The Top 100 Science Fiction Movies of the 1950s

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The Top 100 Science Fiction Movies of the 1950s
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
Ranking
552 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise G -
556 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel NR -
604 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox G -
878 Godzilla 1954 Ishirô Honda NR -
1310 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby NR -
1382 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 Jack Arnold NR -
1490 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954 Richard Fleischer G -
1589 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin G -
1815 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick NR -
1829 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 Terence Fisher NR -
1903 Them! 1954 Gordon Douglas NR -
1975 On the Beach 1959 Stanley Kramer NR -
2120 The Fly 1958 Kurt Neumann NR -
2366 Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century 1953 Chuck Jones NR -
2663 The Blob 1958 Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. NR -
2713 Monkey Business 1952 Howard Hawks NR -
2808 Godzilla, King of the Monsters! 1956 Ishirô Honda, Terry O. Moore NR -
3404 Invaders from Mars 1953 William Cameron Menzies NR -
3481 The Revenge of Frankenstein 1958 Terence Fisher NR -
3531 20 Million Miles to Earth 1957 Nathan Juran NR -
3763 When Worlds Collide 1951 Rudolph Maté G -
4223 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms 1953 Eugène Lourié NR -
4630 Tarantula 1955 Jack Arnold NR -
4968 It Came from Outer Space 1953 Jack Arnold G -
5011 Earth vs. the Flying Saucers 1956 Fred F. Sears NR -
5389 The Creeping Unknown 1955 Val Guest NR -
5396 Rodan 1956 Ishirô Honda NR -
5581 It! The Terror from Beyond Space 1958 Edward L. Cahn NR -
5772 Fiend Without a Face 1958 Arthur Crabtree NR -
5806 Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959 Edward D. Wood Jr. NR -
6021 This Island Earth 1955 Joseph M. Newman NR -
6856 It Came from Beneath the Sea 1955 Robert Gordon NR -
7340 Revenge of the Creature 1955 Jack Arnold NR -
7389 I Married a Monster from Outer Space 1958 Gene Fowler Jr. NR -
7524 Enemy from Space 1957 Val Guest NR -
7789 The Abominable Snowman 1957 Val Guest NR -
7956 The Deadly Invention 1958 Karel Zeman NR -
8073 Destination Moon 1950 Irving Pichel NR -
8251 The Mysterians 1957 Ishirô Honda NR -
8330 1984 1956 Michael Anderson NR -
8532 Not of This Earth 1957 Roger Corman NR -
8843 Return of the Fly 1959 Edward Bernds NR -
8876 Godzilla Raids Again 1955 Motoyoshi Oda NR -
9189 The World, the Flesh and the Devil 1959 Ranald MacDougall NR -
9628 Attack of the 50 Foot Woman 1958 Nathan Juran NR -
10007 The Monster That Challenged the World 1957 Arnold Laven NR -
10077 Nineteen Eighty-Four 1954 Rudolph Cartier NR -
10272 X: The Unknown 1956 Leslie Norman NR -
10447 Abbott and Costello Go to Mars 1953 Charles Lamont NR -
10534 The Deadly Mantis 1957 Nathan Juran NR -
10663 Flight to Mars 1951 Lesley Selander NR -
10962 Frankenstein 1970 1958 Howard W. Koch NR -
11359 A Journey to the Beginning of Time 1955 Karel Zeman, Fred Ladd NR -
11393 Invasion of the Saucer Men 1957 Edward L. Cahn NR -
11579 The Angry Red Planet 1959 Ib Melchior NR -
11605 Rocketship X-M 1950 Kurt Neumann NR -
11869 The Creature Walks Among Us 1956 John Sherwood NR -
11980 Lust of the Vampire 1957 Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava NR -
12650 The Werewolf 1956 Fred F. Sears NR -
12799 The Lost Missile 1958 William A. Berke NR -
13189 Donovan's Brain 1953 Felix E. Feist NR -
13202 The H-Man 1958 Ishirô Honda NR -
13244 Attack of the Puppet People 1958 Bert I. Gordon NR -
13261 The Man from Planet X 1951 Edgar G. Ulmer NR -
13429 Caltiki, the Immortal Monster 1959 Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava NR -
13449 It Conquered the World 1956 Roger Corman NR -
13540 The Mole People 1956 Virgil W. Vogel NR -
13648 Attack of the Crab Monsters 1957 Roger Corman NR -
13810 World Without End 1956 Edward Bernds NR -
14005 Killers from Space 1954 W. Lee Wilder NR -
14246 The Crawling Eye 1958 Quentin Lawrence NR -
14337 From the Earth to the Moon 1958 Byron Haskin NR -
14422 The Atomic Submarine 1959 Spencer Gordon Bennet NR -
14652 Atom Man vs. Superman 1950 Spencer Gordon Bennet NR -
14795 The Alligator People 1959 Roy Del Ruth NR -
14897 The Monolith Monsters 1957 John Sherwood NR -
14934 The Man Who Could Cheat Death 1959 Terence Fisher NR -
15256 Battle in Outer Space 1959 Ishirô Honda NR -
15446 Frankenstein's Daughter 1958 Richard E. Cunha NR -
15452 Four Sided Triangle 1953 Terence Fisher NR -
15475 Five 1951 Arch Oboler NR -
15477 Kronos 1957 Kurt Neumann NR -
15943 The Brain from Planet Arous 1957 Nathan Juran NR -
16025 The Black Sleep 1956 Reginald Le Borg NR -
16340 Day the World Ended 1955 Roger Corman NR -
16350 Curse of the Faceless Man 1958 Edward L. Cahn NR -
16354 Bride of the Monster 1955 Edward D. Wood Jr. NR -
16432 4D Man 1959 Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. NR -
16557 The Vampire 1957 Paul Landres PG -
16941 The Story of Mankind 1957 Irwin Allen NR -
17200 Gog 1954 Herbert L. Strock NR -
17244 I Was a Teenage Frankenstein 1957 Herbert L. Strock NR -
17652 The Giant Claw 1957 Fred F. Sears NR -
17704 Superman and the Mole Men 1951 Lee Sholem NR -
17842 Captive Women 1952 Stuart Gilmore NR -
17910 Red Planet Mars 1952 Harry Horner NR -
17925 Two Lost Worlds 1951 Norman Dawn NR -
17947 Warning from Space 1956 Koji Shima NR -
18087 Conquest of Space 1955 Byron Haskin NR -
18168 Invisible Invaders 1959 Edward L. Cahn NR -

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