So over the last few years, I've been exploring those old, classic films that I was told I was supposed to see, but never gotten around to, largely through laserdisc collecting. I've found it really rewarding, and people liked my list of 1940s films, so I figured I'd give you another decade's worth of films that I think are worth watching.

Edit: So after I started this, I realized I was missing a film that should have been on this list. So fuck it, it's a top 11 now.

Did you know noir can cover relationship dramas? Barbara Stanwyck plays a woman who moved out east to make a better life for herself, but after a years long affair with a politician ended with the man's death, she's left with no money and returns back to her fishing town in California. A fisherman there is crazy for her, and he's a nice guy, but she's not sure she loves him. And he has this friend who's an asshole, but might be a way out. A moody film about lonely people who don't know what they want, and a complex female protagonist back when that was a rarity.

Vincent Price plays the spoiled son of a newspaper mogul who just inherited the business, but he has no interest in actually running it. There's a serial killer on the loose, and and Price's character decides that whoever unmasks the killer will get to be the new manager for the paper. It's noir, so of course this leads to everyone making the kinds of terrible, selfish, dangerous decisions you'd hope for in a great drama.