1950s Movies

Communism seen through the eyes of a young girl who watches her beloved uncle struggle with the oppressive government .

Set in 1952, this musical thriller is what happens when a traveling salesman shows up on the doorstep of a dying old man and can't contain the song...

When Mia gets offered the chance of a lifetime to become the cover star of a magazine by Pierre, she thinks all of her dreams are finally coming...

After witnessing a murder in the gritty streets of 1950s Manhattan, newlyweds Suze and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that...

In a 1950s-era Missouri town the life of a couple is thrown into chaos when the husband's sister is released from the local asylum and comes to live...

In the mid-1950s, Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, young composers and romantic partners, are hired by legendary silent film star Gloria Swanson...

The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is...

An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and Cassady's wife, Carolyn.

The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.

A young man aspiring for recognition of his talents battles against his estranged father's sentiment towards him as the father deals with his own...

An essay film exploring the thirteen United States Presidents that have led the country through war and conflict from 1950 to 2025.

The extraordinary story of a a race driver coaching legend, his long lost son and the car that connects them after 60 years. A touching and...

Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room, and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.

The high society court case that scandalised the mores of the day, electrified the nation and changed the course of British history.

Stockholm 1956. The Swedish botanist, candidate and lieutenant Nils von Ekelöw, presents his research to a panel of professors.

In 1950s Georgia, a young African American tomboy named Skip seeks solace and self-discovery in a queer-friendly juke joint.

In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag...

A romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides.

Irene Wagner, the wife of the prominent German scientist Professor Albert Wagner, had been having an affair with Erich Baumann. She does not disclose...

In this, her first non acting effort, writer/director Jamie Donahue parodies the 1950's high school educational film.