List of science fiction films: 1950s

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A list of science fiction films released in the 1950s. These films include core elements of science fiction and are widely distributed with reviews by reputable critics.

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Sub-Genre/Notes
1950
Destination Moon	Irving Pichel	Warner Anderson, John Archer, Tom Powers		[nb 1]
Flying Disc Man from Mars	Fred C. Brannon	Kent Fowler, Gregory Gaye		Serial film
The Flying Saucer	Mikel Conrad	Mikel Conrad, Pat Garrison, Hanz von Teuffen
The Invisible Monster	Fred C. Brannon	Stanley Price, Richard Webb, Aline Towne, Lane Bradford		Serial film
Prehistoric Women	Gregg G. Tallas	Laurette Luez, Allan Nixon, Joan Shawlee
Rocketship X-M	Kurt Neumann	Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery
Two Lost Worlds	Norman Dawn, Norman Kennedy	James Arness, Laura Elliott
1951
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man	Charles Lamont	Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild
Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere	Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell	Judd Holdren, Gene Roth		Serial film
The Day the Earth Stood Still	Robert Wise	Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe		[nb 2]
Five	Arch Oboler	William Phipps, Susan Douglas, James Anderson
Flight to Mars	Lesley Selander	Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz
Lost Continent	Sam Newfield	Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke, Chick Chandler
Lost Planet Airmen	Fred C. Brannon	Tristram Coffin, Mae Clark, I. Stanford Jolley		Assembled from the serial King of the Rocket Men
The Man from Planet X	Edgar G. Ulmer	Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond
Mysterious Island	Spencer Gordon Bennett	Richard Crane, Marshall Reed, Karen Randle, Ralph Hodges		Serial film
Superman and the Mole Men	Lee Sholem	George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jeff Corey
The Thing from Another World	Christian Nyby	Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite
Unknown World	Terrell O. Morse	Bruce Kellogg, Marilyn Nash, Jim Bannon, Otto Waldis
When Worlds Collide	Rudolph Mate	Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt
1952
April 1, 2000	Wolfgang Liebeneiner	Hilde Krahl, Joseph Meinrad, Curd Jurgens		Original title: 1 April, 2000
Alraune	Arthur-Maria Rabenalt	Hildegarde Neff, Erich Von Stroheim
Captive Women	Stuart Gilmore	Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Gloria Saunders		1956 reissue title: 1000 Years from Now
The Jungle	William A. Berke	Rod Cameron, Cesar Romero, Marie Windsor		[1]
Radar Men from the Moon	Fred C. Brannon	George Wallace, Aline Towne, Roy Barcroft		Serial film
Red Planet Mars	Harry Horner	Peter Graves, Andrea King, Orley Lindgren
Untamed Women	Merle W. Connell, James R. Connell	Mikel Conrad, Doris Merrick, Richard Monahan
Zombies of the Stratosphere	Fred C. Brannon	Judd Holdren		Serial film
1953
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars	Charles Lamont	Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mari Blanchard
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Charles Lamont	Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms	Eugene Lourie	Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway
Cat-Women of the Moon	Arthur D. Hilton	Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, Marie Windsor, Carol Brewster		Alternative title: Rocket to the Moon
Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe	Harry Keller, Franklin Adreon, Fred C. Brannon	Judd Holdren, Aline Towne		Serial film
Donovan's Brain	Felix E. Feist	Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Davis
Four Sided Triangle	Terence Fisher	Barbara Payton, John Van Eyssen, Percy Marmont
Invaders from Mars	William Cameron Menzies	Jimmy Hunt, Arthur Franz, Helena Carter
It Came from Outer Space	Jack Arnold	Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake
Killers from Space	W. Lee Wilder	Peter Graves
The Lost Planet	Spencer Gordon Bennet	Judd Holdren, Vivian Mason, Michael Fox		Serial film
The Magnetic Monster	Curt Siodmak	Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Harry Ellerbe
Mesa of Lost Women	Herbert Tevos, Ron Ormond	Jackie Coogan, Richard Travis, Allan Nixon, Mary Hill
The Neanderthal Man	Ewald Andre Dupont	Robert Shayne, Doris Merrick, Richard Crane
Phantom from Space	W. Lee Wilder	Ted Cooper, Rudolph Anders, Noreen Nash
Port Sinister	Harold Daniels	James Warren, Lynne Roberts, Paul Cavanagh		1957 reissue title: Beast of Paradise Isle
Project Moonbase	Richard Talmadge	Donna Martell, Hayden Rorke, Ross Ford
Robot Monster	Phil Tucker	George Nader, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle		U.S. 2-D version title: Monster from Mars
Snow Creature	W. Lee Wilder	William Phipps
Spaceways	Terence Fisher	Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley
The Twonky	Arch Oboler	Hans Conried, Billy Lynn, Gloria Blondell, Janet Warren		[2]
The War of the Worlds	Byron Haskin	Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Lewis Martin		[nb 3]
1954
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Richard Fleischer	Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas		[nb 4]
Crash of Moons	Hollingsworth Morse	Richard Crane, Sally Mansfield, Robert Lyden, Scotty Beckett, Patsy Parsons		16mm rental movie.
