Best Drama Movies & TV Shows of the 1950s
38 drama titles from 1950–1959, ranked by TVGEN consensus score.
12 Angry Men
1957Film
Seven Samurai
1954Film
Rear Window
1954Film
Tokyo Story
1953Film
Sansho the Bailiff
1954Film
Sunset Boulevard
1950Film
All About Eve
1950Film
The Twilight Zone
1959TV
Rashomon
1950Film
Ikiru
1952Film
Paths of Glory
1957Film
Ordet
1955Film
A Man Escaped
1956Film
On the Waterfront
1954Film
The Wages of Fear
1953Film
Ugetsu
1953Film
Umberto D.
1952Film
Nights of Cabiria
1957Film
Witness for the Prosecution
1957Film
The Hidden Fortress
1958Film
The 400 Blows
1959Film
The Night of the Hunter
1955Film
La Strada
1954Film
The Seventh Seal
1957Film
Throne of Blood
1957Film
Wild Strawberries
1957Film
Ben-Hur
1959Film
The Cranes Are Flying
1957Film
The Young and the Damned
1950Film
Roman Holiday
1953Film
Dial M for Murder
1954Film
Limelight
1952Film
Perry Mason
1957TV
Rawhide
1959TV
Mr. Lucky
1959TV
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955TV
The Great War
1959Film
The Buccaneer
1958Film