Top Movies of 1950


The top movies of 1950 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

1. Rashômon

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijiro Ueda
Plot: A crime is told from four different points of view, through different people - but which version is the truth?

2. Sunset Boulevard

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Nancy Olson, Erich von Stroheim, Jack Webb, Fred Clark
Plot: A screenwriter is desperate for a job, when he finds himself in front of a legendary silent film era movie star. He writes script for her, but will it be good enough to make him famous? Or does he even want to be famous?

3. All About Eve

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actors: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Marilyn Monroe, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill
Plot: A young lady begins working for an aging stage actress in which she eventually becomes the star.

4. Harvey

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Henry Koster
Actors: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Jesse White, William H. Lynn, Charles Drake
Plot: A man who claims to see a full size bunny as his friend, has his family try to commit him to an insane asylum only to have themselves committed. Comedy.

5. The Gunfighter

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry King
Actors: Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell, Jean Parker, Karl Malden, Skip Homeier
Plot: Jimmy Ringo is a gunfighter looking to start a new life. Returning to a sleepy town where his old flame lives, along with a child he has never met, he hopes to leave the past behind. But, of course, the past is not ready to let him go - with men on his trail, and a hotheaded young gunslinger looking to prove his worth, it soon starts up a frenzy in town.

6. Cinderella

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
Actors: Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Claire Du Brey, Rhoda Williams, James MacDonald
Plot: A woman, horribly mistreated by her step-family, magically changes into a stunning beauty.

7. Kind Hearts and Coronets

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Hamer
Actors: Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Audrey Fildes, Hugh Griffith
Plot: A man who is considered to be the least important in his family, tries to kill off all of his family members through his life so that he inherits the family money.

8. Panic in the Streets

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss
Plot: One of film noir's finest. When a Dead man found in the streets is found to have the bubonic plague, a police detective and public health doctor scour the city for his killer, who may also be infected. Lots of suspense and a good, nostalgic look at New Orleans.

9. Night and the City

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Herbert Lom, Francis L. Sullivan
Plot: Harry Fabian is a London hustler whose plans never seem to work out as planned. Spying a world-famous Greco-Roman wrestler as his son's restaurant, he comes up with his most audacious plan yet. He does his best to con everyone around him, but in the end, really only winds up conning himself as his dreams crumble around him.

10. The Asphalt Jungle

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Huston
Actors: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, Marilyn Monroe, James Whitmore, John McIntire
Plot: A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel.

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