Criteria: These Greatest Movies of the 1950s are ranked according to their initial and lasting acclaim, influence as well as initial and lasting popularity.
Edited By: Tim, pauldrach, ManPerson, Bruno, Luuk
- Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa (1954)
- Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
- Singin' in the Rain - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (1952)
- Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
- Rashōmon - Akira Kurosawa (1950)
- The Searchers - John Ford (1956)
- 12 Angry Men - Sidney Lumet (1957)
- Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder (1959)
- North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock (1959)
- The 400 Blows - François Truffaut (1959)
- Tokyo Story - Yasujirō Ozu (1953)
- Sunset Blvd. - Billy Wilder (1950)
- Pather Panchali - Satyajit Ray (1955)
- On the Waterfront - Elia Kazan (1954)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai - David Lean (1957)
- Ben-Hur - William Wyler (1959)
- The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman (1957)
- All About Eve - Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
- High Noon - Fred Zinnemann (1952)
- Touch of Evil - Orson Welles (1958)
- A Streetcar Named Desire - Elia Kazan (1951)
- La strada - Federico Fellini (1954)
- Rebel Without a Cause - Nicholas Ray (1955)
- Paths of Glory - Stanley Kubrick (1957)
- Rio Bravo - Howard Hawks (1959)
- The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton (1955)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Don Siegel (1956)
- Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman (1957)
- Godzilla - Ishirō Honda (1954)
- Ikiru - Akira Kurosawa (1952)
- Ugetsu - Kenji Mizoguchi (1953)
- Roman Holiday - William Wyler (1953)
- The Wages of Fear - Henri-Georges Clouzot (1953)
- The Asphalt Jungle - John Huston (1950)
- Hiroshima mon amour - Alain Resnais (1959)
- The Ten Commandments - Cecil B. DeMille (1956)
- Shane - George Stevens (1953)
- Les diaboliques - Henri-Georges Clouzot (1955)
- A Man Escaped - Robert Bresson (1956)
- Anatomy of a Murder - Otto Preminger (1959)
- Sanshō the Bailiff - Kenji Mizoguchi (1954)
- From Here to Eternity - Fred Zinnemann (1953)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Richard Brooks (1958)
- The African Queen - John Huston (1951)
- Strangers on a Train - Alfred Hitchcock (1951)
- Sweet Smell of Success - Alexander Mackendrick (1957)
- Imitation of Life - Douglas Sirk (1959)
- Los olvidados - Luis Buñuel (1950)
- The Quiet Man - John Ford (1952)
- Elevator to the Gallows - Louis Malle (1958)
- An American in Paris - Vincente Minnelli (1951)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still - Robert Wise (1951)
- Dracula - Terence Fisher (1958)
- Throne of Blood - Akira Kurosawa (1957)
- Nights of Cabiria - Federico Fellini (1957)
- Rififi - Jules Dassin (1955)
- Night and Fog - Alain Resnais (1956)
- East of Eden - Elia Kazan (1955)
- Forbidden Planet - Fred M. Wilcox (1956)
- In a Lonely Place - Nicholas Ray (1950)
- Kiss Me Deadly - Robert Aldrich (1955)
- Ordet - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1955)
- Pickpocket - Robert Bresson (1959)
- A Star Is Born - George Cukor (1954)
- Mr. Hulot's Holiday - Jacques Tati (1953)
- Johnny Guitar - Nicholas Ray (1954)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Richard Fleischer (1954)
- Ashes and Diamonds - Andrzej Wajda (1958)
- The World of Apu - Satyajit Ray (1959)
- Umberto D. - Vittorio De Sica (1952)
- Witness for the Prosecution - Billy Wilder (1957)
- The Band Wagon - Vincente Minnelli (1953)
- The Big Heat - Fritz Lang (1953)
- I vitelloni - Federico Fellini (1953)
- Gun Crazy - Joseph H. Lewis (1950)
- Orpheus - Jean Cocteau (1950)
- Journey to Italy - Roberto Rossellini (1954)
- The Caine Mutiny - Edward Dmytryk (1954)
- Diary of a Country Priest - Robert Bresson (1951)
