# List of science fiction films of the 1950s

A list of science fiction films released in the 1950s. These films include core elements of science fiction, but can cross into other genres. They have been released to a cinema audience by the commercial film industry and are widely distributed with reviews by reputable critics.
This period is sometimes described as the 'classic' or 'golden' era of science fiction theater. With at least 204 sci-fi films produced, it holds the record for the largest number of science fiction produced per decade. Much of the production was in a low-budget form, targeted at a teenage audience. Many were formulaic, gimmicky, comic-book-style films. They drew upon political themes or public concerns of the day, including depersonalization, infiltration, or fear of nuclear weapons. Invasion was a common theme, as were various threats to humanity.
Four films from this decade, Destination Moon (1950), When Worlds Collide (1951), The War of the Worlds (1953) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) won Academy Awards, while Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), Forbidden Planet (1956), On the Beach (1959) and Them! (1954) received nominations. Destination Moon, The War of the Worlds and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) won the Hugo Award.

## List

* 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1950 :
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Destination Moon | Irving Pichel | Warner Anderson, John Archer, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson | United States | Adventure Drama Thriller |
| Flying Disc Man from Mars | Fred C. Brannon | Kent Fowler, Gregory Gaye | United States | Action Adventure Crime Fantasy Serial film |
| The Flying Saucer | Mikel Conrad | Mikel Conrad, Pat Garrison, Hanz von Teuffen | United States | Thriller |
| The Invisible Monster | Fred C. Brannon | Stanley Price, Richard Webb, Aline Towne, Lane Bradford | United States | Action Adventure Crime Thriller Serial film |
| Rocketship X-M | Kurt Neumann | Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery | United States | Family |
| 1951 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man | Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild | United States | Comedy Family Sport |
| Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | Judd Holdren, Gene Roth | United States | Adventure Serial film |
| The Day the Earth Stood Still | Robert Wise | Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe | United States | Drama |
| Five | Arch Oboler | William Phipps, Susan Douglas, James Anderson | United States | Drama Horror |
| Flight to Mars | Lesley Selander | Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz | United States | Drama |
| I'll Never Forget You | Roy Ward Baker | Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth | United States |
| Lost Continent | Sam Newfield | Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke, Chick Chandler | United States | Adventure Fantasy |
| Lost Planet Airmen | Fred C. Brannon | Tristram Coffin, Mae Clarke, I. Stanford Jolley | United States | Action Crime |
| The Man from Planet X | Edgar G. Ulmer | Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond | United States | Horror Romance Thriller |
| The Man in the White Suit | Alexander Mackendrick | Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Ernest Thesiger | United Kingdom | Comedy Drama |
| Mysterious Island | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Richard Crane, Marshall Reed, Karen Randle, Ralph Hodges | United States | Action Family Serial film |
| Superman and the Mole Men | Lee Sholem | George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jeff Corey | United States | Action Adventure Drama Family Fantasy Romance |
| The Thing from Another World | Christian Nyby | Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite | United States | Horror |
| Two Lost Worlds | Norman Dawn, Norman Kennedy | James Arness, Laura Elliott | United States | Adventure Romance |
| Unknown World (a.k.a. Night Without Stars) | Terrell O. Morse | Bruce Kellogg, Marilyn Nash, Jim Bannon, Otto Waldis | United States | Adventure |
| When Worlds Collide | Rudolph Maté | Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt | United States | Action Thriller |
| 1952 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Alraune | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Hildegard Knef, Erich von Stroheim | West Germany | Horror |
