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Best Movies of 1951, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
65 films from 1951 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Scrooge ('1951), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.4. Biggest split between audiences and critics: A Streetcar Named Desire, 7.9 on IMDb against 97 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scrooge '1951 | Fantasy / Drama | 8.1 | 86% | - | 7.4 | Brian Desmond Hurst |
| 2 | Ace in the Hole '1951 | Drama | 8.0 | 88% | 72 | 7.9 | Billy Wilder |
| 3 | Strangers on a Train '1951 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.9 | 98% | 88 | 7.7 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 4 | A Streetcar Named Desire '1951 | Drama / Thriller | 7.9 | 97% | 97 | 7.6 | Elia Kazan |
| 5 | Early Summer '1951 | Drama | 8.1 | 100% | 94 | 7.9 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 6 | Rabbit Fire '1951 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | - | - | 7.5 | Chuck Jones |
| 7 | The Day the Earth Stood Still '1951 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama | 7.7 | 92% | 83 | 7.4 | Robert Wise |
| 8 | A Place in the Sun '1951 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 7.7 | 90% | 76 | 7.3 | George Stevens |
| 9 | The Browning Version '1951 | Drama | 8.0 | 89% | - | 7.6 | Anthony Asquith |
| 10 | Diary of a Country Priest '1951 | Drama | 7.7 | 95% | - | 7.5 | Robert Bresson |
| 11 | Awaara '1951 | Drama / Musical / Romance | 7.8 | - | - | 7.2 | Raj Kapoor |
| 12 | Miracle in Milan '1951 | Comedy / Fantasy / Drama | 7.6 | 93% | 78 | 7.3 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 13 | The Lavender Hill Mob '1951 | Comedy / Crime | 7.5 | 100% | 90 | 7.2 | Charles Crichton |
| 14 | Detective Story '1951 | Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 71% | 78 | 7.0 | William Wyler |
| 15 | Othello '1951 | Drama | 7.5 | 87% | - | 7.4 | Orson Welles |
| 16 | Summer Interlude '1951 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.4 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 17 | Westward the Women '1951 | Western / Drama | 7.6 | 69% | - | 7.0 | William A. Wellman |
| 18 | Alice in Wonderland '1951 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.3 | 82% | 68 | 7.2 | Clyde Geronimi |
| 19 | The River '1951 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 92% | - | 7.2 | Jean Renoir |
| 20 | Cops and Robbers '1951 | Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.5 | Steno |
| 21 | Sleepy-Time Tom '1951 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.0 | Joseph Barbera |
| 22 | Drip-Along Daffy '1951 | Animation / Comedy / Western | 7.7 | - | - | 7.2 | Chuck Jones |
| 23 | The Steel Helmet '1951 | Action / Drama / War | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Samuel Fuller |
| 24 | Full Spead Ahead '1951 | Comedy / Musical | 8.0 | - | - | 8.4 | Ismael Rodríguez |
| 25 | People Will Talk '1951 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.3 | 89% | - | 7.1 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 26 | Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. '1951 | War | 7.3 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Raoul Walsh |
| 27 | The Enforcer '1951 | Drama / Thriller | 7.3 | 89% | - | 7.1 | Bretaigne Windust |
| 28 | Miss Oyu '1951 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | - | - | 7.2 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 29 | Poison '1951 | Comedy | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Sacha Guitry |
| 30 | Corn Chips '1951 | Animation / Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.2 | Jack Hannah |
| 31 | The Man in the White Suit '1951 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.9 | Alexander Mackendrick |
| 32 | On Dangerous Ground '1951 | Drama / Crime | 7.2 | 89% | 78 | 6.6 | Nicholas Ray |
| 33 | Dr. Knock '1951 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.4 | Guy Lefranc |
| 34 | The Red Inn '1951 | Comedy / Crime | 7.2 | - | - | 6.8 | Claude Autant-Lara |
| 35 | El Siete Machos '1951 | Comedy / Western | 7.3 | - | - | 8.3 | Miguel M. Delgado |
| 36 | The Poulterer Hawk '1951 | Drama / Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 8.0 | Rogelio A. González |
| 37 | Rawhide '1951 | Western | 7.1 | - | - | 6.7 | Henry Hathaway |
| 38 | The Tales of Hoffmann '1951 | Musical / Fantasy / Drama | 7.1 | 85% | - | 7.1 | Michael Powell |
| 39 | The Prowler '1951 | Drama / Thriller | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Joseph Losey |
| 40 | No Highway in the Sky '1951 | Drama / Thriller | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Henry Koster |
| 41 | The Red Badge of Courage '1951 | War | 7.1 | 86% | - | 6.4 | John Huston |
| 42 | The Idiot '1951 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 60% | - | 7.0 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 43 | Quo Vadis '1951 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 83% | 70 | 7.1 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 44 | An American in Paris '1951 | Musical / Romance / Comedy | 7.1 | 95% | 83 | 7.0 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 45 | He Ran All the Way '1951 | Thriller / Crime | 7.0 | 88% | - | 7.2 | John Berry |
| 46 | His Kind of Woman '1951 | Crime / Comedy / Thriller | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | John Farrow |
| 47 | The House on Telegraph Hill '1951 | Thriller / Drama / Mystery | 6.9 | - | - | 6.4 | Robert Wise |
| 48 | M '1951 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 6.8 | - | - | 6.5 | Joseph Losey |
| 49 | Pandora and the Flying Dutchman '1951 | Romance / Drama / Fantasy | 6.9 | 67% | 81 | 6.8 | Albert Lewin |
| 50 | The Thing from Another World '1951 | Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.0 | 87% | - | 6.7 | Christian Nyby |
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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