So I love me some older films. Last year I came here and asked for 60s recommendations and got some amazing movie recs. Now I want some from the 50s.
Ones I enjoyed so far are films like:
- Rear Window
- Sunset Boulevard
- Vertigo
- Scrooge (or A Christmas Carol the one with Alastair Sim)
- Stalag 17
The only ones I’ve seen I’m a bit just kind of eh on are Titfield Thunderbolt and Blood of Dracula. I haven’t seen anything I think is outright bad though.
Edit to add movies I’ve seen that people brought up:
- On the Waterfront
- Giant
- Strangers on a Train
- North by Northwest


A truly great movie, but from 1942, almost an entire decade too old for this question.