| 1. April 2000 | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Hilde Krahl, Joseph Meinrad, Curd Jürgens | Austria | Comedy Fantasy Romance |
| Captive Women | Stuart Gilmore | Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Gloria Saunders | United States | |
| Invasion USA | Alfred E Green | Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, Dan O'Herlihy | United States | Drama War |
| Monkey Business | Howard Hawks | Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe | United States | Comedy |
| Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (a.k.a My Son, the Vampire) | John Gilling | Arthur Lucan, Bela Lugosi | UK | Horror Comedy |
| Radar Men from the Moon | Fred C. Brannon | George D. Wallace, Aline Towne, Roy Barcroft | United States | Action Family Serial film |
| Red Planet Mars | Harry Horner | Peter Graves, Andrea King, Orley Lindgren | United States | Drama |
| Untamed Women | Merle W. Connell, James R. Connell | Mikel Conrad, Doris Merrick, Richard Monahan | United States | War |
| Zombies of the Stratosphere | Fred C. Brannon | Judd Holdren | United States | Action Adventure Serial film |
| 1953 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. | Roy Rowland | Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried, Tommy Rettig | United States | Musical Fantasy "The wonder musical of the future." |
| Abbott and Costello Go to Mars | Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mari Blanchard | United States | Comedy Family Fantasy |
| Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff | United States | Comedy Horror Mystery |
| The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms | Eugène Lourié | Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway | United States | Horror |
| Cat-Women of the Moon | Arthur D. Hilton | Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, Marie Windsor, Carol Brewster | United States | Adventure |
| Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe | Harry Keller, Franklin Adreon, Fred C. Brannon | Judd Holdren, Aline Towne | United States | Action Adventure Serial film |
| Donovan's Brain | Felix E. Feist | Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Davis | United States | Horror |
| Flight to the Moon (a.k.a Полёт на Луну) | Brumberg sisters | Vera Bendina (voice), Yevgeniya Mores (voice), Valentina Sperantova (voice) | Soviet Union | Animation Short Adventure Family |
| Four Sided Triangle | Terence Fisher | Barbara Payton, John Van Eyssen, Percy Marmont | United Kingdom | Romance |
| Invaders from Mars | William Cameron Menzies | Jimmy Hunt, Arthur Franz, Helena Carter | United States | Horror |
| It Came from Outer Space | Jack Arnold | Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake | United States | Horror |
| The Lost Planet | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Judd Holdren, Vivian Mason, Michael Fox | United States | Family Serial film |
| The Magnetic Monster | Curt Siodmak | Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Harry Ellerbe | United States | Horror |
| Mesa of Lost Women | Herbert Tevos, Ron Ormond | Jackie Coogan, Richard Travis, Allan Nixon, Mary Hill | United States | Horror |
| The Neanderthal Man | Ewald Andre Dupont | Robert Shayne, Doris Merrick, Richard Crane | United States | Horror |
| Phantom from Space | W. Lee Wilder | Ted Cooper, Rudolph Anders, Noreen Nash | United States | Horror |
| Port Sinister (a.k.a Beast of Paradise Isle) | Harold Daniels | James Warren, Lynne Roberts, Paul Cavanagh | United States | Adventure Crime |
| Project Moonbase | Richard Talmadge | Donna Martell, Hayden Rorke, Ross Ford | United States | |
| Robot Monster | Phil Tucker | George Nader, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle | United States | Comedy Family Horror |
| Spaceways | Terence Fisher | Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley | United Kingdom United States | Thriller |
| The Twonky | Arch Oboler | Hans Conried, Billy Lynn, Gloria Blondell, Janet Warren | United States | Comedy |
| The War of the Worlds | Byron Haskin | Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Lewis Martin | United States | Action Thriller |
| 1954 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Richard Fleischer | Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas | United States | Adventure Drama Family Fantasy |
| Creature from the Black Lagoon | Jack Arnold | Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno | United States | Horror |
