Top Movies of 1959-1950

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.

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

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.

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

A bored photographer recovering from a broken leg passes the time by watching his neighbors and begins to suspect one of them of murder.

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

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.

A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.

Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.

A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

A colonel defends three of his soldiers in a court-martial after they abandon a suicidal attack.

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.