1950s Movies

A family reflects on what they are grateful for, even though they cannot afford a turkey for their Thanksgiving dinner.

The nostalgic retrospective of the time from a very candid perspective, over five chapters.

The recounting of a deadly Canadian bank robbery in the 1950's and the resulting massive man hunt for the killer.

This documentary film from the 1950s explains how the citizens of a small midwestern town restore community spirit through a 4-H club.

The "edad de la peseta" or silly age is the term used in Cuba for the pre-adolescent period from the age of seven to the age of eleven. Set in 1958...

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

What if I told you the plot of Vertigo is true, but the story even more perversely rooted in the traumatic history of a dictatorship, in a...

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

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...

A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of...

A depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at...

When a repressed 1950s housewife is left alone by her philandering husband, she makes a horrifying discovery about the noises in the house that are...

Released in 1953.

Dr. Castellanos is saved from bankruptcy.

Two lazy friends (Mimis Fotopoulos and Ntinos Iliopoulos) find a job as ice-cream vendors to pay their back rent. When they start giving ice-cream to...

The film takes place among the prisoners in the camp, who are secretly praying and being bullied by the guards. At the same time, the screen shows...

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African...

Francisco is a young man who has to look after his nagging grandma Norma. When he is fired from his job, he has to keep up appearances in front her.

In the mysterious Siren Salon, a young woman in an abusive marriage must decide how many inches – and people – she’s willing to cut...