1950s

By: Dave

Updated 5/5/13

• 01
  Rear Window
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 02
  Sweet Smell of Success
  Alexander Mackendrick
• 03
  Rio Bravo
  Howard Hawks
• 04
  Some Came Running
  Vincente Minnelli
• 05
  Kiss Me Deadly
  Robert Aldrich
• 06
  All About Eve
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 07
  In a Lonely Place
  Nicholas Ray
• 08
  Sunset Boulevard
  Billy Wilder
• 09
  The Searchers
  John Ford
• 10
  Rififi
  Jules Dassin
• 11
  The Asphalt Jungle
  John Huston
• 12
  A Place in the Sun
  George Stevens
• 13
  The Killing
  Stanley Kubrick
• 14
  Touchez pas au grisbi
  Jacques Becker
• 15
  The Earrings of Madame de...
  Max Ophüls
• 16
  Diabolique
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 17
  Senso
  Luchino Visconti
• 18
  Ride Lonesome
  Budd Boetticher
• 19
  Touch of Evil
  Orson Welles
• 20
  The Burmese Harp
  Kon Ichikawa
• 21
  Othello
  Orson Welles
• 22
  Mon oncle
  Jacques Tati
• 23
  From Here to Eternity
  Fred Zinnemann
• 24
  The Lavender Hill Mob
  Charles Crichton
• 25
  Casque d'or
  Jacques Becker
• 26
  Vertigo
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 27
  Throne of Blood
  Akira Kurosawa
• 28
  Johnny Guitar
  Nicholas Ray
• 29
  Ordet
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 30
  The Big Heat
  Fritz Lang
• 31
  The Steel Helmet
  Samuel Fuller
• 32
  A Man Escaped
  Robert Bresson
• 33
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  Howard Hawks
• 34
  M. Hulot's Holiday
  Jacques Tati
• 35
  The Man from Laramie
  Anthony Mann
• 36
  The Big Combo
  Joseph H. Lewis
• 37
  Mr. Arkadin
  Orson Welles
• 38
  Ashes and Diamonds
  Andrzej Wajda
• 39
  Strangers on a Train
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 40
  On the Waterfront
  Elia Kazan
• 41
  Night and the City
  Jules Dassin
• 42
  Night of the Demon
  Jacques Tourneur
• 43
  Ace in the Hole
  Billy Wilder
• 44
  The Band Wagon
  Vincente Minnelli
• 45
  Stalag 17
  Billy Wilder
• 46
  Bend of the River
  Anthony Mann
• 47
  Singin' in the Rain
  Stanley Donen
• 48
  Where the Sidewalk Ends
  Otto Preminger
• 49
  The Furies
  Anthony Mann
• 50
  Ugetsu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 51
  Winchester '73
  Anthony Mann
• 52
  Limelight
  Charlie Chaplin
• 53
  Sansho the Bailiff
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 54
  Shane
  George Stevens
• 55
  East of Eden
  Elia Kazan
• 56
  Dial M for Murder
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 57
  Gun Crazy
  Joseph H. Lewis
• 58
  Paths of Glory
  Stanley Kubrick
• 59
  Seven Samurai
  Akira Kurosawa
• 60
  The Wages of Fear
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 61
  I Confess
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 62
  Witness for the Prosecution
  Billy Wilder
• 63
  Man of the West
  Anthony Mann
• 64
  Crime Wave
  André De Toth
• 65
  The Lusty Men
  Nicholas Ray
• 66
  Bob le flambeur
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 67
  Wild Strawberries
  Ingmar Bergman
• 68
  Pushover
  Richard Quine
• 69
  Rebel Without a Cause
  Nicholas Ray
• 70
  The Thing from Another World
  Christian Nyby
• 71
  Giant
  George Stevens
• 72
  North by Northwest
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 73
  Seven Men from Now
  Budd Boetticher
• 74
  99 River Street
  Phil Karlson
• 75
  Some Like It Hot
  Billy Wilder
• 76
  D.O.A.
  Rudolph Maté
• 77
  Woman on the Run
  Norman Foster
• 78
  High Noon
  Fred Zinnemann
• 79
  Pickup on South Street
  Samuel Fuller
• 80
  Drive a Crooked Road
  Richard Quine
• 81
  Wagon Master
  John Ford
• 82
  The Naked Spur
  Anthony Mann
• 83
  Suddenly, Last Summer
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 84
  Devil's Doorway
  Anthony Mann
• 85
  Richard III
  Laurence Olivier
• 86
  The Narrow Margin
  Richard Fleischer
• 87
  The Tall Target
  Anthony Mann
• 88
  The Seven Year Itch
  Billy Wilder
• 89
  The 400 Blows
  François Truffaut
• 90
  The Far Country
  Anthony Mann
• 91
  Wichita
  Jacques Tourneur
• 92
  The Tall T
  Budd Boetticher
• 93
  To Catch a Thief
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 94
  Kansas City Confidential
  Phil Karlson
• 95
  Clash by Night
  Fritz Lang
• 96
  Side Street
  Anthony Mann
• 97
  Niagara
  Henry Hathaway
• 98
  The Tin Star
  Anthony Mann
• 99
  The African Queen
  John Huston
• 100
  A Face in the Crowd
  Elia Kazan