Top 50: 1950's

By: trolley freak

In chronological order…

Rear Window (1954). This decade is a very tough one to call. This is POSSIBLY my favourite film of the decade but I’m not at all sure…

Results Table:

And the winner is….. Well, it has to be Japan!

Akira Kurosawa – 5 films (Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Throne Of Blood, The Hidden Fortress)

Ikiru. My favourite of Kurosawa’s 5…

Yasujiro Ozu – 5 films (Early Summer, Flavor Of Green Tea Over Rice, Tokyo Story, Tokyo Twilight, Floating Weeds)

Tokyo Twilight. This brilliant, atypical Ozu film deserves greater recognition…

Billy Wilder – 4 films (Sunset Blvd., Ace In The Hole, Stalag 17, Some Like It Hot)
Alfred Hitchcock – 4 films (Strangers On A Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North By Northwest)
Kenji Mizoguchi – 4 films (The Life Of Oharu, Ugetsu, Sansho The Bailiff, Street Of Shame)

Douglas Sirk – 3 films (All That Heaven Allows, A Time To Love And A Time To Die, Imitation Of Life)

Nicholas Ray – 2 films (In A Lonely Place, Bigger Than Life)
Jacques Becker – 2 films (Casque d’Or, Touchez Pas Au Grisbi)
Henri-Georges Clouzot – 2 films (The Wages Of Fear, Diabolique)

John Huston – 1 film (The African Queen)
Stanley Donen – 1 film (Singin’ In The Rain)
Vittorio De Sica – 1 film (Umberto D.)
Keisuke Kinoshita – 1 film (Twenty-Four Eyes)
Kon Ichikawa – 1 film (The Heart)
Mikio Naruse – 1 film (Floating Clouds)
Charles Laughton – 1 film (The Night Of The Hunter)
Jules Dassin – 1 film (Rififi)
Jean-Pierre Melville – 1 film (Bob Le Flambeur)
Don Siegel – 1 film (Invasion Of The Body Snatchers)
Robert Bresson – 1 film (A Man Escaped)
John Ford – 1 film (The Searchers)
Luchino Visconti – 1 film (Le Notti Bianche)
Stanley Kubrick – 1 film (Paths Of Glory)
Alexander Mackendrick – 1 film (Sweet Smell Of Success)
Sidney Lumet – 1 film (Twelve Angry Men)
Orson Welles – 1 film (Touch Of Evil)
Francois Truffaut – 1 film (The 400 Blows)
Rio Bravo – 1 film (Rio Bravo)

• 01
  In a Lonely Place
  Nicholas Ray
• 02
  Rashômon
  Akira Kurosawa
• 03
  Sunset Blvd.
  Billy Wilder
• 04
  Ace in the Hole
  Billy Wilder
• 05
  The African Queen
  John Huston
• 06
  Early Summer
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 07
  Strangers on a Train
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 08
  Casque d'or
  Jacques Becker
• 09
  Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 10
  Ikiru
  Akira Kurosawa
• 11
  The Life of Oharu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 12
  Singin' in the Rain
  Stanley Donen
• 13
  Umberto D.
  Vittorio De Sica
• 14
  Stalag 17
  Billy Wilder
• 15
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 16
  Ugetsu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 17
  The Wages of Fear
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 18
  Rear Window
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 19
  Sansho the Bailiff
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 20
  Seven Samurai
  Akira Kurosawa
• 21
  Touchez pas au grisbi
  Jacques Becker
• 22
  Twenty-four Eyes
  Keisuke Kinoshita
• 23
  All That Heaven Allows
  Douglas Sirk
• 24
  Diabolique
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 25
  Floating Clouds
  Mikio Naruse
• 26
  The Heart
  Kon Ichikawa
• 27
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 28
  Rififi
  Jules Dassin
• 29
  Bigger Than Life
  Nicholas Ray
• 30
  Bob le flambeur
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 31
  Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  Don Siegel
• 32
  A Man Escaped
  Robert Bresson
• 33
  The Searchers
  John Ford
• 34
  Street of Shame
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 35
  Le notti bianche
  Luchino Visconti
• 36
  Paths of Glory
  Stanley Kubrick
• 37
  Sweet Smell of Success
  Alexander Mackendrick
• 38
  Throne of Blood
  Akira Kurosawa
• 39
  Tokyo Twilight
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 40
  Twelve Angry Men
  Sidney Lumet
• 41
  The Hidden Fortress
  Akira Kurosawa
• 42
  A Time to Love and a Time To Die
  Douglas Sirk
• 43
  Touch of Evil
  Orson Welles
• 44
  Vertigo
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 45
  Floating Weeds
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 46
  The 400 Blows
  François Truffaut
• 47
  Imitation of Life
  Douglas Sirk
• 48
  North by Northwest
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 49
  Rio Bravo
  Howard Hawks
• 50
  Some Like It Hot
  Billy Wilder