Film Decades: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959
Each review will be linked to the title below.
(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- Amar Deep – starring Dev Anand, Vyjayanthimala, & Padmini – India
- Ambush at Cimarron Pass – starring Scott Brady & Clint Eastwood
- And Quiet Flows the Don – UK
- Andy Hardy Comes Home, starring Mickey Rooney
- Another Time, Another Place – directed by Lewis Allen, starring Lana Turner & Sean Connery – UK
- Apache Territory, starring Rory Calhoun
- Appu Chesi Pappu Koodu, starring N.T. Rama Rao – (India)
- Arms and the Man (Helden) – (West Germany)
- Ash Wednesday (Miércoles de ceniza), starring María Félix and Arturo de Córdova – (Mexico)
- Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i diament), directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring Zbigniew Cybulski – (Poland)
- Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, starring Allison Hayes
- Auntie Mame, starring Rosalind Russell, Coral Browne, Forrest Tucker, Roger Smith, Peggy Cass
- The Ballad of Narayama (Narayama Bushiko) – (Japan)
- The Barbarian and the Geisha – directed by John Huston, starring John Wayne & Eiko Ando
- Le Beau Serge (Handsome Serge), directed by Claude Chabrol – (France)
- Bell, Book and Candle – directed by Richard Quine, starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
- The Big Country – directed by William Wyler, starring Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford, Chuck Connors
- Big Deal on Madonna Street (I soliti ignoti), starring Vittorio Gassman, Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
- The Black Orchid – directed by Martin Ritt, starring Sophia Loren & Anthony Quinn
- The Blob** – directed by Irvin Yearworth, starring Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, & Olin Howland
- Bonjour Tristesse – directed by Otto Preminger, starring David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Jean Seberg
- The Bonnie Parker Story, starring Dorothy Provine
- The Bravados – directed by Henry King, starring Gregory Peck & Joan Collins
- Brink of Life – directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Eva Dahlbeck and Ingrid Thulin – Sweden
- The Brothers Karamazov – directed by Richard Brooks, starring Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Lee J. Cobb, Claire Bloom, William Shatner
- The Buccaneer – directed by Anthony Quinn, starring Yul Brynner & Claire Bloom
- Buchanan Rides Alone – directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott & Craig Stevens
- Cairo Station (Bab el Hadid), directed by Youssef Chahine – (Egypt)
- Carry On Sergeant – directed by Gerald Thomas, starring William Hartnell, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor – UK
- Carve Her Name with Pride, starring Virginia McKenna and Paul Scofield – UK
- The Castle of the Monsters (El Castillo de los Monstruos) – (Mexico)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – directed by Richard Brooks, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson
- A Certain Smile – directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Rossano Brazzi & Joan Fontaine
- Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (That which runs is a car), starring Ashok Kumar and Madhubala – (India)
- Chase a Crooked Shadow, starring Richard Todd and Anne Baxter – (Britain)
- China Doll, starring Victor Mature
- The Colossus of New York, starring Ross Martin and Mala Powers
- Cowboy – directed by Delmar Daves, starring Glenn Ford & Jack Lemmon
- The Crawling Eye (The Trollenberg Terror), directed by Quentin Lawrence, starring Forrest Tucker and Janet Munro – (Britain)
- The Cry Baby Killer – directed by Roger Corman, starring Harry Lauter, Jack Nicholson, & Carolyn Mitchell
- Cry Terror!, starring James Mason, Inger Stevens, Rod Steiger, Angie Dickinson
- Damn Yankees – directed by George Abbott & Stanley Donen, starring Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston
- Darby’s Rangers – directed by William Wellman, starring James Garner
- The Decks Ran Red – directed by Andrew L. Stone, starring James Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, Broderick Crawford, & Stuart Whitman
- The Deep Six, starring Alan Ladd, Dianne Foster, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
- The Defiant Ones – directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Tony Curtis & Sidney Poitier
- Desire (Touha) – (Czechoslovakia)
- Desire Under the Elms – directed by Delbert Mann, starring Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives
- The Doctor’s Dilemma, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Dirk Bogarde (Britain)
- Dracula, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing – (Britain)
- Dunkirk – directed by Leslie Norman, starring John Mills & Richard Attenborough – UK
- Édes Anna, directed by Zoltán Fábri – (Hungary)
- Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l’échafaud), directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau – (France)
- Enchanted Island, starring Jane Powell
- Endless Desire (Hateshinaki yokubo), directed by Shōhei Imamura – (Japan)
- Equinox Flower (Higanbana), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
- The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (aka Vynález zkázy) – (Czechoslovakia)
- Fanfare – (Netherlands)
- Flood Tide, starring George Nader and Cornell Borchers
- A Flower in Hell (Jiokhwa) – (South Korea)
