1950 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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 | | |
I'll Never Forget You | Roy Ward Baker | Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie | | |
Lost Continent | Sam Newfield | Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke, Chick Chandler | | |
Lost Planet Airmen | Fred C. Brannon | Tristram Coffin, Mae Clarke, I. Stanford Jolley | | [nb 3] |
The Man from Planet X | Edgar G. Ulmer | Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond | | |
The Man in the White Suit | Alexander Mackendrick | Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Ernest Thesiger | | |
Mysterious Island | Spencer Gordon Bennet | 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 Maté | Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt | | |
1952 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
Alraune | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Hildegarde Neff, Erich von Stroheim | | |
April 1, 2000 | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Hilde Krahl, Joseph Meinrad, Curd Jürgens | | [nb 4] |
Captive Women | Stuart Gilmore | Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Gloria Saunders | | [nb 5] |
The Jungle | William A. Berke | Rod Cameron, Cesar Romero, Marie Windsor | | [2] |
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 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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 | Eugène Lourié | Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway | | |
Cat-Women of the Moon | Arthur D. Hilton | Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, Marie Windsor, Carol Brewster | | [nb 6] |
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 | | |
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 | | [nb 7] |
Project Moonbase | Richard Talmadge | Donna Martell, Hayden Rorke, Ross Ford | | |
Robot Monster | Phil Tucker | George Nader, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle | | [nb 8] |
Spaceways | Terence Fisher | Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley | | |
The Twonky | Arch Oboler | Hans Conried, Billy Lynn, Gloria Blondell, Janet Warren | | [3] |
The War of the Worlds | Byron Haskin | Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Lewis Martin | | [nb 9] |
1954 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Richard Fleischer | Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas | | [nb 10] |
Crash of Moons | Hollingsworth Morse | Richard Crane, Sally Mansfield, Robert Lyden, Scotty Beckett, Patsy Parsons | | [nb 11] |
Creature from the Black Lagoon | Jack Arnold | Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno | | |
Devil Girl from Mars | David MacDonald | Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Adrienne Corri | | |
Gojira | Ishirō Honda | Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Takashi Shimura | | |
Gog | Ivan Tors | Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall | | |
Killers from Space | W. Lee Wilder | Peter Graves | | |
Monster from The Ocean Floor | Wyott Ordung | Anne Kimball, Stuart Wade, Dick Pinner | | |
Riders to the Stars | Richard Carlson | William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall | | |
Snow Creature | W. Lee Wilder | William Phipps | | |
Stranger From Venus | Burt Balaban | Patricia Neal, Helmut Dantine, Derek Bond | | [4] |
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 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
The Beast with a Million Eyes | David Kramarsky | Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole, Dick Sargent | | [5][6][nb 12] |
Bride of the Monster | Edward D. Wood, Jr. | Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy, Loretta King | | |
Creature with the Atom Brain | Edward L. Cahn | Richard Denning, Angela Greene, S. John Launer | | [7] |
Conquest of Space | Byron Haskin | Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Mickey Shaughnessy | | |
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues | Dan Milner | Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs, Michael Whalen | | |
Day the World Ended | Roger Corman | Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Paul Birch, Touch Connors | | |
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 | | [8][9] |
Monster Snowman (aka Half Human) | Ishirō Honda | Akira Takarada, Akemi Negishi | | |
The Quatermass Xperiment | Val Guest | Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Margia Dean | | [nb 13] |
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 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
1984 | Michael Anderson | Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling, Michael Redgrave, Donald Pleasence | | |
The Beast of Hollow Mountain | Edward Nassour, Ismael Rodríguez | Guy Madison, Patricia Medina, Carlos Rivas | | |
The Black Sleep | Reginald Le Borg | Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blake, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson | | |
The Creature Walks Among Us | John Sherwood | Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden | | [10] |
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers | Fred Sears | Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum | | |
Fire Maidens from Outer Space | Cy Roth | Anthony Dexter, Susan Shaw | | [nb 14] |
Forbidden Planet | Fred Wilcox | Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen | | |
The Gamma People | John Gilling | Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok, Leslie Phillips | | |
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! | Terrell O. Morse, Ishirô Honda | Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada, Kenji Sahara, Momoko Kochi | | |
Indestructible Man | Jack Pollexfen | Lon Chaney, Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr | | |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Don Siegel | Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan | | |
It Conquered the World | Roger Corman | Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Van Cleef | | |
