-
Muddy River
The 1950sTwo boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.
-
El Salvador: Another Vietnam
🇸🇻 El Salvador The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1940sThis political documentary illustrates the turbulent history of El Salvador from the 1920s-1970s, and the role of the U.S. government in that history. The most comprehensive film introduction to that country, examines the civil war there in light of the Reagan administration's decision to "draw the line" against "communist interference" in Central America. Archival material offers an overview of U.S. military and economic policy in Central America since 1948, while footage drawn from sources in the U.S., Mexico, and Europe provides extensive background to the current political and military situation.
-
Bukit Kepong
🇲🇾 Malaysia The 1950s"We the police will never surrender! We will stand here to the death! Bukit Kepong will be our graves!" — The dramatisation of a Communist Terrorist assault on a rural Federation of Malaya Police station at Bukit Kepong, Muar, Johor, of then Malaya, on February 23, 1950, during the height of the First Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960.
-
Child Bride of Short Creek
Arizona The 1950sPartially based on the true events surrounding a rural religious cult in the American Midwest, and how the members' children suffered for their parents' fanaticism.
-
Crisis at Central High
Arkansas The 1950sStory of the federally-ordered integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
-
Gate of Youth
Fukuoka Prefecture The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sThe story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of his life. Shinsuke's father a group leader at the mine, dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a friendly Harley-riding yakuza boss. This movie has it all, drama, romance, sex, yakuza and violence! It is based on a story by Hiroyuki Itsuki that was originally serialized in the magazine Shukan Gendai in 1969-70.
-
Raging Bull
Michigan New York Ohio Florida The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sThe life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
-
Friday the 13th
New Jersey The 1970s The 1950s The 1980sThey were warned...They are doomed...And on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them. — Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
-
The Mirror Crack'd
England The 1950sMirror, mirror on the wall, who is the murderer among them all? — Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
-
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
🇷🇺 Russia The 1970s The 1950sThis is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions...
-
Germany Pale Mother
🇩🇪 Germany The 1950s The 1940sGermany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.
-
1958
The 1950sWe follow the rootless Sinsen gang in good times and bad. A life that consists of rock concerts, hut trips, amusement park visits and car thefts. The year is 1958, when the Americans launched the Explorer and the Russians Sputnik III. However, these events do not interest the youthful persons in this film, the members of the "Sinsen gang". For them, it is far more important to know which rock hits are on top on Top Twenty on Radio Luxembourg, and to have seen the latest film with Elvis. The most important is to be accepted by the gang, to be loyal to your pals, and for a very few to be prepared for school
-
The Jayne Mansfield Story
The 1960s The 1950sThe gaudy rise and dizzy fall of the last great Hollywood blonde bombshell: Jayne Mansfield.
-
Union City
New Jersey The 1950sA story of murder and paranoia — A 1950s accountant (Dennis Lipscomb) with a restless wife (Deborah Harry) grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.
-
Those Lips, Those Eyes
Ohio The 1950sOn stage, Harry Crystal is sheer magic. In the wings, Artie Shoemaker is learning his tricks! — A small-town star helps a young apprentice land the girl of his dreams.
-
Heart Beat
The 1950sThey shocked us. They outraged us. They didn't do anything wrong. They just did it first. — An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and Cassady's wife, Carolyn.
-
Long Days
🇮🇶 Iraq The 1950sIn 1959, underground revolutionaries try to assassinate Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Kassem in Baghdad. News reports claim they have failed, and at first the revolutionaries lay low, but as the secret police continue to comb the neighborhoods with house-to-house searches, they flee to the countryside. Among those fleeing is Saddam Hussein, the future president of the republic.
-
The Last Witness
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sDetective Oh goes searching for the murderer of Yang, a small-time brewer bludgeoned to death by a quiet riverside with no witnesses, no apparent motive. As he wanders about the winter landscape of South Jeolla Province and Seoul, he finds himself caught in a story of treachery, rape and murder.
-
This Year's Blonde
California The 1950s The 1940sThe untold love affair that launched Marilyn Monroe's career! — First he seduced her. Then he made her a star. He was Johnny Hyde, 52-year-old agent, friend, lover. She was an unemployed starlet — destined to be America's greatest sex goddess. Theirs was a sizzling romance — torrid, touching, tragic.
-
Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave
Ohio The 1950sThis is a lonely New Year's Eve for Hank Williams as he spends it en route to a huge New Years Day concert in Ohio. Hank Williams died that night on the road. Stars Sean McCann, Dixie Seatle. (
-
The Marriage of Maria Braun
🇩🇪 Germany The 1950s The 1940sA German woman named Maria struggles to live through World War II. — Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
-
Elvis
Nevada The 1970s The 1950sThe King lives on! — This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.
-
Wanda Nevada
Arizona The 1950sA PRO & A CON. The rest is history. — In the American Southwest of the 1950s, middle-aged vagabond Beaudray Demerille survives as a cardsharp who moves from town to town. But his latest victory brings him unwanted spoils in the form of Wanda Nevada, a fiery 13-year-old. At first Beaudray does everything he can to ditch Wanda -- until the girl chances upon a treasure map. But Wanda and Beaudray aren't the only ones after the loot, and they must contend with a ruthless pair of crooks.
-
Five Evenings
🇷🇺 Russia The 1950sBased on the play of the same name by Aleksandr Volodin "Five Evenings". The end of the 1950s. Aleksandr Petrovich Ilyin travels to the city where he lived before the war. Visiting the telephone operator Zoya, he sees a familiar house through the window and decides to go there for only fifteen minutes. So Aleksandr gets into a communal apartment, where the love of his youth Tamara Vasilyevna lives. They met twenty years ago and fell in love, but the war separated them. Now Ilyin and Tamara Vasilyevna met again, and love broke out with renewed vigor...
