TOP 10: 1950's
these are the best of the 1950's..they carry entertainment value and importance...obviously every top movies list is carried with a bias, we can not truly define the "greatest"
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1.
Seven Samurai
(1954)
A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. (207 mins.)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
2.
12 Angry Men
(1957)
A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court. (96 mins.)
Director: Sidney Lumet
3.
Paths of Glory
(1957)
When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them. (88 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
4.
The Night of the Hunter
(1955)
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. (93 mins.)
Director: Charles Laughton
5.
The Searchers
(1956)
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable. (119 mins.)
Director: John Ford
6.
Rififi
(1955)
Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes... (122 mins.)
Director: Jules Dassin
7.
Ugetsu
(1953)
In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century in Lake Biwa in the Province of Omi... (96 mins.)
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
8.
Touch of Evil
(1958)
Stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in Mexican border town. (95 mins.)
Director: Orson Welles
9.
Hiroshima, mon amour
(1959)
A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war. (90 mins.)
Director: Alain Resnais
10.
Summertime
(1955)
A lonely American woman unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy. (99 mins.)
Director: David Lean
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