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Cada quién su vida
Ciudad de México The 1950sCada quién su vida (To Each Their Own Life) takes place on December 31st in a cabaret in Mexico City during the 1950s, a place where customers go to dance and have fun. Among them are a congressman and a professor who hope to share their experiences and problems with the women there, each of a different category, each with their own problems and heartaches, but always with a sense of humor that keeps them afloat.
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Every Minute Counts
The 1950sThe Leroy factory manager, Sorel, is a gambler with debts, playing double-game. He enjoys the advantages of his social situation and the confidence shown him by his boss, Leroy.
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Operation Petticoat
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1950s The 1940s20,000 Laughs Under The Sea! — A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
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Imitation of Life
New York The 1950s The 1940sFannie Hurst's best selling novel of today's tormented generation! — Lora Meredith, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway, has a chance encounter with Annie Johnson, a black single mother. Annie becomes the caretaker of Lora's daughter, Susie, while Lora pursues her stage career. Both women deal with the difficulties of motherhood: Lora's thirst for fame threatens her relationship with Susie, while Annie's light-skinned daughter, Sarah Jane, struggles with her African-American identity.
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Pork Chop Hill
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sBold! Blunt! Blistering! The battle picture without equal! — Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away, at nearby the village of Panmunjom, a tense cease-fire conference is celebrated.
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Dangerous Liaisons
The 1950sJuliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.
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Cuban Story
The 1950sCuban Story: The Truth about Fidel Castro Revolution is a 1959 film documentary narrated by Errol Flynn, and the last known performance work of his career.
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The Journey
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sA Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.
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Marie-Octobre
🇫🇷 France The 1940s The 1950sA group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed. He had been betrayed, his name given to the Germans. The search for the traitor puts each personality in the spotlight – and also that of the killed leader, Castille.
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Come Back, Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950sCome Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
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Araya
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1950s"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. In images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.
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Blonde in a White Car
The 1950sA new and very STARTLING approach to mystery on the screen. — Picked up by a beautiful motorist, jobless hitchhiker Pierre (Hossein) is subsequently romanced by the girl. Immediately thereafter, however, she dumps him, attempting to run him over as a final insult. Memorizing her license number, Pierre pursues the enigmatic motorist. Arriving at her home, Pierre is met by two young ladies (Marina Vlady and Odelle Versois), either one of whom might be the woman he's looking for.
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The Little Apartment
The 1950sRodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or "pisito", in Spanish dialect). Unfortunately their low salaries prevent them from acquiring one. Soon, Rodolfo's co-workers urge him to marry the old and frail Doña Martina, who is the main tenant in the apartment he boards in. According to Spanish rent-control law, he could inherit the lease from his spouse. Thus begin his misgivings and Petrita's. Written by Emilio
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Pier 5, Havana
The 1950sTRAPPED IN THE POWDER KEG OF NEWLY-FREED CUBA! (original poster)
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Cuban Rebel Girls
The 1950sFilmed During The Heaviest Fighting Of The Cuban Revolution — Errol Flynn, playing himself as a war correspondent, reports the dangerous goings-on of a band of Cuban rebels- Two of which are misguided teenage girls from America. The film was shot with Castro's cooperation while he was still fighting Batista's forces.
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A Stranger in My Arms
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sAn Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.
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Ware für Katalonien
🇩🇪 Germany The 1950sAt the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top quality and instigates interest in the West. When national demand rises strongly and at the same time the export to South America heavily decreases, the Volkspolizei - the GDR police force - starts to look into the case. Two seemingly unrelated cases are the starting point for the investigation by second lieutenant Schellenberg of the department for optics racketeering: An old woman who was arrested in the Berlin city railway for trying to smuggle a pair of binoculars to West Berlin, and a dead person in an area of allotments who was involved in obscure dealings with optical devices.
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Y'en a marre
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Operation Dames
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sNo Fury Like Four Girls Trapped Behind Enemy Lines! — During the Korean War, a troupe of traveling USO entertainers find themselves behind enemy lines with a squad of American soldiers. Together they try to find their way back to their own lines while trying to avoid capture, but the North Koreans discover their presence and set out after them.
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Bonjour Tristesse
The 1950sCecile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father, Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life.
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Rosemary
🇩🇪 Germany The 1950sWest Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortune. She uses her charms to bring members of West German industrial elite to her bed. There she finds business secrets and later sells them to French competition. However, when scandal errupts, Rosemarie would find that she can't beat the system.
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Aren't We Wonderful
🇩🇪 Germany The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sKurt Hoffmann′s satire concerning Germany′s development during the first half of the 20th century tells the story of two schoolmates - Hans and Bruno. They could not be more different. While Hans is ambitious and must always work hard for his career, it seems that the happy go lucky Bruno is carefree.
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The Blob
Pennsylvania The 1950sIt crawls. It creeps. It eats you alive! — A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
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Macabre
The 1950sAs Blood-Chilling As Being Buried Alive! — A doctor's daughter is kidnapped and buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.
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God's Little Acre
Georgia The 1950sLove! Hate! Pride! Passion! Rampant, Riotous In the Heat of a Southern Sun! — In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.
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Maigret Sets a Trap
🇫🇷 France The 1950sFour women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realize that for the elusive man that he suspects to be unmasked, he has to set him a trap.
