Best 1952 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1952 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

#8. The Greatest Show on Earth
- Stacker score: 77.5
- IMDb user rating: 6.5 (votes: 17,000)
- Metascore: 76
- Director: Cecil B. DeMille
- Actors: James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton
- Runtime: 2 hours 32 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: $36,000,000

#7. Ivanhoe
- Stacker score: 78.0
- IMDb user rating: 6.7 (votes: 11,000)
- Metascore: 75
- Director: Richard Thorpe
- Actors: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine
- Runtime: 1 hour 46 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#6. The Quiet Man
- Stacker score: 89.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 45,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: John Ford
- Actors: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald
- Runtime: 2 hours 9 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: $10,550,000

#5. The Bad and the Beautiful
- Stacker score: 89.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 17,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon
- Runtime: 1 hour 58 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#4. Limelight
- Stacker score: 90.1
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 23,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Charles Chaplin
- Actors: Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce
- Runtime: 2 hours 17 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: N/A

#3. High Noon
- Stacker score: 92.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 115,000)
- Metascore: 89
- Director: Fred Zinnemann
- Actors: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell
- Runtime: 1 hour 25 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A

#2. Ikiru
- Stacker score: 96.2
- IMDb user rating: 8.3 (votes: 98,000)
- Metascore: 92
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Actors: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'ichi Himori
- Runtime: 2 hours 23 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $60,239

#1. Singin' in the Rain
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.3 (votes: 276,000)
- Metascore: 99
- Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
- Actors: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
- Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $1,884,537