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September 30, 1955
Arkansas The 1950sIt was a date that would change their lives forever. — Rebel. Icon. Legend. James Dean’s untimely death on September 30, 1955, shocked the world and helped define an entire generation. This gripping drama chronicles the reactions of an Arkansas college town to the tragedy and focuses on Jimmy J., a young man who idolized the rising star. Racked with grief, Jimmy holds a vigil that quickly devolves into a drunken spectacle with its own catastrophic consequences. Dennis Quaid also stars in "September 30, 1955": a day that forever changed the lives of many.
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Ruby
The 1950s The 1930sChristened in blood. Raised in sin. She's sweet sixteen, let the party begin! — Strange killings occur at Ruby's drive-in theatre, sixteen years after the murder of her gangster boyfriend.
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
District of Columbia The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sNot all the files were destroyed — The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen. From housewives to hostesses. He had something on 58 million people. It was all in his files. Now you can see how he used it.
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Fraternity Row
The 1950sDirector Thomas J. Tobin's 1977 drama about college freshmen subjected to fraternity hazing stars Gregory Harrison, Peter Fox, Scott Newman, Nancy Morgan and Wendy Phillips.
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Tail Gunner Joe
District of Columbia The 1950sSenator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
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Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
The 1950sBased on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951.
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The Devil's Advocate
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950sWas he a saint or was he a sinner? — A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, and find out if he truly is worthy of being canonized.
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The Front
New York The 1950sAmerica's most unlikely hero. — A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
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Obsession
Louisiana 🇮🇹 Italy The 1970s The 1950sA bizarre story of love. — New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland’s life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt. Many years later whilst visiting Italy he meets and falls in in love with Sandra Portinari, who bears a striking resemblance to his wife.
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Sparkle
The 1960s The 1950sFrom downtown to uptown — The three Williams sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village
New York The 1950s1953 Was a Good Year for Leaving Home — An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
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The Devil's Playground
Victoria The 1950sA powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the names of good intentions.
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Ode to Billy Joe
Mississippi The 1950sWhat the song didn't tell you, the movie will. — Billy Joe confesses his love to the lovely Bobbi Lee only to cover his growing fear that he may, in fact, be homosexual. One night, at a barn dance, he gets a little drunk and rather than going with the hired whores, gives into his desires and sexual relations with an unnamed man. The guilt causes him to run away, hide in the woods and eventually confess everything to Bobbi Lee who doesn't want to believe him only because she was enjoying the forbidden nature of their love. In the end, he cannot accept his sexuality nor can he hide behind Bobbi Lee and that's why he throws himself off the Tallahachee bridge.
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Let's Get Those English Girls
England The 1950sWhen their little cheat fails, Alain and Jean Pierre fail their final high-school exams in English. Their parents deny them the planned vacation to the Cote D'azur and send them instead to Ramscale in England, to improve their English. However many other parents had the same idea, so they meet more of their own than English folks and end up more at beach parties than in class. Only with the girls they seem to have no luck, although they desperately try...
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A Matter of Time
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950s The 1940sThe adventure of discovering the joy of being a woman. — During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani. Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life.
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Sven Klang's Combo
The 1950sSweden 1958. In a small provincial town there is a band who plays dance music twice every week. All decisions are made by Sven Klang, the undisputed leader of the band. A new member joins them, saxophone player Lasse. He starts to criticize Sven's decisions, questions the way they divide the money and he also wants them to be more of a jazz band.
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The Clown
The 1960s The 1950sBased on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.
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Breaking with Old Ideas
The 1960s The 1950sThe film tells the story of the Communist Labour College that opened in the 1960s. Long Guozheng, an emissary from the Communist government and Li Jinfeng, a female peasant student, must fight against the school's more conservative elements. In the film's climax, Li is put on trial and is about to be expelled from the school when she is saved by a pronouncement from Chairman Mao himself.
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Brinks: The Great Robbery
The 1950sIn this telling of the infamous 1950 robbery, James McNally is portrayed as the one gang member who maintains his silence in the face of extreme police pressure. When he is sent up to prison and sees the other gang members letting him take all the heat, he still doesn't come clean to the cops. He feels a loyalty to his best friend, who was also in on the crime. But what will his best friend choose to do?
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The Travelling Players
🇬🇷 Greece The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sThis expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek tales in their own lives, as Elektra (Eva Kotamanidou) plots revenge on her mother (Aliki Georgouli) for the death of her father, and seeks help from her brother, Orestes (Petros Zarkadis), a young anti-fascist rebel.
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Tommy
England The 1950s The 1940sYour senses will never be the same. — A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
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Flic Story
🇫🇷 France The 1950s The 1940sThe film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.
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W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
Tennessee Kentucky The 1950sBack in 1957, sweet-talking W.W. lived in a '55 Olds, loved bubble gum, Errol Flynn, country music, fried chicken, robbing filling stations, and a girl named Dixie. Not necessarily in that order. — Story of a happy-go-lucky small time crook who runs into a country music group looking for their big break. They end up helping each other out in unexpected ways.
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Return to Macon County
Georgia The 1950sTwo guys, a chick and the hottest '57 Chevy on the road! — In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job and hops in their car--and turns out to be more trouble than they thought--drag-race a gang of town punks who lose to to them and then accuse them of cheating, and come up against a local cop who is obsessed with putting these two "juvenile delinquents" in jail.
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Sunday Too Far Away
The 1950sFriday night he's too tired; Saturday night too drunk; Sunday, too far away. — A hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.
