By decade
The 1950s on disc
The films of the 1950s worth owning, ranked by standing.
Moby Dick
1956 · John Huston
eBay from $29
White Christmas
1954 · Michael Curtiz
eBay from $22
Sansho the Bailiff
1954 · Kenji Mizoguchi
eBay from $23
Variety Lights 1950
Variety Lights
1950 · Federico Fellini
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. 1951
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951 · Raoul Walsh
Carnival Night 1956
Carnival Night
1956 · Eldar Ryazanov
Auntie Mame
1958 · Morton DaCosta
eBay from $21
The Naked Spur
1953 · Anthony Mann
eBay from $31
Picnic
1955 · Joshua Logan
eBay from $29
Fanfan la Tulipe 1952
Fanfan la Tulipe
1952 · Christian-Jaque
Kiss Me Deadly
1955 · Robert Aldrich
eBay from $38
The Long, Hot Summer
1958 · Martin Ritt
eBay from $107
Bus Stop
1956 · Joshua Logan
eBay from $46
Vera Cruz
1954 · Robert Aldrich
eBay from $35
Detective Story
1951 · William Wyler
eBay from $29
The Ladykillers
1955 · Alexander Mackendrick
eBay from $20
Love Me Tender
1956 · Robert D. Webb
eBay from $46
On the Beach
1959 · Stanley Kramer
eBay from $49
The Harder They Fall
1956 · Mark Robson
eBay from $30
Battleground
1950 · William A. Wellman
eBay from $37
Mister Roberts
1955 · John Ford
eBay from $41
A Farewell to Arms
1957 · John Huston
eBay from $15
The White Sheik 1952
The White Sheik
1952 · Federico Fellini
Ulysses 1954
Ulysses
1954 · Mario Camerini
Carmen Jones
1954 · Otto Preminger
eBay from $25
The Cousins
1959 · Claude Chabrol
eBay from $32
The Conqueror
1956 · Dick Powell
eBay from $26
5 Fingers 1952
5 Fingers
1952 · Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Gunfighter
1950 · Henry King
eBay from $20
The Fly
1958 · Kurt Neumann
eBay from $135
The Three Faces of Eve
1957 · Nunnally Johnson
eBay from $20
Oklahoma!
1955 · Fred Zinnemann
eBay from $36
I Live in Fear 1955
I Live in Fear
1955 · Akira Kurosawa
Death of a Salesman 1951
Death of a Salesman
1951 · László Benedek
Ordet
1955 · Carl Theodor Dreyer
eBay from $46
Revenge of the Creature
1955 · Jack Arnold
eBay from $30
Sissi – The Young Empress
1956 · Ernst Marischka
eBay from $33
Panic in the Streets
1950 · Elia Kazan
eBay from $20
The Far Country
1954 · Anthony Mann
eBay from $26
Alexander the Great
1956 · Robert Rossen
eBay from $32
1984
1956 · Michael Anderson
eBay from $44
Operation Petticoat
1959 · Blake Edwards
eBay from $84
The Egyptian
1954 · Michael Curtiz
eBay from $215
Come Back, Little Sheba
1952 · Daniel Mann
eBay from $27
Lili
1953 · Charles Walters
eBay from $23
Rififi
1955 · Jules Dassin
eBay from $35
Mr. Arkadin
1955 · Orson Welles
eBay from $51
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
1953 · Eugène Lourié
eBay from $27