Лучшие ленты 1950-х годов по версии издания Paste Magazine:

Top-10:
1. Vertigo (1958)
2. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
3. Rear Window (1954)
4. All About Eve (1950)
5. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
6. Seven Samurai (1954)
7. Tokyo Story (1953)
8. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
9. The Seventh Seal (1957)
10. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

11-20:
11. 12 Angry Men (1957)
12. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
13. Dial M for Murder (1954)
14. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
15. The Wages of Fear (1953)
16. The Searchers (1956)
17. Touch of Evil (1958)
18. Rashomon (1950)
19. On the Waterfront (1954)
20. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

21-30:
21. North by Northwest (1959)
22. Rio Bravo (1959)
23. Some Like It Hot (1959)
24. The 400 Blows (1959)
25. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
26. The African Queen (1951)
27. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
28. From Here to Eternity (1953)
29. A Night to Remember (1958)
30. High Noon (1952)

31-40:
31. The Big Heat (1953)
32. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
33. Shane (1953)
34. Johnny Guitar (1954)
35. In a Lonely Place (1950)
36. Roman Holiday (1953)
37. Born Yesterday (1950)
38. The Band Wagon (1953)
39. Forbidden Planet (1956)
40. Strangers on a Train (1951)

41-50:
41. Sabrina (1954)
42. Ordet (1955)
43. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
44. Mon Oncle (1958)
45. The Magician (1958)
46. To Catch a Thief (1955)
47. The Mummy (1959)
48. Umberto D. (1952)
49. Paths of Glory (1957)
50. Giant (1956)

51-60:
51. La Strada (1954)
52. Ben-Hur (1959)
53. Wild Strawberries (1957)
54. Stalag 17 (1953)
55. Rififi (1955)
56. House of Wax (1953)
57. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
58. The Big Sky (1952)
59. I Vitelloni (1953)
60. An American in Paris (1951)

61-70:
61. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
62. Orpheus (1950)
63. Journey to Italy (1954)
64. Julius Caesar (1953)
65. Houseboat (1958)
66. Harvey (1950)
67. The Thing From Another World (1951)
68. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
69. Cinderella (1950)
70. The Killing (1956)

71-80:
71. The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
72. The Ladykillers (1955)
73. Richard III (1955)
74. The War of the Worlds (1953)
75. The Wild One (1953)
76. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
77. The Quiet Man (1952)
78. Les Diaboliques (1955)
79. Pather Panchali (1955)
80. The Barefoot Contesssa (1954)

81-90:
81. Othello (1951)
82. Godzilla (1951)
83. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
84. Throne of Blood (1957)
85. Father of the Bride (1950)
86. Horror of Dracula (1958)
87. East Of Eden (1955)
88. Night and Fog (1956)
89. The Browning Version (1951)
90. Black Orpheus (1959)

91-100:
91. Picnic (1956)
92. A Star is Born (1954)
93. Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
94. Ace in the Hole (1951)
95. Blackboard Jungle (1955)
96. Les Enfants Terribles (1952)
97. Kanal (1957)
98. Lola Montes (1955)
99. The Ten Commandments (1956)
100. The Tingler (1959)

Лучшие фильмы 1950-х годов по версии Jonathan Rosenbaum:

1950.
All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Annie Get Your Gun (George Sidney)
Cinderella (Wilfred Jackson / Luske / Clyde Geronimi)
The Father of the Bride (Minnelli)
The Flame and the Arrow (Jacques Tourneur)
The Gunfighter (Henry King)
In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
Los olivdados (Bunuel)
Orphee (Cocteau)
Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan)
The Sound of Fury /Try and Get Me (Endfield)
Stars in My Crown (Jacques Tourneur)
Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
Wagonmaster (Ford)

1951.
Ace in the Hole / The Big Carnival (Wilder)
Alice in Wonderland (Geronimi / Luske / Jackson)
Bellissima (Visconti)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
Hotel des Invalides (Franju)
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin)
Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen / Gene Kelly)
The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan)
The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)
The Well (Leo Popkin / Russell Rouse)
The White Sheik (Federico Fellini)

