Movies about “1950s”
23 movies tagged “1950s”.
Loving 2016
Overview: In 1958, in the state of Virginia, the idea of interracial marriage was not only considered to be immoral to many, it was also illegal. When Richard and Mildred fall in love, they …
Capsule 2016
Overview: 1959: Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britain's first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold Wa…
Indignation 2016
Overview: In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Kor…
Palm Trees in the Snow 2015
Overview: Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilia…
Straight Jacket 2004
Overview: In 1950's Hollywood, movie star Guy Stone must marry a studio secretary in order to conceal his homosexuality. Sally has no idea her marriage is a sham, though, and turns Guy's lif…
House of Voices 2004
Overview: In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with Helena while the orphans moved to new families. Anna, who is secretly pregnant…
Sylvia 2003
Overview: Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Tage des Sturms 2003
Overview: On June 17, 1953, there was an outrageous action between the Elbe and the Oder: the people in the GDR refused obedience to their political leadership. The story takes place in Bitt…
A Painted House 2003
Overview: A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams of living…
Swimming Upstream 2003
Overview: 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 demons.
The House by the Canal 2003
Overview: After her parents' death, a young woman moves in with her unsophisticated country relatives with unfortunate results.
Kitchen Stories 2003
Overview: Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits o…
The Singing Detective 2003
Overview: Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.
The Quiet American 2002
Overview: Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler…
Black and White 2002
Overview: Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With…
The Other Side of Heaven 2002
Overview: 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 …
Fidel 2002
Overview: Centered on the six years before the fall of Batista's dictatorship and the subsequent 40 years of the Cuban Revolution.
Big Beat 2001
Overview: A period musical comedy set in a quiet Prague quarter at the end of the fifties. Using the western plot device of the "man from nowhere" a generation gap story unfolds of changing …
James Dean 2001
Overview: The man behind the legend and a knowing look at 1950s Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic biopic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in…
Back to the Future 1985
Overview: Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu…
Friday the 13th 1980
Overview: Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Murmur of the Heart 1971
Overview: This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After hav…
The Congress of Mother-in-Laws 1954
Overview: The Baroness de Courtebise presides over an association of mothers-in-law with grievances against their sons-in-law. Armed with her prerogatives, she forbids the marriage of her da…
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