Top Films of the 1950s

The decade of the big-budget epic spectacles, science fiction films, widescreen (such as Cinemascope and Vista Vision), Hitchcock classics, realistic movies, thrilling westerns and heart-warming musicals, movies in the 1950s indeed offered quite a variety. With the advent and popularity of television, film studios and companies were finding ways to lure the audiences back into the cinemas, and they indeed succeeded in their goal.

Here are the top films of the 1950s in chronological order:

Sunset-Blvd-1950

All-About-Eve-1950

Rashomon-1950

The-African-Queen-1951

A-Streetcar-Named-Desire-1951

Strangers-on-a-Train-1951

The-Day-the-Earth-Stood-Still-1951

Singing-in-the-Rain-1952

High-Noon-1952

From-Here-to-Eternity-1953

Tokyo-Story-1953

Seven-Samurai-1954

Rear-Window-1954

Sabrina-1954

Godzilla-1954

On-the-Waterfront-1954

Dial-M-For-Murder-1954

Rebel-Without-a-Cause-1955

East-of-Eden-1955

The-Seven-Year-Itch-1955

Diabolique-1955

The-Ten-Commandments-1956

The-Searchers-1956

Giant-1956

Invasion-of-the-Body-Snatchers-1956

The-Seventh-Seal-1957

12-Angry-Men-1957

Funny-Face-1957

The-Bridge-on-the-River-Kwai-1957

Vertigo-1958

North-by-Northwest-1959

Some-Like-It-Hot-1959

Ben-Hur-1959

The-400-Blows-1959

Rio-Bravo-1959

Anatomy-of-a-Murder-1959