1952.
Angel Face (Preminger)
The Bad and the Beautiful (Minnelli)
The Big Sky (Hawks)
Clash by Night (Lang)
Europa 51 (Rossellini)
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi)
Limelight (Chaplin)
The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
Madame de... (Ophuls)
Monkey Business (Hawks)
My Son John (McCarey)
The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer)
Othello (Welles)
Park Row (Fuller)
Son of Paleface (Frank Tashlin)
Les statues meurent aussi (Alain Resnais)
Umberto D (De Sica)
Venom and Eternity (Jean-Isadore Isou)

1953.
The Band Wagon (Minnelli)
The Big Heat (Lang)
Dangerous When Wet (Charles Walters)
Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (Roy Rowland)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hawks)
The Golden Coach (Renoir)
I Love Melvin (Don Weis)
Kiss Me Kate (Sidney)
The Naked Spur (Mann)
99 River Street (Phil Karlson)
Pickup on South Street (Fuller)
The Story of Three Loves (Gottfried Reinhardt / Minnelli)
The Sun Shines Bright (Ford)
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)

1954.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba (Weis)
The Barefoot Contessa (Mankiewicz)
Chikamatsu monogatari (The Crucified Lovers) (Mizoguchi)
Executive Suite (Wise)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Tati)
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
River of No Return (Preminger)
The Saga of Anatahan (Sternberg)
Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
Senso (Visconti)
Silver Lode (Alan Dwan)
A Star Is Born (Cukor)
Track of the Cat (William Wellmann)
The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)

1955.
Artists and Models (Tashlin)
Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges)
The Cobweb (Minnelli)
East of Eden (Kazan)
The Eddy Duchin Story (Sidney)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
The Lady Without Camelias (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Land of the Pharaohs (Hawks)
Lola Montes (Ophuls)
The Long Gray Line (Ford)
The Man with the Golden Arm (Preminger)
Moonfleet (Lang)
Mr. Arkadin (Welles)
The Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
Nuit et brouillard (Resnais)
Ordet (Dreyer)
The Phenix City Story (Karlson)
Rebel without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
Salt of the Earth (Herbert Biberman)
Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman)
Shin heike monogatari (New Tales of the Taira Clan) (Mizoguchi)
The Trouble with Harry (Hitchcock)
Wichita (Jacques Tourneur)

1956.
Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
Baby Doll (Kazan)
Bhowani Junction (Cukor)
Bigger than Life (Nicholas Ray)
Elena et les homes (Renoir)
Forbidden Planet (Fred McLeod Wilcox)
The Fountain of Youth (Welles)
The Girl Can't Help It (Tashlin)
Guys and Dolls (Mankiewicz)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
A Man Escaped (Bresson)
The Searchers (Ford)
Toute la memoire du monde (Resnais)
While the City Sleeps (Lang)

1957.
An Affair to Remember (McCarey)
Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray)
La casa del angel (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson)
Forty Guns (Fuller)
A King in New York (Chaplin)
Kiss (Yasuzo Masumura)
Les maitres fous (Jean Rouch)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick)
Run of the Arrow (Fuller)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
Twelve Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Tashlin)
The Wrong Man (Hitchcock)

1958.
Ajantrik (Pathetic Fallacy) (Ritwik Ghatak)
Ashes and Diamonds (Andrej Wajda)
Le cant du styrene (Resnais)
The Curse of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
Gigi (Minnelli)
India (Rossellini)
Man of the West (Mann)
Les Mistons (Truffaut)
Mon oncle (Tati)
Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner)
Party Girl (Nicholas Ray)
Rock-a-bye Baby (Tashlin)
Une simple histoire (Marcel Hanoun)
The Tarnished Angels (Sirk)
A Time to Love and a Time To Die (Sirk)
Touch of Evil (Welles)
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
Wind Across the Everglades (Nicholas Ray)

1959.
Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger)
L'avventura (Antonioni)
Breathless (Godard)
The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
Good Morning (Ozu)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais)
The Magician (Bergman)
Nazarin (Bunuel)
North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
Peeping Tom (Powell)
Pickpocket (Bresson)
Purple Noon (Rene Clement)
Rio Bravo (Hawks)
La testament d'Orphee (Cocteau)
The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb (Lang)

