Top 10 Films of the 1950s

Man With The Golden Arm
War of the Worlds
The Searchers
Moby Dick
King Solomons Mines
Three Came Home
Them!
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Day The Earth Stood Still
Rocketship XM

Plus most of what are mentioned above. Some of these wernt the greatest movies ever, but in my day they were the ones that impressed me the most.

Edit: I actually changed my top 10 here to be consistent with my top 100 thread.

My top 10 for the 1950's, given my limited knowledge of 1950's films, these would be the ones that I liked the most:

1- Ikiru (Kurosawa)
2 - Ugetsu (Mizoguchi)
3 - Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
4 - The Human Condition I&II (Kobayashi)
5 - Rashomon (Kurosawa)
6 - Paths of Glory (Kubrick)
7 - Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
8 - The Killling (Kubrick)
9 - Throne of Blood (Kurosawa)
10 - Tokyo Story (Ozu)

And I am just discovering Kurosawa. Seven Samurai, a massive 200 minute epic shows all dimensions of human life compressed in a single film and is a great achievement and my favorite film of the 1950's. Ikiru is almost as great (though very different as well), and I found it an extremely moving film. Early Summer is far behind those two in my book.

I have limited knowledge of 1950's films as I have watched less than 100 films from the decade. Some 1950's films I remember right now of having watched at some point in my life:

Disney, Lady and the Tramp
Disney, Cinderella
Disney, Sleeping Beauty
Disney, Peter Pan
Disney, Cinderella
Disney, Alice in Wonderland *(all those above before I reached 7 years old)
Ben-Hur
War of the Worlds
12 Angry Men
Singing' in the Rain
The 400 Blows
Hitchcock, North by Northwest
Hitchcock, Vertigo
Hitchcock, Rear Window
Hitchcock, Dial M for Murder
Kurosawa, Throne of Blood
Kurosawa, Ikiru
Kurosawa, Rashomon
Kurosawa, Seven Samurai
Ozu, Tokyo Story
Ozu, Floating Weeds
Ozu, Early Summer
Kubrick, The Killing
Kubrick, Paths of Glory
Bergman, Wild Strawberries
Bergman, Seventh Seal
Welles, A Touch of Evil
Ford, The Searchers

A small list.

? = Lumet.

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Seven Samurai is an absolute masterpiece, Ive watched it maybe 30 times

2. The Quiet Man
1. Paths of Glory
2. Room at the Top
3. The Nun's Story
4. Singin' in the Rain
5. Rear Window
6. Some Like It Hot



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1 Vertigo
2 The Searchers
3 Rear Window
4 On the waterfront
5 The bridge on the river kwai
6 Singin in the rain
7 The seven samurai
8 North by Northwest
9 The Ten commandments
10 Some like it hot

In no order, yet to see a Kurosawa film if you're wondering where he is:

Rio Bravo
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Paths of Glory
The Searchers
12 Angry Men
Rear Window
Dial M for Murder
The Bridge on the River Kwai
High Noon

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Strange, I was using IMDB filter things for my ratings and must have set it wrong, a few of them are from the 60s I think, will edit

The 1950s was such a great decade for film. There were so many great foreign films during that time, and there were a bunch of great film noir and Hitchcock films as well. On my tentative top 100 list, 24(!) are from the 50s, by far the most of any decade, for me. Here it is:

10. Ugetsu
9. Touch of Evil
8. Sunset Boulevard
7. North by Northwest
6. Ikiru
5. Singing in the Rain
4. Night of the Hunter
3. Nights of Cabiria
2. Vertigo
1. Seven Samurai

That feels insufficient, so I'm going to put together another top 10 list:

10. Kiss Me Deadly
9. Paths of Glory
8. High Noon
7. Rear Window
6. Some Like it Hot
5. La Strada
4. Tokyo Story
3. Strangers on a Train
2. The 400 Blows
1. All About Eve

If you put those two lists into a battle royale, it'd be a good match, I think.

Updated Top 10:

1. Rear Window
2. Some like it Hot
3. On the Waterfront
4. North by Northwest
5. Sansho the Bailiff
6. High Noon
7. Bridge on the River Kwai
8. Dial M for Murder
9. Stalag 17
10. 12 Angry Men

1. A Man Escaped (1957) by Robert Bresson


2. Ordet (1955) by Carl Theodor Dreyer


3. The World of Apu (1959) by Satyajit Ray


4. Tokyo Story (1953) by Yasujiro Ozu


5. Pickpocket (1959) by Robert Bresson


6. The Seventh Seal (1957) Ingmar Bergman


7. Seven Samurai (1954) by Akira Kurosawa


8. North by Northwest (1959) by Alfred Hitchcock


9. The Music Room (1958) by Satyajit Ray


10. Pather Panchali (1955) by Satyajit Ray

1. High Noon
2. Godzilla
3. Rebel without a cause
4. Kiss me Deadly
5. Forbidden Planet
6. Invasion of the body snatchers
7. Paths of Glory
8. Seventh Seal
9. A night to Remember
10. 400 blows

I chose not to include any Hitchcock movie's because all of his movies from the 50s could easily be considered a top ten list in its own....

Mine at the moment

10) On the Waterfront (Kazan)




9) Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)




8) Some like it Hot (Wilder)



7) Seven Samurai (Kurasowa)




6) Rear Window (Hitchcock)




5) Singin' in the Rain (Kelly and Donen)




4) The Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean)




3) North by Northwest (Hitchcock)




2) The Searchers (Ford)




1) Vertigo (Hitchcock)

1. 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
2. Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
3. The Cranes are Flying (Kalatozov, 1957)
4. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
5. The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
6. Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950)
7. Ballad of a Soldier (Chukhrai, 1959)
8. Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
9. A Star is Born (Cukor, 1954)
10. Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)

Honorable mention: An American in Paris (Minnelli, 1951)

La Strada
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Ace In The Hole
12 Angry Men
A Face In The Crowd
Ikiru
On The Waterfront
All About Eve
Sunset Boulevard

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Shane
Rashomon
A Streetcar Named Desire
Touch Of Evil
The Misfits
Seven Samurai
Home Of The Brave
The Caine Mutiny
Asphalt Jungle
High Noon
The Wild One
Salt Of The Earth
The Searchers
Giant
Key Largo
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Blackboard Jungle
Sweet Smell Of Success
Summer With Monika

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The Greatest Show On Earth
African Queen
High Noon
Singing in the Rain
The Quiet Man
The Robe
Stalag17
The War of the Worlds
White Christmas
To Hell and Back
The King And I
The Ten Commandments
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Bridge on the River Kwai
An Affair to Remember
Auntie Mame
Ben Hur

1.North By Northwest
2.Rashomon
3.Vertigo
4.Seven Samurai
5.12 Angry Men
6.Dial M For Murder
7.Sunset Boulevard
8.High Noon
9.The Seventh Seal
10.On The Waterfront

Something like that. I must say though i've barely touched the 50s, I'd feel much more comfortable with the 40s or 30s at this point.