Best Movies of 1950 by Rank
11
1
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
38
2
Billy Wilder
William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
44
3
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill
Drama
USA
English
181
4
Luis Buñuel
Alfonso Mejía, Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán
Drama / Experimental
Mexico
Spanish
220
5
Jean Cocteau
Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares
Fantasy / Drama / Romance / Experimental
France
French
271
6
John Huston
Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Gangster
USA
English
299
7
Nicholas Ray
Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
548
8
George Cukor
Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
564
9
Joseph H. Lewis
Peggy Cummins, John Dall
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
843
11
Fred Zinnemann
Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb
Drama
USA
English
872
12
Max Ophüls
Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon
Drama / Comedy
France
French
1119
13
Elia Kazan
Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1135
14
Henry King
Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell, Jean Parker
Western / Drama
USA
English
1164
15
Vincente Minnelli
Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor
Comedy / Family
USA
English
1219
16
Henry Koster
James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake
Family / Fantasy / Comedy
USA
English
1322
17
Michael Gordon
José Ferrer, Mala Powers
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1360
18
John Ford
Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond
Western
USA
English
1385
19
Rudolph Maté
Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Campbell
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
1437
20
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Ilene Woods, James MacDonald II, Eleanor Audley
Family / Animation / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
1587
21
John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Barry Jones, André Morell, Hugh Cross, Sheila Manahan
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
1618
22
Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton
Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas
Adventure / Romance / Action / Family
USA
English
1626
23
Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Mario Sponzo
Drama
Italy
Italian
1656
24
John Ford
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr.
Romance / Western
USA
English
1723
25
René Clair
Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard
Drama / Fantasy / Romance
France / Italy
French
1803
26
Basil Dearden
Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Thriller
UK
English
1847
27
Jules Dassin
Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
UK
English
1897
28
Byron Haskin
Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea
Adventure / Family
UK / USA
English
1988
29
Jean-Pierre Melville
Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe, Renée Cosima
Drama / Romance
France
French
2036
30
Alfred Hitchcock
Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd
Mystery / Thriller / Crime
UK
English
2109
31
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack, Sybil Thorndike, Edward Chapman
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2169
32
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Cyril Cusack, Jack Hawkins, Arlette Marchal
Drama / History / Romance / Adventure
UK
English
2231
33
Jean Negulesco
Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa
War / Drama / Biography
USA
English
2237
34
Jacques Tourneur
Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale
Drama / Western / Religion
USA
English
2284
35
Cy Endfield
Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson, Lloyd Bridges
Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2353
36
Frank Launder
Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, Guy Middleton
Comedy
UK
English
2393
37
Roberto Rossellini
Aldo Fabrizi, Brother Nazario Gerardi, Arabella Lemaitre
Drama / Religion / Biography
Italy
Italian
2489
38
George Sidney, Busby Berkeley, Charles Walters
Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish
Musical / Western / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2489
38
Jacques Tourneur
Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Aline MacMahon
Adventure / History / Fantasy
USA
English
2511
39
Charles Walters
Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main
Musical / Romance
USA
English
2513
40
Richard Thorpe
Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Vera-Ellen, Arlene Dahl, Keenan Wynn, Gale Robbins
Biography / Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2553
41
Mitchell Leisen
Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl, Phyllis Thaxter, Lyle Bettger
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
2605
43
Michael Curtiz
John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez, Wallace Ford
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Adventure / Gangster
USA
English
2605
43
Victor Saville
Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez
Family / Drama / Adventure / War / Action / Spy
USA
English
2689
44
S.U. Sunny
Nargis, Dilip Kumar, Amar, A. Shah, Munawar Sultana, H. Pahadi, Vinod
Drama / Romance
India
Hindi
2689
44
Delmer Daves
James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael, Will Geer
Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
2689
44
Walter Lang
Clifton Webb, Jeanne Crain, Myrna Loy, Betty Lynn, Edgar Buchanan, Barbara Bates
Comedy / Drama / Family
USA
English
2689
44
Irving Pichel