-
Cuba
🇨🇺 Cuba The 1950sPart Heaven... Part Hell... Pure Havana. — A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
-
Siberiade
🇷🇺 Russia The 1960s The 1940s The 1930s The 1910s The 1900s The 1920s The 1950s The 1970s The 1980sThe history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. — The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil. The oil is found but the destruction of the old cemetry and everything the people of the village cared for followed to get the 'black treasure' of Siberia.
-
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
Kansas The 1950sThe emotional explosion is hers. The emotional experience is yours. — An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
-
The Bell Jar
New York The 1950sSometimes just being a woman is an act of courage... — Adaptation of the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath. Details a young woman's summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to New England, and subsequent breakdown all amidst the horrors of the fifties, from news of the Rosenbergs' execution to sleazy disc jockeys and predatory college boys.
-
Spirit of the Wind
Alaska The 1950sThe life story of George Attla, a famous Alaskan dog sled driver, from his childhood until his first major victory in 1958.
-
Dawn!
🇦🇺 Australia The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sThe movie reveals what the headlines concealed. — Dawn! is a 1979 Australian sports biopic about the three-time Olympic gold medallist swimmer Dawn Fraser.
-
Grease
California The 1950sGREASE is the word. — Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
-
Lemon Popsicle
🇮🇱 Israel The 1950sThree boys, one summer... Only one thing on her mind! — Bentzi, Momo, and Yuda'leh are three teenage boys growing up in 1950's Israel, which is not much different from 1950's America if you believe what you see in the film. Of course they are obsessed with one thing - sex. Bentzi is interested in the beautiful Nili, but she prefers his friend Momo.
-
The Buddy Holly Story
New York Texas The 1950sHis Story Will Have You Singing, Laughing, Crying, Cheering And Stomping Your Feet. — A film about the life and career of the early rock and roll star.
-
The Brink's Job
Massachusetts The 1950sThe robbery nobody thought could happen by the guys nobody thought could pull it off. — In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino (Peter Falk), a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McGinnis (Peter Boyle), who specializes in planning lucrative capers, the gang robs Brink's main office in Boston of more than $2 million. However, things begin to go awry when the FBI gets involved, the cops start cracking down on the gang and McGinnis refuses to hand over the loot...
-
F.I.S.T.
Ohio The 1950s The 1930sJohnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
-
Same Time, Next Year
California The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sThey couldn't have celebrated happier anniversaries if they were married to each other. — A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner and, although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year—in the same hotel room—and the years pass each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on.
-
American Hot Wax
New York The 1950s1959. New York City. The battleground was Rock and Roll. It was the beginning of an era. You shoulda been there. — This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock'n'roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950s. Freed was a source of great controversy: criticized by conservatives for corrupting youth with the "devil's music"; hated by racists for promoting African American music for white consumption; persecuted by law enforcement officials and finally brought down by the "payola" scandals.
-
The Adventures of Picasso
🇪🇸 Spain 🇫🇷 France The 1970s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sA thousand loving lies by Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson — Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. But one day he is discovered by a rich American millionaire and starts to earn money. But he wastes his talent by painting plates. He meets the famous people of the 1920s; Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Appolinaire, Hitler and Churchill.
-
The One and Only
New York The 1950s The 1930sShe had to marry him. She was too embarrassed to have him as a date. — 1951: Andy Schmidt is in his last year of college. Taking life easy and always a saucy joke on his lips, he manages to win fellow student Mary's heart, although she's already otherwise engaged. But getting a job after college turns out much harder than expected; most directors take offense at his free interpretation of his roles. Desperate, he tries in wrestling. To avoid getting beaten up he stages the fights - and incidentally invents show-wrestling.
-
Boarding School
🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1950sWhen the new girls arrives, the girls of St. Clare's Academy get quite an education — This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Across the lake is an exclusive boys boarding school...
-
In Praise Of Older Women
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sThe story that turned on millions of PLAYBOY Magazine readers in the October issue. — Andras Varda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.
-
Corleone
The 1950sTwo friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?
-
Deadman's Curve
California The 1950sCalifornia in the early 60s... Fast living and instant fame until the music stopped — Things were cool. Chicks were pretty. Waves were groovy. Cars had muscle. Jan and Dean rode their way to the top of the pop charts. Then, in 1966, on their way to becoming rock and roll legends, they have to cope with a devastating car crash that leaves Jan brain-damaged and their dreams shattered.
-
Little Mo
The 1950sBiography of tennis star Maureen Connolly, the first woman to win all Grand Slam titles in one year.
-
Unsung Heroes
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1950sThe film follows Yu Rim, a Korean expatriate in the United Kingdom working as a journalist, who is ordered by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea to proceed to Seoul and gather intelligence on the United States Forces Korea.
-
Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia
The 1950sWhen she bares her claws ... You'll cringe with fear! — Siberia 1953: Ilsa is now working in a Gulag prison camp. Her mission is to "retrain the minds" of those who don't agree with the communists.
-
Greased Lightning
Virginia The 1960s The 1950s The 1930sHe drove 'em wild! — This film is based on the true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing champion in America.
-
MacArthur
🇯🇵 Japan 🇵🇭 Philippines 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950s The 1940sThe film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.
-
The Amazing Howard Hughes
The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sThe Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.
- load more
← swipe for more →