Best award winning movies with a harridan from 1950

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

1 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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2 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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3 Caged (1950)

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.

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1950-05-19 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #8 for
    hard-nosed
  2. Ranked #62 for
    pulpy
  3. Ranked #90 for
    outside the laws

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4 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

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5 The Damned Don't Cry (1950)

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

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1950-05-13 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Joan Crawford, David Brian

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #29 for
    gold digger
  2. Ranked #53 for
    cruel twist
  3. Ranked #61 for
    hardboiled style

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6 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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7 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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8 Born Yesterday (1950)

Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.

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1950-12-26 | Comedy / Romance

Cast

Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #47 for
    brash
  2. Ranked #89 for
    waggish
  3. Ranked #124 for
    sassy

Trailer

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9 The Beauty of the Devil (1950)

Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome young man and exchanges bodies with him to induce Faust to sign a pact to exchange his soul for renewed youth, riches and power. But though the "new" Faust is attracted by the material improvements in his life, he remains wary of signing, while Mephistopheles, now posing as the aged professor whose body he inhabits, must find a way to trick him into signing the pact - and dissuade him from the love of a gypsy girl who prays for his soul - or find himself damned by his own Master...

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1950-03-16 | Drama / Fantasy

Cast

Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #104 for
    fairytale-like
  2. Ranked #156 for
    gold digger
  3. Ranked #187 for
    murky

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10 Harvey (1950)

The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.

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1950-12-04 | Comedy / Fantasy

Cast

James Stewart, Josephine Hull

Rating

rating icon 7.673
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #61 for
    madcap comedy
  2. Ranked #66 for
    goofball
  3. Ranked #107 for
    arthurian

Trailer

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