By decade
The 1950s on disc
The films of the 1950s worth owning, ranked by standing.
Father of the Bride
1950 · Vincente Minnelli
eBay from $30
The Idiot
1951 · Akira Kurosawa
eBay from $52
The Old Man and the Sea
1958 · John Sturges
eBay from $38
Beat the Devil
1953 · John Huston
eBay from $31
River of No Return
1954 · Otto Preminger
eBay from $46
King Solomon's Mines
1950 · Compton Bennett
eBay from $55
The Young Lions
1958 · Edward Dmytryk
eBay from $70
Canal
1957 · Andrzej Wajda
eBay from $63
The Bridge
1959 · Bernhard Wicki
eBay from $13
House of Wax
1953 · André de Toth
eBay from $54
Ugetsu
1953 · Kenji Mizoguchi
eBay from $43
Monkey Business 1952
Monkey Business
1952 · Howard Hawks
Aparajito 1956
Aparajito
1956 · Satyajit Ray
The Rose Tattoo
1955 · Daniel Mann
eBay from $30
Blackboard Jungle 1955
Blackboard Jungle
1955 · Richard Brooks
3:10 to Yuma
1957 · Delmer Daves
eBay from $26
Senso
1954 · Luchino Visconti
eBay from $55
Los Olvidados
1950 · Luis Buñuel
eBay from $50
Apur Sansar
1959 · Satyajit Ray
eBay from $180
A King in New York 1957
A King in New York
1957 · Charlie Chaplin
The Vikings
1958 · Richard Fleischer
eBay from $29
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1959 · Terence Fisher
eBay from $31
The Man from Laramie
1955 · Anthony Mann
eBay from $33
Friendly Persuasion
1956 · William Wyler
eBay from $40
All That Heaven Allows
1955 · Douglas Sirk
eBay from $35
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957 · John Sturges
eBay from $11
The Magician
1958 · Ingmar Bergman
eBay from $49
Glen or Glenda 1953
Glen or Glenda
1953 · Ed Wood
Journey to the Center of the Earth
1959 · Henry Levin
eBay from $79
In a Lonely Place
1950 · Nicholas Ray
eBay from $46
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
1953 · Jacques Tati
eBay from $23
Jailhouse Rock
1957 · Richard Thorpe
eBay from $20
D.O.A.
1950 · Rudolph Maté
eBay from $20
Bellissima
1951 · Luchino Visconti
eBay from $46
Sissi
1955 · Ernst Marischka
eBay from $33
Summer with Monika
1953 · Ingmar Bergman
eBay from $40
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The Curse of Frankenstein
1957 · Terence Fisher
eBay from $167
Peyton Place
1957 · Mark Robson
eBay from $115
I Want to Live!
1958 · Robert Wise
eBay from $63
The Blob
1958 · Irvin Yeaworth
eBay from $70
The Thing from Another World
1951 · Howard Hawks
eBay from $44
Destiny of a Man 1959
Destiny of a Man
1959 · Sergei Bondarchuk
The Fall of Berlin 1950
The Fall of Berlin
1950 · Mikheil Chiaureli
Titanic
1953 · Jean Negulesco
eBay from $55
Solomon and Sheba
1959 · King Vidor
eBay from $31
Samson and Delilah 1950
Samson and Delilah
1950 · Cecil B. DeMille
The Horse Soldiers
1959 · John Ford
eBay from $35
Cyrano de Bergerac
1950 · Michael Gordon
eBay from $18