443 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1950s
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The Mystery of Natalie Wood
New York California The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sUses accounts from family, friends, and acquaintances to tell the story of Natalie Wood and how she started young, acting in the spotlight, making the transition from a childhood actress to serious actress, dating the top names in Hollywood, her life and marriage to her husband, Robert Wagner,and her biggest fear that ended up being the cause of her death
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Big Fish
Alabama 🇫🇷 France 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sAn adventure as big as life itself. — Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.
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Mona Lisa Smile
Massachusetts The 1950sIn a world that told them how to think, she showed them how to live. — The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, United States.
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The Snow Walker
Northwest Territories The 1950sA bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst finding their way back to civilization. Along the journey the man finds a new respect for the native ways as they battle to survive the elements.
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Gacy
Wisconsin Illinois The 1970s The 1950sFriend. Neighbor. Killer. — Based on a true story of serial killer a model citizen, loving father and husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his house which he shared with his family.
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The Singing Detective
California The 1950sWhen it comes to murder, seduction and betrayal he wrote the book. Now he's living it! — From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
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Northfork
Montana The 1950sWe are all angels. It is what we do with our wings that separates us. — The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the charge of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.
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Eloise at the Plaza
New York The 1950sEloise is a precocious but loveable six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza hotel. Eloise's long-suffering nanny has her hands full trying to keep her charge out of mischief, but when a young prince arrives, Eloise takes him on all kinds of adventures- and can't resist matchmaking at a debutante ball.
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Eloise at Christmastime
New York The 1950sEloise is a precocious but lovable six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza hotel. The owner of the hotel's daughter is getting married, but Eloise decides she is marrying him for the wrong reasons and tries her hand at a spot of matchmaking, but will it work?
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Dreaming of Julia
🇨🇺 Cuba The 1950sFamily. Loyalty. Innocence is a casuality of war. — The year is 1958, and in Holguín, Cuba, a boy's world is about to change forever.
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The Hours
California New York England The 2000s The 1950s The 1940s The 1920sThe time to hide is over. The time to regret is gone. The time to live is now. — "The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
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Frida
Ciudad de México The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sPrepare to be seduced. — A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
🇲🇽 Mexico New York Massachusetts Pennsylvania California 🇫🇮 Finland 🇩🇪 Germany The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sSome things are better left top secret. — Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
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Far from Heaven
Connecticut The 1950sWhat imprisons desires of the heart? — In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
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Deuces Wild
New York The 1950sSome lines should never be crossed. — 1950s New York City. A bad and bloody gang war is about to erupt on the dysfunctional streets of Brooklyn. The Deuces at war with the vicious Vipers. Scott Kalvert directs this tale of lust, drugs, mayhem and madness during one hot summer on the streets of New York.
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The Rosa Parks Story
Alabama The 1950sAmerica, 1955. Her act of courage changed the world. But how it changed her life has never been told... until now. — The story of the civil rights heroine whose refusal to obey racial bus segregation was just one of her acts in her fight for justice.
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The Junction Boys
Texas The 1950sVictory is the prize, Pain is the price. — Tom Berenger leads an outstanding cast in this bone-crunching dramatization of legendary college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's debut at Texas A&M in the summer of 1954. The often unnerving story finds Bryant ducking the school's good ol' boy network of rich, influential alumni by spiriting his new team away to a makeshift training base in a tiny town called Junction. There, Bryant runs the equivalent of a POW camp, brutalizing an oversized, underdeveloped bunch of rowdy young men and tormenting those who seek medical attention for cracked spines and deadly heat exhaustion. Berenger delivers a warts-and-all performance as the vulgar, monstrous, yet much-respected Bryant, and the direction by seasoned television vet Mike Robe is brisk and almost explosively charged. Whatever one thinks of Bryant's punishing methods, the film does not flinch from telling its powerful tale. --Tom Keogh
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A Beautiful Mind
Massachusetts New Jersey Virginia The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1990sHe saw the world in a way no one could have imagined. — John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
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Blow
New York Massachusetts California 🇨🇴 Colombia The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950sBased on a True Story. — A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.
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The Majestic
California The 1950sSometimes your life comes into focus one frame at a time. — Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
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The Other Side of Heaven
Idaho California 🇹🇴 Tonga The 1950sAn Epic Journey. — John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950's. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life, Jean. Through letters and musings across the miles, John shares his humbling and sometimes hilarious adventures with "the girl back home", and her letters buoy up his spirits in difficult times. John must struggle to overcome language barriers, physical hardship and deep-rooted suspicion to earn the trust and love of the Tongan people he has come to serve. Throughout his adventure-filled three years on the islands, he discovers friends and wisdom in the most unlikely places. John H. Groberg's Tongan odyssey will change his life forever.
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An American Rhapsody
California 🇭🇺 Hungary The 1960s The 1950sOne family struggles for survival, for justice, for freedom. — A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter then decides to travel to Budapest to discover her identity.
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Beat
🇲🇽 Mexico New York The 1950s The 1940sSex and Drugs before Rock and Roll — The story of writer William Seward Burroughs and his wife.
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Before Night Falls
🇨🇺 Cuba New York The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1950sSpanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
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Space Cowboys
Utah Texas Space - General The 1950s The 2000sSpace will never be the same. — Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
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