10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1950-х по версии Ed Gonzalez (Slant Magazine):

1950:
1. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
2. Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini)
3. Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
4. Side Street (Anthony Mann)
5. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
6. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
7. Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
8. Winchester ’73 (Anthony Mann)
9. Where the Sidewalk Ends (Otto Preminger)
10. La Ronde (Max Ophüls)

Honorable Mention: Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan), House by the River (Fritz Lang), Try and Get Me! (The Sound and the Fury) (Cy Endfield), Orpheus (Jean Cocteau), Outrage (Ida Lupino), The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini), Caged (John Cromwell), The Damned Don’t Cry (Vincent Sherman), The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston), All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Blind Spots: Scandal (Akira Kurosawa), The Breaking Point (Michael Curtiz), So Long at the Fair (Antony Darnborough and Terence Fisher), Last Holiday (Henry Koss), No Man Of Her Own (Mitchell Leisen), The Munekata Sisters (Yasujirô Ozu), The Gunfighter (Henry King)

1951:
1. The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)
2. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
3. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
4. Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De Sica)
5. The Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
6. The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)
7. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton)
9. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
10. A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)

Honorable Mention: Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman), The River (Jean Renoir), The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick), Susana (Luis Buñuel), Fixed Bayonets! (Samuel Fuller), Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske), Hard, Fast and Beautiful (Ida Lupino), Circle of Danger (Jacques Tourneur), He Ran All the Way (John Berry)

Blind Spots: The Prowler (Joseph Losey), Detective Story (William Wyler), His Kind of Woman (John Farrow), The Red Badge of Courage (John Huston), Royal Wedding (Stanley Donen)

1952:
1. The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)
3. On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
4. Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls)
5. The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Orson Welles)
6. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen)
7. Limelight (Charlie Chaplin)
8. The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
9. The Marrying Kind (George Cukor)
10. Casque d’Or (Jacques Becker)

Honorable Mention: Mexican Bus Ride (Luis Buñuel), Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa), The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli), Waiting Women (Ingmar Bergman), Okasan (Mikio Naurse), The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer), Forbidden Games (Rene Clement), Sudden Fear (David Miller), The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Yasujirô Ozu), Monkey Business (Howard Hawks), and A Woman Without Love (Luis Buñuel)

Blind Spots: The White Reindeer (Erik Blomberg), The Little World of Don Camillo (Julien Duvivier), The Card (Ronald Neame), Outcast of the Islands (Carol Reed), Pat and Mike (George Cukor), Scandal Sheet (Phil Karlson), 5 Fingers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Europa ’51 (Roberto Rossellini), Fanfan la Tulipe (Christian-Jaque), The Overcoat (Alberto Lattuada), Ruby Gentry (King Vidor)

1953:
1. Él (Luis Buñuel)
2. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3. I Confess (Alred Hitchcock)
4. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
5. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
6. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati)
7. Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
8. Tokyo Story (Yasujirô Ozu)
9. It Came from Outer Space (Jack Arnold)
10. The Bigamist (Ida Lupino)

Honorable Mention: The Moon is Blue (Otto Preminger, Madame de… (Max Ophüls), The Brute (Luis Buñuel), The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino), The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann), The Glass Web (Jack Arnold), The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks), A Geisha (Kenji Mizoguchi), Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman)

Blind Spots: The Cruel Sea (Charles Frend), I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini), The Actress (George Cukor), Genevieve (Henry Cornelius), Kiss Me Kate (George Sidney), Beat the Devil (John Huston), Invaders from Mars (William Cameron Menzies), Take Me to Town (Douglas Sirk), All I Desire (Douglas Sirk), Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley, Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin)

1954:
1. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
2. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
4. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
5. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
6. Wuthering Heights (Luis Buñuel)
7. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)
8. Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Luis Buñuel)
9. Black Tuesday (Hugo Fregonese)
10. Crime Wave (Andre de Toth)

Honorable Mention: On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan), Carmen Jones (Otto Preminger), Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse), La Strada (Federico Fellini), The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Dial M For Murder (Alfred Hitchcock), Them! (Gordon Douglas), Godzilla (Ishirô Honda), Senso (Luchino Visconti), Illusion Travels by Streetcar (Luis Buñuel)

