1950s science fiction films

The list of science fiction films of the 1950s gives a chronological overview of cinema and full-length TV productions that were shot in this genre between 1950 and 1959 . When using it, it should be noted that the majority of the films listed overlap with related genres from the field of fantasy such as horror and fantasy , but also disaster films and comedy . The list does not claim to be complete. In the case of different names, the titles correspond to the Wikipedia lemma, the names of the directors correspond to the form specified in the respective film.

1950

title	Director	Country of production
Atom Man vs. Superman	Spencer Gordon Bennet	United States
Moon terminus	Irving Pichel	United States
Flying Disc Man from Mars	Fred C. Brannon	United States
The Flying Saucer	Mikel Conrad	United States
Rocket moon launches	Kurt Neumann	United States

1951

title	Director	Country of production
In Sherlock Holmes' footsteps	Charles Lamont	United States
Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere	Spencer Gordon Bennet , Wallace Grissel	United States
The thing from another world	Christian Nyby	United States
Flight to Mars	Lesley Selander	United States
Judgment Day, The	Rudolph Maté	United States
The last five	Arch Oboler	United States
The Man from Planet X	Edgar G. Ulmer	United States
The man in the white suit	Alexander Mackendrick	United Kingdom
Superman and the Mole Men	Lee Sholem	United States
The day the earth stood still	Robert Wise	United States

1952

title	Director	Country of production
April 1, 2000	Wolfgang Liebeneiner	Austria
Mandrake	Arthur Maria Rabenalt	BR Germany
Invasion against USA	Alfred E. Green	United States
Honey i'm getting younger	Howard Hawks	United States
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire	John Gilling	United Kingdom
Radar Men from the Moon	Fred C. Brannon	United States
Zombies of the Stratosphere	Fred C. Brannon	United States

1953

title	Director	Country of production
Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders	Franklin Adreon	United States
Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe	Harry Keller , Franklin Adreon , Fred C. Brannon	United States
Cat-Women of the Moon	Arthur Hilton	United States
Donovan's brain	Felix E. Feist	United States
Danger from space	Jack Arnold	United States
Invasion of Mars	William Cameron Menzies	United States
Battle of the worlds	Byron Haskin	United States
The king of the rocket men	Fred C. Brannon	United States
The Lost Planet	Spencer Gordon Bennet	United States
The Net	Anthony Asquith	United Kingdom
Panic in New York	Eugène Lourié	United States
Project Moonbase	Richard Telmadge	United States
Robot monster	Phil Tucker	United States

1954

title	Director	Country of production
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Richard Fleischer	United States
Uprising of the animals	John Halas , Joy Batchelor	United Kingdom
Devil Girl from Mars	David MacDonald	United Kingdom
Formicula	Gordon Douglas	United States
Godzilla	Ishirō Honda	Japan
The horror of the Amazon	Jack Arnold	United States
Stranger from Venus	Burt Balaban	United Kingdom / United States
Target Earth	Herman Cohen	United States
Tobor the Great	Lee Sholem	United States

1955

title	Director	Country of production
The conquest of space	Byron Haskin	United States
The secret of two oceans	Konstantin Pipinashvili	Soviet Union
Godzilla returns	Motoyoshi Oda	Japan
The horror from below	Robert Gordon	United States
Jūjin Yuki Otoko	Ishirô Honda	Japan
The last seven	Roger Corman	United States
Metaluna IV doesn't answer	Joseph M. Newman	United States
The monster's revenge	Jack Arnold	United States
The Strangler's Revenge	Ed Wood	United States
Rat nest	Robert Aldrich	United States
Travel back in time	Karel Zeman	Czechoslovakia
shock	Val Guest	United Kingdom
Tarantula	Jack Arnold	United States
Ucan daireler Istanbulda	Orhan Ercin	Turkey