| Devil Girl from Mars | David MacDonald | Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Adrienne Corri | United Kingdom | Horror |
| Godzilla (a.k.a Gojira) | Ishirō Honda | Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Takashi Shimura | Japan | Horror Kaijū |
| Gog | Ivan Tors | Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall | United States | Drama Horror Romance Thriller |
| Killers from Space | W. Lee Wilder | Peter Graves, Barbara Bestar, James Seay, Frank Gerstle | United States | Horror Mystery |
| Monster from The Ocean Floor | Wyott Ordung | Anne Kimball, Stuart Wade, Dick Pinner | United States | Horror |
| Riders to the Stars | Richard Carlson | William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall | United States | Drama |
| The Rocket Man | Oscar Rudolph | Charles Coburn, Spring Byington, Anne Francis, John Agar, George Winslow | United States | Comedy Famille |
| The Snow Creature | W. Lee Wilder | William Phipps | United States | Horror |
| Stranger From Venus | Burt Balaban | Patricia Neal, Helmut Dantine, Derek Bond | United States | |
| Target Earth | Sherman A. Rose | Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley, Virginia Grey | United States | Horror |
| Them! | Gordon Douglas | James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness | United States | Horror |
| Tobor the Great | Lee Sholem | Charles Drake, Karin Booth, Billy Chapin | United States | Adventure Family |
| 1955 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Beast with a Million Eyes | David Kramarsky | Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole, Dick Sargent | United States | Horror |
| Bride of the Monster | Edward D. Wood Jr. | Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy, Loretta King | United States | Horror |
| Creature with the Atom Brain | Edward L. Cahn | Richard Denning, Angela Greene, S. John Launer | United States | Crime Horror Thriller |
| Conquest of Space | Byron Haskin | Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Mickey Shaughnessy | United States | |
| The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues | Dan Milner | Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs, Michael Whalen | United States | Horror |
| Day the World Ended | Roger Corman | Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Paul Birch, Touch Connors | United States | Horror |
| Godzilla Raids Again (a.k.a. Gigantis, the Fire Monster) | Motoyoshi Oda | Hiroshi Koizumi, Minoru Chiaki | Japan | Horror Kaijū (released in U.S. in 1959) |
| It Came from Beneath the Sea | Robert Gordon | Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis | United States | Horror |
| Journey to the Beginning of Time | Karel Zeman | Josef Lukáš,Petr Herrmann,Zdeněk Husták,Vladimír Bejval | Czechoslovakia | Dinosaurs |
| King Dinosaur | Bert I. Gordon | Josef Lukáš,Petr Herrmann,Zdeněk Husták,Vladimír Bejval | United States | Adventure |
| Half Human | Ishirō Honda | Akira Takarada, Akemi Negishi | Japan | Horror. Japanese version. See 1958 for USA version |
| The Quatermass Xperiment | Val Guest | Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Margia Dean | United Kingdom | Horror |
| Revenge of the Creature | Jack Arnold | John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva | United States | Horror |
| Tarantula | Jack Arnold | John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva | United States | Horror |
| This Island Earth | Jack Arnold, Joseph Newman | Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason | United States | Horror Mystery |
| Timeslip (a.k.a The Atomic Man) | Ken Hughes | Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue | United Kingdom | |
| 1956 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 1984 | Michael Anderson | Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling, Michael Redgrave, Donald Pleasence | United Kingdom | Drama |
| The Beast of Hollow Mountain | Edward Nassour, Ismael Rodríguez | Guy Madison, Patricia Medina, Carlos Rivas | United States | Horror Romance Thriller Western |
| The Black Sleep | Reginald Le Borg | Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blake, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson | United States | Horror |
| The Creature Walks Among Us | John Sherwood | Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden | United States | Horror |
| Earth vs. the Flying Saucers | Fred Sears | Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum | United States | Action Horror |
