1950s Movies

David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...

When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love...

When a disenfranchised, world-famous photographer is interviewed by university students and presented with a portfolio of his life's work he is...

During the summer of 1955, seventeen-year-old Eric Hansen embarks on a journey in his new town, a journey which will change his life forever.

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

In 1953 Brooklyn, charismatic hood and The Stompers leader Vinnie Genzianna, his friend and second-in-command Crazy Shapiro, and their respective...

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

Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery...

South Korean Air Force pilots engage in perilous missions against Communist North Koreans during the Korean War.

Directors Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas, Ridley Scott and James Cameron discuss the science fiction movies of the 1950s that influenced them.

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

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 aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.

A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers.

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

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.

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