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Beauties of the Night
The 1950s The 1890s The 1800sA daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
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Crazy for Love
The 1950sA comedy about a dimwitted man who must obtain a high-school diploma before he can inherit an inn.
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Destinies of Women
🇩🇪 Germany The 1950sBerlin, seven years after WWII. Four women are looking for happiness and a good man in the divided city. Their destinies are loosely connected through one person: the West Berlin dandy and womanizer, Conny. Released at the peak of East German cultural and political dogmatism, the film was heavily critiqued, especially by female party leaders who objected that its portrayal of the four women did not represent the qualities that characterized women in the new society. Now considered as a richly contradictory work, Destinies of Women represents an encore production by the Dudow/Eisler/Brecht creative team that also made Kuhle Wampe in 1932.
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Olympia 52
🇫🇮 Finland The 1950sOlympia 52 is a 1952 French documentary film about the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. Olympia 52 was produced by Peuple et Culture, a nonprofit organization, and it was the first feature-length work directed by the French filmmaker Chris Marker, who also co-wrote the narrative and served as one of the production’s four cinematographers.
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One Minute to Zero
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sProduced at a cost of millions...to bring you A MILLION THRILLS! — An idealistic United Nations official learns the harrowing truth about war when she falls in love with an American officer charged with the evacuation of civilians. As hostilities escalate, the officer and his small detachment are left to hold the line until allied forces can be brought into action.
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Retreat, Hell!
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sA bunch of husky guys in battle-green who showed the world you can't stop a Marine. — During the Korean War, a U.S. Marine battalion must fight its way out of a frozen mountain pass despite diminishing supplies, freezing temperatures and constant attacks by overwhelming numbers of Chinese soldiers.
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Mr. Walkie Talkie
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sYOU'LL SOUND-OFF WITH LAUGHS WHEN YOU MEET... — Military comedy about two sergeant buddies constantly getting into trouble.
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Battle Zone
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sTwo Marine Corps combat photographers compete for the love of a Red Cross nurse during the Korean War. During a secret mission behind the North Korean lines their rivalry reaches a boiling point.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
District of Columbia The 1950sFrom out of space... A warning and an ultimatum — An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
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Mr. Imperium
California The 1930s The 1950sA pretty singer/dancer is becoming an actress whereas the playboy crown prince is becoming a monarch. The both will have their clandestine romance interfered with by their changing circumstances.
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The Steel Helmet
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sIt's the REAL Korean Story! — A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.
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Fixed Bayonets!
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sBayonets All-Steel…Hearts ALL-AMERICAN…Their story ALL GLORY! — The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one, Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility.
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Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
Washington The 1950sBack where the FUN began! — The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygiencially."
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Savage Triangle
The 1950sBased on the novel of the same name by writer Edouard Peisson, this Jean Delannoy film display one boy’s unconditional love for his mother, despite her tragic mistreatment of him. After being raised by a shepherd for the past 12 years, Simon (Pierre-Michel Beck) is reunited with his mother Marie (Madeleine Robinson). Marie is a prostitute in Marseilles and is now stable enough to welcome Simon back into her life. Unaware of her profession at first, Simon is happy to have his mom back, but in time he learns how she makes her living. This troubles Simon but he continues to love her, despite not loving her chosen profession. His anger toward this issue gets directed toward Marie’s louse of a boyfriend, Paul (Frank Villard), and the result is a heartfelt tale about love and family.
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The House in the Square
England The 1950s The 18th CenturyAtomic scientist Peter Standish travels back in time to 1784, an era he has read about in his forefather's diaries. He falls in love with his forefather's cousin Helen but his contemporaries of 1784 are perplexed by his strange talk and the odd knowledge he possess.
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Symphony in Slang
Illinois Texas The 1950sAt the gates of Heaven, the admitting officials have a hard time understanding a newcomer's life story with all his contemporary slang.
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Submarine Command
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sDrama War — Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
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Calling Bulldog Drummond
England The 1950sBulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
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Starlift
California 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950s18 Stars are in it... and more wonders than you can count! — To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.
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A Yank in Korea
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sHere's what happened in the front lines to the guys who made the headlines. — A tough sergeant has to teach a hotshot young soldier how to be a team player.
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I Want You
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sThe scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people. WWII veteran Martin Greer (Dana Andrews) wants to re-enlist, much to the dismay of his wife Nancy (Dorothy McGuire).
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This Is Korea!
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sJohn Ford's documentary about the early battles of the Korean War, shot in color.
