1950s Movies

In the 1950s, the Ween family live and work on land that was promised to their family. The landowners, the Appletree family, use the promise of the...

The career of French comic author René Goscinny was a living blend of cultures and an expression of the great importance this artist attached...

Maculate is a film about a girl in the '50s, sent to a nunnery by her parents as a last resort for her bad behavior. After being kicked out of...

50 years after the death of General De Gaulle, this film retraces his life, from his birth in 1890 to his burial at Colombey-Les-Deux-Eglises in 1970.

Louisiana's governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg to lead the state police against corruption.

A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with...

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

In July 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja...

January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic...

Sixteen-year-old Joanna has been living with her overbearing Aunt Martha in a low-income NYC tenement building ever since a violent outburst left her...

At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back...

A small group of friends battle to survive in the middle of the forests and fjords of Norway. The story is based on Norwegian legend thought to be...

A 1956 Belgian film, Low Light and Blue Smoke, showcases the music of American blues guitarist Big Bill Broonzy, capturing his performance at the...

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

A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous...

1957, New York. A Tibetan monk rents an automatic sequence computer. His goal is to list all of the names of God. Two Western engineers are hired to...

A documentary about 1950's Reunion island.

On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a republic born in the throes of the Algerian War and one...