50s
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1. The Seventh Seal (1957)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy
A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe
Votes: 198,622
2. 12 Angry Men (1957)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama
The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler
Votes: 866,060 | Gross: $4.36M
3. Rear Window (1954)
PG | 112 min | Mystery, Thriller
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 522,500 | Gross: $36.76M
4. Cairo Station (1958)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama
A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Hind Rustum, Youssef Chahine, Hassan el Baroudi
Votes: 5,357
5. Vertigo (1958)
PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Votes: 427,292 | Gross: $3.20M
6. On the Waterfront (1954)
Approved | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger
Votes: 165,048 | Gross: $9.60M
7. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Votes: 236,600
8. Tokyo Story (1953)
Not Rated | 136 min | Drama
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura, Setsuko Hara
Votes: 68,689
9. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud
Votes: 35,922 | Gross: $0.09M
10. Paths of Glory (1957)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, War
After a failed attack on a German position, a general orders three soldiers, chosen at random, court-martialed for cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready
Votes: 212,461
11. Rashomon (1950)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 180,624 | Gross: $0.10M
12. The Searchers (1956)
Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Votes: 96,382
13. Shabab emraa (1956)
126 min | Drama
A young man from the country arrives in Cairo to finish his education. His landlady, a widow and successful businesswoman in the quarter of the Citadel, seduces him. Although she teaches ... See full summary »
Directors: Salah Abouseif, Ahmad El-Sabawi, Amin Yousseff Ghurab | Stars: Tahiyyah Karyuka, Shukri Sarhan, Shadia, Abdulwareth Asar
Votes: 575
14. The 400 Blows (1959)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama
A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier, Guy Decomble
Votes: 128,141
15. North by Northwest (1959)
Approved | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis
Votes: 346,378 | Gross: $13.28M
16. Brink of Life (1958)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama
Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
Votes: 3,364
17. Struggle on the Nile (1959)
125 min | Drama, Thriller
The people of Luxor decided to buy Sandal new submarine instead of the old sandal for river transport business, and cost the mayor Mujahid to go to buy, with a computerized data bank son of... See full summary »
Director: Atef Salem | Stars: Hind Rustum, Omar Sharif, Rushdi Abazah, Ahamd El-Haddad
Votes: 451
18. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
G | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen
Votes: 260,868 | Gross: $8.82M
19. Dial M for Murder (1954)
PG | 105 min | Crime, Thriller
A former tennis star arranges the murder of his adulterous wife.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams
Votes: 188,966 | Gross: $0.01M
20. Scandal in Sorrento (1955)
92 min | Comedy, Romance
Returning to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Lea Padovani, Antonio Cifariello
Votes: 2,531
21. Doa al karawan (1959)
109 min | Drama, Romance
This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor.
Director: Henry Barakat | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Ahmad Mazhar, Aminah Rizq, Zahrat El-Ula
Votes: 1,970
22. Dark Waters (1956)
TV-14 | 120 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
After three years of absence, back (Recep) after a long travel trip spent on the back of one of the ships in an effort to save money in order to complete his marriage b (benign), who lives ... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Omar Sharif, Ahmed Ramzy, Husain Reyadh
Votes: 785
23. The Blazing Sun (1954)
TV-14 | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A rich landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Omar Sharif, Zaki Rostom, Farid Shawqi
Votes: 1,558
24. Life or Death (1954)
75 min | Drama, Thriller
A man with cardiac problems, had heart attack and sent his daughter to get the medicine from the drug store, however the pharmacist discovers that he sent the wrong medication, he cooperates with the police to stop a disaster.
Director: Kamal El-Shaikh | Stars: Youssef Wahbi, Madihah Yusri, Imad Hamdi, Husain Reyadh
Votes: 333
25. Back Alive (1957)
150 min | Drama, History
Circumstance Egypt before military coup 1952 .
Director: Ezz El Dine Zulficar | Stars: Maryam Fakhruddin, Shukri Sarhan, Salah Zulfikar, Zahrat El-Ula
Votes: 266
26. Amir el-Inteqam (1950)
165 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend," escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
Director: Henry Barakat | Stars: Anwar Wagdi, Samia Gamal, Madihah Yusri, Kamal El-Shinnawi
Votes: 266
27. Son of Hamido (1957)
110 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Two undercover police officers on secret mission the have to play as fishermen to catch the dealers that hide drugs in fish, but during the mission they fall in love with the two sisters of boat's captain.
Director: Fatin Abdulwahhab | Stars: Ismail Yassin, Hind Rustum, Ahmed Ramzy, Tawfik El Deken
Votes: 689
28. Ismail Yassine fil ustul (1957)
86 min | Comedy
Rijab in love with his cousin Nadia gets rejected by her mother due to the fact that the mother wants her daughter to marry a rich guy, Nadia asks Rijab to join the navy so that her mother ... See full summary »
Director: Fatin Abdulwahhab | Stars: Ismail Yassin, Zahrat El-Ula, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Mahmoud Al Meleji
Votes: 313
29. El ataba el khadra (1959)
110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A naive man Mahrous from Upper Egypt arrives in Cairo meets a fraudster. The fraudster feels that Mahrous has reassured him that he can sell him the famous green threshold square .