Creature from the Black Lagoon	Jack Arnold	Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Nestor Paiva
Devil Girl from Mars	David MacDonald	Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Adrienne Corri]
Gojira	Ishiro Honda	Kenji Sahara, Momoko Kouchi, Akira Takarada, Takashi Shimura
Gog	Ivan Tors	Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall
Monster from The Ocean Floor	Wyott Ordung	Anne Kimball, Stuart Wade, Dick Pinner
Riders to the Stars	Richard Carlson	William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall
Stranger From Venus	Burt Balaban	Patricia Neal, Helmut Dantine, Derek Bond		[3]
Target Earth	Sherman A. Rose	Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley, Virginia Grey
Them!	Gordon M. Douglas	James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness
Tobor the Great	Lee Sholem	Charles Drake, Karin Booth, Billy Chapin
1955
The Beast with a Million Eyes	David Kramarsky	Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole, Dick Sargent		[4][5][nb 5]
Bride of the Monster	Edward D. Wood, Jr.	Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy, Loretta King
Conquest of Space	Byron Haskin	Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Mickey Shaughnessy
Creature with the Atom Brain	Edward L. Cahn	Richard Denning, Angela Greene, S. John Launer		[6]
Godzilla Raids Again	Motoyoshi Oda	Hiroshi Koizumi, Minoru Chiaki
It Came from Beneath the Sea	Robert Gordon	Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis
King Dinosaur	Bert I. Gordon	Douglas Henderson, Patti Gallagher		[7][8]
Monster Snowman	Ishiro Honda	Akira Takarada, Akemi Negishi
The Quatermass Xperiment	Val Guest	Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Margia Dean		U.S. title: The Creeping Unknown
Revenge of the Creature	Jack Arnold	John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva
Tarantula	Jack Arnold	John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva
This Island Earth	Jack Arnold, Joseph Newman	Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason
1956
The Black Sleep	Reginald Le Borg	Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blake, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson
The Beast of Hollow Mountain	Edward Nassour, Ismael Rodríguez	Guy Madison, Patricia Medina, Carlos Rivas
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers	Fred Sears	Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum
Day the World Ended	Roger Corman	Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Paul Birch, Touch Connors
Fire Maidens from Outer Space	Cy Roth	Anthony Dexter, Susan Shaw		U.S. title: Fire Maidens of Outer Space
Forbidden Planet	Fred Wilcox	Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!	Terrell O. Morse	Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Kenji Sahara, Momoko Kochi
Indestructible Man	Jack Pollexfen	Lon Chaney, Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr
It Conquered the World	Roger Corman	Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Van Cleef
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Don Siegel	Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan
The Man Who Turned to Stone	László Kardos	Victor Jory, William Hudson		[9][10]
The Mole People	Virgil Vogel	John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Nestor Paiva
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues	Dan Milner	Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs, Michael Whalen
Sora no Daikaijū Radon	Ishiro Honda	Kenji Sahara. Yumi Shirakawa, Yoshifumi Tajima		US title: Rodan! the Flying Monster
Uchūjin Tokyo ni Arawaru	Koji Shima	Keizo Kawasaki, Toyomi Karita, Bin Yagasawa		International title: Warning from Space
World Without End	Edward Bernds	Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Rod Taylor
X the Unknown	Leslie Norman	Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern
1957
The Amazing Colossal Man	Bert I. Gordon	Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson
The Astounding She-Monster	Ronnie Ashcroft	Jeanne Tatum, Ewing Brown, Robert Clarke
Attack of the Crab Monsters	Roger Corman	Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson
Beginning of the End	Bert I. Gordon	Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum
The Black Scorpion	Edward Ludwig	Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas
The Brain from Planet Arous	Nathan H. Juran	John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller
The Cyclops	Bert I. Gordon	James Craig, Gloria Talbott, Lon Chaney, Jr.
