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Best Comedy Movies of the 1950s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
210 comedy films from the 1950s 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 7.9. Biggest split between audiences and critics: White Christmas, 7.6 on IMDb against 56 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 | Some Like It Hot '1959 | Comedy / Romance / Crime | 8.2 | 95% | 98 | 8.1 | Billy Wilder |
| 3 | Nights of Cabiria '1957 | Drama / Comedy | 8.1 | 100% | - | 8.0 | Federico Fellini |
| 4 | Duck Amuck '1953 | Animation / Comedy | 8.6 | - | - | 8.1 | Chuck Jones |
| 5 | Roman Holiday '1953 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 8.0 | 97% | 78 | 7.9 | William Wyler |
| 6 | The Red Balloon '1956 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 8.1 | 96% | - | 7.7 | Albert Lamorisse |
| 7 | Limelight '1952 | Romance / Drama / Comedy | 8.0 | 88% | 84 | 7.9 | Charlie Chaplin |
| 8 | Harvey '1950 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.9 | 88% | 79 | 7.7 | Henry Koster |
| 9 | Rabbit of Seville '1950 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 8.3 | - | - | 7.6 | Chuck Jones |
| 10 | Stalag 17 '1953 | Comedy / Drama / War | 7.9 | 91% | 84 | 7.7 | Billy Wilder |
| 11 | What's Opera, Doc? '1957 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 8.3 | - | - | 7.6 | Chuck Jones |
| 12 | Rabbit Seasoning '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | - | - | 7.4 | Chuck Jones |
| 13 | One Froggy Evening '1955 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 8.4 | - | - | 7.7 | Chuck Jones |
| 14 | Rabbit Fire '1951 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | - | - | 7.5 | Chuck Jones |
| 15 | The Quiet Man '1952 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 7.7 | 91% | 85 | 7.3 | John Ford |
| 16 | I Vitelloni '1953 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 100% | 87 | 7.7 | Federico Fellini |
| 17 | Feed the Kitty '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 8.1 | - | - | 7.4 | Chuck Jones |
| 18 | Auntie Mame '1958 | Comedy / Drama | 7.9 | 83% | - | 7.0 | Morton DaCosta |
| 19 | The Court Jester '1955 | Musical / Comedy | 7.8 | 97% | - | 7.3 | Norman Panama |
| 20 | Big Deal on Madonna Street '1958 | Comedy / Crime | 7.9 | 89% | - | 8.1 | Mario Monicelli |
| 21 | Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century '1953 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 8.1 | - | - | 7.6 | Chuck Jones |
| 22 | Sabrina '1954 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.6 | 89% | 72 | 7.5 | Billy Wilder |
| 23 | White Christmas '1954 | Comedy / Musical / Romance | 7.6 | 76% | 56 | 7.2 | Michael Curtiz |
| 24 | Neighbours '1952 | Comedy / Animation | 7.9 | - | - | 7.5 | Norman McLaren |
| 25 | Good Morning '1959 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 94% | 87 | 7.7 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 26 | The Ladykillers '1955 | Comedy / Crime | 7.6 | 100% | 91 | 7.3 | Alexander Mackendrick |
| 27 | Smiles of a Summer Night '1955 | Comedy / Romance | 7.7 | 100% | - | 7.4 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 28 | Cue Ball Cat '1950 | Animation / Comedy | 8.0 | - | - | 7.2 | Joseph Barbera |
| 29 | Mon Oncle '1958 | Comedy | 7.6 | 94% | 84 | 7.4 | Jacques Tati |
| 30 | Hobson's Choice '1954 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.7 | 91% | - | 7.4 | David Lean |
| 31 | The Hollywood Bowl '1950 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 7.9 | - | - | 7.2 | William Hanna |
| 32 | Water, Water Every Hare '1952 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.9 | - | - | 7.5 | Chuck Jones |
| 33 | Mister Roberts '1955 | Comedy / Drama / War | 7.6 | 93% | 72 | 7.0 | John Ford |
| 34 | Born Yesterday '1950 | Comedy / Romance | 7.5 | 95% | - | 7.3 | George Cukor |
| 35 | Le Plaisir '1952 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.6 | 80% | - | 7.5 | Max Ophüls |
| 36 | Miracle in Milan '1951 | Comedy / Fantasy / Drama | 7.6 | 93% | 78 | 7.3 | Vittorio De Sica |
| 37 | The Great War '1959 | Comedy / War / Drama | 8.1 | 40% | - | 8.1 | Mario Monicelli |
| 38 | The Little World of Don Camillo '1952 | Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.5 | Julien Duvivier |
| 39 | Operation: Rabbit '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.0 | Chuck Jones |
| 40 | Duck! Rabbit, Duck! '1953 | Animation / Comedy | 8.1 | - | - | 7.4 | Chuck Jones |
| 41 | Beep, Beep '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.8 | - | - | 7.3 | Chuck Jones |
| 42 | Welcome Mr. Marshall! '1953 | Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.4 | Luis García Berlanga |
| 43 | The Lavender Hill Mob '1951 | Comedy / Crime | 7.5 | 100% | 90 | 7.2 | Charles Crichton |
| 44 | Texas Tom '1950 | Animation / Comedy / Western | 7.7 | - | - | 6.9 | Joseph Barbera |
| 45 | Lambert the Sheepish Lion '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.2 | Jack Hannah |
| 46 | The King of the Neighborhood '1950 | Comedy / Crime | 7.9 | - | - | 8.4 | Gilberto Martínez Solares |
| 47 | Pluto's Christmas Tree '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 7.1 | Jack Hannah |
| 48 | The Two Mouseketeers '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 6.8 | William Hanna |
| 49 | La Ronde '1950 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 94% | 82 | 7.3 | Max Ophüls |
| 50 | Bully for Bugs '1953 | Animation / Comedy | 8.0 | - | - | 7.3 | Chuck Jones |
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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