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One Who Came Back
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sUS Army Corporal George Kritzman recounts the aftermath of what was his third combat wounding in the Korean War. A former LA police officer, Kritzman was under heavy sedation due to the severity of his leg injury, which was initially operated on at the 8055 MASH unit. Unaware of what would happen to him and what his long term prognosis was and would be, he, along with many of his fellow wounded, was transferred from hospital to hospital, each a little better equipped to deal with his injury. However, his ultimate goal was to make it back home to his wife and son, from who his thoughts were never far.
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Meet Me After the Show
The 1950sA Broadway star devises a scheme to win back her husband when she suspects he's being unfaithful.
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Tokyo File 212
Tokyo Prefecture Kanagawa Prefecture 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sA dangerous spy net in the powderkeg Orient! — A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturbed former kamikaze pilot. A U.S. secret agent, posing as a reporter, is dispatched to Tokyo to put a stop to these nefarious activities.
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Sunset Boulevard
California The 1950sA Hollywood Story — A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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Orpheus
🇫🇷 France The 1950sAt the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste, is killed, and a mysterious princess insists on taking Orpheus and the body away in her Rolls-Royce. Orphée soon finds himself in the underworld, where the Princess announces that she is, in fact, Death. Orpheus escapes in the car back to the land of the living, only to become obsessed with the car radio. This film is the central part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).
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Scandal
The 1950s The 1940sA celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
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711 Ocean Drive
California The 1950sExpose of the $8,000,000,000 gambling syndicate and its hoodlum empire! — The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
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Seven Days to Noon
England The 1950sA Boulting Bros. Thriller With a Difference! — An English scientist runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. In a letter sent to the British Prime Minister he threatens to blow up the center of London if the Government don't announce the end of any research in this field within a week. Special agents from Scotland Yard try to stop him, with help from the scientist's assistant future son-in-law to find and stop the mad man.
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State Secret
England The 1950sVisiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit by the secret police of Vosnia since it is vital to Vosnia that the dictator's death does not become known. Fleeing, he seeks help from an actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two are harried across the countryside.
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A Life of Her Own
New York The 1950sLana...as Lily James...a girl who knew what she wanted...and almost got it! — A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
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Hallo, Fräulein!
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My Home Village
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sThis was the first feature film to be produced after the liberation of North Korea. It gives a pictures of boundless joy and emotion of the Korean people who are now liberated from the colonial yoke of Japanese imperialism thanks to the glorious anti-Japanese struggle organized and led by the great leader Comrade Kim Il-Sung. Unable to endure the insult of the landlord, Gwan Pil gives vent to his rage. Because of this, the Japanese imperialists deprive him of his tenant land and put him in jail where he gains class consciousness under the influence of a KPA operative.
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The Last Man on Earth
The 1950sYou've Heard About the Battle of the Century -- and the Great World War -- But Wait Until You See the Battle of All Time That the Girls Put Up for THE LAST MAN ON EARTH — An epidemic has killed off all of the fertile men on earth, except for Elmer Smith, a hillbilly who lives out in a cabin in the Ozarks, when he is discovered, every woman on the planet begins fighting over him.
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Being the Ricardos
The 1950sA biopic following the lives and marriage of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
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The Brutalist
The 1940s The 1950sThe film chronicles 30 years in the life of one artist's enduring monolithic vision. The story opens in 1947, as a Hungarian-born Jewish architect emigrates to the United States. Initially forced to toil in poverty, he soon wins a contract that will change the course of his life.
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Merrily We Roll Along
California New York The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sMerrily We Roll Along follows Franklin Shepard, a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career in New York and all his friends in order to produce movies in Los Angeles. The musical begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today.
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Reagan
District of Columbia California Illinois The 1980s The 1950s The 1940sA drama based on the life of Ronald Reagan, from his childhood to his time in the oval office.
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Please Baby Please
New York The 1950sNewlyweds Suze and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that awakens a sleeping quandary about the couple’s sexual identity after witnessing a murder in the gritty streets of a surreal 1950s Manhattan.
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Blonde
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Maigret
The 1950sIn Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify him and then understand what happened to the victim.
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Living
England The 1950sAn English-language adaptation of the script of "Ikiru" (1952), set in London in the 1950s
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See How They Run
England The 1950sIn 1950s London, a desperate Hollywood film producer sets out to turn a popular West End play into a film. When members of the production are murdered, world-weary Inspector Stoppard and overzealous rookie Constable Stalker find themselves in the midst of a puzzling whodunit within London’s glamorous Theatreland and sordid underground.
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