The Deadly Mantis	Nathan H. Juran	Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton
From Hell It Came	Dan Milner	Tod Andrews, Tina Carver, Linda Watkins
The Giant Claw	Fred Sears	Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum
Half Human	Ishiro Honda, Kenneth G. Crane	John Carradine, Morris Ankrum
The Incredible Shrinking Man	Jack Arnold	Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent		[nb 6]
Invasion of the Saucer Men	Edward L. Cahn	Steve Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin, Lyn Osborne
The Invisible Boy	Herman Hoffman	Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster
Kronos	Kurt Neumann	Jeff Morrow, Barbara Lawrence, John Emery, George O'Hanlon
The Land Unknown	Virgil Vogel	Jock Mahoney, Shawn Smith, William Reynolds
The Monolith Monsters	John Sherwood	Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne
Monster from Green Hell	Kenneth G. Crane	Jim Davis
The Monster That Challenged the World	Arnold Laven	Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried
The Mysterians	Ishiro Honda	Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kochi
The Night the World Exploded	Fred Sears	Kathryn Grant, William Leslie, Tristram Coffin
Not of This Earth	Roger Corman	Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones
Quatermass 2	Val Guest	Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James		U.S. title: Enemy from Space
She Devil	Kurt Neumann	Albert Dekker, Jack Kelly, Mari Blanchard
The Strange World of Planet X	Gilbert Gunn	Forrest Tucker, Gaby Andre, Martin Benson		U.S. title: The Cosmic Monster
20 Million Miles to Earth	Nathan H. Juran	William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia, John Zaremba
The 27th Day	William Asher	Gene Barry, Valerie French, George Voskovec
The Unearthly	Brooke Peters	John Carradine, Myron Healey, Allison Hayes
The Unknown Terror	Charles Marquis Warren	John Howard, Mala Powers, Paul E. Richards, May Wynn
1958
Attack of the Puppet People	Bert I. Gordon	John Agar, Michael Mark, Jack Kosslyn
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman	Nathan H. Juran	Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers
The Blob	Irvin Shortess Yeaworth, Jr.	Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe
The Brain Eaters	Bruno Ve Sota	Ed Nelson, Alan Frost, Jack Hill
The Crawling Eye	Quentin Lawrence	Forrest Tucker, Janet Munro, Laurence Payne
The Colossus of New York	Eugène Lourié	Ross Martin, Mala Powers, Charles Herbert
Daikaiju Baran	Ishiro Honda	Tsuruko Kobayashi, Kôzô Nomura, Ayumi Sonoda		US revision in 1962: Varan the Unbelievable
The Day the Sky Exploded	Paolo Heusch	Paul Hubschmid, Fiorella Mari, Gerard Landry, Dario Michaelis		Italian title: La Morte viene dallo Spazio
Doroga K Zvezdam	Pavel Klushantsev	Georgi Solovyov		[11][12]
Earth vs. the Spider	Bert I. Gordon	Ed Kemmer, Gene Persson, Gene Roth
The Electronic Monster	Montgomery Tully	Rod Cameron, Mary Murphy, Meredith Edwards		[13]
Fiend Without a Face	Arthur Crabtree	Kynaston Reeves, Marshall Thompson, Terry Kilburn
The Fly	Kurt Neumann	Vincent Price, Patricia Owens, Herbert Marshall
Frankenstein 1970	Howard W. Koch	Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund
From the Earth to the Moon	Byron Haskin	Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget
The H-Man	Ishiro Honda	Yumi Shirakawa, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata
I Married a Monster from Outer Space	Gene Fowler	Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Ken Lynch
It! The Terror from Beyond Space	Edward L. Cahn	Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, Kim Spalding
The Lost Missile	Lester William Berke	Robert Loggia, Ellen Parker, Philip Pine		[14]
Missile to the Moon	Richard E. Cunha	K. T. Stevens, Richard Travis, Lisa Simone
Missile Monsters	Fred C. Brannon	Walter Reed, Lois Hall, James Craven, Gregory Gay		Assembled from the serial Flying Disc Man from Mars.[15]
Monster from Green Hell	Kenneth G. Crane	Jim Davis, Barbara Turner, Robert E. Griffin		[16]
The New Invisible Man	Alfredo B. Crevenna	Arturo de Córdova, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Raúl Meraz		[17]
Night of the Blood Beast	Bernard Kowalski	Michael Emmet, Angela Greene, John Baer
Satan's Satellites	Fred C. Brannon	Judd Holdren, Aline Towne, Lane Bradford, Stanley Waxman		Assembled from the serial Zombies of the Stratosphere.
