1950s Movies

The sea can be many things; provider of food and work, playmate or harbinger of death. Set in the 1950s in the fishing town of Nazare, the ocean...

Chapter 12 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico between...

In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his...

Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort...

Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of...

One day a friend will betray you, and the enemy at the crucial moment will save lives.

The city of Madrid as it appears in the Spanish films of the 1950s. A small tribute to all those who filmed and portrayed Madrid despite the...

The film is about suburban families, trying to be perfect housewives, and their theories in what is the right way of treating and accepting husbands...

In 1957, world renowned wildlife artist Robert Bateman and spirited biologist Bristol Foster embarked on a global expedition in a Land Rover they...

After her parents' death, a young woman moves in with her unsophisticated country relatives with unfortunate results.

A transcendent tale of love following two seperated lovers as they navigate the difficulties of their past and the possibilities of their future. ...

Della, a neglected housewife, enters a mysterious antique shop seeking a simple gift for her husband, Jim. Encountering a cryptic shopkeeper, she...

A government agent and her rookie partner race to stop a trio of gym bro extraterrestrials from murdering humans and pilfering their creatine...

A domestic black comedy, MISTER E expresses some of the edgier mischief and discontent that women of mid-century America could rarely express openly....

An immigrant Chinese wife joins her husband in 1950s America after he graduates from the university.

Set in the Faubourg à mélasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic...

In his five-decade career, the 1950s and 1960s were Frank Sinatra's Golden Age. He was at the top of his game in music, film and television, becoming...

Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the family supposed to get by without their wages?...

The 1950s were a time marked by an idealistic feeling. The atomic age, with its promise to save humanity, revolutionized the world, technologically,...

A sociopolitical historical documentary-thriller about the international decline of communism and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.