443 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1950s
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Legend No. 17
🇷🇺 Russia Quebec 🇪🇸 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 🇮🇪 Ireland The 2000s The 1950sThese two unlikely companions are on a journey to find her long lost son. — 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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Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States: Specials
🇮🇶 Iraq 🇺🇸 United States of America 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sOliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.
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The Master
New York Massachusetts Pennsylvania Arizona California England The 1950s The 1940sEvery man needs a guide. — 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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On the Road
Quebec The 1950s The 1940sThe best teacher is experience. — Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
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Bad Ass
California The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 2010sThey messed with the wrong senior citizen. — Decorated Vietnam hero, Frank Vega returns home only to get shunned by society leaving him without a job or his high school sweetheart. It's not until forty years later when an incident on a commuter bus makes him a local hero where he's suddenly celebrated once again. But his good fortune suddenly turns for the worse when his best friend is murdered and the police aren't doing anything about it.
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Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean
California The 1950sPart period melodrama, part film noir, part 50s road movie "JOSHUA TREE, 1951" is a portrait of screen legend and outsider icon James Dean as you have never seen him before.
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Hitchcock
California The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sGood evening. — Follow the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his most famous horror-thriller film, Psycho, and the trials and tribulations the director faced from Hollywood censors.
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Hotel Noir
California The 1950sCheck your reservations at the door. — Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occupants of the hotel and the truth of how he came to be in his present situation will be revealed.
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Populaire
New York The 1950sRose Pamphyle lives with her widowed father and is destined to marry a son of the local mechanic. When she travels out of town and applies for a secretarial job with an insurance agency run by Louis Échard, he learns that Rose can type with extraordinary speed - using only two fingers. He tells her to compete in a speed-typing competition if she wants the job.
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Easy Rider: The Ride Back
Ohio The 1950s The 1940s The 2000sHere you are again, uninvited and unannounced! — In this revisionist drama, the film delves into the family lineage of Wyatt Williams, the character made famous by Peter Fonda in the original Easy Rider Movie. Centering around the Williams family, and their internal family struggles throughout the eras of the 40's to present day, as they struggle to connect with one another through the only way they know how. Their love of motorcycles and the freedom of the ride.
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The Tree of Life
Texas The 1950sNothing stands still. — The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
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Pour l'amour de Dieu
Quebec The 1950sMontréal, 1959. In the classroom of Sister Cecilia, Leonie (aged 11) first met Father Malachy, a young Dominican father who has come to visit his school. It is love at first sight for this lonely and dreamy child who took refuge in religion to escape a mother who is emotional and too worried. But there is also love at first sight between Sister Cecilia and Father Malachy. Between human love and the love of God, which will prevail? Written by
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J. Edgar
District of Columbia The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1980sThe most powerful man in the world. — As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.
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A Morning Stroll
New York The 2000s The 2050s The 1950sIn three distinct eras, a man walking down the street has an unexpected encounter with a chicken.
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Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
Ontario The 1950sGangster. Media darling. Model citizen. — Based on a real WWII vet and family man turned bank robber. Disillusioned by his post war circumstances, Eddie Boyd is torn between the need to provide for his young family and an unfulfilled dream to head to Hollywood to become a star. He discovers a way to do both, robbing banks Hollywood style, but his dream leads him down a path of danger and tragedy.
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Shutter Island
Massachusetts The 1950sSome places never let you go. — World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
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Temple Grandin
New Hampshire Massachusetts Arizona The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1950sAutism gave her a vision. She gave it a voice. — A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling.
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The Killer Inside Me
Texas The 1950sNobody Sees It Coming — Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.
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Howl
New York California The 1950sThe Obscenity Trial That Started a Revolution. The Poem That Rocked a Generation. — It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
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Tropic of Blood
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic The 1950sDominican Republic is under the sway of dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, who has ruled the country with an iron fist since 1930. The Mirabal Sisters, Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa, involved in an underground movement against the government, dared to defy the dictator. But this act of bravery and courage leads to tragic consequences.
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The Perfect Game
Nuevo León The 1950sDream for the fences. — Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.
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Chico & Rita
🇨🇺 Cuba New York The 1950s The 1940sChico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.
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Watchmen
New York District of Columbia Mars 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇦🇶 Antarctica The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sJustice is coming to all of us. No matter what we do. — In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.
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Knowing
Massachusetts The 2000s The 1950s429733 — A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.
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