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Top 100 drama movies from the 1950s
Find the best Drama movies of the 1950s, from postwar grit to sun-drenched melodrama. A century-defining list, curated for you by Brew.
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Roman Holiday
movie•United States
1953
02
Rashomon
movie•Japan
1951
03
La Strada
movie•Italy
1956
04
On the Waterfront
movie•United States
1954
05
Nights of Cabiria
movie•Italy
1957
06
Ace in the Hole
movie•United States
1951
07
Limelight
movie•United States
1952
08
Rififi
movie•France
1956
09
The 400 Blows
movie•France
1959
10
Elevator to the Gallows
movie•France
1958
11
Umberto D.
movie•Italy
1955
12
Ugetsu
movie•Japan
1954
13
The Ten Commandments
movie•United States
1956
14
Sweet Smell of Success
movie•United States
1957
15
The Killing
movie•United States
1956
16
The Seventh Seal
movie•Sweden
1958
17
Auntie Mame
movie•United States
1958
18
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
movie•Japan
1959
19
A Night to Remember
movie•GB
1958
20
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
movie•United States
1958
21
Paths of Glory
movie•United States
1957
22
Touch of Evil
movie•United States
1958
23
North by Northwest
movie•United States
1959
24
Sansho the Bailiff
movie•Japan
1954
25
The Big Country
movie•United States
1958
26
Pather Panchali
movie•India
1955
27
The Young and the Damned
movie•Mexico
1952
28
All About Eve
movie•United States
1950
29
Wild Strawberries
movie•Sweden
1959
30
The Bridge on the River Kwai
movie•GB
1957
31
A Man Escaped
movie•France
1957
32
A Face in the Crowd
movie•United States
1957
33
Diabolique
movie•France
1955
34
The Wages of Fear
movie•France
1955
35
Dial M for Murder
movie•United States
1954
36
A Christmas Carol
movie•GB
1951
37
The Third Man
movie•GB
1950
38
Anatomy of a Murder
movie•United States
1959
39
The Night of the Hunter
movie•United States
1955
40
Forbidden Games
movie•France
1952
41
Seven Samurai
movie•Japan
1956
42
Rear Window
movie•United States
1954
43
Witness for the Prosecution
movie•United States
1958
44
Sunset Boulevard
movie•United States
1950
45
Ikiru
movie•Japan
1956
46
Aparajito
movie•India
1956
47
Ordet
movie•Denmark
1955
48
Ben-Hur
movie•United States
1959
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