Director: Fatin Abdulwahhab | Stars: Sabah, Ahmad Mazhar, Ismail Yassin, Umar El-Hariri
Votes: 211
30. Dahab (1953)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The events of the film revolve around the child Dahab, who gives birth to Mounir Bey's maid after he secretly married her behind his wife, and after trying to get rid of the newborn child, ... See full summary »
Director: Anwar Wagdi | Stars: Fairouz, Magda, Seraj Munir, Anwar Wagdi
Votes: 286
31. Sirr taqiyyat al ikhfa (1959)
96 min | Comedy, Fantasy
a young kid plays in his father's lab, causing the emergence of a goblin, burning the sprite, leaving a powder to hide what is falling on it, his elder brother discovers capabilities of the energy, and troubles begins .
Director: Niazi Mostafa | Stars: Birlanti Abdulhamid, Tawfik El Deken, Zahrat El-Ula, Ahmed Farahat
Votes: 502
32. Ismail Yasseen fi mostashfet al-maganin (1958)
115 min | Comedy
A man and a beautiful woman love each other's, but other men in the neighborhood also are in love with her.
Director: Isa Karamah | Stars: Ismail Yassin, Hind Rustum, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Reyad El Kasabgy
Votes: 268
33. Ismail Yassine fil tayyaran (1959)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Fatin Abdulwahhab | Stars: Ismail Yassin, Amal Farid, Nagwa Fouad, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim
Votes: 211
34. Our Best Days (1955)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Poor girl live on the surface next to the three poor young people fall in love with her all and discover they occur under the weight of the disease, which would be required to hold surgery,... See full summary »
Director: Hilmi Halim | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Omar Sharif, Abdel Halim Hafez, Ahmed Ramzy
Votes: 347
35. Ismail Yassine fil madhaf el shami (1956)
Comedy, Crime, Horror
Three people, each with a story: a police officer, a gangster and an undertaker. First, the police officer discovered the gang but could not arrest them because they knew about the ... See full summary »
Director: Isa Karamah | Stars: Ismail Yassin, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Birlanti Abdulhamid, Ali Abdulal
Votes: 152
36. Ismail Yassine bolis harbi (1958)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
Ismael loved a dancer and married her on condition to quit dancing. The night club's owners conspired against him to get the girl back by attaching him to the military police.
Director: Fatin Abdulwahhab | Stars: Ismail Yassin, Abdulsalam El-Nabulsi, Abdel Halim Hafez, Farida Fahmy
Votes: 211
37. Afritet Ismail Yassine (1954)
120 min | Comedy, Crime
When a nightclub bellydancer (Katy) is murdered by the nightclub owner's henchmen her ghost wants the killer to be found. Only one problem - she doesn't know who killed her since she was ... See full summary »
Director: Hasan El-Saifi | Stars: Ismail Yassin, Keti, Ferdoos Mohammed, Farid Shawqi
Votes: 188
38. El wessada el khalia (1957)
128 min | Musical, Drama, Romance
The story of first teenager love and its fake effect in a man's life.
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Abdel Halim Hafez, Lobna Abdel Aziz, Umar El-Hariri, Zahrat El-Ula
Votes: 264
39. El bolis serry (1959)
Comedy
Director: Fatin Abdulwahhab | Stars: Abdulsalam El-Nabulsi, Hassan Fayek, Zeinat Olwi, Gamal Ramses
Votes: 54
40. Ismail Yassine fil bolis (1956)
111 min | Comedy, Drama
Ismail is involved in investigating the theft of a jeweler. And have the chance to get rid of his opponent in love with his beloved by theft. Will he get rid of him or tell the truth?
Director: Fatin Abdulwahhab | Stars: Ismail Yassin, Rushdi Abazah, Hassan el Baroudi, Reyad El Kasabgy
Votes: 202
41. Ismail Yassine fil geish (1955)
Comedy, War
Director: Fatin Abdulwahhab | Stars: Ismail Yassin, Samira Ahmed, Reyad El Kasabgy, Abdulsalam El-Nabulsi
Votes: 195
42. El-Anesah Hanafi (1954)
93 min | Comedy
Hanafi, the only son of a butcher, has to face life after a sex change operation from a woman's point of view and suffer the oppression as one of them
Director: Fatin Abdulwahhab | Stars: Ismail Yassin, Magda, Suleiman Naguib, Abdel Fatah Al Kasri
Votes: 178
43. Sayedat el kasr (1958)
87 min | Comedy, Romance
A chance meeting at an auction brings together Sawsan (Faten Hamama), a working class girl and Adel (Omar Sharif), heir to a vast fortune with several estates to his name. This leads to a ... See full summary »
Director: Kamal El-Shaikh | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Omar Sharif, Zouzou Madi, Umar El-Hariri
Votes: 420
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