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Movies: Popular Movies of 1950

Movies in chronological context: 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1950th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 950th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1950s decade. ()

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Cinderella(1950)

G
| 1h 14min | Kids & Family, Fantasy, Animation, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 3,146 votes)

Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving a single glass slipper... the only key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending!

Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi

Sunset Boulevard(1950)

1h 50min | Drama
4.2/5 (with 1,089 votes)

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Jack Webb, ...

Rashomon(1950)

1h 28min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
4.1/5 (with 913 votes)

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Toshirō Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki

All About Eve(1950)

2h 19min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 651 votes)

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz - With Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, ...
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Harvey(1950)

1h 44min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 253 votes)

The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.

Directed by Henry Koster - With James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White, Wallace Ford, ...
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In a Lonely Place(1950)

1h 34min | Drama, Mystery, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 230 votes)

An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental and mentally impaired boyfriend is a murderer.

Directed by Nicholas Ray - With Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Jeff Donnell, Martha Stewart, Robert Warwick, ...

The Young and the Damned(1950)

1h 25min | Crime, Drama
4.0/5 (with 200 votes)

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent, criminal life in the festering slums of Mexico City, among them the young Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

Directed by Luis Buñuel - With Miguel Inclán, Roberto Cobo, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, Alfonso Mejía, Stella Inda, Alma Delia Fuentes, ...

The Asphalt Jungle(1950)

1h 52min | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 196 votes)

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

Directed by John Huston - With Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, John McIntire, ...

Winchester '73(1950)

1h 32min | Western
3.7/5 (with 144 votes)

Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.

Directed by Anthony Mann - With James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Stephen McNally, Dan Duryea, Millard Mitchell, John McIntire, ...

Rio Grande(1950)

1h 45min | Western
3.5/5 (with 128 votes)

Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his command. Tension is added when Yorke's son (whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years), Trooper Jeff Yorke, is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment.

Directed by John Ford - With John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman, Jr., Harry Carey, Victor McLaglen, ...

Gun Crazy(1950)

1h 27min | Crime, Thriller, Action, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 124 votes)

Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.

Directed by Joseph H. Lewis - With Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Harry Lewis, Russ Tamblyn, Berry Kroeger, Nedrick Young, ...

Stage Fright(1950)

1h 50min | Thriller
3.4/5 (with 122 votes)

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, ...
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Night and the City(1950)

1h 35min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.8/5 (with 106 votes)

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.

Directed by Jules Dassin - With Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Herbert Lom, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan, ...

Orpheus(1950)

1h 35min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 101 votes)

At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste, is killed, and a mysterious princess insists on taking Orpheus and the body away in her Rolls-Royce. Orphée soon finds himself in the underworld, where the Princess announces that she is, in fact, Death. Orpheus escapes in the car back to the land of the living, only to become obsessed with the car radio.

Directed by Jean Cocteau - With Jean Marais, François Périer, Juliette Gréco, María Casares, Roger Blin, Jean-Pierre Melville, ...

Father of the Bride(1950)

1h 32min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 85 votes)

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.

Directed by Vincente Minnelli - With Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Leo G. Carroll, ...

Broken Arrow(1950)

1h 33min | Western
3.4/5 (with 79 votes)

Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.

Directed by Delmer Daves - With James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Will Geer, Robert Adler, Arthur Hunnicutt, ...

Treasure Island(1950)

1h 36min | Adventure, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 78 votes)

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.

Directed by Byron Haskin - With Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Finlay Currie, Denis O'Dea, Francis de Wolff, ...

Stromboli(1950)

1h 45min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 75 votes)

After the end of World War II Karen, a young displaced woman from Lithuania, marries Italian fisherman Antonio to get away from her internment camp. But the life on Antonio's island, Stromboli, threatened by its volcano, is a tough one and Karen cannot get used to it.

Directed by Roberto Rossellini - With Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana
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Rabbit of Seville(1950)

8min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 73 votes)

Behind the Hollywood Bowl stage which is playing the opera The Barber of Seville, Bugs Bunny flees into the backstage area with Elmer Fudd in close pursuit. Seeing his opportunity to fight on his terms, Bugs raises the curtain on Elmer, trapping him on stage. As the orchestra begins playing, Bugs comes into play as the barber who is going to make sure that Elmer is going to get a grooming he will never forget.

Directed by Chuck Jones

The Gunfighter(1950)

1h 25min | Western
3.6/5 (with 72 votes)

The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

Directed by Henry King - With Gregory Peck, Millard Mitchell, Jean Parker, Karl Malden, Verna Felton, Ellen Corby, ...

Where the Sidewalk Ends(1950)

1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 70 votes)

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

Directed by Otto Preminger - With Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Tom Tully, Karl Malden, Craig Stevens, ...

Born Yesterday(1950)

1h 43min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama
3.6/5 (with 66 votes)

Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.

Directed by George Cukor - With Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden, Grandon Rhodes, Claire Carleton
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Panic in the Streets(1950)

1h 36min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.5/5 (with 55 votes)

One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. The next morning, Dr. Clint Reed of the Public Health Service confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague. To prevent a catastrophic epidemic, Clint must find and inoculate the killers and their associates, with the reluctant aid of police captain Tom Warren, despite official skepticism, and in total secrecy, lest panic empties the city. Can a doctor turn detective? He has 48 hours to try.

Directed by Elia Kazan - With Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel, Daniela Rocca, ...

Sands of Iwo Jima(1950)

1h 40min | War, Action, Drama, History
3.2/5 (with 54 votes)

The relationship between Sergeant Stryker and a group of rebellious recruits is made difficult by the Sergeant's tough training tactics. At Tarawa, the leathernecks have a chance to see Stryker in action, and begin to appreciate him.

Directed by Allan Dwan - With John Wayne, John Agar, Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, James Brown, Arthur Franz, ...

Wagon Master(1950)

1h 26min | Adventure, Western
3.4/5 (with 54 votes)

Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Navajo, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.

Directed by John Ford - With Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey, Ward Bond, Jane Darwell, James Arness, ...

La Ronde(1950)

1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 45 votes)

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.

Directed by Max Ophüls - With Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Daniel Gélin, Danielle Darrieux, ...

Song of Love(1950)

26min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 43 votes)

Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.

Directed by Jean Genet - With André Reybaz

King Solomon's Mines(1950)

1h 43min | Adventure
3.3/5 (with 43 votes)

Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.

Directed by Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton - With Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas, John Banner, Lowell Gilmore, ...

The Strange Ones(1950)

1h 45min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 40 votes)

Elisabeth and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a snowball fight. As a coping mechanism, the two conjure up a hermetic dream of their own making. Their relationship, however, isn't exactly wholesome. Jealousy and a malevolent undercurrent intrude on their fantasy when Elisabeth invites the strange Agathe to stay with them -- and Paul is immediately attracted to her.

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville - With Hélène Rémy, Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermit, Jacques Bernard, Annabel Buffet, Jean Cocteau, ...

Story of a Love Affair(1950)

1h 42min | Romance / Love, Drama, Crime, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 37 votes)

Paola (Lucia Bose) is the beautiful and jealously-guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana (Massimo Girotti). In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guido, with whom she resurrects a lost passion. Dogged by the suspicions of their respective mates, they are drawn closer to each other in the face of adversity, and begin to plot Enrico's demise. But when the challenge of being together falls away, will the passion start to wane? A masterpiece of intensity and finely-wrought emotion.

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - With Massimo Girotti, Lucia Bosé, Rubi Dalma, Franco Fabrizi, Anita Farra, Gino Cervi, ...
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