- All That Heaven Allows - Douglas Sirk (1955)
- The Killing - Stanley Kubrick (1956)
- Mon oncle - Jacques Tati (1958)
- Shadows - John Cassavetes (1959)
- The Defiant Ones - Stanley Kramer (1958)
- The Hidden Fortress - Akira Kurosawa (1958)
- The Earrings of Madame de... - Max Ophüls (1953)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Howard Hawks (1953)
- Stalag 17 - Billy Wilder (1953)
- A Place in the Sun - George Stevens (1951)
- The Bad and the Beautiful - Vincente Minnelli (1952)
- Ace in the Hole - Billy Wilder (1951)
- Cinderella - Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske (1950)
- The Thing from Another World - Christian Nyby (1951)
- Aparajito - Satyajit Ray (1956)
- Mother India - Mehboob Khan (1957)
- The Incredible Shrinking Man - Jack Arnold (1957)
- The Cranes Are Flying - Mikhail Kalatozov (1957)
- Winchester '73 - Anthony Mann (1950)
- Forbidden Games - René Clément (1952)
- Awaara - Raj Kapoor (1951)
- Harvey - Henry Koster (1950)
- House of Wax - André De Toth (1953)
- The War of the Worlds - Byron Haskin (1953)
- The Life of Oharu - Kenji Mizoguchi (1952)
- Pickup on South Street - Samuel Fuller (1953)
- Night and the City - Jules Dassin (1950)
- Duck Amuck - Chuck Jones (1953)
- Written on the Wind - Douglas Sirk (1956)
- The Ladykillers - Alexander Mackendrick (1955)
- Giant - George Stevens (1956)
- Pillow Talk - Michael Gordon (1959)
- The Wild One - László Benedek (1953)
- Little Fugitive - Ray Ashley, Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin (1953)
- Gigi - Vincente Minnelli (1958)
- Marty - Delbert Mann (1955)
- Blackboard Jungle - Richard Brooks (1955)
- Limelight - Charles Chaplin (1952)
- Big Deal on Madonna Street - Mario Monicelli (1958)
- The River - Jean Renoir (1951)
- Vera Cruz - Robert Aldrich (1954)
- Black Orpheus - Marcel Camus (1959)
- Room at the Top - Jack Clayton (1959)
- Born Yesterday - George Cukor (1950)
- Miracle in Milan - Vittorio De Sica (1951)
- Casque d'or - Jacques Becker (1952)
- Early Summer - Yasujirō Ozu (1951)
- The Lavender Hill Mob - Charles Crichton (1951)
- Alice in Wonderland - Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske (1951)
- Some Came Running - Vincente Minnelli (1958)
- The Music Room - Satyajit Ray (1958)
- The King and I - Walter Lang (1956)
- An Affair to Remember - Leo McCarey (1957)
- The Man with the Golden Arm - Otto Preminger (1955)
- Sabrina - Billy Wilder (1954)
- The Fly - Kurt Neumann (1958)
- The Curse of Frankenstein - Terence Fisher (1957)
- The Red Balloon - Albert Lamorisse (1956)
- Stromboli - Roberto Rossellini (1950)
- Smiles of a Summer Night - Ingmar Bergman (1955)
- Bob le flambeur - Jean-Pierre Melville (1956)
- White Christmas - Michael Curtiz (1954)
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Stanley Donen (1954)
- Quo Vadis - Mervyn LeRoy (1951)
- The Greatest Show on Earth - Cecil B. DeMille (1952)
- Dial M for Murder - Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
- Them! - Gordon Douglas (1954)
- Summer with Monika - Ingmar Bergman (1953)
- Pyaasa - Guru Dutt (1957)
- A Face in the Crowd - Elia Kazan (1957)
- The Burmese Harp - Kon Ichikawa (1956)
- Bad Day at Black Rock - John Sturges (1955)
- The Big Country - William Wyler (1958)
- Suddenly, Last Summer - Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1959)
- Ballad of a Soldier - Grigory Chukhray (1959)
- A Night to Remember - Roy Ward Baker (1958)
- Funny Face - Stanley Donen (1957)
- What's Opera, Doc? - Chuck Jones (1957)
- Plan 9 from Outer Space - Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1957)
- Lady and the Tramp - Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske (1955)
- Night of the Demon - Jacques Tourneur (1957)
- The Naked Spur - Anthony Mann (1953)
- Kanał - Andrzej Wajda (1957)
- Lola Montès - Max Ophüls (1955)
- Sleeping Beauty - Clyde Geronimi et al. (1959)