| Fire Maidens from Outer Space | Cy Roth | Anthony Dexter, Susan Shaw | United Kingdom | |
| Forbidden Planet | Fred Wilcox | Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen | United States | Adventure |
| The Gamma People | John Gilling | Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok, Leslie Phillips | United Kingdom | Drama Horror Thriller |
| Godzilla, King of the Monsters! | Terrell O. Morse, Ishirō Honda | Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada, Kenji Sahara, Momoko Kochi | United States Japan | Action Horror Kaijū |
| Indestructible Man | Jack Pollexfen | Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr | United States | Crime Horror |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Don Siegel | Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan | United States | Horror |
| It Conquered the World | Roger Corman | Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Van Cleef | United States | Horror |
| The Mole People | Virgil Vogel | John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Nestor Paiva | United States | Adventure Fantasy Horror |
| Rodan (a.k.a Sora no Daikaijū Radon) | Ishirō Honda | Kenji Sahara. Yumi Shirakawa, Yoshifumi Tajima | Japan | Horror Kaijū |
| Satellite in the Sky | Paul Dickson | Kieron Moore, Lois Maxwell, Donald Wolfit, Bryan Forbes | United Kingdom | |
| Supersonic Saucer | Guy Fergusson | Marcia Manolescue,Gillian Harrison,Fella Edmonds | United Kingdom | Adventure Family |
| UFO (a.k.a Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers) | Winston Jones | Tom Towers | USA | Semi-documentary / Sci fi |
| The Werewolf | Fred F. Sears | Don Megowan, Joyce Holden, Steven Ritch, Eleanore Tanin | United States | |
| World Without End | Edward Bernds | Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Rod Taylor | United States | Adventure Romance |
| X the Unknown | Leslie Norman | Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern | United States United Kingdom | Horror |
| 1957 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 20 Million Miles to Earth | Nathan H. Juran | William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia, John Zaremba | United States | Adventure Family Fantasy Horror Thriller |
| The 27th Day | William Asher | Gene Barry, Valerie French, George Voskovec | United States | |
| The Abominable Snowman | Val Guest | Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing | United Kingdom | Adventure Fantasy Horror |
| The Astounding She-Monster | Ronnie Ashcroft | Jeanne Tatum, Ewing Brown, Robert Clarke | United States | Crime Horror |
| The Amazing Colossal Man | Bert I. Gordon | Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson | United States | |
| Attack of the Crab Monsters | Roger Corman | Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson | United States | Horror |
| Beginning of the End | Bert I. Gordon | Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum | United States | Horror |
| The Black Scorpion | Edward Ludwig | Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas | United States | Horror |
| The Brain from Planet Arous | Nathan H. Juran | John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller | United States | Action Adventure Horror Thriller |
| The Curse of Frankenstein | Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Christopher Lee | United Kingdom | Horror |
| The Cyclops | Bert I. Gordon | James Craig, Gloria Talbott, Lon Chaney Jr. | United States | Horror |
| The Deadly Mantis | Nathan H. Juran | Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton | United States | Family Horror Thriller |
| From Hell It Came | Dan Milner | Tod Andrews, Tina Carver, Linda Watkins | United States | Horror |
| The Giant Claw | Fred Sears | Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum | United States | Fantasy Horror Thriller |
| Half Human | Ishirō Honda, Kenneth G. Crane | John Carradine, Morris Ankrum | Japan United States | Horror. USA version. See 1955 for Japan version |
| The Invisible Man vs The Human Fly | Mitsuo Murayama | Yoshirô Kitahara, Ryûji Shinagawa,Junko Kanô, Ikuko Môri | Japan | Crime Mystery Horror |
| The Incredible Shrinking Man | Jack Arnold | Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent | United States | Horror |
| Invasion of the Saucer Men | Edward L. Cahn | Steve Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin, Lyn Osborne | United States | Family Horror |
