The Top 50 Movies of the 1950s

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The Top 50 Movies of the 1950s
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
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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 -

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