1950s Movies

The high society court case that scandalised the mores of the day, electrified the nation and changed the course of British history.

A poor man accepts the money someone offers him to marry a foreign woman so that she can stay in Greece.

Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage...

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

Through the narration of a tenant of a block of flats on 288 Stournara street, we watch the everyday stories of people living in the city, their...

Dib moves with his younger brother and their mother from his home town of Quneitra to Damascus after the death of his father. The children’s...

Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the...

Doug Jones (Hocus Pocus, Pan’s Labyrith) ushers you into a world of classic, 1950s suspense, where a forward-thinking housewife is tortured by...

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After...

Sweet Conversation, based in 1956, surrounds the journey of Millie, a formerly poor woman, who marries into a wealthy family. She finds that her...

The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is...

British cinema's original sex symbol, Diana Dors, left her £2 million fortune in various bank accounts, their details and locations revealed by...

Dr. Sadik Ahmet fights for the democratic rights of the Western Thrace Turkish minority living in Greece. After graduating from Athens University...

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

Magic and murder connect an actress, a private eye, a senator and a witch in 1950s Hollywood.

A chaotic family go on holiday to Spain and get mixed up with a gang of diamond thieves.

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

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

A Canadian college student learns about life and love during a trip to her cousin's wedding in California.