| The Invisible Boy | Herman Hoffman | Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster | United States | Adventure Comedy Family |
| The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly | Mitsuo Murayama | Ryuji Shinagawa, Yoshiro Kitahara, Junko Kano | Japan | Only released in Japan |
| I Was a Teenage Frankenstein | Herbert L. Strock | Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton, Gary Conway, George Lynn | USA | Drama Fantasy Horror |
| I Was a Teenage Werewolf | Gene Fowler Jr. | Michael Landon, Whit Bissell, Yvonne Lime | USA | Horror |
| Kronos | Kurt Neumann | Jeff Morrow, Barbara Lawrence, John Emery, George O'Hanlon | United States | Action Drama Horror Romance |
| The Land Unknown | Virgil Vogel | Jock Mahoney, Shawn Smith, William Reynolds | United States | Adventure Fantasy Thriller |
| The Man Without a Body | Charles Saunders,W. Lee Wilder | Robert Hutton,George Coulouris,Julia Arnall | United Kingdom | Horror |
| The Man Who Turned to Stone | László Kardos | Victor Jory, William Hudson | United States | Horror |
| The Monolith Monsters | John Sherwood | Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne | United States | Drama Horror |
| Monster from Green Hell | Kenneth G. Crane | Jim Davis | United States | Horror |
| The Monster That Challenged the World | Arnold Laven | Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried | United States | Horror Thriller |
| The Mysterians (a.k.a Chikyû Bôeigun) | Ishirō Honda | Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kochi | Japan | Action Family Thriller Kaijū |
| The Night the World Exploded | Fred Sears | Kathryn Grant, William Leslie, Tristram Coffin | United States | |
| Not of This Earth | Roger Corman | Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones | United States | Horror |
| Quatermass 2 | Val Guest | Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James | United Kingdom | Horror |
| Road To The Stars (a.k.a Doroga K Zvezdam) | Pavel Klushantsev | Georgi Solovyov | Soviet Union | Biography |
| The Secret of Two Oceans | Konstantin Pipinashvili | Igor Vladimirov, Sergej Golovanov, Sergej Stoljarov | Soviet Union | Adventure Crime Fantasy Mystery |
| She Devil | Kurt Neumann | Albert Dekker, Jack Kelly, Mari Blanchard | United States | Crime Horror Thriller |
| The Unearthly | Brooke Peters | John Carradine, Myron Healey, Allison Hayes | United States | Horror |
| The Unknown Terror | Charles Marquis Warren | John Howard, Mala Powers, Paul E. Richards, May Wynn | United States | Horror |
| The Vampire | Paul Landres | John Beal, Colleen Gray, Kenneth Tobey | United States | Horror Thriller |
| The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy (a.k.a La momia azteca contra el robot humano) | Rafael Portillo | Ramon Gay, Rosita Arenas, Luis Aceves Castaneda | Mexico | Horror |
| 1958 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Attack of the 50 Foot Woman | Nathan H. Juran | Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers | United States | Horror |
| Attack of the Puppet People | Bert I. Gordon | John Agar, Michael Mark, Jack Kosslyn | United States | Horror |
| Ballad of the Ming Tombs Reservoir (a.k.a Shi san ling shui ku chang xiang qu) | Jin Shan | Jin Shan, Yu Daiqin, Zhang Yisheng | China | |
| The Blob | Irvin Shortess Yeaworth Jr. | Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe | United States | Horror |
| Blood of the Vampire | Henry Cass | Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, Vincent Ball, Victor Maddern | United Kingdom | |
| The Brain Eaters | Bruno Ve Sota | Ed Nelson, Alan Frost, Jack Hill | United States | Horror |
| The Colossus of New York | Eugène Lourié | Ross Martin, Mala Powers, Charles Herbert | United States | Horror |
| Curse Of The Faceless Man | Edward L. Cahn | Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards, Adele Mara, Luis van Rooten | United States | |
| The Day the Sky Exploded (a.k.a La morte viene dallo spazio) | Paolo Heusch | Paul Hubschmid, Fiorella Mari, Gérard Landry, Dario Michaelis | France Italy | |
| Earth vs. the Spider | Bert I. Gordon | Ed Kemmer, Gene Persson, Gene Roth | United States | Family Horror Thriller |
| Escapement (a.k.a The Electronic Monster) | Montgomery Tully, David Paltenghi | Rod Cameron, Mary Murphy, Meredith Edwards | United Kingdom United States | Crime Horror Mystery |
| Invention for Destruction (a.k.a Vynález zkázy) | Karel Zeman | Lubor Tokoš, Jana Zatloukalová | Czechoslovakia | Animation Adventure Fantasy |
