1950s Movies

Andy Schmidt manages to win fellow student Mary’s heart, but getting a job after college turns out much harder than expected. Desperate and...

French-American artist Niki de Saint-Phalle, from the age of 23, is a model and an aspiring actor who is married and has a two year old daughter....

Pre-WWII Czech democratic politician Milada Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Opposing...

A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.

A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the...

London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up....

Ada Harris, a London charwoman in the 1950's, sees a Dior dress and decides that she's going to own one. First, she scrimps and saves her money, but...

At 73, a former President of the French Council reflects on his political career while writing his memoirs, delving into his relationships with key...

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he...

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's...

Copenhagen, Denmark, 1951. Criminal investigator Anders Olsen follows the case of a bank robber who eyewitnesses say appears to have been acting...

Set against the systemic oppression of Chinese American communities, this elegant, spine-chilling drama follows two siblings in 1952 Utah as they...

A young man recalls his childhood growing up in a poor alley in Beijing during the 1950s and 1960s.

Rod and Cherri are the unmistakable king and queen of Echo High. When new kid Spud arrives, he makes a faux pas so bad that Rod forces him to be his...

New light is shed on the complex relationship between Romy Schneider and her mother Magda, a German film star of the 1930s admired by Hitler - who...

From the depths of space, Dracula has devised his most dastardly plan yet; turning the residents of the small town of Marlow into his personal army...

When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt....

A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident...

In 1959 Hawkins, Indiana, Henry Creel hopes for a fresh start. His romance with outsider Patty Newby brings newfound hope, until local crimes force...

In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle...