10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1950-х по версии Vadim Rizov:

1950.
1. THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (John Huston)
2. FATHER OF THE BRIDE (Vincente Minnelli)
3. MADELEINE (David Lean)
4. WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (Otto Preminger)
5. THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS (Roberto Rossellini)
6. ALL ABOUT EVE (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
7. VARIETY LIGHTS (Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada)
8. WAGON MASTER (John Ford)
9. LOS OLVIDADOS (Luis Buñuel)
10. IN A LONELY PLACE (Nicholas Ray)

Also: BORN TO BE BAD (Nicholas Ray), GIRL WITH HYACINTHS (Hasse Ekman)

1951.
1. ACE IN THE HOLE (Billy Wilder)
2. MIRACLE IN MILAN (Vittorio de Sica)
3. BELLISSIMA (Luchino Visconti)
4. THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD ("Christian Nyby")
5. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Vincente Minnelli)
6. VENOM AND ETERNITY (Isidore Isou)
7. THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (Robert Wise)
8. LA POISON (Sacha Guitry)
9. CHICAGO CALLING (John Reinhardt)
10. CARMEN COMES HOME (Keisuke Kinoshita)

Also: M (Joseph Losey), MISS OYU (Kenji Mizoguchi), DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Robert Bresson)

1952.
1. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
2. THE LUSTY MEN (Nicholas Ray)
3. ON DANGEROUS GROUND (Nicholas Ray)
4. THE MARRYING KIND (George Cukor)
5. MY SON JOHN (Leo McCarey)
6. THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (Vincente Minnelli)
7. THE GOLDEN COACH (Jean Renoir)
8. HIGH NOON (Fred Zinnemann)
9. MONKEY BUSINESS (Howard Hawks)
10. LA NOCHE AVANZA (Roberto Gavaldón)

Also: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Anthony Asquith)

1953.
1. MADAME DE... (Max Ophuls)
2. EL (Luis Buñuel)
3. PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (Samuel Fuller)
4. THE BLACK VAMPIRE (Román Viñoly Barreto)
5. THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T (Roy Rowland)
6. TOKYO STORY (Yasujiro Ozu)
7. VOYAGE IN ITALY (Roberto Rossellini)
8. THE WAGES OF FEAR (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
9. THE ACTRESS (George Cukor)
10. ALL I DESIRE (Douglas Sirk)

1954.
1. DIABOLIQUE (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
2. SEVEN SAMURAI (Akira Kurosawa)
3. HUMAN DESIRE (Fritz Lang)
4. TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI (Jacques Becker)
5. HOBSON'S CHOICE (David Lean)
6. IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU (George Cukor)
7. RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 (Don Siegel)
8. THE MAGGIE (Alexander Mackendrick)
9. 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (Richard Fleischer)
10. SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Also: JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray), ON THE WATERFRONT (Elia Kazan), REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock), MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (Douglas Sirk), PRIVATE HELL 36 (Don Siegel)

1955.
1. KISS ME DEADLY (Robert Aldrich)
2. RIFIFI (Jules Dassin)
3. ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Douglas Sirk)
4. PATHER PANCHALI (Satyaji Ray)
5. SUMMERTIME (David Lean)
6. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Nicholas Ray)
7. CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT (Douglas Sirk)
8. THE COBWEB (Vincente Minnelli)
9. THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING (Richard Fleischer)
10. WICHITA (Jacques Tourneur)

1956.
1. A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson)
2. WRITTEN ON THE WIND (Douglas Sirk)
3. THE KILLING (Stanley Kubrick)
4. THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW (Douglas Sirk)
6. THE SEARCHERS (John Ford)
7. STREET OF SHAME (Kenji Mizoguchi)
8. WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (Fritz Lang)
9. FOUR BAGS FULL (Claude Autant-Lara)
10. TEA AND SYMPATHY (Vincente Minnelli)

Also: SPRINGTIME ON ZARECHNAIA STREET (Marlen Khutsiev), HOT BLOOD (Nicholas Ray), BABY DOLL (Elia Kazan), BIGGER THAN LIFE (Nicholas Ray), GIANT (George Stevens), JUBAL (Delmer Daves)

1957.
1. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (David Lean)
2. THE SEVENTH SEAL (Ingmar Bergman)
3. WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? (Frank Tashlin)
4. FORTY GUNS (Samuel Fuller)
5. WILD STRAWBERRIES (Ingmar Bergman)
6. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick)
7. THE TALL T (Budd Boetticher)
8. 3:10 TO YUMA (Delmer Daves)
9. A FACE IN THE CROWD (Elia Kazan)
10. MEN IN WAR (Anthony Mann)

Also: ON THE BOWERY (Lionel Rogosin)

1958.
1. SOME CAME RUNNING (Vincente Minnelli)
2. MON ONCLE (Jacques Tati)
3. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. THE TARNISHED ANGELS (Douglas Sirk)
5. TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN (Joseph H. Lewis)
6. THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD (Nathan Juran)
7. TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles)
8. A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE (Douglas Sirk)
9. GIGI (Vincente Minnelli)
10. MURDER BY CONTRACT (Irving Lerner)

Also: IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART TWO (Sergei Eisenstein), LOOK BACK IN ANGER (Tony Richardson), THE LINEUP (Don Siegel), MAN OF THE WEST (Anthony Mann), MODIGLIANI OF MONTPARNASSE (Jacques Becker), COWBOY (Delmar Daves)

1959.
1. ANATOMY OF A MURDER (Otto Preminger)
2. BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson)
4. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut)
6. IMITATION OF LIFE (Douglas Sirk)
7. SHADOWS (John Cassavetes)
8. THE WORLD OF APU (Satyajit Ray)
9. THE HANGING TREE (Delmar Daves)
10. HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (Alain Resnais)

Also: SOME LIKE IT HOT (Billy Wilder), DAY OF THE OUTLAW (André de Toth), THE MOUSE THAT ROARED (Jack Arnold), RIDE LONESOME (Budd Boetticher), LES COUSINS (Claude Chabrol)