Movies by Lists - MGM 100th Anniversary 1950s Movies (35 [35]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| An American in ParisThree friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman. | 1951 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.2 (32.8K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Angels in the OutfieldThe brash and abusive manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team receives the help of an angel to win games and to become a better person in the process. | 1951 | Clarence Brown | Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport | 7.1 (2.3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Annie Get Your GunThe story of the great sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who rose to fame while dealing with her love/professional rival, Frank Butler. | 1950 | George Sidney, Busby Berkeley | Biography, Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western | 6.9 (4.8K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Asphalt Jungle, TheA major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel. | 1950 | John Huston (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.9 (26K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Bad and the Beautiful, TheAn unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success. | 1952 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (14.5K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Bad Day at Black RockA one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary. | 1955 | John Sturges (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western | 7.7 (21.2K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Band Wagon, TheA pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition. | 1953 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.5 (11.1K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Ben HurAfter a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. | 1959 | William Wyler (*) | Adventure, Drama, History | 8.1 (232.2K votes) | 212 | 20211228 |
| Blackboard JungleA new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty. | 1955 | Richard Brooks | Crime, Drama | 7.4 (8.9K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| BrigadoonTwo Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the p | 1954 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Fantasy, Musical, Romance | 6.8 (8.2K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Cat on a Hot Tin RoofBrick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son. | 1958 | Richard Brooks | Drama | 8.0 (48.7K votes) | 108 | 20220414 |
| Catered Affair, TheWhen Jane tells her parents that she is getting married to Ralph Halloran, her mother Agnes, starts planning an elaborate wedding, even though Jane does not wish it. | 1956 | Richard Brooks | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (3.3K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Executive SuiteWhen the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him. | 1954 | Robert Wise (*) | Drama | 7.4 (4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Father of The BrideThe father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding. | 1950 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.2 (11.1K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Forbidden PlanetA starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization. | 1956 | Fred M. Wilcox (*) | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (47.9K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| GigiWeary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long. | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (22.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| High SocietyWith socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him. | 1956 | Charles Walters (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.0 (15.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| IvanhoeA knight seeks to free the captive King Richard and put him back on the throne. | 1952 | Richard Thorpe | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (9K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Jailhouse RockAfter serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star. | 1957 | Richard Thorpe | Drama, Music, Musical, Romance | 6.6 (8.4K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Julius CaesarThe growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony. | 1953 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*) | Drama, History | 7.3 (11.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Kiss Me KateAn ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and two gangsters looking for some money owed to them. | 1953 | George Sidney | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.1 (6.2K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Lust for LifeThe life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh. | 1956 | Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor | Biography, Drama | 7.4 (11.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Naked Spur, TheA bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers. | 1953 | Anthony Mann (*) | Drama, Thriller, Western | 7.3 (11K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| North by NorthwestA 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. | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller | 8.3 (317.8K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Pat and MikePat is a women's sports sensation unless her fiancé is around. Her new shady manager Mike keeps them apart and develops feelings for her. | 1952 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Romance, Sport | 7.0 (5.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Quo VadisAfter fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero. | 1951 | Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.2 (14.8K votes) | 171 | 20211228 |
| Red Badge of Courage, TheTruncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle. | 1951 | John Huston (*) | Drama, War | 7.2 (4.3K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| ScaramoucheIn France during the late 18th Century, a man sets out to avenge the death of his friend at the hands of a master swordsman. | 1952 | George Sidney | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.5 (5.9K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Seven Brides for Seven BrothersIn 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too. | 1954 | Stanley Donen (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western | 7.4 (24.4K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Show BoatThe daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairy tale romance is threatened after his luck turns sour. | 1951 | George Sidney | Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 6.9 (4.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Singin in the RainA 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. | 1952 | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 8.3 (233.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Somebody Up There Likes MeBoxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947. | 1956 | Robert Wise (*) | Biography, Drama, Sport | 7.5 (7.9K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Stars in My CrownIn 1865, the small Southern town of Walsburg has become so dangerous, that Parson Josiah Doziah Gray gives his sermons while holding a gun. | 1950 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Drama, Family, Western | 7.4 (2.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Summer StockA small-town farmer, down on her luck, finds her homestead invaded by a theatrical troupe invited to stay by her ne'er-do-well sister. | 1950 | Charles Walters (*) | Musical, Romance | 7.2 (4.2K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Westward the WomenA trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there. | 1951 | William A. Wellman (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.6 (3.1K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |