The Top 100 Movies of the 1950s

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The Top 100 Movies of the 1950s
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
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10 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa NR -
16 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
27 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa NR -
34 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton NR -
43 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
47 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa NR -
48 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot NR -
53 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick NR -
56 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet NR -
66 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles NR -
69 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
74 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
85 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut NR -
86 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman NR -
88 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder NR -
89 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman NR -
93 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder NR -
97 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
99 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray NR -
101 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan NR -
103 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick NR -
105 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa NR -
114 All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz NR -
135 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot NR -
140 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger NR -
142 The Searchers 1956 John Ford NR -
150 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick NR -
152 Rififi 1955 Jules Dassin NR -
165 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks NR -
175 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder NR -
176 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder NR -
193 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa NR -
205 A Face in the Crowd 1957 Elia Kazan NR -
209 Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
214 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi NR -
225 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean PG -
237 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson NR -
238 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann NR -
245 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly NR -
249 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi NR -
261 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler NR -
263 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini NR -
264 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder PG13 -
324 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini NR -
340 Harvey 1950 Henry Koster NR -
348 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang NR -
369 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica NR -
370 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray PG13 -
392 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Louis Malle NR -
395 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer NR -
398 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
400 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan NR -
408 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray NR -
420 The African Queen 1951 John Huston NR -
430 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges NR -
437 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann NR -
453 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich NR -
465 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston NR -
483 Night and Fog 1956 Alain Resnais R -
488 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens NR -
519 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan PG -
522 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais NR -
552 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 Richard Brooks NR -
557 The Cranes are Flying 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov NR -
572 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder NR -
575 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller NR -
576 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel NR -
577 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann NR -
588 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise G -
599 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
617 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford NR -
628 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox G -
636 Giant 1956 George Stevens NR -
684 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk NR -
689 The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 Max Ophüls NR -
707 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 Ingmar Bergman NR -
716 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson NR -
732 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann NR -
748 Shane 1953 George Stevens NR -
787 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk NR -
795 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli NR -
802 The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959 Masaki Kobayashi NR -
810 Mon Oncle 1958 Jacques Tati NR -
818 Night and the City 1950 Jules Dassin NR -
862 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray NR -
873 The Court Jester 1955 Melvin Frank, Norman Panama NR -
889 Godzilla 1954 Ishirô Honda NR -
902 Los olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel NR -
926 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli NR -
958 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler NR -
967 Bob le Flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville PG -
976 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy NR -
1014 Horror of Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher NR -
1018 Floating Weeds 1959 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
1019 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis NR -
1031 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin G -
1051 The Defiant Ones 1958 Stanley Kramer NR -
1054 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton NR -
1064 Forbidden Games 1952 René Clément NR -
1111 The World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray NR -

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