Category Archives: 1950s

Year in Film: 1959

  • 400 Blows, The (Les quatre cent coups)
  • Anatomy of a Murder
  • Ben-Hur
  • Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro)
  • Floating Weeds (Ukigusa)
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • North by Northwest
  • Pickpocket
  • Ride Lonesome
  • Rio Bravo
  • Shadows
  • Some Like it Hot
  • World of Apu, The (Apur Sansar)
  • Young Philadelphians, The

1950s, What to Watch

Year in Film: 1958

  • Ashes and Diamonds (Popiol i diament)
  • Auntie Mame
  • Cairo Station (Bab el hadid)
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Damn Yankees
  • Defiant Ones, The
  • Dracula
  • Gigi
  • Ivan the Terrible, Part II (Ivan Groznyy: Skaz vtoroy – Boyarskiy zagovor)
  • Long, Hot Summer, The
  • Man of the West
  • Mon Oncle (My Uncle)
  • Music Room, The (Jalsaghar)
  • Some Came Running
  • South Pacific
  • St. Louis Blues
  • Tamango
  • Touch of Evil
  • Vertigo

1950s, What to Watch

Year in Film: 1957

  • 12 Angry Men
  • Affair to Remember, An
  • Bridge on the River Kwai, The
  • Cranes are Flying, The (Letjat zhuravli)
  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
  • Incredible Shrinking Man, The
  • Mother India (Bharat Mata)
  • Naked truth, The
  • Nights of Cabiria (Le notti di Cabiria)
  • Pal Joey
  • Paths of Glory
  • Seventh Seal, The (Det sjunde inseglet)
  • Sweet Smell of Success
  • Throne of Blood (Kumonosu-jo)
  • Wild Strawberries (Smultronstallet)

1950s, What to Watch

Year in Film: 1956

  • Around the World in 80 Days
  • Bob le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler)
  • Bigger than Life
  • Burmese Harp, The (Biruma no tategoto)
  • Forbidden Planet
  • Giant
  • High Society
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  • King and I, The
  • La Strada
  • Man Escaped, A (Un condamne a mort s’est echappe ou le vent souffle ou il veut)
  • Man Who Knew Too Much, The
  • Searchers, The
  • Ten Commandments, The
  • Written on the Wind
  • Wrong Man, The

1950s, What to Watch

Year in Film: 1955

  • All that Heaven Allows
  • Artists and Models
  • Bad Day at Black Rock
  • Diabolique (Les diaboliques)
  • East of Eden
  • Guys and Dolls
  • Kiss Me Deadly
  • Ladykillers, The
  • Lola Montes (The Sins of Lola Montes)
  • Man from Laramie, The
  • Man with the Golden Arm, The
  • Marty
  • Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard)
  • Night of the Hunter, The
  • Oklahoma!
  • Ordet
  • Phenix City Story, The
  • Pather Panchali
  • Rebel Without a Cause
  • Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende)
  • Strategic Air Command
  • Summertime

1950s, What to Watch

Year in Film: 1954

  • Animal Farm
  • Barefoot Contessa, The
  • Carmen Jones
  • Johnny Guitar
  • Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia)
  • La Strada (The Road)
  • On the Waterfront
  • Rear Window
  • Salt of the Earth
  • Sansho the Bailiff (Sansho dayu)
  • Senso (The Wanton Countess)
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
  • Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)
  • Silver Lode
  • Star is Born, A
  • White Christmas

1950s, What to Watch

Year in Film: 1953

  • Band Wagon, The
  • Beat the Devil
  • Big Heat, The
  • Bigamist, The
  • Earrings of Madame De…, The (Madame de…)
  • From Here to Eternity
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  • Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (Les vacances de M. Hulot)
  • Naked Spur, The
  • Pickup on South Street
  • Robe, The
  • Roman Holiday
  • Shane
  • Summer with Monika (Sommaren med Monika)
  • Tokyo Story
  • Ugetsu (Ugetsu monogatari)
  • Wages of Fear, The (La salaire de la peur)

1950s, What to Watch

Year in Film: 1952

  • Angel Face
  • Bad and the Beautiful, The
  • Big Sky, The
  • Europa ’51 (The Greatest Love)
  • Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits)
  • Golden Coach, The (Le carrosse d’or)
  • High Noon
  • Ikiru (To Live)
  • Quiet Man, The
  • Singin’ in the Rain
  • Umberto D

1950s, What to Watch

Year in Film: 1951

  • Ace in the Hole (The Big Carnival)
  • African Queen, The
  • American in Paris, An
  • Day the Earth Stood Still, The
  • Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d’un cure de campagne)
  • Lavender Hill Mob, The
  • Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
  • Place in the Sun, A
  • Strangers on a Train
  • Streetcar Named Desire, A

1950s, Film History, What to Watch