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The Case Against Brooklyn
New York The 1950sIs this cop for sale? — A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.
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The Hunters
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sMightiest thrill-shocked adventure spectacle of the super-sonic age ! — With its electrifying flight sequences and high-powered cast, The Hunters is a mesmerizing film based on the best-selling novel by veteran fighter pilot James Salter. Set during the height of the Korean War, the story centers on Major Cleve Saville (Robert Mitchum), a master of the newly operational F-86 Sabre fighter jets. But adept as he is at flying, Saville¹s personal life takes a nosedive when he falls in love with his wingman¹s (Lee Philips) beautiful wife (May Britt). To make matters worse, Saville must cope with a loud-mouthed rookie (Robert Wagner) in a daring rescue mission that threatens all their lives in this well-crafted war drama.
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Moi, un Noir
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoire The 1950sWinner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called "shared ethnography" and "ethnofiction". The film depicts an ordinary week in the lives of men and women from Niger who have migrated to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire for work.
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The Reluctant Debutante
England The 1950sMGM presents the Comedy-Romance in luscious COLOR! — Jimmy and Sheila Broadbent, welcome to London Jimmy's 17-year-old daughter, Jane. Jane is from Jimmy's first marriage to an American and has come to visit her father and the step-mother she has never met. While visiting Sheila has the idea of making Jane a debutante, an idea Jane resists. Difficulties range from Jane's apathy to being placed on the marriage block, the determined efforts of Sheila's cousin, Mabel Claremont, to win wealthy David Fenner for her debutante daughter Clarissa, and Jane's attraction to David Parkson, an American drummer who plays in the orchestra at the coming-out balls.
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Love Is My Profession
The 1950sMarried French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.
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Curse of the Faceless Man
The 1950s The 1st CenturyEntombed for eons - turned to stone - seeking women, women, women! — A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...
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The Gun Runners
Florida 🇨🇺 Cuba The 1950sHemingway-hot adventure ! — Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.
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Conflagration
The 1950sLearning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.
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A Certain Smile
🇫🇷 France The 1950sA girl looks at a boy with a certain smile and something happens...a girl looks at a man with a certain smile and something else happens — A pretty Parisian law student falls in love with her boyfriend's uncle.
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Jet Attack
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sThe most amazing jet story to ever blast the screen! — A Soviet nurse (Audrey Totter) helps a U.S. pilot (John Agar), his buddies and a scientist escape from North Korea. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Suicide Battalion".
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Tank Battalion
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sTerrible in War. Tender in Love. Battleground Heroes Busting Thru! — Four men in their tank, during the Korean War in 1951, find themselves behind enemy lines.
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The Snowshoers
Quebec The 1950sThis short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema.
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The Doctor of Stalingrad
🇷🇺 Russia The 1950s The 1940sDr. Fritz Böhler is a prisoner of war doctor in the Soviet POW camp 5110/47 near Stalingrad. Despite the harshest conditions, he tries to help his fellow prisoners with the simplest means. But when his assistant Dr. Schultheiss falls in love with the Russian doctor Alexandra Kasalinskaja, Schultheiss not only endangers his own life - because Alexandra is the lover of First Lieutenant Markow.
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Girl and the River
The 1950sThe heroine in L'Eau Vive is the unwilling heir to a fortune. Young Hortense (Pascale Audret) has always known that her family was greedy, but until she inherits her father's hidden millions she has no idea how loathsome her relatives could be. Surrounded on all sides by grubby, outstretched hands, Hortense takes some comfort in the fact that her legacy is still missing. When the money is finally recovered, our heroine does the "right thing" with her windfall, leaving her mercenary family empty-handed. Throughout the film, Hortense's dilemma is likened to a government dam project not far from her home; as the bridge grows in size, so too does Hortense's resolve to rise above the nastiness all around her.
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The Beast of Budapest
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sThe Teenage Legions Of Bloody Glory! — Archival footage combined with new footage re-creates the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also a love story between a devout communist woman and the liberal son of a prominent professor. Because of their political differences, the two can never be together.
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Underwater Warrior
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sBased upon the life of Commander Francic D. Fane (USNR), UnderWater Warrior follows the evolution of the US Navy's Underwater Demolition Unit from its inception near the end of World War II through its acceptance and finally successful utilization in Korea. Landmark underwater camera work makes Underwater Warrior a milestone in cinematic history.
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The Black Battalion
The 1950sA fictionalized account of Czech soldiers who fought for the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam.
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The Magic of the Kite
The 1950sCome fly with Peter and Nicole and the Chinese wizard on an exciting adventure to the ends of the earth. — Come fly with Peter and Nicole and the Chinese wizard on an exciting adventure to the ends of the earth.
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12 Angry Men
New York The 1950sLife is in their hands. Death is on their minds. — The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
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Wild Strawberries
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1950s The 1890sCrotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
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20 Million Miles to Earth
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950sSpace nightmares! — When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the astronauts Colonel Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.
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Love in the Afternoon
🇫🇷 France The 1950sLove is a game any number can play... especially in the afternoon... — Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold.
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Nights of Cabiria
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950sThe story of a betrayed but unquenchable little Roman street-walker. — Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
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