Best Films of The 1950s

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1950:

  • Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
  • All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  • Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
  • In A Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
  • Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel)
  • The Gunfighter (Henry King)

1955:

  • Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
  • Night of The Hunter (Charles Laughton)
  • Rififi (Jules Dassin)
  • Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  • Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
  • Bob Le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)

1951:

  • The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith)
  • Diary of A Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
  • The African Queen (John Huston)
  • Ace In The Hole (Billy Wilder)
  • Strangers On A Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Detective Story (William Wyler)

1956:

  • A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
  • The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
  • The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
  • O drakos (Nikos Koundouros)
  • Invasion of The Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
  • Giant (George Stevens)

1952:

  • Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
  • Umberto D. (Vittorio DeSica)
  • The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  • The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer)
  • The Importance of Being Earnest (Anthony Asquith)
  • High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)

1957:

  • Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
  • Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
  • Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
  • Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
  • The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
  • Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)

1953:

  • Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  • Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
  • Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
  • Sawdust And Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman)
  • The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
  • From Here To Eternity (Fred Zinnemann)

1958:

  • Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • The Music Room (Satyajit Ray)
  • Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
  • The Magician (Ingmar Bergman)
  • Lift To The Scaffold (Louis Malle)
  • The Horse's Mouth (Ronald Neame)

1954:

  • Sansho The Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  • Hobson's Choice (David Lean)
  • Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
  • Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (Jacques Becker)
  • The Cain Mutiny (Edward Dmytryk)
  • Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)

1959:

  • The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
  • The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
  • Fires on The Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
  • Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
  • Anatomy of A Murder (Otto Preminger)
  • I'm Alright, Jack (John Boulting)

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