1956

title	Director	Country of production
1984	Michael Anderson	United Kingdom
Alarm in space	Fred M. Wilcox	United States
The demonic	Don Siegel	United States
Flying saucers attack	Fred F. Sears	United States
The flying monsters of Osaka	Ishirô Honda	Japan
The curse of Monte Bravo	Edward Nassour , Ismael Rodríguez	United States / Mexico
It Conquered the World	Roger Corman	United States
Planet of horror	Edward Bernds	United States
The Chamber of Horrors of Dr. Thosti	Reginald Le Borg	United States
Supersonic Saucer	Guy Ferguson	United Kingdom
XX unknown	Leslie Norman	United Kingdom

1957

title	Director	Country of production
Attack of the giant claw	Fred F. Sears	United States
Beginning of the end	Bert I. Gordon	United States
The beast from outer space	Nathan Juran	United States
Enemies out of nowhere	Val Guest	United Kingdom
The flight to hell	Virgil W. Vogel	United States
The curse of the Aztec mummy	Rafael Portillo	Mexico
Frankenstein's curse	Terence Fisher	United Kingdom
The secret of the stone monster	John Sherwood	United States
Envoy of horror	Roger Corman	United States
Invasion of the Saucer Men	Edward L. Cahn	United States
The colossus	Bert I. Gordon	United States
Kronos	Kurt Neumann	United States
The Night the World Exploded	Fred F. Sears	United States
SOS spaceship	Herman Hoffman	United States
The Story of Mankind	Irwin Allen	United States
Death has black claws	Gene Fowler Jr.	United States
The incredible story of Mister C.	Jack Arnold	United States
The way to the stars	Pavel Klushanzew	Soviet Union
Space beasts	Ishirô Honda	Japan
Yeti, the snowman	Val Guest	United Kingdom

1958

title	Director	Country of production
Attack by the 20-meter woman	Nathan Juran	United States
The Aztec mummy versus the human robot	Rafael Portillo	Mexico
Horror beast	Richard E. Cunha	United States
Blob - horror without a name	Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.	United States
The demon with the bloody hands	Henry Cass	United Kingdom
The invention of perdition	Karel Zeman	Czechoslovakia
The fly	Kurt Neumann	United States
Frankenstein's revenge	Terence Fisher	United Kingdom
The horror creeps through Tokyo	Ishirō Honda	Japan
The witch's kitchen of Dr. Rambov	Howard W. Koch	United States
I Married a Monster from Outer Space	Gene Fowler Junior	United States
In the clutches of the giant	Richard E. Cunha	United States
In the claws of Venus	Edward Bernds	United States
It! The Terror from Beyond Space	Edward L. Cahn	United States
La morte viene dallo spazio	Paolo Heusch	Italy
The revenge of the black spider	Bert I. Gordon	United States
The red phone ... alarm!	William Berke	United States
Satan's satellite	Fred C. Brannon	United States
The horror creeps through the night	Jack Arnold	United States
She demons	Richard E. Cunha	United States
The Monteville Devil Cloud	Quentin Lawrence	United Kingdom
Monster without a face	Arthur Crabtree	United Kingdom
Varan - The monster from prehistoric times	Ishirô Honda	Japan

1959

title	Director	Country of production
All hell has broken loose on U-17	Spencer Gordon Bennet	United States
The Cosmic Man	Herbert S. Greene	United States
Heaven is calling	Alexander Kosyr , Mikhail Karjukov	Soviet Union
The last bank	Stanley Kramer	United States
The mouse that roared	Jack Arnold	United Kingdom
The night of the sinister beasts	Ray Kellogg	United States
The naked woman and Satan	Victor Trivas	BR Germany
Plan 9 from space	Ed Wood	United States
Missile 510	John Croydon	United Kingdom
The journey to the centre of the earth	Henry Levin	United States
Scream when the Tingler comes	William Castle	United States
The will of Dr. Cordelier	Jean Renoir	France
Outwitted death	Terence Fisher	United Kingdom
The Loch Ness Monster	Eugène Lourié , Douglas Hickox	United Kingdom / United States
Spacecraft MR-1 gives no answer	Ib Melchior	United States
The wasp woman	Roger Corman	United States

See also

• Science fiction
• End time film
• List of dystopian films
• List of time travel films
• List of science fiction series

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