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Crazy Mama
Nevada Arkansas California Florida The 1950s The 1930sIn 1957 Cheryl Drove Her Mom's Chevy on a Heavy Date: Got Knocked Up, Knocked Over a Bank, Smashed Four Police Cars, and Kidnapped Her Stepfather. It Was a Crazy Year! — Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl embark on a crime spree after their California beauty parlor is repossessed. Their destination is Arkansas, where the three generations of women want to reclaim the family farm.
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Eiszeit
🇳🇴 Norway The 1950sBased on a very successful play of the same name by Tankred Dorst, this film tells a story about Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (here played by O.E. Hasse), a Nobel prizewinner for literature who was notorious for having collaborated with the Nazi regime. After the war, rather than hand him over for prosecution, he was sent to a retirement home. A young man, bitter about the war, tracks him down and begins to harass him in various ways. The author handles everything that comes to him with remarkable dignity, which eventually removes some of the taint from his actions.
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Tivoli
Ciudad de México The 1950sThe movie plot revolves around a burlesque theater called "Tivoli", located in downtown Mexico city. The Tivoli is about to be demolished by the corrupt major of Mexico city, and the artists struggle to try to save their workplace. Throughout the movie we see a strong critique towards the Mexican political system of the time, where corrupt politicians run everything like a fiefdom, and live with double standards. While they publicly criticize the Tivoli as obscene and indecent, many of them are regular customers and they even "hire" the artists to do private functions in their mansions.
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Isabelle and Lust
The 1950sIn the early 1950s, in a seaside town, Isabelle, a girl in her late teens,is about to spend an apparently eventless summer between her mother, her friends and a small job for a photographer whose business is lagging. But Isabelle is not the mentally balanced young lady she seems to be. In fact she is doubly traumatized, firstly by the rape she suffered eight years before from a Nazi officer and secondly by the suicide of her father shortly after. What she wants deep inside herself is to find a man, young or less young, who will bring her tenderness and happiness. Will Luc, a young German, or Monsieur Vaudois, her married boss, give her what she lacks ?
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The Godfather: Part II
🇨🇺 Cuba 🇮🇹 Italy Nevada New York The 1900s The 1950s The 1940s The 1920s The 1910sI don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies. — In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
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The Night Porter
🇦🇹 Austria The 1950sThe Most Controversial Picture of Our Time! — A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
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Lenny
California New York The 1960s The 1950sLenny Said It. "Hot Honey" Did It. Together They Shocked America. — The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establisment as too obscene for the public.
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The Lords of Flatbush
New York The 1950sWhen was the last time someone gave you a hickey? — Two members of a social club in 1950s Brooklyn have more interest in romance than in rumbles.
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We All Loved Each Other So Much
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sA many splendored thing. — Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
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Macon County Line
Georgia The 1950sThey're on the bad side of the wrong man. — A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and based on fact.
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The California Kid
California The 1950sIn this town a speeding ticket is a death sentence. — A sadistic small-town sheriff has a habit of deliberately forcing speeders to their deaths on the mountain roads leading into town. The brother of one of the victims rolls into town in his hot rod to investigate his brother's death.
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1950sThe sixth chapter of Jingi Naki Tatakai series With the endless power struggle. The extraordinary combination of Kinji Fukasaku and Bunta Sugawara, along with new ideas and a strong touch of realism, created the sixth movie of the series that describes 'The War of Hiroshima Gangsters' which had lasted almost 30 years after World War II. It can be called the Japanese secret post WWII history. It focuses on the ugly, violent inside struggle of the Yamamori Group of 1959 in Kure City, Hiroshima. Director Kinji Fukasaku, the master of portraying violence and humanity, said "Having making the five previous movies, I found those characters very interesting. So I took a deeper look into them this time." He made this shocking movie with high enthusiasm and revealed the core of gangster's struggle which has never been touched before.
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It's Good to Be Alive
New York The 1950sThis movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile accident in 1959. Cinematographer Ted Voigtlander was Emmy-nominated.
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Our Time
Massachusetts The 1950sDrama about students at a girls' school, their boyfriends, and an unexpected pregnancy.
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Piaf
🇫🇷 France The 1910s The 1930s The 1950s The 1940sÉdith Giovanna Gassion is born in 1915. As a young girl she sings on the streets of Paris until a nightclub owner, Louis Leplée, discovers her. When he is murdered the composer Raymond Asso takes care of her and lets her perform at the ABC theatre, which leads to her breakthrough.
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Lucifer's Women
The 1950sAn acclaimed author has developed an interest in satanism and black magic. Hoping to manipulate him to suit his own perverse desire, his publisher convinces him to perform the ultimate black rite: a human sacrifice. Selecting a beautiful burlesque dancer to be their victim, he begins having doubts about his beliefs, as his publisher becomes more and more preoccupied with the black arts, and murder.
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Badlands
Montana South Dakota The 1950sIn 1959, a lot of people were killing time. Kit and Holly were killing people. — A dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
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Papillon
🇬🇫 French Guiana 🇭🇳 Honduras The 1930s The 1940s The 1950sThe greatest adventure of escape! — A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
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The Way We Were
New York California The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sEverything seemed so important then... even love! — Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
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That'll Be The Day
The 1960s The 1950sBritain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he discovers a world of cheap sex and petty crime. But when that world comes to a shockingly brutal end, Jim returns home. As the local music scene explodes, Jim must decide between a life of adult responsibility or a new phenomenon called rock & roll.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
The 1950s The 1940sIn the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1950sRepeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
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Lucky Luciano
New York 🇮🇹 Italy The 1960s The 1950sThe real story behind Lucky Luciano, the high priest of crime — Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.
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