By decade
The 1950s on disc
The films of the 1950s worth owning, ranked by standing.
Shane
1953 · George Stevens
eBay from $20
4K 
Throne of Blood
1957 · Akira Kurosawa
eBay from $54
To Catch a Thief
1955 · Alfred Hitchcock
eBay from $15
East of Eden
1955 · Elia Kazan
eBay from $21
The Seven Year Itch
1955 · Billy Wilder
eBay from $34
Anatomy of a Murder
1959 · Otto Preminger
eBay from $60
Strangers on a Train
1951 · Alfred Hitchcock
eBay from $18
Black Orpheus
1959 · Marcel Camus
eBay from $17
The Killing
1956 · Stanley Kubrick
eBay from $46
4K 
The Night of the Hunter
1955 · Charles Laughton
eBay from $95
Plan 9 from Outer Space
1959 · Ed Wood
eBay from $115
Hiroshima mon amour
1959 · Alain Resnais
eBay from $23
The Wages of Fear
1953 · Henri-Georges Clouzot
eBay from $38
Quo Vadis
1951 · Mervyn LeRoy
eBay from $14
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954 · Richard Fleischer
The Nun's Story
1959 · Fred Zinnemann
eBay from $20
Pather Panchali
1955 · Satyajit Ray
eBay from $180
The Cranes Are Flying
1957 · Mikhail Kalatozov
eBay from $28
4K 
The Hidden Fortress
1958 · Akira Kurosawa
eBay from $61
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 · Don Siegel
eBay from $28
Funny Face
1957 · Stanley Donen
eBay from $17
How to Marry a Millionaire
1953 · Jean Negulesco
eBay from $23
Born Yesterday
1950 · George Cukor
eBay from $169
Touch of Evil
1958 · Orson Welles
eBay from $30
Rio Bravo
1959 · Howard Hawks
eBay from $20
4K 
Harvey
1950 · Henry Koster
eBay from $40
Umberto D.
1952 · Vittorio De Sica
eBay from $35
Mon Oncle 1958
Mon Oncle
1958 · Jacques Tati
Mother India 1957
Mother India
1957 · Mehboob Khan
Johnny Guitar
1954 · Nicholas Ray
eBay from $32
An Affair to Remember
1957 · Leo McCarey
eBay from $20
The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951 · Robert Wise
eBay from $37
Forbidden Games
1952 · René Clément
eBay from $31
The Barefoot Contessa
1954 · Joseph L. Mankiewicz
eBay from $31
Ballad of a Soldier
1959 · Grigori Chukhrai
eBay from $77
Lust for Life
1956 · George Cukor
eBay from $36
Niagara
1953 · Henry Hathaway
eBay from $69
The Big Country
1958 · William Wyler
eBay from $29
Written on the Wind
1956 · Douglas Sirk
eBay from $11
The Big Heat
1953 · Fritz Lang
eBay from $31
Mogambo
1953 · John Ford
eBay from $33
And God Created Woman 1956
And God Created Woman
1956 · Roger Vadim
4K 
The Trouble with Harry
1955 · Alfred Hitchcock
eBay from $37
A Star Is Born
1954 · George Cukor
eBay from $29
Forbidden Planet
1956 · Fred M. Wilcox
eBay from $48
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952 · Vincente Minnelli
eBay from $40
Ace in the Hole
1951 · Billy Wilder
eBay from $29
The King and I
1956 · Walter Lang
eBay from $46