Best award winning movies with a fright factor from 1950

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a fright factor from 1950! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a fright factor from 1950, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Sunset Boulevard (1950)

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

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1950-08-10 | Drama

Cast

William Holden, Gloria Swanson

Rating

rating icon 8.313
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #92 for
    Oscar nomination deserving
  2. Ranked #104 for
    hardboiled style
  3. Ranked #123 for
    glitzy

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2 All About Eve (1950)

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

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1950-11-09 | Drama

Cast

Bette Davis, Anne Baxter

Rating

rating icon 8.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #8 for
    critically acclaimed
  2. Ranked #9 for
    drama queen
  3. Ranked #12 for
    extraordinary

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3 Cinderella (1950)

Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving a single glass slipper... the only key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending!

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1950-02-22 | Family / Fantasy

Cast

Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #33 for
    extraordinary
  2. Ranked #69 for
    third wheel
  3. Ranked #111 for
    imaginary fairy tale

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Cinderella trailer
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4 Three Came Home (1950)

Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.

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1950-02-20 | War / Drama

Cast

Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #52 for
    dialed down acting
  2. Ranked #124 for
    travelogue
  3. Ranked #203 for
    watching repeatedly

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5 The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

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1950-05-12 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #22 for
    hard-nosed
  2. Ranked #23 for
    Multiple POV
  3. Ranked #39 for
    hardboiled style

Trailer

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6 King Solomon's Mines (1950)

Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.

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1950-11-09 | Adventure / Action

Cast

Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger

Rating

rating icon 6.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #9 for
    travelogue
  2. Ranked #63 for
    barn-burner
  3. Ranked #66 for
    swashbuckler

Trailer

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7 Rashomon (1950)

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

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1950-08-26 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Toshirō Mifune, Machiko Kyō

Rating

rating icon 8.095
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #20 for
    Multiple POV
  2. Ranked #125 for
    dishonest
  3. Ranked #150 for
    horrific crimes

Trailer

Rashomon trailer
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8 Stage Fright (1950)

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

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1950-02-23 | Thriller

Cast

Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich

Rating

rating icon 6.764
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #77 for
    drama queen
  2. Ranked #84 for
    innocent man
  3. Ranked #88 for
    with MacGuffins

Trailer

Stage Fright trailer
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9 Panic in the Streets (1950)

A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the seamy underworld of the New Orleans Waterfront is underway.

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1950-07-27 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas

Rating

rating icon 6.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #70 for
    noirish
  2. Ranked #82 for
    bully
  3. Ranked #107 for
    hardboiled style

Trailer

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10 Broken Arrow (1950)

Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.

Info

1950-08-01 | Western / Romance

Cast

James Stewart, Jeff Chandler

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #15 for
    westernized
  2. Ranked #129 for
    third wheel
  3. Ranked #141 for
    horse opera

Trailer

Broken Arrow trailer
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