Best of the 1950s
Top-rated films from the 1950s currently available to stream in the UK
100 titles available
8.5
TV-14
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
NOW
8.5
PG
Rear Window
1954
Paramount+Rakuten TV
8.4
Not Rated
Sansho the Bailiff
1954
Plex
8.4
Approved
Witness for the Prosecution
1957
Amazon Prime VideoRakuten TV
8.4
Frontier Doctor
1958
Plex
8.3
Approved
North by Northwest
1959
HBO MaxRakuten TV
8.2
Not Rated
Aparajito
1956
Prime EssentialsAmazon Prime VideoPlex
8.2
Not Rated
Pather Panchali
1955
Prime EssentialsAmazon Prime VideoPlex
8.2
Approved
All about Eve
1950
BBC iPlayer
8.2
Approved
Some Like It Hot
1959
MGM+MUBIRakuten TV
8.1
Not Rated
Tokyo Story
1953
Plex
8.1
Not Rated
Ugetsu
1953
Plex
8.1
Not Rated
The Red Balloon
1956
Plex
8.1
Not Rated
Rashomon
1950
Plex
8.1
Not Rated
Nights of Cabiria
1957
Rakuten TV
8.1
The People's Choice
1955
Plex
8.1
Approved
Ace in the Hole
1951
Plex
8.1
Not Rated
Diabolique
1955
Plex
8.1
Not Rated
The Life of Oharu
1952
Plex
8.0
Approved
The Night of the Hunter
1955
MGM+
8.0
Not Rated
La Strada
1954
Amazon Prime Video
8.0
Not Rated
Throne of Blood
1957
Plex
8.0
G
Limelight
1952
NOWPlex
8.0
Not Rated
Chikamatsu Monogatari
1954
Plex
8.0
Not Rated
Tokyo Twilight
1957
Plex
8.0
Approved
Sweet Smell of Success
1957
Amazon Prime Video
7.9
G
The Ten Commandments
1956
Paramount+Rakuten TV
7.9
Approved
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951
HBO MaxRakuten TV
7.9
Approved
Harvey
1950
All 4
7.9
Approved
The Killing
1956
MGM+
7.9
Not Rated
Floating Weeds
1959
Plex
7.9
Approved
The Big Country
1958
MGM+
7.9
Approved
Kon-Tiki
1950
Plex
7.9
Not Rated
The Music Room
1958
Amazon Prime Video
7.9
Approved
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958
HBO Max
7.8
26 Men
1957
Plex
7.8
Equinox Flower
1958
Plex
7.8
Not Rated
Street of Shame
1956
Plex
7.8
Not Rated
Good Morning
1959
Plex
7.8
Not Rated
I Vitelloni
1953
Plex
7.7
Not Rated
Bellissima
1952
Plex
7.7
Approved
A Place in the Sun
1951
Disney+
7.7
Approved
The Gunfighter
1950
Plex
7.7
Early Spring
1956
Plex
7.7
TV-Y7
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959
Plex
7.7
Approved
Marty
1955
Amazon Prime Video
7.7
Not Rated
The Railroad Man
1956
Plex
7.6
Approved
The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957
All 4
7.6
Approved
All That Heaven Allows
1955
All 4
7.6
Not Rated
Miracle in Milan
1951
Amazon Prime Video
7.6
Approved
Pickup on South Street
1953
Plex
7.6
Approved
Caged
1950
Plex
7.6
Approved
Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950
Plex
7.6
Approved
Sabrina
1954
NOWParamount+
7.6
Not Rated
A Geisha
1953
Plex
7.5
Twelve Angry Men
1954
Plex
7.5
TV-PG
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956
Plex
7.5
TV-14
Dragnet
1951
Plex
7.5
TV-PG
The Rifleman
1958
TubiPlex
7.5
Approved
I Want to Live!
1958
Amazon Prime Video
7.4
Approved
Cyrano de Bergerac
1950
FilmziePlex
7.4
Fury
1955
Plex
7.4
Approved
Pillow Talk
1959
BBC iPlayer
7.4
Approved
An Affair to Remember
1957
Netflix
7.4
Approved
Compulsion
1959
Amazon Prime Video
7.4
Not Rated
Miss Oyu
1951
Plex
7.4
Approved
Separate Tables
1958
Amazon Prime Video
7.4
Approved
Attack
1956
Prime EssentialsAmazon Prime Video
7.4
Approved
The Importance of Being Earnest
1952
ITVX
7.4
Approved
Odds Against Tomorrow
1959
Amazon Prime Video
7.4
The Woman in the Rumor
1954
Plex
7.3
G
Cinderella
1950
Disney+Rakuten TV
7.3
G
Peter Pan
1953
ITVXDisney+Rakuten TV
7.3
Approved
Kansas City Confidential
1952
Prime EssentialsAmazon Prime VideoPlex
7.3
Approved
The Tall T
1957
Plex
7.3
TV-PG
Man with a Camera
1958
Plex
7.3
Approved
Alice in Wonderland
1951
Disney+Rakuten TV
7.3
Approved
The Big Combo
1955
Plex
7.3
Approved
People Will Talk
1951
Plex
7.3
G
Lady and the Tramp
1955
Disney+Rakuten TV
7.3
Approved
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
1957
Plex
7.3
Approved
Heaven Knows, Mr Allison
1957
All 4
7.3
Taira Clan Saga
1955
Plex
7.3
Not Rated
A Chairy Tale
1957
Filmzie
7.3
Approved
Written on the Wind
1956
MUBI
7.2
Approved
Them!
1954
Plex
7.2
Approved
Dracula
1958
Prime EssentialsAmazon Prime VideoPlexRakuten TV
7.2
Approved
Old Yeller
1957
Disney+
7.2
G
Sleeping Beauty
1959
Disney+Rakuten TV
7.2
G
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954
Disney+Rakuten TV
7.2
Approved
Animal Farm
1954
Prime EssentialsAmazon Prime VideoPlex
7.2
Approved
Angel Face
1953
BBC iPlayer
7.2
Approved
Stromboli
1950
Netflix
7.2
The Lady of Musashino
1951
Plex
7.2
Approved
The Man in the White Suit
1951
Plex
7.2
Approved
Scandal
1950
Plex
7.2
Approved
Gift Wrapped
1952
Plex
7.1
Approved
Bandits of the West
1953
5
7.1
Approved
Warlock
1959
Plex
7.1
Not Rated
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
Plex