1950s Movies

Communism seen through the eyes of a young girl who watches her beloved uncle struggle with the oppressive government .

A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.

Set in 1952, this musical thriller is what happens when a traveling salesman shows up on the doorstep of a dying old man and can't contain the song...

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

A self-perceived failing mother yearns for a connection with her son, only to find it even more challenging when he forms an inseparable bond with a...

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic...

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he...

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

When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt....

A 1950s Southern teen questions her faith and sexuality on the eve of her baptism when urged to repent her feelings for her best friend.

In this, her first non acting effort, writer/director Jamie Donahue parodies the 1950's high school educational film.

In 1959 New York, a pensive Jewish fellow named Rivner befriends an oversized Italian-American tough named Boscolo from the Lower East Side. Both men...

A romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides.

Brussels, Belgium, 1959. Michel and Charly Kichka, two Jewish brothers, enjoy a happy childhood with their parents and their two sisters. Henri,...

Set high in the mountains, fall comes to an end and a family prepares for the long winter ahead.

It's Christmas, 1955 in Daytona Beach, FL, and middle child Maryellen longs to stand out amidst the hustle and bustle of her big family. When Benji,...

Pastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport,...

In 1950s New England, Billie Blake returns to her hometown after her mother inherits a dress shop. Next door is a diner run by Calvin Wilkes, her...

In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story...