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Best Movies of 1952, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
68 films from 1952 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Singin' in the Rain ('1952), at 8.3 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.5. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Singin' in the Rain, 8.3 on IMDb against 99 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singin' in the Rain '1952 | Comedy / Romance | 8.3 | 100% | 99 | 8.1 | Gene Kelly |
| 2 | Ikiru '1952 | Drama | 8.3 | 98% | 92 | 8.3 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 3 | Umberto D. '1952 | Drama | 8.1 | 98% | 92 | 7.9 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 4 | High Noon '1952 | Western | 7.9 | 94% | 89 | 7.7 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 5 | Limelight '1952 | Romance / Drama / Comedy | 8.0 | 88% | 84 | 7.9 | Charlie Chaplin |
| 6 | Forbidden Games '1952 | Drama / War | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.8 | René Clément |
| 7 | Rabbit Seasoning '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | - | - | 7.4 | Chuck Jones |
| 8 | The Life of Oharu '1952 | Drama | 8.1 | 100% | - | 7.8 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 9 | The African Queen '1952 | Romance / War / Drama | 7.7 | 96% | 91 | 7.3 | John Huston |
| 10 | The Bad and the Beautiful '1952 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 79% | 86 | 7.3 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 11 | The Quiet Man '1952 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 7.7 | 91% | 85 | 7.3 | John Ford |
| 12 | Feed the Kitty '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 8.1 | - | - | 7.4 | Chuck Jones |
| 13 | Neighbours '1952 | Comedy / Animation | 7.9 | - | - | 7.5 | Norman McLaren |
| 14 | Bellissima '1952 | Drama | 7.7 | 83% | - | 7.8 | Luchino Visconti |
| 15 | The Narrow Margin '1952 | Thriller / Crime | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Richard Fleischer |
| 16 | Water, Water Every Hare '1952 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.9 | - | - | 7.5 | Chuck Jones |
| 17 | Casque d'Or '1952 | Drama / Crime / Romance | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Jacques Becker |
| 18 | The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice '1952 | Drama | 7.7 | 94% | - | 7.5 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 19 | 5 Fingers '1952 | Thriller / Drama | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 20 | Le Plaisir '1952 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.6 | 80% | - | 7.5 | Max Ophüls |
| 21 | The Little World of Don Camillo '1952 | Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.6 | Julien Duvivier |
| 22 | Operation: Rabbit '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.0 | Chuck Jones |
| 23 | Beep, Beep '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.8 | - | - | 7.3 | Chuck Jones |
| 24 | Sudden Fear '1952 | Thriller / Crime | 7.5 | 92% | - | 7.2 | David Miller |
| 25 | Scaramouche '1952 | Romance | 7.5 | - | - | 7.0 | George Sidney |
| 26 | Lambert the Sheepish Lion '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.2 | Jack Hannah |
| 27 | Pluto's Christmas Tree '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 7.1 | Jack Hannah |
| 28 | The Two Mouseketeers '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 6.8 | Joseph Barbera |
| 29 | The Importance of Being Earnest '1952 | Comedy | 7.4 | 88% | - | 7.2 | Anthony Asquith |
| 30 | Europa '51 '1952 | Drama | 7.4 | - | - | 7.3 | Roberto Rossellini |
| 31 | Scandal Sheet '1952 | Crime / Thriller | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Phil Karlson |
| 32 | The Lusty Men '1952 | Drama / Western | 7.4 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Nicholas Ray |
| 33 | Viva Zapata! '1952 | Drama / Western | 7.3 | 53% | - | 6.8 | Elia Kazan |
| 34 | Kansas City Confidential '1952 | Crime | 7.3 | 79% | - | 7.0 | Phil Karlson |
| 35 | The Atomic Fireman '1952 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 8.5 | Miguel M. Delgado |
| 36 | Si yo fuera diputado '1952 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.4 | Miguel M. Delgado |
| 37 | Totó in color '1952 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.3 | Steno |
| 38 | Trick or Treat '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 7.0 | Jack Hannah |
| 39 | Deadline - U.S.A. '1952 | Crime / Drama | 7.2 | 78% | - | 6.9 | Richard Brooks |
| 40 | The White Sheik '1952 | Comedy / Romance | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Federico Fellini |
| 41 | Toto and the Kings of Rome '1952 | Comedy | 6.5 | - | - | 7.0 | Mario Monicelli |
| 42 | Bend of the River '1952 | Western | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Anthony Mann |
| 43 | Fan-Fan the Tulip '1952 | Romance / Comedy / War | 7.1 | 70% | 69 | 6.7 | Christian-Jaque |
| 44 | The Sniper '1952 | Crime / Thriller | 7.1 | 83% | - | 6.7 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 45 | The Crimson Pirate '1952 | Comedy | 7.1 | 100% | 79 | 7.0 | Robert Siodmak |
| 46 | Waiting Women '1952 | Drama / Comedy | 7.0 | 88% | - | 6.4 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 47 | The Golden Coach '1952 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Jean Renoir |
| 48 | Pluto's Party '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 6.4 | - | - | 6.5 | Milt Schaffer |
| 49 | The White Reindeer '1952 | Fantasy / Horror | 6.9 | 100% | - | 6.6 | Erik Blomberg |
| 50 | Moulin Rouge '1952 | Drama | 7.0 | 73% | - | 6.6 | John Huston |
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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