Best of the 1950s · 1001 canon

Widescreen and dread

The 1950s pulled cinema in two directions. Hollywood went big — CinemaScope, Technicolor musicals, biblical epics — to compete with TV. Meanwhile Bergman, Kurosawa, and Ray were quietly producing the most interior films ever made. The decade contains everything from Vertigo to Tokyo Story.

120 films from this decade are in the canon. Tick what you've seen — your progress saves on this device.