Action movies 1950s
🎬 100 Action Movies of the 1950s
| # | Film | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1950 | James Stewart Western about peace with Apaches | |
| 2 | 1950 | Stewart’s rifle odyssey across the frontier | |
| 3 | King Solomon’s Mines | 1950 | Adventure in Africa |
| 4 | Treasure Island | 1950 | Disney swashbuckler |
| 5 | The Flame and the Arrow | 1950 | Burt Lancaster medieval adventure |
| 6 | Rashomon | 1950 | Kurosawa’s samurai classic |
| 7 | American Guerrilla in the Philippines | 1950 | WWII action |
| 8 | Armored Car Robbery | 1950 | Crime thriller |
| 9 | Destination Moon | 1950 | Sci‑fi adventure |
| 10 | Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | 1951 | Gregory Peck naval epic |
| 11 | Quo Vadis | 1951 | Roman spectacle |
| 12 | The Desert Fox | 1951 | WWII biopic/action |
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| 14 | Scaramouche | 1952 | Stewart Granger swashbuckler |
| 15 | Ivanhoe | 1952 | Medieval action |
| 16 | High Noon | 1952 | Gary Cooper Western |
| 17 | The Quiet Man | 1952 | Romantic action drama |
| 18 | The Crimson Pirate | 1952 | Burt Lancaster pirate romp |
| 19 | The Narrow Margin | 1952 | Train thriller |
| 20 | The Big Sky | 1952 | Howard Hawks frontier adventure |
| 21 | Shane | 1953 | Iconic Western |
| 22 | The War of the Worlds | 1953 | Sci‑fi invasion |
| 23 | Beat the Devil | 1953 | Bogart adventure |
| 24 | Hondo | 1953 | John Wayne Western |
| 25 | The Robe | 1953 | Biblical epic |
| 26 | Ugetsu | 1953 | Japanese war‑era action |
| 27 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Kurosawa masterpiece |
| 28 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | 1954 | Disney adventure |
| 29 | The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Naval courtroom drama/action |
| 30 | River of No Return | 1954 | Marilyn Monroe Western |
| 31 | Vera Cruz | 1954 | Lancaster & Cooper Western |
| 32 | The Far Country | 1954 | Stewart Western |
| 33 | The High and the Mighty | 1954 | Aviation action |
| 34 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Hitchcock thriller |
| 35 | Rebel Without a Cause | 1955 | Youth action drama |
| 36 | Mister Roberts | 1955 | Naval comedy/action |
| 37 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Noir thriller |
| 38 | Oklahoma! | 1955 | Musical with frontier action |
| 39 | The Ladykillers | 1955 | Crime comedy/action |
| 40 | Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | Spencer Tracy thriller |
| 41 | Forbidden Planet | 1956 | Sci‑fi classic |
| 42 | The Ten Commandments | 1956 | Biblical epic |
| 43 | 1956 | Texas action drama | |
| 44 | The Searchers | 1956 | John Ford Western |
| 45 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | Sci‑fi thriller |
| 46 | The Killing | 1956 | Kubrick crime action |
| 47 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956 | Hitchcock thriller |
| 48 | The Court Jester | 1956 | Medieval comedy/action |
| 49 | The Brave One | 1956 | Bullfighting action |
| 50 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | WWII epic |
| 51 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957 | Western showdown |
| 52 | Paths of Glory | 1957 | Kubrick war drama |
| 53 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Kurosawa’s Macbeth samurai |
| 54 | Old Yeller | 1957 | Frontier family action |
| 55 | The Enemy Below | 1957 | Naval duel |
| 56 | The Spirit of St. Louis | 1957 | Aviation adventure |
| 57 | Run of the Arrow | 1957 | Civil War Western |
| 58 | The Vikings | 1958 | Kirk Douglas epic |
| 59 | Touch of Evil | 1958 | Orson Welles noir |
| 60 | The Big Country | 1958 | Gregory Peck Western |
| 61 | South Pacific | 1958 | Musical with war action |
| 62 | Gigi | 1958 | Romantic adventure |
| 63 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | Drama with action tension |
| 64 | The Defiant Ones | 1958 | Escape thriller |
| 65 | Vertigo | 1958 | Hitchcock suspense |
| 66 | A Night to Remember | 1958 | Titanic disaster action |
| 67 | The Hidden Fortress | 1958 | Kurosawa adventure |
| 68 | 1959 | Hitchcock espionage thriller | |
| 69 | Ben-Hur | 1959 | Chariot race epic |
| 70 | 1959 | Hawks Western | |
| 71 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Comedy with gangster action |
| 72 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | 1959 | Sci‑fi adventure |
| 73 | Sleeping Beauty | 1959 | Disney fantasy action |
| 74 | Suddenly, Last Summer | 1959 | Thriller drama |
| 75 | Operation Petticoat | 1959 | Naval comedy/action |
| 76 | The Horse Soldiers | 1959 | John Wayne Civil War Western |
| 77 | On the Beach | 1959 | Nuclear apocalypse drama |
| 78 | The Nun’s Story | 1959 | Adventure drama |
| 79 | The Wreck of the Mary Deare | 1959 | Sea adventure |
| 80 | The Hanging Tree | 1959 | Gary Cooper Western |
| 81 | Pork Chop Hill | 1959 | Korean War action |
| 82 | The Diary of Anne Frank | 1959 | WWII drama |
| 83 | The Young Philadelphians | 1959 | Action drama |
| 84 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | French New Wave with action |
| 85 | Black Orpheus | 1959 | Brazilian adventure |
| 86 | The Savage Innocents | 1959 | Arctic survival |
| 87 | Tiger Bay | 1959 | Crime thriller |
| 88 | The Magician | 1959 | Bergman suspense |
| 89 | The World of Apu | 1959 | Indian adventure drama |
| 90 | Pickpocket | 1959 | French crime |
| 91 | Hiroshima Mon Amour | 1959 | War aftermath drama |
| 92 | Shadows | 1959 | Cassavetes indie action |
| 93 | Compulsion | 1959 | Crime drama |
| 94 | Anatomy of a Murder | 1959 | Courtroom thriller |
| 95 | The Fugitive Kind | 1959 | Brando drama |
| 96 | The Mouse That Roared | 1959 | Satirical war action |
| 97 | Odds Against Tomorrow | 1959 | Noir thriller |
| 98 | The Journey | 1959 | Cold War drama |
| 99 | The Miracle | 1959 | Religious epic |
| 100 | The Hanging Tree | 1959 | Frontier justice Western |
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