Blind Spots: Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse), The Tale of the Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi), The Woman in the Rumor (Kenji Mizoguchi), Riot in Cell Block 11 (Don Siegel), Apache (Robert Aldrich), It Should Happen to You (George Cukor), Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey), Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel), Taza, Son of Cochise (Douglas Sirk), Susan Slept Here (Frank Tashlin), Suddenly (Lewis Allen), An Inspector Calls (Guy Hamilton), Rogue Cop (Roy Rowland), Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich), Salt of the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman)

1955:
1. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
2. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Buñuel)
3. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
4. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
5. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
6. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
7. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
8. Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
9. Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
10. Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles)

Honorable Mention: The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger), Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray), The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis), Lola Montès (Max Ophüls), Rififi (Jules Dassin), Bob le Fambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville), Summertime (David Lean), The Phenix City Story (Phil Carlson), Dreams (Ingmar Bergman), and House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller)

Blind Spots: Captain Lightfoot (Douglas Sirk), Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni), Les Grandes Manoeuvres (Rene Clair), The Indian Fighter (Andre de Toth), Murder is My Beat (Edgar G. Ulmer), Tales of the Taira Clan (Kenji Mizoguchi), Man Without a Star (King Vidor), Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin), Oklahoma! (Fred Zinnemann), We’re No Angels (Michael Curtiz), My Sister Eileen (Richard Quine), Stella (Michael Cacoyannis), It’s Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly), The African Lion (James Algar), Marcelino Pan y Vino (Ladislao Vajda), The Bridges at Toko-Ri (Mark Robson), To Hell and Back (Jesse Hibbs), Richard III (Laurence Olivier), The Long Gray Line (John Ford), Run for Cover (Nicholas Ray)

1956:
1. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
2. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
3. The Searchers (John Ford)
4. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
6. While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang)
7. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
8. The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
9. La Pointe Courte (Agnès Varda)
10. Autumn Leaves (Robert Aldrich)

Honorable Mention: Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi), The Killer Is Loose (Budd Boetticher), The Killing (Stanley Kubrick), Seven Men from Now (Budd Boetticher), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (Nunnally Johnson), Death in the Garden (Luis Buñuel), The Girl Can’t Help It (Frank Tashlin), Calle Mayor (Juan Antonio Bardem), Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan), Baby Doll (Elia Kazan)

Blind Spots: There’s Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk), War and Peace (King Vidor), Bhowani Junction (George Cukor), Intimate Stranger (Joseph Losey), Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli), Hollywood or Bust (Frank Tashlin), Great Day in the Morning (Jacques Tourneur), Le Monde du Silence (Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle), Patterns (Fielder Cook), Crazed Fruit (Ko Nakahari), Pursuit of the Graf Spree (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), Carnival in Moscow (Eldar Ryazanov), Early Spring (Yasujirô Ozu), The Mystery of Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot), Deadlier Than the Male (Julien Duvivier), Four Bags Full (Claude Autant-Lara), Friendly Persuasion (William Wyler), Attack (Robert Aldrich)

1957:
1. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
2. The Cranes are Flying (Mikheil Kalatozishvili)
3. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
4. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
5. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
6. Funny Face (Stanley Donen)
7. Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
8. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
9. Curse of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
10. Kanal (Andrzej Wajda)

Honorable Mention: La Notte Bianche (Luchino Visconti), The Pajama Game (George Abbott and Stanley Donen), Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray), The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean), Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller), The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman), Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman), Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick), and The River’s Edge (Allan Dwan)

Blind Spots: The Tall T (Budd Boetticher), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (John Sturges), Decision at Sundown (Budd Boetticher), Time Without Pity (Joseph Losey), The Devil Strikes at Night (Richard Siodmak), Desk Set (Walter Lang), Nine Lives (Arne Skouen), Edge of the City (Martin Ritt), Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder), Barnacle Bill (Charles Frend), The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold), Les Girls (George Cukor), The Enemy Below (Dick Powell), Seven Waves Away (Richard Sale)

