1951 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner
![A Place in the Sun](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-place-in-the-sun-george-stevens-image.jpg)
A Place in the Sun
A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
![A Streetcar Named Desire](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-streetcar-named-desire-elia-kazan-image.jpg)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
![An American in Paris](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/an-american-in-paris-vincente-minnelli-image.jpg)
An American in Paris
Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
![Death of a Salesman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/death-of-a-salesman-laslo-benedek-image.jpg)
Death of a Salesman
An over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.
![Decision Before Dawn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/decision-before-dawn-image.jpg)
Decision Before Dawn
As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners to spy behind German lines.
![Detective Story](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/detective-story-william-wyler-image.jpg)
Detective Story
On one day in the 21st Precinct squad room, assorted characters form a backdrop for the troubles of hard-nosed Detective Jim McLeod.
![Fourteen Hours](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/fourteen-hours-henry-hathaway-image.jpg)
Fourteen Hours
An unhappy man threatens suicide by standing on the ledge of a high-rise building for 14 hours.
![Quo Vadis](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/quo-vadis-mervyn-leroy-anthony-mann-image.jpg)
Quo Vadis
Fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia and begins questioning the tyrannical leadership of the despot Emperor Nero.
![Strangers on a Train](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/strangers-on-a-train-image.jpg)
Strangers on a Train
A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder.
![The Red Badge of Courage](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-red-badge-of-courage-john-huston-image.jpg)
The Red Badge of Courage
Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane’s novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.