- The Fly – starring Vincent Price
- Fort Massacre, starring Joel McCrea
- From Hell to Texas – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Dennis Hopper
- From the Earth to the Moon, starring Joseph Cotten
- The Geisha Boy, starring Jerry Lewis
- Giants and Toys (Kyojin to gangu) – (Japan)
- The Gift of Love – directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Lauren Bacall & Robert Stack
- Gigi – directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier
- Girl on the Run, starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
- God’s Little Acre – directed by Anthony Mann, starring Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Fay Spain, Tina Louise
- The Goddess – starring Kim Stanley
- Goha – starring Omar Sharif – France/Tunisia
- Gunman’s Walk, starring Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant
- H8 – (Yugoslavia)
- The H-Man, directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
- Harry Black, starring Stewart Granger and Barbara Rush – (UK/US)
- Hercules (Le fatiche di Ercole), starring Steve Reeves – (Italy)
- The Hidden Fortress – directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – Japan
- High School Confidential, starring Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, Mamie Van Doren
- The Horse’s Mouth – directed by Ronald Neame, starring Alec Guinness – UK
- Houseboat – starring Cary Grant & Sophia Loren
- The Hunters, starring Robert Mitchum
- I Accuse!, directed by and starring José Ferrer – (Britain)
- I Want to Live! – starring Susan Hayward
- I Was Monty’s Double – starring M.E. Clifton James & John Mills – UK
- Ice Cold in Alex – directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring John Mills & Sylvia Syms – UK
- The Idiot – USSR
- Imitation General – directed by George Marshall, starring Glenn Ford, Red Buttons, Taina Elg
- In Case of Adversity – starring Jean Gabin & Brigitte Bardot – France
- In the Money, starring the Bowery Boys
- Indiscreet – directed by Stanley Donen, starring Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman – UK
- The Inn of the Sixth Happiness – directed by Mark Robson, starring Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens, Robert Donat
- Intent to Kill, starring Richard Todd, Betsy Drake, Herbert Lom
- Iron Flower (Vasvirág) – (Hungary)
- It Happened in Broad Daylight (Es geschah am hellichten Tag) – (West Germany)
- It! The Terror from Beyond Space, directed by Edward L. Cahn, starring Marshall Thompson, Paul Langton and Ray Corrigan as the monster of the title
- Ivan the Terrible, Part Two – directed by Sergei Eisenstein, starring Nikolay Cherkasov – USSR
- Jalsaghar (The Music Room), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
- Kala Pani (Life Sentence), starring Dev Anand and Madhubala – (India)
- The Key – directed by Carol Reed, starring William Holden & Sophia Loren – UK
- King Creole – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Elvis Presley, Dean Jagger, Vic Morrow, Walter Matthau
- Lafayette Escadrille – World War I film starring Tab Hunter, with an early appearance by Clint Eastwood
- Lake of the Dead (De dødes tjern) – (Norway)
- The Last Hurrah – directed by John Ford, starring Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Pat O’Brien, Basil Rathbone
- The Law and Jake Wade, starring Robert Taylor and Richard Widmark
- The Law Is the Law (La loi, c’est la loi), starring Totò and Fernandel – (France/Italy)
- The Left Handed Gun – directed by Arthur Penn, starring Paul Newman
- The Light in the Forest, starring Fess Parker
- The Lineup – directed by Don Siegel, starring Eli Wallach
- Lonelyhearts, starring Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan, Myrna Loy, Maureen Stapleton
- The Long, Hot Summer – directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles, Tony Franciosa, Lee Remick
- The Lovers (Les amants), directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and Alain Cuny – (France)
- The Lovers of Montparnasse (Les Amants de Montparnasse), directed by Jacques Becker and Max Ophüls – (France)
- Macabre – directed by William Castle
- Machine-Gun Kelly, starring Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot and Morey Amsterdam
- Mädchen in Uniform (Girls in Uniform), starring Lilli Palmer and Romy Schneider (West Germany)
- Madhumati, directed by Bimal Roy, starring Vyjayanthimala in triple role and Dilip Kumar – (India)
- The Magician – directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow – Sweden
- Maigret Sets a Trap (film) (Maigret tend un piège), starring Jean Gabin – (France)
- The Man Inside – directed by John Gilling, starring Jack Palance & Anita Ekberg – UK
- A Man of Straw (L’uomo di paglia), directed by and starring Pietro Germi – (Italy)
- Man of the West – directed by Anthony Mann, starring Gary Cooper, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Lord, Julie London
- Marjorie Morningstar – directed Irving Rapper, starring Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood, Claire Trevor
- The Matchmaker – starring Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine
- Me and the Colonel – starring Danny Kaye
- Merry Andrew – starring Danny Kaye
- Les Misérables, starring Jean Gabin – (France)
- Mon Oncle, directed by and starring Jacques Tati – (France)
- Monster on the Campus, directed by Jack Arnold
- Murder by Contract, starring Vince Edwards
- The Naked Maja, starring Ava Gardner and Anthony Franciosa – (Italy/France/U.S.)