1958:
1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchock)
2. The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
3. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
4. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
5. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
6. Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
7. The Music Room (Satyajit Ray)
8. Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
9. The Magician (Ingmar Bergman)
10. Fiend Without a Face (Arthur Crabtree)

Honorable Mention: Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli), Ivan the Terrible II (Sergei Eisenstein), The Blob (Irvin S. Yeaworth), Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda), Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli), The Fly (Kurt Neumann), The Horse’s Mouth (Ronald Neame), A Night to Remember (Roy Ward Baker), Giants and Toys (Masumura Yasuzô), Party Girl (Nicholas Ray)

Blind Spots: It Happened in Broad Daylight (Ladislao Vajda), Underworld Beauty (Seijun Suzuki), Modigliani of Montparnasse (Jacques Becker), The Left Handed Gun (Arthur Penn), The Young Lions (Edward Dmytryk), A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk), Brink of Life (Ingmar Bergman), Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol), China Doll (Frank Borzage), Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! (Leo McCarey), The Gentleman and the Gypsy (Joseph Losey), Machine-Gun Kelly (Roger Corman), Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph H. Lewis), The Lineup (Don Siegel), Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher), The Big Country (William Wyler), Saddle the Wind (Robert Parrish), Les Amants (Louis Malle), Enjo (Kon Ichikawa), Auntie Mame (Morton DaCosta), Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle), The Long, Hot Summer (Martin Ritt)

1959:
1. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
2. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
3. Nazarín (Luis Buñuel)
4. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
5. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
6. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
7. Fate of a Man (Sergei Bondarchuk)
8. Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhraj)
9. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
10. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)

Honorable Mention: The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller), The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray), Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi), Good Morning (Yasujirô Ozu), North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock), Picnic on the Grass (Jean Renoir), The Scapegoat (Robert Hamer), Floating Weeds (Yasujirô Ozu), Shadows (John Cassavetes), Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)

Blind Spots: The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang), Our Man in Havana (Carol Reed), Two Men in Manhattan (Jean-Pierre Melville), Verboten! (Samuel Fuller), Human Condition I (Masaki Kobayashi), Human Condition II (Masaki Kobayashi), Compulsion (Richard Fleischer), Les Cousins (Claude Chabrol), The Lady With the Dog (Iosif Kheifits), The Great War (Mario Monicelli), Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa), The Bridge (Bernhard Wicki), Room at the Top (Jack Clayton), Porgy and Bess (Otto Preminger), Kapo (Gillo Pontecorvo), Tiger Bay (J. Lee Thompson), The Cow and I (Henri Verneuil), It’s All Right Jack (John Boulting), The League of Gentlemen (Basil Dearden), Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson), The Mouse That Roared (Jack Arnold), On the Beach (Stanley Krammer), Odd Obsession (Kon Ichikawa), Day of the Outlaw (Andre de Toth), Blind Date (Joseph Losey), Samurai Saga (Hiroshi Inagaki)

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)

Лучшие ленты 1950-х годов по версии издания The Cinemaholic:

Top-11:
1. Elia Kazan – On the Waterfront (1954)
2. John Ford – The Searchers (1956)
3. Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard (1950)
4. Elia Kazan – A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
5. William Wyler – Ben Hur (1959)
6. George Stevens – Shane (1953)
7. Billy Wilder – Some Like It Hot (1959)
8. Cecil B. DeMille – The Ten Commandments (1956)
9. Howard Hawks – Rio Bravo (1959)
10. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly – Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
11. Billy Wilder – Ace in the Hole (1951)

Лучшие ленты 1950-х годов по версии издания WhatCulture:

Top-10:
1. Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
2. The 400 Blows (1959)
3. Rear Window (1954)
4. On The Waterfront (1954)
5. Rashomon (1950)
6. High Noon (1952)
7. The Searchers (1956)
8. The Seventh Seal (1957)
9. The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
10. Seven Samurai (1954)

