Top Movies of 1952


The top movies of 1952 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

21. The Big Sky

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt, Arthur Hunnicutt, Buddy Baer, Hank Worden
Plot: Jim Deakins - frontiersman and Indian trader - is on a journey up the Missouri River with a group of men, looking to trade with the friendly Blackfoot tribe for a large amount of furs. Yet the trip takes them through hostile territory and the men have underestimated the challenges. As the group is slowly taken out - soon only Deakins and a handful of men are there to finish the journey.

22. Hans Christian Andersen

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Vidor
Actors: Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Zizi Jeanmaire, Joseph Walsh, Philip Tonge, Erik Bruhn
Plot: More fantasy than biography, Danny Kaye plays Hans Christian Andersen - the author of many beloved fairy tales, in a story that is a fairytale version of the man's life.

23. Miss Julie

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alf Sjöberg
Actors: Anita Björk, Max von Sydow, Anders Henrikson, Ulf Palme, Märta Dorff, Lissi Alandh

24. The Man in the White Suit

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Actors: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Ernest Thesiger, Howard Marion-Crawford

25. The World in His Arms

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth, Anthony Quinn, John McIntire, Andrea King, Rhys Williams

26. Scaramouche

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Sidney
Actors: Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Henry Wilcoxon, Richard Anderson, Mel Ferrer

27. Sound Barrier, The ( Breaking the Sound Barrier )

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Lean
Actors: Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick, John Justin, Dinah Sheridan, Joseph Tomelty

28. Deadline - U.S.A.

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Brooks
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens, Martin Gabel

29. The Sniper

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr, Marie Windsor, Frank Faylen, Richard Kiley

30. Carrie

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Eddie Albert, Basil Ruysdael, Ray Teal

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