Top 10 Films of the 1950s

1. Rear Window (1954) - Alfred Hitchcock
2. Nights of Cabiria (1957) - Federico Fellini
3. The World of Apu (1958) - Satyajit Ray
4. Equinox Flower (1958) - Yasujiro Ozu
5. Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) - Yasujiro Ozu
6. Johnny Guitar (1954) - Nicholas Ray
7. Pather Panchali (1955) - Satyajit Ray
8. Early Summer (1951) - Yasujiro Ozu
9. Ordet (1955) - Carl Theodore Dreyer
10. Gate of Hell (1953) - Teinosuke Kinugasa

11. Tokyo Twilight (1957) - Yasujiro Ozu
12. All About Eve (1950) - Joseph L Mankiewicz
13. Sansho the Bailiff (1954) - Kenji Mizoguchi
14. Ikiru (1952) - Akira Kurosawa
15. Tokyo Story (1953) - Yasujiro Ozu
16. Throne of Blood (1957) - Akira Kurosawa
17. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - Elia Kazan
18. 12 Angry Men (1957) - Sidney Lumet
19. From Here to Eternity (1953) - Fred Zinnemann
20. The 400 Blows (1959) - Francois Truffaut

Perhaps Japanese cinema's greatest decade and one where I still have much to see - particularly from Hollywood.

See my top 50 thread for the top 7, Others in a top 10 would include Paths of Glory, Rashomon and Sansho.

The 1950's was not only in Japan but the greatest decade for film in the world because of the rise of TV (and manga in Japan) beginning around 1955 meant the decline of film, videogames also helped to bring the declined of film further in the 1980's and 1990's.

The 1950's were the last decade when films were still the main source of mass entertainment which meant more talent was invested there than in the next decades. That's Roger Ebert said that the best neighborhood of cinema city was the black and white one.

Sometimes I seriously wonder if you believe these comments are fact, or.... What? You're the only user who should have IMO programmed into their posts.

Camo: Guap what is your real name? Guap: John IMO

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It's hard to rate musicals on the same list with non-musicals, so I've been able to narrow it down to a top ten if I list my favorite musicals from 1950 separately.

These are my top five favorite musicals from the 1950s:
Brigadoon (1954)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Damn Yankees! (1958)
Oklahoma! (1955)
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

These are my top five favorite non-musical movies from the 1950s:
12 Angry Men (1957)
An Affair to Remember (1957)
North By Northwest (1959)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

This would be the second half of my top ten if the musicals were completely excluded from my list:
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Rear Window (1954)
Vertigo (1958)
Harvey (1950)


These are some honorable mentions from the 1950s:
Non-Musicals:
High Noon (1952)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Compulsion (1959)

Musicals:
Gigi (1958)
An American in Paris (1951)
The King and I (1956)

Disney Animated Movies:
Alice in Wonderland (1951-Disney)
Cinderella (1950-Disney)
Sleeping Beauty (1959-Disney)

Cinderella is terrible sorry GBG. Thank god that didn't make the Animation Countdown.

I'll agree that Cinderella is not one of the best Disney movies, but it's far from "terrible".

Alphabet order

Bigger Than Life
Elevator to the Gallows
The Human Condition Trilogy
Ikiru
Kanal
The Killing
Ordet
Rear Window
Sansho the Bailiff
Umberto D.

Honorable Mention: A bunch of Looney Tunes shorts.

My approximate favorites are (in chronological order):

Early Summer (1951) by Yasujiro Ozu
Limelight (1952) by Charles Chaplin
The Sun Shines Bright (1953) by John Ford
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) by Jacques Tati
Rear Window (1954) by Alfred Hitchcock
Sansho the Bailiff (1954) by Kenji Mizoguchi
Ordet (1955) by Carl Th Dreyer
Floating Clouds (1955) by Mikio Naruse
Some Came Running (1958) by Vincente Minnelli
Rio Bravo (1959) by Howard Hawks

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I'm probably the only person extremely looking forward to the fifties countdown. I think it will be my favorite of them all.

1. La Strada (1954) - Federico Fellini
2. The Apu Trilogy (1955, 57 & 59) - Satyajit Ray
3. 400 Blows (1959) - Francois Truffaut
4. Nights of Cabiria (1957) - Federico Fellini
5. The Cranes Are Flying (1957) - Mikhail Kalatozov
6. Seven Samurai (1954) - Akira Kurosawa
7. Rear Window (1954) - Alfred Hitchcock
8. Throne of Blood (1957) - Akira Kurosawa
9. Rififi (1955) - Jules Dassin
10. Tokyo Story (1953) - Yasujiro Ozu

Sorry for Wild Strawberries and Vertigo

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Make that two people! I love 50s movies.

Guys and Dolls? Seriously? I love musicals and even I wouldn't consider that a top film of 1950's...I can think of a dozen musicals made during the 1950's that were better than Guys and Dolls.

I've always thought The African Queen was overrated too...I saw it and enjoyed it but the movie is kind of slow and doesn't have a lot of re-watch appeal and the fact that Bogart stole the Lead Actor Oscar from Brando doesn't bode well for the movie in my mind either.

My top ten American films of the 1950s

1. Rear Window (1954; Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Bigger Than Life (1956; Nicholas Ray)
3. Sunset Blvd. (1950; Billy Wilder)
4. The Killing (1956; Stanley Kubrick)
5. Sweet Smell of Success (1957; Alexander Mackendrick)
6. In a Lonely Place (1950; Nicholas Ray)
7. On the Waterfront (1954; Elia Kazan)
8. The Baron of Arizona (1950; Samuel Fuller)
9. Killer's Kiss (1955; Stanley Kubrick) - This might even be higher later on, underrated film.
10. North by Northwest (1959; Alfred Hitchcock)

Don't worry, I'm working on improving this list.

How would your overall 50s list look JJ?

Sunset Blvd. would take the place of Kanal now.

Forgot to post on this thread, finally I'm doing it.

1. Rashomon
2. Rear Window
3. Wages of Fear
4. 12 Angry Men
5. The Seventh Seal
6. Some Like it Hot
7. Rio Bravo
8. Tokyo Story
9. Sweet Smell of Success
10. The 400 Blows

Honorable mentions:

- Sansho the Bailiff
- Mr. Hulot's Holiday
- Sunset Boulevard
- Ikiru
- Paths of Glory
- Bridge on the River Kwai

...and many more. There are so many 50s films I love.