| Fiend Without a Face | Arthur Crabtree | Kynaston Reeves, Marshall Thompson, Terry Kilburn | United Kingdom United States | Horror |
| The Flame Barrier | Paul Landres | Arthur Franz, Kathleen Crowley | United States | Horror |
| The Fly | Kurt Neumann | Vincent Price, Patricia Owens, Herbert Marshall | United States | Drama Horror |
| Frankenstein 1970 | Howard W. Koch | Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund | United States | Horror |
| Frankenstein's Daughter | Richard Cunha | Donald Murphy, John Ashley, Sandra Knight | United States | Horror Romance Thriller |
| From the Earth to the Moon | Byron Haskin | Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget | United States | Adventure Fantasy |
| Giant from the Unknown | Richard E. Cunha | Ed Kemmer, Sally Fraser, Buddy Baer | United States | Drama Horror |
| The H-Man (a.k.a Bijo to ekitai ningen) | Ishirō Honda | Yumi Shirakawa, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata | Japan | Crime Horror Thriller |
| The Hideous Sun Demon | Robert Clarke | Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson | United States | Horror |
| How to Make a Monster | Herbert L. Strock | Robert H. Harris, Gary Conway, Gary Clarke, Morris Ankrum | USA | Horror |
| I Married a Monster from Outer Space | Gene Fowler | Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Ken Lynch | United States | Horror |
| It! The Terror from Beyond Space | Edward L. Cahn | Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, Kim Spalding | United States | Horror Thriller |
| The Lost Missile | Lester William Berke | Robert Loggia, Ellen Parker, Phillip Pine | United States | |
| Missile Monsters | Fred C. Brannon | Kent Fowler, Gregory Gaye | United States | Action Adventure Crime Fantasy. Recut of Flying Disc Man from Mars serial |
| Missile to the Moon | Richard E. Cunha | K. T. Stevens, Richard Travis, Lisa Simone | United States | Drama |
| Monster on the Campus | Jack Arnold | Arthur Franz, Joanna Cook Moore | United States | Horror |
| The New Invisible Man (a.k.a El hombre que logró ser invisible) | Alfredo B. Crevenna | Arturo de Córdova, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Raúl Meraz | Mexico | Fantasy Horror |
| Night of the Blood Beast | Bernard Kowalski | Michael Emmet, Angela Greene, John Baer | United States | Horror |
| Queen of Outer Space | Edward Bernds | Zsa Zsa Gabor, Laurie Mitchell, Eric Fleming | United States | Adventure Fantasy |
| The Revenge of Frankenstein | Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn | United Kingdom | Horror |
| Rocket Attack U.S.A. (a.k.a Five Minutes to Zero) | Barry Mahon | Monica Davis, John McKay, Daniel Kern, Edward Czerniuk, Phillip St. George | United States | |
| Satan's Satellites | Fred C. Brannon | Judd Holdren, Aline Towne, Lane Bradford | United States | Recut of Zombies of the Stratosphere serial |
| She Demons | Richard E. Cunha | Irish McCalla, Tod Griffin, Victor Sen Yung | United States | Horror |
| The Space Children | Jack Arnold | Adam Williams, Michel Ray, Johnny Crawford, Sandy Descher | United States | |
| Space Master X-7 | Edward Bernds | Robert Ellis, Bill Williams, Lyn Thomas | United States | Horror Thriller |
| The Strange World of Planet X (UK) (a.k.a. Cosmic Monsters) | Gilbert Gunn | Forrest Tucker, Gaby Andre, Martin Benson | United Kingdom | Drama Horror |
| Teenage Cave Man | Roger Corman | Robert Vaughn, Leslie E. Bradley, Frank de Kova | United States | Adventure |
| Teenage Monster | Jacques R. Marquette | Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade | United States | Horror Western |
| The Trollenberg Terror | Quentin Lawrence | Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro | United Kingdom | Horror |
| Varan the Unbelievable (a.k.a Daikaijû Baran) | Ishirō Honda | Tsuruko Kobayashi, Kōzō Nomura, Ayumi Sonoda | Japan | Horror Kaijū |
| War of the Colossal Beast | Bert I. Gordon | Sally Fraser, Dean Parkin, Roger Pace | United States | Horror |
| War of the Satellites | Roger Corman | Susan Cabot, Richard Devon, Eric Sinclair | United States | Horror |
| Terror from the Year 5000 (a.k.a. Cage Of Doom) | Robert J. Gurney Jr. | Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, John Stratton, Salome Jens,Fred Herrick | United States | |
| 1959 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock | Sidney Miller | Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine, Gale Gordon | United States | Comedy |
