315 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1950s
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Palm Trees in the Snow
๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ฌ๐ถ Equatorial Guinea The 1960s The 1950s The 2000sBased on thousands of real stories โ Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.
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Bridge of Spies
๐ฉ๐ช Germany New York District of Columbia ๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1960s The 1950sIn the shadow of war, one man showed the world what we stood for. โ During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
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The Fencer
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1950sFleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.
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Astragal
๐ซ๐ท France The 1950sOn a night of April 1957, Albertine, a brillant and rebel 19-year-old girl, jumps from the wall of the prison where sheโs serving a sentence for a holdup. In her fall, a bone from her ankle breaks: the astragal. She is rescued by Julien, a justice fugitive, and so is born a burning passion between them. He takes her to Paris and hides her. But while he leads his gangster life here and there, the young woman struggles for her freedom and against the wounds inflicted by Julienโs absence, and writes poetry.
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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
California ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sA personal portrait of mythical and controversial actress Ingrid Bergman based on her many home movies and diaries.
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The People vs. Fritz Bauer
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1950sIt is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to bringing the Third Reich to justice. One day Bauer receives a letter from Argentina, written by a man who is certain that his daughter is dating the son of Adolph Eichmann. Excited by the promising lead, and mistrustful of a corrupt judiciary system where Nazis still lurk, Bauer journeys to Jerusalem to seek alliance with Mossad, the Israeli secret service. To do so is treason โ yet committing treason is the only way Bauer can serve his country.
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Call the Midwife: Series 4
England The 1950sSeason four finds the community preparing to enter a new decade - the 1960s. Nurse Trixie receives a proposal from handsome young curate Tom Hereward. Nurse Cynthia starts to think seriously about joining the order as a nun, something that shocks both Trixie and Patsy. And an unexpected set of events sees Chummy take on the challenge of running a mother and baby home for unmarried girls.
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The Imitation Game
England The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sThe true enigma was the man who cracked the code. โ Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
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Get on Up
Georgia New York Massachusetts ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam ๐ซ๐ท France The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sThe Funk Don't Quit โ A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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Watchers of the Sky
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐ผ Rwanda ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan ๐ธ๐พ Syria The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1990s The 1940sFive interwoven stories of remarkable courage from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Darfur to Syria, and from apathy to action.
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The Circle
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1950sA young teacher in Zurich in the 1950s falls in love with a transvestite star but is torn between his bourgeois existence and his commitment to homosexuality. He joins a gay organization that is eventually seen as the pioneer of gay emancipation in Europe.
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In the Crosswind
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940s The 1950s The 1960sJune 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband Erna and her daughter are dispatched together with other women and children to remote Siberian territories. Despite hunger, fear and brutal humiliation Erna never in next fifteen years loses her sense of freedom and hope of returning to homeland. The story is inspired by real events.
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Queen & Country
England The 1950sAn Englishman who grew up in London during World War II joins the military to fight in the Korean War.
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Labyrinth of Lies
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1960s The 1950sA young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.
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Call the Midwife: Series 3
England The 1950sThis season, Chummy, PC Noakes and baby Freddy are back in the East End and Jenny faces huge challenges both personally and professionally.
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The Look of Love
England The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950sBased on the outrageously true story of Britain's richest man. โ Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.
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Legend No. 17
๐ท๐บ Russia Quebec ๐ช๐ธ Spain Hokkaido Prefecture The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sBiopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death
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Philomena
District of Columbia England ๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 2000s The 1950sThese two unlikely companions are on a journey to find her long lost son. โ A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan ๐ฎ๐น Italy Victoria The 1960s The 1950sNow you will see his Real Story. โ The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.
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Violette
๐ซ๐ท France The 1950s The 1960s The 1940sBorn out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Prรจs. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through writing and on Simone's conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.
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Little England
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1950sOne home, one secret, one man, two sisters. โ ฮคwo sisters from the island of Andros, dubbed Little England because of its affluence, are both in love with the same man. Set in the Greek Civil War period and ending in the 1950s, the movie is based on the homonymous novel by Ioanna Karystiani.
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Castello Cavalcanti
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1950sTaking place in 1955 in Italy, โCastello Cavalcantiโ follows Jason Schwartzman as race car driver Jed Cavalcanti who suffers a mishap during the Molte Miglia rally and finds himself in a small town with a few familial surprises.
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Call the Midwife: Series 2
England The 1950sThe second season sees young nurse Jenny Lee continue her work as a midwife in the local community alongside the Nuns of the Order of St. Raymond of Nonnatus.
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The Master
New York Massachusetts Pennsylvania Arizona California England The 1950s The 1940sEvery man needs a guide. โ Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.
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The LEGOยฎ Story
๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sAs toy maker LEGO heads into its 80th year, Lego present this newly launched animated short film, which looks at the history of the iconic brand. A nicely produced look back at the brand LEGO.
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