1950s Movies

Green Days by the River is one of the most best-loved works of Caribbean literature. Written by lauded Trinidadian author Michael Anthony in 1967,...

A domestic black comedy, MISTER E expresses some of the edgier mischief and discontent that women of mid-century America could rarely express openly....

The 1950s were a time marked by an idealistic feeling. The atomic age, with its promise to save humanity, revolutionized the world, technologically,...

The story of the unconditional, no-holds-barred tour of America by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, leader of World Communism and America's arch...

The new steward of Siltala ends up falling in love with the beautiful widow of the house. Their romance is endangered by misunderstandings and the...

Two young brothers have their first contact with death.

The Baroness de Courtebise presides over an association of mothers-in-law with grievances against their sons-in-law. Armed with her prerogatives, she...

In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.

The film describes the story that takes place among the prisoners in the camp, who are secretly praying and being bullied by the guards. At the same...

Mid-1950s Berlin, before the building of the Wall. Uschi, a salesgirl and aspiring fashion model from the East, is attracted to Hans, from the West....

Two unfortunate friends are desperately looking for a job to survive and eventually marry their loved ones.

The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of...

This documentary film from the 1950s explains how the citizens of a small midwestern town restore community spirit through a 4-H club.

Two straight actors must rehearse for an impending gay love scene. How will they make out?

The film is about suburban families, trying to be perfect housewives, and their theories in what is the right way of treating and accepting husbands...

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African...

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

Mento was the first national music of Jamaica and it begat Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae and the Dancehall music of today. No film has been made wholly...

Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being...