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Top Films of the 1950s (#101-238)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 Forbidden Games 1952 René Clément 766
102 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 801
103 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 817
104 Lady and the Tramp 1955 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 832
105 Curse of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur 833
106 Godzilla 1954 Ishirô Honda 847
107 Mon Oncle 1958 Jacques Tati 850
108 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 863
109 Room at the Top 1959 Jack Clayton 877
110 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 884
111 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 Jack Arnold 892
112 The Court Jester 1955 Melvin Frank and Norman Panama 895
113 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein and M. Filimonova 930
114 Pillow Talk 1959 Michael Gordon 936
115 Cinderella 1950 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 941
116 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 943
117 Scrooge 1951 Brian Desmond Hurst 962
118 A Face in the Crowd 1957 Elia Kazan 972
119 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann 990
120 Voyage in Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 992
121 Ballad of a Soldier 1959 Grigori Chukhraj 997
122 Peter Pan 1953 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 999
123 The Defiant Ones 1958 Stanley Kramer 1009
124 Bob le Flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville 1042
125 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 1044
126 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1059
127 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick 1071
128 Guys and Dolls 1955 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1076
129 Black Orpheus 1959 Marcel Camus 1103
130 Pat and Mike 1952 George Cukor 1105
131 D.O.A. 1950 Rudolph Maté 1106
132 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin 1117
133 Carousel 1956 Henry King 1162
134 Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 1176
135 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1190
136 La Ronde 1950 Max Ophüls 1193
137 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1203
138 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 1958 Nathan Juran 1228
139 The River 1951 Jean Renoir 1229
140 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 1242
141 Night and the City 1950 Jules Dassin 1251
142 High Society 1956 Charles Walters 1263
143 Jailhouse Rock 1957 Richard Thorpe 1272
144 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 1288
145 Carmen Jones 1954 Otto Preminger 1305
146 The Red Balloon 1956 Albert Lamorisse 1306
147 The Music Room 1959 Satyajit Ray 1317
148 Plan 9 from Outer Space 1958 Edward D. Wood Jr. 1318
149 Kanal 1957 Andrzej Wajda 1319
150 Them! 1954 Gordon Douglas 1329
151 Old Yeller 1957 Robert Stevenson 1340
152 Seven Men from Now 1956 Budd Boetticher 1345
153 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti 1346
154 The Dam Busters 1955 Michael Anderson 1363
155 Father of the Bride 1950 Vincente Minnelli 1372
156 South Pacific 1958 Joshua Logan 1391
157 El 1953 Luis Buñuel 1409
158 Ice-Cold in Alex 1958 J. Lee Thompson 1426
159 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 George Stevens 1427
160 Casque d'Or 1952 Jacques Becker 1432
161 I Vitelloni 1953 Federico Fellini 1438
162 Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 1461
163 Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954 Jack Arnold 1462
164 The Cranes are Flying 1957 Mikheil Kalatozishvili 1476
165 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 1480
166 Richard III 1955 Laurence Olivier 1501
167 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 1517
168 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli 1525
169 Sleeping Beauty 1959 Clyde Geronimi 1530
170 Genevieve 1953 Henry Cornelius 1532
171 Man of the West 1958 Anthony Mann 1538
172 Damn Yankees! 1958 George Abbott and Stanley Donen 1544
173 Salt of the Earth 1954 Herbert J. Biberman 1550
174 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Louis Malle 1553
175 The Red Badge of Courage 1951 John Huston 1554
176 Blackboard Jungle 1955 Richard Brooks 1556
177 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1557
178 The Girl Can't Help It 1956 Frank Tashlin 1576
179 White Christmas 1954 Michael Curtiz 1580
180 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 Cecil B. DeMille 1583
181 The Big Combo 1955 Joseph H. Lewis 1584
182 The Big Country 1958 William Wyler 1586
183 The Pajama Game 1957 George Abbott and Stanley Donen 1606
184 The Barefoot Contessa 1954 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1612
185 Kiss Me Kate 1953 George Sidney 1620
186 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1640
187 I'm All Right Jack 1959 John Boulting 1642
188 Alice in Wonderland 1951 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 1643
189 The Robe 1953 Henry Koster 1645
190 Calamity Jane 1953 David Butler 1686
191 The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T 1953 Roy Rowland 1703
192 House of Wax 1953 André De Toth 1746
193 Beat the Devil 1953 John Huston 1767
194 Picnic 1955 Joshua Logan 1775
195 Othello 1952 Orson Welles 1790
196 Early Summer 1951 Yasujiro Ozu 1803
197 The Cruel Sea 1953 Charles Frend 1829
198 Le Plaisir 1952 Max Ophüls 1831
199 On the Beach 1959 Stanley Kramer 1833
200 Auntie Mame 1958 Morton DaCosta 1839
201 The Wrong Man 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1848
202 Quo Vadis 1951 Mervyn LeRoy 1871
203 Miracle in Milan 1951 Vittorio De Sica 1881
204 A Night to Remember 1958 Roy Ward Baker 1883
205 The Tall T 1957 Budd Boetticher 1893
206 The Harder They Fall 1956 Mark Robson 1926
207 Invaders from Mars 1953 William Cameron Menzies 1930
208 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 1939
209 The Wild One 1953 László Benedek 1941
210 The Steel Helmet 1951 Samuel Fuller 1969
211 The Mouse That Roared 1959 Jack Arnold 1980
212 The Nun's Story 1959 Fred Zinnemann 1982
213 Annie Get Your Gun 1950 George Sidney 1993
214 The Golden Coach 1952 Jean Renoir 1997
215 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 Terence Fisher 1999
216 And God Created Woman 1956 Roger Vadim 2010
217 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 Richard Brooks 2025
218 The Narrow Margin 1952 Richard Fleischer 2026
219 Run Silent Run Deep 1958 Robert Wise 2043
220 Porgy and Bess 1959 Otto Preminger 2060
221 Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958 Mario Monicelli 2100
222 Rio Grande 1950 John Ford 2127
223 Summertime 1955 David Lean 2128
224 Baby Doll 1956 Elia Kazan 2138
225 Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956 Robert Wise 2169
226 What's Opera, Doc? 1957 Chuck Jones 2175
227 The Fly 1958 Kurt Neumann 2198
228 The Man from Laramie 1955 Anthony Mann 2205
229 Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto 1954 Hiroshi Inagaki 2212
230 The Belles of St. Trinian's 1954 Frank Launder 2214
231 Fear Strikes Out 1957 Robert Mulligan 2223
232 Mother India 1957 Mehboob Khan 2238
233 Ride Lonesome 1959 Budd Boetticher 2338
234 Pyaasa 1957 Guru Dutt 2361
235 Glen or Glenda 1953 Edward D. Wood Jr. 2377
236 Un chant d'amour 1950 Jean Genet 2381
237 Angels in the Outfield 1951 Clarence Brown 2386
238 Love Me or Leave Me 1955 Charles Vidor 2392
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