| 4D Man | Irvin Shortess Yeaworth Jr. | Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, James Congdon | United States | Action Horror Romance Thriller |
| The Alligator People | Roy Del Ruth | Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr., George Macready | United States | Horror |
| The Angry Red Planet | Ib Melchior | Gerald Mohr, Les Tremayne, Nora Hayden | United States | Adventure Horror |
| The Atomic Submarine | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey | United States | Thriller |
| Attack of the Giant Leeches | Bernard Kowalski | Jan Shepard, Gene Roth, Yvette Vickers | United States | Horror |
| Battle Beyond the Sun | Mikhail Kozyry | Aleksandr Shvorin, Ivan Pereverzhev | Soviet Union | Adventure |
| Battle in Outer Space (a.k.a Uchû sai sensô) | Ishirō Honda | Ryō Ikebe, Koreya Senda | Japan | Action |
| Caltiki – The Immortal Monster (a.k.a Caltiki, il mostro immortale) | Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava | John Merivale,Didi Perego,Gérard Herter,Giacomo Rossi-Stuart | Italy | Horror |
| The Cosmic Man | Herbert Greene | Bruce Bennett, John Carradine, Angela Greene | United States | Adventure Thriller |
| The Final War (aka Dai-sanji sekai taisen: Yonjû-ichi jikan no kyôfu) | Shigeaki Hidaki | Tatsuo Umemiya, Yoshiko Mita | Japan | Action Adventure War |
| First Man into Space | Robert Day | Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards | United Kingdom | Drama Horror |
| The Giant Gila Monster | Ray Kellogg | Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Fred Graham | United States | Horror Thriller |
| Have Rocket, Will Travel | David Lowell Rich | Jerome Cowan, Anna-Lisa, Curly Joe DeRita | United States | Comedy Family |
| The Head (a.k.a Die Nackte und der Satan) | Victor Trivas | Michel Simon, Horst Frank, Christiane Maybach | West Germany | Horror |
| The Incredible Petrified World | Jerry Warren | John Carradine, Phyllis Coates, Robert Clarke | United States | Action Adventure Thriller |
| Invasion of the Animal People (a.k.a Terror in the Midnight Sun) | Virgil W. Vogel | Bengt Blomgren, John Carradine | United States Sweden | Horror |
| Invisible Invaders | Edward L. Cahn | John Agar, Jean Byron, Philip Tonge, Robert Hutton, John Carradine | United States | Horror |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Henry Levin | Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker | United States | Adventure Family Fantasy Romance |
| The Killer Shrews | Ray Kellogg | James Best, Ken Curtis, Ingrid Goude | United States | Horror |
| The Manster | George Breakston, Kenneth G. Crane | Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Satoshi Nakamura, Terri Zimmern | Japan United States | Horror (released in U.S. in 1962) |
| The Man Who Could Cheat Death | Terence Fisher | Anton Diffring, Christopher Lee | United Kingdom | Drama Horror |
| The Monster of Piedras Blancas | Irvin Berwick | Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon | United States | Horror |
| Nebo Zovyot (a.k.a Battle Beyond the Sun) | Mikhail Karyukov, Aleksandr Kozyr | Ivan Pereverzev | Soviet Union | Adventure |
| On the Beach | Stanley Kramer | Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire | United States | Drama Romance |
| Plan 9 from Outer Space | Edward D. Wood Jr. | Bela Lugosi, Mona McKinnon, Gregory Walcott, Vampira | United States | Horror |
| Return of the Fly | Edward Bernds | Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton | United States | Drama Fantasy Horror |
| Teenagers from Outer Space | Tom Graeff | David Love, Dawn Anderson, Harvey B. Dunn | United States | Horror Thriller |
| The Tingler | William Castle | Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman | United States | Horror |
| The Giant Behemoth (a.k.a. Behemoth, the Sea Monster or The Behemoth) | Eugène Lourié, Douglas Hickox | Gene Evans, André Morell | United States | Horror |
| The Ugly Duckling | Lance Comfort | Bernard Bresslaw, Jon Pertwee, Reginald Beckwith | United Kingdom | Comedy |
| The Wasp Woman | Roger Corman | Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris, Michael Mark, Bruno Ve Sota | United States | Horror |
| The World, the Flesh and the Devil | Ranald MacDougall | Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer | United States | Drama Romance |
| The Ugly Duckling | Lance Comfort | Bernard Bresslaw, Reginald Beckwith, Jon Pertwee, Maudie Edwards | United Kingdom | Comedy Crime |