John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, Erin O'Brien-Moore
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2689
44
Arthur Lubin
Donald O'Connor, Patricia Medina, Zasu Pitts, Ray Collins, John McIntire
Comedy / War / Fantasy / Family / Drama / Spy
USA
English
2689
44
Kidar Nath Sharma
Nargis, Dilip Kumar, Pratima Devi, Purnima, Baby Tabassum, Pesi Patel, Anwari
Romance / Drama / Family / Religion
India
Hindi
2689
44
Ellis Dungan, T.R. Sundaram
Madhuri Devi, M.N. Nambiar, S.A. Natarajan, M.G. Ramachandran, G. Shakuntala
Drama / Crime
India
Tamil
2689
44
Mikheil Chiaureli
Mikheil Gelovani, Boris Andreyev, Marina Kovalyova, V. Savelyev, G. Timoshenko
War / Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2689
44
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2689
44
Ingmar Bergman
Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin, Annalisa Ericson, Georg Funkquist
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
2689
44
Sergei Gerasimov, Ivan Dukinsky
Documentary / War
China / Soviet Union
Russian
2691
45
Henry Hathaway
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry, Jack Hawkins, Michael Rennie
Adventure / History / Epic / Romance
UK
English
2691
45
Richard Whorf
Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price, Barbara Britton, Art Linkletter
Comedy
USA
English
2691
45
Burgess Meredith, Irving Allen, Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Robert Hutton, Jean Wallace
Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Crime
USA / France
English
2691
45
Michael Curtiz
Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez
Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
USA
English
2708
46
Richard Lyford, Robert J. Flaherty, Curt Oertel
Fredric March
Documentary / Biography
Switzerland / West Germany
English
2737
47
Jacques Becker
Daniel Gélin, Anne Vernon, Betty Stockfeld
Comedy / Romance
France
French
2740
48
Mark Robson
Dana Andrews, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Robert Keith
Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2740
48
Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl, Herman Watzinger, Erik Hesselberg
Documentary / Adventure
Norway / Sweden
Norwegian
2740
48
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2740
48
Curzio Malaparte
Raf Vallone, Rina Morelli, Alain Cuny, Anna-Maria Ferrero
Drama / War
Italy
Italian
2741
49
Luciano Emmer
Emilio Cigoli, Franco Interlenghi, Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Serato
Comedy / Drama
Italy
Italian
2741
49
Paul Rotha
Michael Gough, Eithne Dunne, Noel Purcell, Brian O'Higgins, Jack MacGowran
Drama / Crime
UK
English
2756
50
Ida Lupino
Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke, Raymond Bond, Lillian Hamilton
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
2788
51
John Cromwell
Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2788
51
Jean Delannoy
Pierre Fresnay, Madeleine Robinson, Daniel Gélin
Drama / Religion
France
French
2788
51
Alessandro Blasetti
Aldo Fabrizi, Gaby Morlay, Ludmilla Dudarova, Enrico Viarisio
Comedy
Italy / France
Italian
2788
51
Sidney Gilliat
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Walter Rilla
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
2792
52
Isidore Isou
Jean Cocteau, Jean Louis-Barrault, Blaise Cendrard, Marcel Achard
Documentary / Experimental
France
French
2807
53
Spencer Gordon Bennet
Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, Lyle Talbot, Tommy Bond, Pierre Watkin, Jack Ingram
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Family / Comic / Serial
USA
English
2807
53
Frederick De Cordova
Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend, Robert Douglas, Elsa Lanchester, Andrea King
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2807
53
Seymour Friedman
Howard St. John, Ron Randell, Amanda Blake, Lewis Martin, June Vincent
Drama / Mystery / Spy / Detective / Crime
USA
English
2807
53
Anthony Mann
Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Wendell Corey, Gilbert Roland
Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
2807
53
Fritz Lang
Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman, Dorothy Patrick, Ann Shoemaker
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Period Film
USA
English
2807
53
George Archainbaud, George B. Seitz Jr., Hollingsworth Morse
Jay Silverheels, Clayton Moore, John Hart, Lane Bradford, Gerald Mohr
Adventure / Western / Family / Comic / Cult
USA
English
2807
53
Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, Robert McKimson, Frank Tashlin
Mel Blanc, June Foray, Bea Benaderet
Animation / Comedy / Family / Short
USA
English
2807
53
Felix E. Feist
Lee J. Cobb, John Dall, Jane Wyatt, Lisa Howard, Harlan Warde, Alan Wells
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2807
53
Joseph M. Newman
Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger, Barry Kelley, Dorothy Patrick, Don Porter
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Detective
USA
English
2807
53
Jean Negulesco
John Garfield, Micheline Presle, Luther Adler, Orley Lindgren, Noel Drayton
Drama / Sports / Crime / Film-Noir / Gangster
USA
English
2807
53
Roy Del Ruth
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2807
53
Sam Newfield
Kent Taylor, Sheila Ryan, Robert Lowery, Mickey Knox, Morris Carnovsky
Crime / Western / Drama
USA
English
2807
53
Otto Preminger
Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed, Tom Tully
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2807
53
Norman Foster
Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, John Qualen, Frank Jenks
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
