# The best movies of the 1950s

The decade of Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Ford and Wilder: from Vertigo and Seven Samurai to Sunset Boulevard and Los Olvidados. The films at the top of the rankings of Diariocrítico and Cinéfilos Frustrados.

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## Top 15

1. **Vertigo (1958)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Alfred Hitchcock: an acrophobic detective obsessed with a woman.
2. **Rear Window (1954)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Alfred Hitchcock: a photographer with a broken leg spies on his neighbours.
3. **Sunset Boulevard (1950)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Billy Wilder: a forgotten silent star and a broke screenwriter.
4. **All About Eve (1950)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Bette Davis and an over-ambitious aspiring actress.
5. **Ikiru (1952)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Akira Kurosawa: a bureaucrat with cancer looks for meaning in his life.
6. **Tokyo Story (1953)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Yasujirō Ozu: elderly parents visit their children in Tokyo.
7. **The Searchers (1956)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — John Ford: John Wayne spends years searching for his kidnapped niece.
8. **Rashomon (1950)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Akira Kurosawa: a crime told by four witnesses who don't agree.
9. **12 Angry Men (1957)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Sidney Lumet: a jury and a reasonable doubt.
10. **Ugetsu (1953)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Kenji Mizoguchi: two peasants chase fortune during civil war.
11. **Paths of Glory (1957)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Stanley Kubrick: a court martial in the First World War.
12. **Los Olvidados (1950)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Luis Buñuel: street children in Mexico City.
13. **Seven Samurai (1954)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Akira Kurosawa: farmers hire seven samurai against bandits.
14. **Singin' in the Rain (1952)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly: Hollywood moves from silent films to talkies.
15. **Touch of Evil (1958)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Orson Welles: police corruption on the Mexican border.
16. **North by Northwest (1959)** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Alfred Hitchcock: Cary Grant mistaken for a spy.
17. **The Seventh Seal (1957)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Ingmar Bergman: a knight plays chess with Death.

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