Teenage Cave Man	Roger Corman	Robert Vaughn, Leslie E. Bradley, Frank de Kova
Teenage Monster	Jacques R. Marquette	Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade	USA}}	[nb 7][18]
The Trollenberg Terror	Quentin Lawrence	Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro		U.S. title: The Crawling Eye.
War of the Colossal Beast	Bert I. Gordon	Sally Fraser, Dean Parkin, Roger Pace
War of the Satellites	Roger Corman	Susan Cabot, Richard Devon, Eric Sinclair		[19]
1959
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock	Sidney Miller	Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine, Gale Gordon
4D Man	Irvin Shortess Yeaworth, Jr.	Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, James Congdon
The Angry Red Planet	Ib Melchior	Gerald Mohr, Les Tremayne, Nora Hayden
The Atomic Submarine	Spencer Gordon Bennet	Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey
Attack of the Giant Leeches	Bernard Kowalski	Jan Shepard, Gene Roth, Yvette Vickers
Battle in Outer Space	Ishiro Honda	Ryo Ikebe, Koreya Senda
The Cosmic Man	Herbert Greene	Bruce Bennett, John Carradine, Angela Greene		[20]
First Man into Space	Robert Day	Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards		[21]
First Spaceship on Venus	Kurt Maetzig	Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Ignacy Machowski
Giant Gila Monster	Ray Kellogg	Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Fred Graham
Gigantis the Fire Monster	Paul Schreibman	Hiroshi Koizumi
Have Rocket, Will Travel	David Lowell Rich	Jerome Cowan, Anna-Lisa, Curly Joe DeRita
The Head	Victor Trivas	Michel Simon, Horst Frank, Christiane Maybach		[22][23]
Herrin der Welt	William Dieterle	Martha Hyer, Lino Ventura, Wolfgang Preiss, Gino Cervi		[nb 8][24][25]
The Hideous Sun Demon	Robert Clarke	Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson
Journey to the Center of the Earth	Henry Levin	Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker
The Killer Shrews	Ray Kellogg	James Best, Ken Curtis, Ingrid Goude
The Manster	George Breakston, Kenneth G. Crane	Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Satoshi Nakamura, Terri Zimmern		[26][27]
Missile to the Moon	Richard E. Cunha	Richard Travis, Cathy Downs, K.T. Stevens		[nb 9]
The Monster of Piedras Blancas	Irvin Berwick	Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon
Monster on the Campus	Jack Arnold	Arthur Franz, Joanna Cook Moore		[28]
On the Beach	Stanley Kramer	Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire
Plan 9 from Outer Space	Edward D. Wood, Jr.	Bela Lugosi, Mona McKinnon, Gregory Walcott, Vampira
Return of the Fly	Edward Bernds	Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton
Teenagers from Outer Space	Tom Graeff	David Love, Dawn Anderson, Harvey B. Dunn
The World, the Flesh and the Devil	Ranald MacDougall	Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer

See also

• History of science fiction films

Notes

References