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Your Cheatin' Heart
The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sThe immortal Hank Williams lives again. Sings again... — The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.
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The High Bright Sun
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1950sThis story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serve both justice and his own heart.
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Two Stage Sisters
Shanghai The 1950s The 1930sIn pre-revolutionary China, two young girls, Chunhua and Yuehong Xing, rise through the ranks of Chinese opera, but with their artistic success comes a new series of personal and social challenges. After they're sold to a Shanghai opera and the revolution dawns, Yuehong radicalizes and devotes her career to politically progressive performances, while Chunhua flees to avoid turmoil. As the world changes around them, they fight to maintain their friendship.
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Iron Angel
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sA seasoned Sargent with a sorry unit, led by an angry 1st Lt., to take out an enemy hold for a convoy to proceed. After their success the Sarge and the crew meet up with another Lieutenant - Female nurse.
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Act of Reprisal
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1950sLove story set against the backdrop of Cyprus' struggle for independence from the British in the 1950s.
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Birds of Exile
🇹🇷 Turkey The 1950s The 1960sAlong with rapid industrialization and growth of capitalism in Turkey during 1950s and 1960s, another fact emerged: that was migration from small towns to big cities, particularly to Istanbul. In this story, the family is composed of six people; parents, three sons and a daughter. After arriving at Istanbul with a dream of 'conquering' the city and possibility of reaching a high standard of living, they experience a tragical collapse which end with death of the daughter.
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Red Scarf
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sSouth Korean Air Force pilots engage in perilous missions against Communist North Koreans during the Korean War.
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Bye Bye Birdie
Ohio The 1950sThe Most WONDERFUL Entertainment EVER! EVER! — A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.
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Sammy Going South
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950sIncredible Adventure in a Land That Knows a Thousand Dangers! — After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South Africa where his nearest relative, Aunt Jane, lives. On the way he meets a variety of different people who help or hinder his journey - including an ageing diamond smuggler.
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Miracle of the White Stallions
🇦🇹 Austria The 1950s The 1940sIn WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But Patton's something of a horse fancier and can help...if he sees the stallions perform.
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The Boom
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950sSweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950s rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees to sell a precious part of his body for a large sum of money. But just before the crucial operation he panics...
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The Hook
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sThis is a story of men in war not men at war. — Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.
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Lolita
New Hampshire Ohio The 1950sHow did they ever make a movie of ... — Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
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The Manchurian Candidate
New York 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sWhen you've seen it all, you'll swear there's never been anything like it! — Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
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Salvatore Giuliano
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950s The 1940sSicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local and international press descend upon the scene, hoping to crack open the true story behind the death of this young man, who, at the age of twenty-seven, had already become Italy’s most wanted criminal and celebrated hero.
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War Hunt
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sThere's A Fine Line Between Soldier ... And Killer. — Recruits head to the front lines towards the close of the Korean War. The interaction between two of the soldiers...an idealistic newcomer and a psychotic who goes on one-man patrols slitting enemy throats under cover of night...and the orphan boy who comes between them is examined. The Cease-Fire brings the three to a final resolution.
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Period of Adjustment
Tennessee The 1950sThe agonizing pause between the honeymoon and the marriage! — George Haverstick, a Korean war veteran, hastily marries Isabel, whom he met in hospital while he was recovering from a nervous condition. To Isabel's horror, they drive to Florida on their honeymoon in an old hearse. They spend much of the time quarreling, and then, on Christmas eve, they visit George's war buddy, Ralph Baltz. However Ralph's wife Dorothea has just walked out on him, taking their child. Each couple then observes the marital difficulties of the other couple
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David and Lisa
Pennsylvania The 1960s The 1950sAn unusual love story! — Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people, but David remains withdrawn from the other patients and his psychiatrist. Over time, however, David grows interested in 15-year-old Lisa, who suffers from multiple personalities – one who can only speak in rhyme, and the other, a mute.
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Private Potter
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1950sA military mission is interrupted when a soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a transcendental vision.
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War Is Hell
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sIRON-GUTS GUYS IN ACTION! — During the Korean War, a glory-hunting sergeant leads his platoon on a mission against the enemy--not telling them that a cease-fire has just been declared--so that he can win medals. Trouble arises when some members of platoon begin to suspect that something is fishy.
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The Nun and the Sergeant
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sIt pulls the pin on the screen's most explosive war drama! — A weary sergeant in Korea commands military prisoners on a dangerous mission and is joined by a nun and a group of schoolgirls in enemy territory.
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West Side Story
New York The 1950sThe screen achieves one of the great entertainments in the history of motion pictures. — In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to "own" the neighborhood streets. Tensions are high between the gangs but two kids, one from each rival gang, fall in love leading to tragedy.
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A Raisin in the Sun
Illinois The 1950sThe prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions... — Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
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The Secret Ways
🇦🇹 Austria 🇭🇺 Hungary The 1960s The 1950sOn-the-spot realism! — Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and Julia, the professor's daughter, cross the boulder posing as journalists, but they encounter a problem. The staunch freedom fighter doesn't want to go!
