1950S Movies

Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship.

Bill Plympton's gothic '50s high-school comedy about a love-triangle that goes terribly wrong. Two murdered teens return from the grave, then go to th...

Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occu...

The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New...

Fidel Castro rises to power in Cuba.

1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace...

A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they are under-age, their parents are against their rel...

A chaotic family go on holiday to Spain and get mixed up with a gang of diamond thieves

A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident...

A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid disci...

Aged 73, the former President of the French Council Émile Beaufort still plays a central role in the political life of the country. Writing his memoir...

Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside

The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particula...

Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with...

How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995),a pioneer in the field of propaganda and public re...

Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen a...

David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.

Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they...

Directors Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas, Ridley Scott and James Cameron discuss the science fiction movies of the 1950s that influenced them.