Here are my favorite films of the 1950s.
Rated 10/10
All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950)
Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
The African Queen (Huston, 1951)
Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan, 1951)
Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
Singin’ in the Rain (Kelly & Donen, 1952)
Forbidden Games (Clément, 1952)
The Naked Spur (Mann, 1953)
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (Tati, 1953)
Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953)
The Band Wagon (Minnelli, 1953)
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
The Earrings of Madame de… (Ophüls, 1953)
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
La Strada (Fellini, 1954)
A Star Is Born (Cukor, 1954)
Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955)
The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
One Froggy Evening (Jones, 1955)
What’s Opera, Doc? (Jones, 1955)
Pather Panchali (Ray, 1955)
Night and Fog (Resnais, 1955)
Aparajito (The Unvanquished) (Ray, 1956)
The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
Nights of Cabiria (Fellini, 1957)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)
Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick, 1957)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean, 1957)
Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
Ivan the Terrible, Part 2 (Eisenstein, 1958)
The World of Apu (Ray, 1959)
Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Resnais, 1959)
The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger, 1959)
Rated 9/10
In a Lonely Place (Ray, 1950)
Night and the City (Dassin, 1950)
The Gunfighter (King, 1950)
Rio Grande (Ford, 1950)
Gun Crazy (Lewis, 1950)
La Ronde (Ophüls, 1950)
Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock, 1951)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise, 1951)
A Christmas Carol (Hurst, 1951)
Early Summer (Ozu, 1951)
Umberto D. (De Sica, 1952)
Eaux d’Artifice (Anger, 1953)
Stalag 17 (Wilder, 1953)
I Vitelloni (Fellini, 1953)
Pickup on South Street (Fuller, 1953)
Them! (Douglas, 1954)
Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
Diabolique (Clouzot, 1955)
Lola Montès (Ophüls, 1955)
A Face in the Crowd (Kazan, 1957)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Arnold, 1957)
Witness for the Prosecution (Wilder, 1957)
Mon Oncle (Tati, 1958)
Room at the Top (Clayton, 1959)
North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)