443 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1950s
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Don't Worry, Darling
California The 1950sA housewife living in a utopian community in the California desert uncovers a disturbing truth about her seemingly perfect life.
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West Side Story
New York The 1950sTwo youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
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The United States vs. Billie Holiday
New York The 1950s The 1940sHer voice would not be silenced. — Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940's, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
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Respect
Michigan New York California Alabama The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sThe queen arrives. — The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
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No Sudden Move
Michigan The 1950sTrust is a setup. — A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.
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WandaVision: Season 1
New Jersey The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1990s The 2010s The 2000sExperience a new vision of reality. — Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
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Radioactive
Ohio Nevada 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇫🇷 France 🇵🇱 Poland 🇺🇦 Ukraine Hiroshima Prefecture The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1870sPioneer. Genius. Rebel. — The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
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The Devil All the Time
Ohio West Virginia The 1960s The 1940s The 1950sEveryone ends up in the same damned place. — In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
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Shirley
Vermont The 1950sA famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
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The Banker
District of Columbia California Texas The 1960s The 1950s The 1930sDon’t pay the man. Be the man. — In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.
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The Queen's Gambit: Limited Series
Kentucky Nevada New York Ohio 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇷🇺 Russia The 1950s The 1960sIn a Kentucky orphanage in the 1950s, a young girl discovers an astonishing talent for chess while struggling with addiction.
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Lovecraft Country: Season 1
Illinois The 1950sThe anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.
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Ford v Ferrari
Michigan California Florida 🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy The 1960s The 1950sThey took the American dream for a ride — American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.
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The Irishman
Michigan New York Pennsylvania The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 2000sHis story changed history — Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Vermont The 1950sIn Shirleyville, Vermont, during the sixties, sisters Merricat and Constance, along with their ailing uncle Julian, confined to a wheelchair, live isolated in a big mansion located on the hill overlooking the town, tormented by the memories of a family tragedy occurred six years ago. The arrival of cousin Charles will threaten the fragile equilibrium of their minds, haunted by madness, fear and superstition.
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Motherless Brooklyn
New York The 1950sNew York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.
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Rocketman
New York California England 🇫🇷 France The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950sBased on a True Fantasy — The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
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The Vast of Night
New Mexico The 1950sAt the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.
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The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1930s The 1950s The 1960s The 1940sThe essential travel guide for a segregated America — In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help African-Americans navigate safe those regions of the United States where segregation and Jim Crow laws were disgracefully applied.
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Sunrise In Heaven
California The 1950sA true love story that spans a lifetime but eventually results in a painful loss of love. Jan is the daughter of an overly protective militant father, but that doesn't stop her from falling love with Steve, a young GI in the Air Force.
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Ella Fitzgerald - Just One of Those Things
New York The 1930s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1940sElla Fitzgerald was a 15-year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Within months she was a star. Over the next six decades, her sublime voice would transform the tragedies of her own life and the troubles of her times into joy. JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS retraces this extraordinary journey.
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On the Basis of Sex
Colorado Massachusetts New York The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sHer story made history — Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
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The Wife
Massachusetts Connecticut 🇸🇪 Sweden The 1990s The 1960s The 1950sSecrets lie between the lines. — A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Insidious: The Last Key
New Mexico The 1950s The 2010sFear comes home. — Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.
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Bad Times at the El Royale
Nevada California The 1960s The 1950sAll roads lead here — Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.
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