- Peter Pan - Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske (1953)
- La ronde - Max Ophüls (1950)
- Un chant d'amour - Jean Genet (1950)
- Scrooge - Brian Desmond Hurst (1951)
- The Gunfighter - Henry King (1950)
- Father of the Bride - Vincente Minnelli (1950)
- Touchez pas au grisbi - Jacques Becker (1954)
- Creature from the Black Lagoon - Jack Arnold (1954)
- Senso - Luchino Visconti (1954)
- Salt of the Earth - Herbert J. Biberman (1954)
- Auntie Mame - Morton DaCosta (1958)
- Baby Doll - Elia Kazan (1956)
- Around the World in 80 Days - Michael Anderson (1956)
- The Seven Year Itch - Billy Wilder (1955)
- The Nun's Story - Fred Zinnemann (1959)
- Floating Weeds - Yasujirō Ozu (1959)
- Mister Roberts - John Ford & Mervyn LeRoy (1955)
- The Wrong Man - Alfred Hitchcock (1956)
- Guys and Dolls - Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1955)
- House on Haunted Hill - William Castle (1959)
- Old Yeller - Robert Stevenson (1957)
- Jailhouse Rock - Richard Thorpe (1957)
- Bigger than Life - Nicholas Ray (1956)
- And God Created Woman - Roger Vadim (1956)
- Sawdust and Tinsel - Ingmar Bergman (1953)
- The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms - Eugène Lourié (1953)
- Do Bigha Zamin - Bimal Roy (1953)
- The Blob - Irvin Yeaworth (1958)
- The Man from Laramie - Anthony Mann (1955)
- The Court Jester - Melvin Frank & Norman Panama (1955)
- 3:10 to Yuma - Delmer Daves (1957)
- Moby Dick - John Huston (1956)
- Madhumati - Bimal Roy (1958)
- The 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Nathan Juran (1958)
- Le plaisir - Max Ophüls (1952)
- Europa '51 - Roberto Rossellini (1952)
- Othello - Orson Welles (1951)
- Come Back, Little Sheba - Daniel Mann (1952)
- The Man in the White Suit - Alexander Mackendrick (1951)
- Bend of the River - Anthony Mann (1952)
- Rio Grande - John Ford (1950)
- Viva Zapata! - Elia Kazan (1952)
- Broken Arrow - Delmer Daves (1950)
- Man of the West - Anthony Mann (1958)
- I Want to Live! - Robert Wise (1958)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much - Alfred Hitchcock (1956)
- The Long, Hot Summer - Martin Ritt (1958)
- Detective Story - William Wyler (1951)
- Summer Interlude - Ingmar Bergman (1951)
- Bellissima - Luchino Visconti (1951)
- The Flowers of St. Francis - Roberto Rossellini (1950)
- The Country Girl - George Seaton (1954)
- Picnic - Joshua Logan (1955)
- The Diary of Anne Frank - George Stevens (1959)
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love - Masaki Kobayashi (1959)
- The Barefoot Contessa - Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1954)
- Carmen Jones - Otto Preminger (1954)
- Julius Caesar - Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1953)
- Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto - Hiroshi Inagaki (1954)
- The Hitch-Hiker - Ida Lupino (1953)
- The Robe - Henry Koster (1953)
- Ivanhoe - Richard Thorpe (1952)
- The Lusty Men - Nicholas Ray (1952)
- Scaramouche - George Sidney (1952)
- Moulin Rouge - John Huston (1952)
- This Is Cinerama - Merian C. Cooper (1952)
- Lust for Life - Vincente Minnelli (1956)
- The Bad Seed - Mervyn LeRoy (1956)
- Fires on the Plain - Kon Ichikawa (1959)
- Nazarín - Luis Buñuel (1959)
- The Great War - Mario Monicelli (1959)
- The Crucified Lovers - Kenji Mizoguchi (1954)
- King Solomon's Mines - Compton Bennett & Andrew Marton (1950)
- Where the Sidewalk Ends - Otto Preminger (1950)
- The Steel Helmet - Samuel Fuller (1951)
- Street of Shame - Kenji Mizoguchi (1956)
- Floating Clouds - Mikio Naruse (1955)
- The Snow Queen - Lev Atamanov (1957)
- South Pacific - Joshua Logan (1958)
- Good Morning - Yasujirō Ozu (1959)
- Wagon Master - John Ford (1950)
- The Dam Busters - Michael Anderson (1955)
- Friendly Persuasion - William Wyler (1956)
- Animal Farm - John Halas & Joy Batchelor (1954)
- The Narrow Margin - Richard Fleischer (1952)
- On Dangerous Ground - Nicholas Ray (1951)