11-25:
11. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
12. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
13. Vertigo (1958)
14. Some Like It Hot (1959)
15. Night And Fog (1956)
16. Rififi (1955)
17. 12 Angry Men (1957)
18. A Touch Of Evil (1958)
19. Forbidden Planet (1956)
20. In A Lonely Place (1950)
21. The Wages Of Fear (1952)
22. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
23. Le Beau Serge (1958)
24. All About Eve (1950)
25. Tokyo Story (1953)

Лучшие ленты 1950-х годов по версии издания CBR:

Top-10:
1.12 Angry Men (1957)
2. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
3. Rear Window (1954)
4. Rashomon (1950)
5. Paths Of Glory (1957)
6. Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
7. Touch Of Evil (1958)
8. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
9. On The Waterfront (1954)
10. Godzilla (1954)

Лучшие ленты 1950-х годов по версии издания Slash Film:

* A Man Escaped (1956)
* Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
* Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
* Kanal (1957)
* Seven Samurai (1954)
* Forbidden Games (1952)
* Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
* Roman Holiday (1953)
* 12 Angry Men (1957)
* All About Eve (1950)
* Night of the Hunter (1955)
* Tokyo Story (1953)
* Sunset Boulevard (1950)
* Some Like It Hot (1959)
* Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Лучшие ленты 1950-х годов по версии издания Collider:

Top-10:
1. 'Seven Samurai' (1954)
2. '12 Angry Men' (1957)
3. 'On the Waterfront' (1954)
4. 'Sunset Boulevard' (1950)
5. 'Ikiru' (1952)
6. 'High Noon' (1952)
7. 'Vertigo' (1958)
8. 'Singin' in the Rain' (1952)
9. 'Tokyo Story' (1953)
10. 'All About Eve' (1950)

11-20:
11. 'The Seventh Seal' (1957)
12. 'The Night of the Hunter' (1955)
13. 'The 400 Blows' (1959)
14. 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957)
15. 'North by Northwest' (1959)
16. 'Some Like It Hot' (1959)
17. 'The Wages of Fear' (1953)
18. 'A Star Is Born' (1954)
19. 'Godzilla' (1954)
20. 'A Man Escaped' (1956)

21-30:
21. 'Paths of Glory' (1957)
22. 'Pather Panchali' (1955)
23. 'Elevator to the Gallows' (1958)
24. 'Ben-Hur' (1959)
25. 'The Human Condition I: No Greater Love' (1959)
26. 'Witness for the Prosecution' (1957)
27. 'Roman Holiday' (1953)
28. 'The Searchers' (1956)
29. 'Rear Window' (1954)
30. 'Rashomon' (1950)

Лучшие ленты 1950-х годов по версии издания Films Fatale:

Top-10:
1. Токийская повесть / Tokyo monogatari / 1953
2. Головокружение / Vertigo / 1958
3. Летят журавли / 1957
4. Сансет бульвар / Sunset Blvd. / 1950
5. Жить / Ikiru / 1952
6. Седьмая печать / Det sjunde inseglet / 1957
7. Мужские разборки / Du rififi chez les hommes / 1955
8. Поющие под дождем / Singin' in the Rain / 1952
9. Ночь охотника / The Night of the Hunter / 1955
10. Ночи Кабирии / Le notti di Cabiria / 1957

11-20:
11. Тропы славы / Paths of Glory / 1957
12. Четыреста ударов / Les quatre cents coups / 1959
13. Песнь дороги / Pather Panchali / 1955
14. Мост через реку Квай / The Bridge on the River Kwai / 1957
15. Умберто Д. / Umberto D. / 1952
16. В порту / On the Waterfront / 1954
17. Искатели / The Searchers / 1956
18. Семь самураев / Shichinin no samurai / 1954
19. Забытые / Los olvidados / 1950
20. 12 разгневанных мужчин / 12 Angry Men / 1957

21-30:
21. Карманник / Pickpocket / 1959
22. Окно во двор / Rear Window / 1954
23. Дорога / La strada / 1954
24. Расёмон / Rashomon / 1950
25. Дьяволицы / Les diaboliques / 1955
26. Слово / Ordet / 1955
27. Лифт на эшафот / Ascenseur pour l'échafaud / 1958
28. Всё о Еве / All About Eve / 1950
29. Баллада о солдате / 1959
30. Приговоренный к смерти бежал, или Дух веет, где хочет / Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut / 1956