The Mole People | Virgil Vogel | John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Nestor Paiva | | |
Sora no Daikaijū Radon (aka Rodan) | Ishirō Honda | Kenji Sahara. Yumi Shirakawa, Yoshifumi Tajima | | [nb 15] |
Warning from Space (aka Uchūjin Tokyo ni Arawaru | Koji Shima | Keizo Kawasaki, Toyomi Karita, Bin Yagasawa | | [nb 16] |
World Without End | Edward Bernds | Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Rod Taylor | | |
X the Unknown | Leslie Norman | Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern | | |
1957 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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 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 | | [10] |
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 | Ishirō Honda, Kenneth G. Crane | John Carradine, Morris Ankrum | | |
The Incredible Petrified World | Jerry Warren | John Carradine, Phyllis Coates, Robert Clarke | | |
The Incredible Shrinking Man | Jack Arnold | Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent | | [nb 17] |
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 Man Who Turned to Stone | László Kardos | Victor Jory, William Hudson | | - |
The Man Without a Body | W. Lee Wilder | Robert Hutton, George Coulouris | | |
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 | Ishirō 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, Sid James | | [nb 18] |
The Secret of Two Oceans | Konstantin Pipinashvili | Igor Vladimirov, Sergej Golovanov, Sergej Stoljarov | | [11] |
She Devil | Kurt Neumann | Albert Dekker, Jack Kelly, Mari Blanchard | | |
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 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman | Nathan H. Juran | Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers | | |
Attack of the Puppet People | Bert I. Gordon | John Agar, Michael Mark, Jack Kosslyn | | |
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 Colossus of New York | Eugène Lourié | Ross Martin, Mala Powers, Charles Herbert | | |
The Day the Sky Exploded | Paolo Heusch | Paul Hubschmid, Fiorella Mari, Gérard Landry, Dario Michaelis | | [nb 19] |
Road to the Stars (aka Doroga K Zvezdam) | Pavel Klushantsev | Georgi Solovyov | | [12][13] |
Earth vs. the Spider | Bert I. Gordon | Ed Kemmer, Gene Persson, Gene Roth | | |
The Electronic Monster | Montgomery Tully | Rod Cameron, Mary Murphy, Meredith Edwards | | [14] |
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne | Karel Zeman | Lubor Tokoš, Jana Zatloukalová | | |
Fiend Without a Face | Arthur Crabtree | Kynaston Reeves, Marshall Thompson, Terry Kilburn | | |
The Flame Barrier | Paul Landres | Arthur Franz, Kathleen Crowley | | |
The Fly | Kurt Neumann | Vincent Price, Patricia Owens, Herbert Marshall | | |
Frankenstein 1970 | Howard W. Koch | Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund | | |
Frankenstein's Daughter | Richard Cunha | Donald Murphy, John Ashley, Sandra Knight | | |
From the Earth to the Moon | Byron Haskin | Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget | | |
The H-Man | Ishirō 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, Phillip Pine | | [15] |
Missile to the Moon | Richard E. Cunha | K. T. Stevens, Richard Travis, Lisa Simone | | |
Monster on the Campus | Jack Arnold | Arthur Franz, Joanna Cook Moore | | [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 | | |
Queen of Outer Space | Edward Bernds | Zsa Zsa Gabor, Laurie Mitchell, Eric Fleming | | |
She Demons | Richard E. Cunha | Irish McCalla, Tod Griffin, Victor Sen Yung | | |
The Space Children | Jack Arnold | Adam Williams, Michel Ray, Johnny Crawford, Sandy Descher | | |
Space Master X-7 | Edward Bernds | Robert Ellis, Bill Williams, Lyn Thomas | | |
The Strange World of Planet X (aka The Cosmic Monsters) | Gilbert Gunn | Forrest Tucker, Gaby Andre, Martin Benson | | [nb 20] |
Teenage Cave Man | Roger Corman | Robert Vaughn, Leslie E. Bradley, Frank de Kova | | |
Teenage Monster | Jacques R. Marquette | Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade | | [nb 21][18] |
Terror from the Year 5000 | Robert J. Gurney | Ward Costello, Joyce Holden | | |
The Trollenberg Terror (aka The Crawling Eye) | Quentin Lawrence | Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro | | [nb 22] |
Varan the Unbelievable | Ishirō Honda | Tsuruko Kobayashi, Kôzô Nomura, Ayumi Sonoda | | [nb 23] |
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 |
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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 | | |
Ballad of the Ming Tombs Reservoir | Jin Shan | | | [20] |
Battle Beyond the Sun | Mikhail Kozyry | Aleksandr Shvorin, Ivan Pereverzhev | | |
Battle in Outer Space | Ishirō Honda | Ryo Ikebe, Koreya Senda | | |
The Cosmic Man | Herbert Greene | Bruce Bennett, John Carradine, Angela Greene | | [21] |
First Man into Space | Robert Day | Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards | | [22] |
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 | | [23][24] |
The Hideous Sun Demon | Robert Clarke | Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson | | |
Invisible Invaders | Edward L. Cahn | John Agar, Jean Byron, Philip Tonge, Robert Hutton, John Carradine | | |
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 Man Who Could Cheat Death | Terence Fisher | Anton Diffring, Christopher Lee | | [nb 24] |
The Monster of Piedras Blancas | Irvin Berwick | Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon | | |
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 | | |
Space Invasion of Lapland (Invasion of the Animal People) | Virgil W. Vogel | Bengt Blomgren, John Carradine | | |
Teenagers from Outer Space | Tom Graeff | David Love, Dawn Anderson, Harvey B. Dunn | | |
The Wasp Woman | Roger Corman | Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris, Michael Mark, Bruno Ve Sota | | |
The World, the Flesh and the Devil | Ranald MacDougall | Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer | | |