1950s Movies

Combining modern footage with home movies and interviews, filmmaker María Casado's life is explored, focusing on themes of family, history,...

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in...

In this, her first non acting effort, writer/director Jamie Donahue parodies the 1950's high school educational film.

Archival film maestro Göran Hugo Olsson has assembled—from a vast catalogue of footage in the vaults of Sweden’s national television...

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

In 1958, as a deadly typhoon approaches, a young boy embarks on a perilous journey to a haunted mountain pool, determined to calm a sorrowful spirit...

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...

A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and at...

Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside

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...

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...

This semi-autobiographical film by Barry Levinson follows various members of the Kurtzman clan, a Jewish family living in suburban Baltimore during...

For more than 30 years, Lucille Ball was one of the most recognized and loved entertainers in the world. Known to all simply as Lucy, she portrayed a...

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....

In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince...

Consumed with the monotony of her domestic life, a lonely housewife is forced onto tranquilizers to survive her mundane routines and isolation.

In 1958, Professor Lawrence Jones, together with his young student Cybill Mercer, sets out in search of King Solomon’s table. The villainous...

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

1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr....

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