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Best Movies of 1950, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
66 films from 1950 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Sunset Boulevard ('1950), at 8.4 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.5. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Rashomon, 8.1 on IMDb against 98 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunset Boulevard '1950 | Drama | 8.4 | 98% | 94 | 8.3 | Billy Wilder |
| 2 | All About Eve '1950 | Drama | 8.2 | 99% | 98 | 8.1 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 3 | Rashomon '1950 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 8.1 | 98% | 98 | 8.0 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 4 | The Young and the Damned '1950 | Drama / Crime | 8.2 | 91% | - | 8.1 | Luis Buñuel |
| 5 | Harvey '1950 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.9 | 88% | 79 | 7.7 | Henry Koster |
| 6 | In a Lonely Place '1950 | Thriller / Drama / Romance / Mystery | 7.9 | 96% | - | 7.6 | Nicholas Ray |
| 7 | Rabbit of Seville '1950 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 8.3 | - | - | 7.6 | Chuck Jones |
| 8 | The Asphalt Jungle '1950 | Crime / Drama | 7.8 | 98% | 85 | 7.5 | John Huston |
| 9 | Night and the City '1950 | Drama / Crime | 7.8 | 86% | - | 7.5 | Jules Dassin |
| 10 | Orpheus '1950 | Romance / Fantasy / Drama | 7.8 | 97% | - | 7.7 | Jean Cocteau |
| 11 | The Gunfighter '1950 | Western | 7.7 | 93% | 94 | 7.4 | Henry King |
| 12 | Winchester '73 '1950 | Western | 7.6 | 100% | 83 | 7.3 | Anthony Mann |
| 13 | Gun Crazy '1950 | Crime / Romance / Drama | 7.6 | 91% | 74 | 7.4 | Joseph H. Lewis |
| 14 | Kon-Tiki '1950 | Documentary | 7.9 | - | - | 7.4 | Thor Heyerdahl |
| 15 | Cue Ball Cat '1950 | Animation / Comedy | 8.0 | - | - | 7.2 | Joseph Barbera |
| 16 | Caged '1950 | Drama | 7.6 | 50% | - | 7.1 | John Cromwell |
| 17 | The Hollywood Bowl '1950 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 7.9 | - | - | 7.2 | Joseph Barbera |
| 18 | Born Yesterday '1950 | Comedy / Romance | 7.5 | 95% | - | 7.3 | George Cukor |
| 19 | Where the Sidewalk Ends '1950 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Otto Preminger |
| 20 | The Breaking Point '1950 | Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Michael Curtiz |
| 21 | Texas Tom '1950 | Animation / Comedy / Western | 7.7 | - | - | 6.9 | William Hanna |
| 22 | The King of the Neighborhood '1950 | Comedy / Crime | 7.9 | - | - | 8.4 | Gilberto Martínez Solares |
| 23 | La Ronde '1950 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 94% | 82 | 7.3 | Max Ophüls |
| 24 | No Way Out '1950 | Drama / Crime / Thriller | 7.4 | 85% | - | 6.9 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 25 | 8 Ball Bunny '1950 | Animation / Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 6.9 | Chuck Jones |
| 26 | Cyrano de Bergerac '1950 | Romance / Drama | 7.4 | 74% | - | 6.9 | Michael Gordon |
| 27 | El Portero '1950 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.8 | Miguel M. Delgado |
| 28 | The Beauty of the Devil '1950 | Drama / Fantasy / Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.2 | René Clair |
| 29 | The Scarlet Pumpernickel '1950 | Animation / Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 6.8 | Chuck Jones |
| 30 | The Furies '1950 | Western | 7.3 | 91% | - | 7.1 | Anthony Mann |
| 31 | The Flowers of St. Francis '1950 | Drama | 7.3 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 32 | Cinderella '1950 | Fantasy / Animation / Romance | 7.3 | 95% | 85 | 7.1 | Clyde Geronimi |
| 33 | 47 Talking Corpses '1950 | Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 7.1 | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia |
| 34 | Toto the Sheik '1950 | Comedy | 6.5 | - | - | 6.8 | Mario Mattoli |
| 35 | To Joy '1950 | Romance / Drama / Musical | 7.2 | - | - | 6.8 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 36 | Mystery Street '1950 | Crime / Thriller | 7.2 | - | - | 6.8 | John Sturges |
| 37 | Scandal '1950 | Drama | 7.2 | 86% | - | 6.9 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 38 | Woman on the Run '1950 | Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.2 | 88% | - | 6.8 | Norman Foster |
| 39 | Gerald McBoing-Boing '1950 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.6 | Robert Cannon |
| 40 | Stromboli '1950 | Drama | 7.2 | 67% | - | 7.1 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 41 | Force of Evil '1950 | Crime / Drama | 7.2 | 100% | 89 | 6.6 | Abraham Polonsky |
| 42 | Panic in the Streets '1950 | Thriller / Crime | 7.2 | 97% | - | 6.9 | Elia Kazan |
| 43 | Story of a Love Affair '1950 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 93% | - | 6.7 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 44 | Trailer Horn '1950 | Animation / Comedy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.6 | Jack Hannah |
| 45 | Variety Lights '1950 | Drama / Comedy | 7.1 | 100% | 81 | 6.9 | Federico Fellini |
| 46 | The Damned Don't Cry '1950 | Crime / Drama | 7.1 | 67% | 61 | 7.0 | Vincent Sherman |
| 47 | The Men '1950 | Drama | 7.1 | 79% | - | 7.0 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 48 | Wagon Master '1950 | Western | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.7 | John Ford |
| 49 | Armored Car Robbery '1950 | Thriller / Crime / Action | 7.0 | - | - | 6.5 | Richard Fleischer |
| 50 | The Baron of Arizona '1950 | Romance / Western / Drama | 6.9 | 86% | - | 6.7 | Samuel Fuller |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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