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Back Street
Nebraska New York The 1950s The 1940sAmbitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances intervene and he leaves town without her. Later she learns he's married. Determined to make it as a fashion designer, Rae moves to New York and becomes a great success. One day she happens to meet Paul again and again there's that spark but he's still married so, as a form of escape, Rae moves to Rome to set up shop. Once again she meets Paul and finally they begin an actual affair since Paul's shrewish, drunken wife, Liz, won't give him a divorce. Time passes, the affair continues whenever time and place permit, but then, Paul's young son finds out about Rae and Rae's back-street world begins to crumble.
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Paris Belongs to Us
🇫🇷 France The 1950sA young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.
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Creature from the Haunted Sea
The 1950sWhat was the unspeakable secret of the SEA OF LOST SHIPS? — A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.
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Cry for Happy
🇯🇵 Japan 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sYou'll cry for happy, happy, happy when four U.S. sailors take over a geisha house...geisha girls and all ! — Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
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Das Riesenrad
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I sogni muoiono all'alba
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sFive Italian journalists live the last hours of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
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Marines, Let's Go
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sFollowing combat duty in Korea, a group of United States Marines (Tom Tryon, David Hedison and Tom Reese) are given a furlough in Japan.
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Faja Lobbi
🇸🇷 Suriname The 1950sThe film shows the interior of Suriname. Central to this is the Marowijne River with its villages, and how the rich society of Creoles (Afro-Surinamese), Hindustani, Javanese, Chinese, Boeroes (descendants of Dutch farmers' immigrants), Indians and Maroons live together. Wide rivers flow through the jungles of Suriname, mostly peaceful, but sometimes furiously against the rocks. Indians hunt for fish, while Marons prove that they are masters of driving their narrow boats. The Surinamese are sensitive musicians when they play their flute, which is shaped like bamboo. The jungle is a vibrant sea of green and there are flowers of every color that you can imagine. This is the interior of Suriname. The majority of the population lives on the coast, where the capital Paramaribo is also situated, a city that is lively and contains many different population groups, with their own clothing and language.
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The Apartment
New York The 1950s The 1960sMovie-wise, there has never been anything like it - laugh-wise, love-wise, or otherwise-wise! — Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
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La Dolce Vita
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950sThe world's most talked about movie today! — Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
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Psycho
Arizona California The 1960s The 1950sA new—and altogether different—screen excitement! — When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
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The Entertainer
The 1950sAs the applause grew fainter … As the spotlight grew dimmer … His women were younger! — Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
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Circus of Horrors
England 🇫🇷 France The 1950s The 1940sSpectacular Towering Terror! One man's lust...made men into beasts, stripped women of their souls! — A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.
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Ice Palace
Alaska The 1950s The 1940sWhen a man makes love -- that's when a woman can tell. — Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy (Richard Burton) and rugged activist leader Thor Storm (Robert Ryan), two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry mirrored their powerful land's struggle for statehood.
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The Savage Eye
California The 1950sA journey through the dark side of 1950s Los Angeles. "The Savage Eye" is largely composed of documentary street footage, which, when coupled with its dramatized material, takes the form of a hybrid narrative about a divorcee who escapes to L.A. to eviscerate her past -- and all notions of love and faith -- with a boozy, cynical abandon.
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Jazz on a Summer's Day
Rhode Island The 1950s...love on a summer's night! — Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It's a concert film that suggests peace and leisure, jazz at a particular time and place.
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I Aim at the Stars
New Mexico 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940s The 1950s The 1930s The 1920sFROM THE EARTH TO THE STARS...this is the story of Wernher von Braun...the man who thrust the world into the Space Age. — The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Dr. von Braun literally pioneered man's adventure into space through his rocket experiments; his was the brain behind the V-2 rockets which blasted London in World War II; his was also the brain which led America into the development and the launching of space satellites.
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The Fair
The 1950s The 1940sAt the end of WWII a soldier who had often been ordered to execute women and children deserts and tries to find a hiding place in his native village. Almost immediately the entire village is evacuated, except the deserter and a French girl who is a compulsive worker. Believing that the Nazi regime has gone forever they tear down all Nazi placards. The girl also steals civil cloths for the soldier from her employer. But on the next day the Nazis are back and determined to find the person(s) who took away the placards. The employer dares not report the girl for fear that he would also be punished. When the deserter understands that there is no refuge and that his parents and younger sister will be murdered if the Nazis find him, he shoots himself. - 15 years later when a short-time fun-fair is built the deserter's corpse turns up. But even his parents prefer to "forget" what happened and to let the corpse remain "unidentified". Written by Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden
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All the Young Men
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sSpit out what's on your filthy little mind ... and then take your orders from me ! — During the Korean War, the lieutenant in charge of a Marine rifle platoon is killed in battle. Before he dies, he places the platoon's sergeant, who's black, in charge. The sergeant figures on having trouble with two men in his platoon: a private who has much more combat experience than he does, and a racist Southerner who doesn't like blacks in the first place and has no intention of taking orders from one. Written by frankfob2@yahoo.com
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The Subterraneans
California The 1950sLove among the new Bohemians! — A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.
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Moranbong
The 1950sAt the beginning of the Korean war, the love story, in a remote village, between a young worker and the daughter of a traditional musician.
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