- Next to No Time, starring Kenneth More and Betsy Drake – (Britain)
- The Night Heaven Fell (Les Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune), directed by Roger Vadim, starring Brigitte Bardot – (France)
- A Night to Remember, directed by Roy Baker, starring Kenneth More – (Britain)
- No Time for Sergeants, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Murray Hamilton, Nick Adams
- The Old Man and the Sea – directed by John Sturges (taking over from Fred Zinnermann), starring Spencer Tracy
- Onionhead – directed by Norman Taurog, starring Andy Griffith, Walter Matthau, Felicia Farr, Joey Bishop
- Orders to Kill – directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish – UK
- The Outlaws (Oi paranomoi) – (Greece)
- Paris Holiday – directed by Gerd Oswald, starring Bob Hope & Anita Ekberg
- Party Girl, starring Cyd Charisse and Robert Taylor
- The Perfect Furlough – directed by Blake Edwards, starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
- The Proud Rebel – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Alan Ladd & Olivia de Havilland
- A Question of Adultery, directed by Don Chaffey, starring Julie London, Anthony Steel, Basil Sydney, Donald Houston – (U.K.)
- The Quiet American – directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Audie Murphy & Michael Redgrave
- Raj Tilak, remake of Vanjikottai Valiban, starring Gemini Ganesan, Vyjayanthimala and Padmini – (India)
- Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins
- The Reluctant Debutante – directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, Sandra Dee, John Saxon
- Return of the Fly – starring Vincent Price
- The Revenge of Frankenstein, starring Peter Cushing – (Britain)
- The Rickshaw Man (Muhomatsu no issho) – starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
- Ride a Crooked Trail, starring Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Walter Matthau
- Rock-A-Bye Baby, starring Jerry Lewis
- Rosaura at 10 O’Clock (Rosaura a las 10) – (Argentina)
- Run Silent, Run Deep – directed by Robert Wise, starring Clark Gable & Burt Lancaster
- Saddle the Wind – directed by Robert Parrish & John Sturges (uncredited), starring Robert Taylor, Julie London, John Cassavetes
- Sadhna, starring Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt – (India)
- Screaming Mimi, starring Anita Ekberg
- Separate Tables – starring Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven
- The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, starring Kerwin Mathews
- The Sheepman – directed by George Marshall, starring Glenn Ford & Shirley MacLaine
- The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw – starring Jayne Mansfield & Kenneth More – UK
- The Sign of Zorro
- Sing, Boy, Sing, directed by Henry Ephron, starring Tommy Sands
- Solva Saal (Sixteenth Year), starring Dev Anand – (India)
- Some Came Running – directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine
- South Pacific** – directed by Joshua Logan, starring Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr, Ray Walston
- Stage Struck – directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda & Susan Strasberg
- Stakeout on Dope Street – directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Yale Wexler, Abby Dalton, Morris Miller, Allen Kramer, & Jonathon Haze
- St. Louis Blues, featuring Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald
- St. Peter’s Umbrella (Szent Péter esernyöje) – (Hungary/Czechoslovakia)
- Summer Love, starring John Saxon and Jill St. John
- A Tale of Two Cities, starring Dirk Bogarde – (Britain)
- Tamango – directed by John Berry, starring Dorothy Dandridge & Curd Jürgens
- The Tarnished Angels, starring Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone
- Teacher’s Pet – directed by George Seaton, starring Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young, Mamie Van Doren
- Ten North Frederick – starring Gary Cooper & Suzy Parker
- Terror in a Texas Town, starring Sterling Hayden
- This Happy Feeling – directed by Blake Edwards, starring Debbie Reynolds, Curd Jürgens, John Saxon, Alexis Smith
- Thunder Road, starring Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Keely Smith
- A Time to Love and a Time to Die, starring John Gavin
- The Tinder Box (Das Feuerzeug) – (East Germany)
- Tom Thumb, starring Russ Tamblyn and Terry-Thomas – (Britain/US)
- Tonka – directed by Lewis R. Foster, starring Sal Mineo, Philip Carey, Rafael Compos, Slim Pickens, & Eddie Little Sky
- Too Much, Too Soon – starring Dorothy Malone, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Errol Flynn
- Torpedo Run – starring Glenn Ford & Ernest Borgnine
- Touch of Evil – directed by and starring Orson Welles, with Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich
- Tread Softly Stranger, starring Diana Dors – Britain
- The True Story of Lynn Stuart, starring Betsy Palmer
- The Tunnel of Love – starring Doris Day & Richard Widmark
- Twilight for the Gods, starring Rock Hudson and Cyd Charisse
- Underworld Beauty (Ankokugai no bijo) – (Japan)
- Vanjikottai Valiban (The Youth from Vanji Fort), starring Gemini Ganesan,
- Vyjayanthimala and Padmini – (India)
- Varan the Unbelievable (Daikaijū Baran), directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan)
- Vengeance (La venganza), directed by Juan Antonio Bardem, starring Raf Vallone – (Spain)
- Vertigo – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart & Kim Novak
- The Vikings, starring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh
- The Village on the River (Dorp aan de rivier) – (Netherlands)
- Virgin Island – starring John Cassavetes, Virginia Maskell, & Sidney Poitier (UK)
- White Wilderness – a Disney nature film
- The Young Lions – directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin
Film Decades: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959