
2528 Panic in the Streets 1950 Elia Kazan NR -
2535 Ivan the Terrible, Part Two 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein NR -
2541 Julius Caesar 1953 Joseph L. Mankiewicz NR -
2548 Stage Fright 1950 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
2594 Ballad of a Soldier 1959 Grigoriy Chukhray NR -
2649 Baby Doll 1956 Elia Kazan R -
2655 One Froggy Evening 1955 Chuck Jones NR -
2675 High Society 1956 Charles Walters NR -
2676 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1959 Terence Fisher NR -
2683 The Wild One 1953 Laslo Benedek NR -
2691 The Blob 1958 Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. NR -
2712 Run Silent Run Deep 1958 Robert Wise PG -
2714 Monkey Business 1952 Howard Hawks NR -
2759 Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958 Mario Monicelli NR -
2760 The Long, Hot Summer 1958 Martin Ritt PG -
2761 Angel Face 1952 Otto Preminger NR -
2773 Godzilla, King of the Monsters! 1956 Ishirô Honda, Terry O. Moore NR -
2796 Summer Interlude 1951 Ingmar Bergman NR -
2824 Rabbit Seasoning 1952 Chuck Jones NR -
2840 Father of the Bride 1950 Vincente Minnelli NR -
2841 Journey to the Center of the Earth 1959 Henry Levin G -
2845 The Hitch-Hiker 1953 Ida Lupino NR -
2864 The Big Combo 1955 Joseph H. Lewis NR -
2867 Suddenly, Last Summer 1959 Joseph L. Mankiewicz NR -
2882 The Steel Helmet 1951 Samuel Fuller NR -
2930 Auntie Mame 1958 Morton DaCosta G -
2937 Love in the Afternoon 1957 Billy Wilder NR -
2990 On Dangerous Ground 1952 Nicholas Ray NR -
3008 Tokyo Twilight 1957 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
3010 We're No Angels 1955 Michael Curtiz NR -
3021 Man of the West 1958 Anthony Mann NR -
3053 Vera Cruz 1954 Robert Aldrich NR -
3067 Bend of the River 1952 Anthony Mann NR -
3095 Kanal 1957 Andrzej Wajda NR -
3113 Kansas City Confidential 1952 Phil Karlson NR -
3125 Detective Story 1951 William Wyler NR -
3126 The Mummy 1959 Terence Fisher NR -
3136 Indiscreet 1958 Stanley Donen NR -
3170 La Ronde 1950 Max Ophüls NR -
3180 Magnificent Obsession 1954 Douglas Sirk NR -
3197 The Furies 1950 Anthony Mann NR -
3230 Killer's Kiss 1955 Stanley Kubrick NR -
3236 Richard III 1955 Laurence Olivier NR -
3263 Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956 Robert Wise NR -
3268 Blackboard Jungle 1955 Richard Brooks NR -
3270 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 George Stevens NR -
3273 Mr. Arkadin 1955 Orson Welles NR -
3279 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli NR -
3313 Operation Petticoat 1959 Blake Edwards NR -
3319 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti NR -
3344 Old Yeller 1957 Robert Stevenson G -
3346 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli NR -
3354 The Tall T 1957 Budd Boetticher NR -
3355 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls NR -
3432 The Flowers of St. Francis 1950 Roberto Rossellini NR -
3449 No Way Out 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz NR -
3459 Fires on the Plain 1959 Kon Ichikawa NR -
3463 The Spirit of St. Louis 1957 Billy Wilder NR -
3464 The Horse Soldiers 1959 John Ford NR -
3471 Invaders from Mars 1953 William Cameron Menzies NR -
3480 The Revenge of Frankenstein 1958 Terence Fisher NR -
3493 Compulsion 1959 Richard Fleischer NR -
3520 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli G -
3535 Bus Stop 1956 Joshua Logan NR -

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