1950s Movies

It's Christmas, 1955 in Daytona Beach, FL, and middle child Maryellen longs to stand out amidst the hustle and bustle of her big family. When Benji,...

Communism seen through the eyes of a young girl who watches her beloved uncle struggle with the oppressive government .

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.

Irene Wagner, the wife of the prominent German scientist Professor Albert Wagner, had been having an affair with Erich Baumann. She does not disclose...

A promising Italian cartoonist lands in Buenos Aires in 1950, with the dream of reaching the United States, to discover that, for him, America will...

Born Norma Jean Baker, actress Marilyn Monroe would become one of the most iconic and desirable women in the world. From her humble beginnings, to...

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

Tells the inspiring and humorous tale of Håkansson, who at age 65, defied race officials who barred him from competing in the inaugural...

In 1959 New York, a pensive Jewish fellow named Rivner befriends an oversized Italian-American tough named Boscolo from the Lower East Side. Both men...

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

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...

In 1947, Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball, yet by 1955, Little League in the South remained segregated. That summer, the Cannon...

London, 1953. Flat J has it's first tenants: Walter and Ruth. An untimely exit that no one can explain, a blue stain that won't come out, and eight...

The harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful film. Foley and 'Black Arthur' do battle for the...

The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens,...

“Marilyn vs. Marilyn” tells the story of a little-known period of Marilyn’s life – the years she spent in New York, trying to...

Part period melodrama, part film noir, part 50s road movie "JOSHUA TREE, 1951" is a portrait of screen legend and outsider icon James Dean as you...

Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he...

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...

Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland. The script is based on a part of Mikołaj...