List of drama films of the 1950s

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This is a list of drama films of the 1950s.

1950

• Awaara
• The Capture
• Diary of a Country Priest
• Flowers of St. Francis
• In a Lonely Place
• Los Olvidados
• Seven Days to Noon
• Stromboli
• Sunset Boulevard
• The Ways of Love

1951

• Ace in the Hole
• The African Queen
• The Browning Version
• Cry, the Beloved Country
• Early Summer
• Olivia
• A Place in the Sun
• Rashomon
• The River
• A Streetcar Named Desire

1952

• 5 Fingers
• Affair in Trinidad
• Avalanche^[1]
• Bad and the Beautiful
• Casque d'Or
• cindrella!
• Come Back, Little Sheba
• Europe '51
• Flat Top
• Forbidden Games
• Ikiru
• Life of Oharu
• Member of the Wedding
• Mother
• Nagarik
• Othello
• Umberto D.
• Viva Zapata!

1953

• A`isha
• The Earrings of Madame de...
• Gate of Hell
• A Geisha
• A Japanese Tragedy (Nihon No Higeki)
• The Thick-Walled Room
• Titanic
• Tokyo Story
• Two Acres of Land

1954

• Boot Polish
• The Caine Mutiny
• Chikamatsu Monogatari
• The Country Girl
• A Generation
• Journey to Italy
• Late Chrysanthemums
• Magnificent Obsession
• On the Waterfront
• Sansho the Bailiff
• Seven Samurai
• La strada
• The Wild One

1955

• Blackboard Jungle
• East of Eden
• I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Der letzte Akt
• Lola Montès
• The Man with the Golden Arm
• Ordet
• Pather Panchali
• Rebel Without a Cause
• Shree 420

1956

• Anastasia
• And God Created Woman
• Aparajito
• Friendly Persuasion
• Giant
• The Great Man
• Lisbon
• Lust for Life
• A Man Escaped
• Requiem for a Heavyweight
• Somebody Up There Likes Me

1957

• 12 Angry Men
• The Cranes Are Flying
• A Face in the Crowd
• A Hatful of Rain
• Man of a Thousand Faces
• Mother India
• Nights of Cabiria
• Pyaasa
• The Seventh Seal
• Sweet Smell of Success
• The Three Faces of Eve
• Throne of Blood
• Wild Strawberries

1958

• Ajantrik
• Al-Tareeq al-Masdood
• Alto Paraná
• Les Amants
• Les Amants de Montparnasse
• Amor prohibido
• Another Time, Another Place
• Ashes and Diamonds
• Auntie Mame
• Bari Theke Paliye
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• The Defiant Ones
• Human Condition, Part 1: No Greater Love
• I Want to Live!
• Jalsaghar
• Look Back in Anger
• Madhumati
• A Night to Remember
• The Old Man and the Sea
• Parash Pathar
• The Rikisha-Man
• Run Silent, Run Deep
• Separate Tables

1959

• -30-
• The 400 Blows
• Anari
• Anatomy of a Murder
• Fires on the Plain
• Floating Weeds
• Imitation of Life
• Hiroshima Mon Amour
• Kaagaz Ke Phool
• Kapò
• Neel Akasher Neechey
• Room at the Top
• Shadows
• The World of Apu

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