31-40:
31. Печать зла / Touch of Evil / 1958
32. Хиросима, моя любовь / Hiroshima mon amour / 1959
33. Непокоренный / Aparajito / 1956
34. Сказки туманной луны после дождя / Ugetsu monogatari / 1953
35. Марти / Marty / 1955
36. Огни рампы / Limelight / 1952
37. Сладкий запах успеха / Sweet Smell of Success / 1957
38. Лето с Моникой / Sommaren med Monika / 1953
39. На север через северо-запад / North by Northwest / 1959
40. Путешествие в Италию / Viaggio in Italia / 1954

41-50:
41. Удел человеческий / Ningen no joken I / 1959
42. Имитация жизни / Imitation of Life / 1959
43. Управляющий Сансё / Sansho dayu / 1954
44. Сабрина / Sabrina / 1954
45. Пепел и алмаз / Popiól i diament / 1958
46. Трое негодяев в скрытой крепости / Kakushi-toride no san-akunin / 1958
47. Анатомия убийства / Anatomy of a Murder / 1959
48. Все, что дозволено небесами / All That Heaven Allows / 1955
49. Мадам де… / Madame de... / 1953
50. В укромном месте / In a Lonely Place / 1950

51-60:
51. Жажда / Pyaasa / 1957
52. Ровно в полдень / High Noon / 1952
53. Отелло / The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice / 1951
54. Каирский вокзал / Bab el hadid / 1958
55. Лицо в толпе / A Face in the Crowd / 1957
56. Мой дядюшка / Mon oncle / 1958
57. Убийство / The Killing / 1956
58. Земляничная поляна / Smultronstället / 1957
59. В джазе только девушки / Some Like It Hot / 1959
60. Звезда родилась / A Star Is Born / 1954

61-70:
61. Мир Апу / Apur Sansar / 1959
62. Римские каникулы / Roman Holiday / 1953
63. Плавучие травы / Ukikusa / 1959
64. Неотправленное письмо / 1959
65. К востоку от рая / East of Eden / 1955
66. Полевые огни / Nobi / 1959
67. Трамвай «Желание» / A Streetcar Named Desire / 1951
68. Тайна острова Бэк-Кап / Vynález zkázy / 1958
69. Kalyanam Panni Paar / 1952
70. Вторжение похитителей тел / Invasion of the Body Snatchers / 1956

71-80:
71. Трон в крови / Kumonosu-jo / 1957
72. Свидетель обвинения / Witness for the Prosecution / 1957
73. Дневник сельского священника / Journal d'un curé de campagne / 1951
74. Незнакомцы в поезде / Strangers on a Train / 1951
75. Кошка на раскаленной крыше / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / 1958
76. Боб-прожигатель / Bob le flambeur / 1956
77. Бунтарь без причины / Rebel Without a Cause / 1955
78. Забавная мордашка / Funny Face / 1957
79. Поздние хризантемы / Bangiku / 1954
80. Орфей / Orphée / 1950

81-90:
81. Дракон / O drakos / 1956
82. Пуэнт-Курт / La Pointe-Courte / 1955
83. Сильная жара / The Big Heat / 1953
84. Джонни-гитара / Johnny Guitar / 1954
85. День, когда остановилась Земля / The Day the Earth Stood Still / 1951
86. Соль Земли / Salt of the Earth / 1954
87. Гибель «Титаника» / A Night to Remember / 1958
88. Гигант / Giant / 1956
89. Улыбки летней ночи / Sommarnattens leende / 1955
90. Назарин / Nazarín / 1959

91-100:
91. Тени / Shadows / 1958
92. Туз в рукаве / Ace in the Hole / 1951
93. История монахини / The Nun's Story / 1959
94. Черный Орфей / Orfeu Negro / 1959
95. Годзилла / Gojira / 1954
96. Автостопщик / The Hitch-Hiker / 1953
97. Вечер шутов / Gycklarnas afton / 1953
98. Африканская королева / The African Queen / 1951
99. Рио Браво / Rio Bravo / 1959
100. Театральный фургон / The Band Wagon / 1953