1950s Movies

  • 2011
    The Hunt for Tony Blair

    The Hunt for Tony Blair

    The Hunt for Tony Blair

    7.82011HD

    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,...

    The Hunt for Tony Blair
  • 1970
    Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till

    Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till

    Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till

    01970HD

    Based on A Few Days Full of Trouble by Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr. and Christopher Benson, the feature doc will explore two parallel tracks of the...

    Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till
  • 1953
    Santa Chikita

    Santa Chikita

    Santa Chikita

    7.21953HD

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

    Santa Chikita
  • 1961
    Finlandia Survey Compilation

    Finlandia Survey Compilation

    Finlandia Survey Compilation

    01961HD

    This Finlandia Survey compilation ranges from 1949 to 1961, and in it we get to see glimpses of news from both local matches and early international...

    Finlandia Survey Compilation
  • 2020
    Darkness in Tenement 45

    Darkness in Tenement 45

    Darkness in Tenement 45

    4.52020HD

    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...

    Darkness in Tenement 45
  • 2003
    The House by the Canal

    The House by the Canal

    The House by the Canal

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    After her parents' death, a young woman moves in with her unsophisticated country relatives with unfortunate results.

    The House by the Canal
  • 2022
    Amerikatsi

    Amerikatsi

    Amerikatsi

    7.12022HD

    In 1948, decades after fleeing Armenia to the US as a child, Charlie returns in the hopes of finding a connection to his roots, but what he finds...

    Amerikatsi
  • 1997
    El crimen del cine Oriente

    El crimen del cine Oriente

    El crimen del cine Oriente

    51997HD

    Valencia, Spain, in the early 1950s. Salvador and María, two unfortunate people, meet by chance when she takes shelter from the rain at the...

    El crimen del cine Oriente
  • 1961
    Boredom at Work: Part 1 - The Empty Life

    Boredom at Work: Part 1 - The Empty Life

    Boredom at Work: Part 1 - The Empty Life

    01961HD

    Hugh has lost his "zest for living" and it seems like the women in his life are mostly to blame.

    Boredom at Work: Part 1 - The Empty Life
  • 1983
    The Country Girls

    The Country Girls

    The Country Girls

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    The lifelong friendship of two rural Irish girls is put on the test when they grow up and leave for the big city, each with different life goals in...

    The Country Girls
  • 1990
    Big House Blues

    Big House Blues

    Big House Blues

    8.41990HD

    Ren and Stimpy, on the streets starving, are captured by the dog catcher. They end up in the pound and become frightened when one of the dogs tells...

    Big House Blues
  • 1987
    Mariana Mariana

    Mariana Mariana

    Mariana Mariana

    6.81987HD

    The story runs in the 1940s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend's mother (Mariana). Carlos is impressed because this...

    Mariana Mariana
  • 2021
    Once a Year on Blackpool Sands

    Once a Year on Blackpool Sands

    Once a Year on Blackpool Sands

    6.52021HD

    A moving comedy-drama about the love, identity and courage of the LGBTQ community during the first walk towards Gay Pride in 1950s England. Based on...

    Once a Year on Blackpool Sands
  • 1959
    In Soupy Mountain

    In Soupy Mountain

    In Soupy Mountain

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    Set in the 1950s, the PLA exterminates residual bandits in the Yunwushan Mountain.

    In Soupy Mountain
  • 2007
    Consenting Adults

    Consenting Adults

    Consenting Adults

    52007HD

    Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of...

    Consenting Adults
  • 1993
    Big Beat

    Big Beat

    Big Beat

    5.81993HD

    A period musical comedy set in a quiet Prague quarter at the end of the fifties. Using the western plot device of the "man from nowhere" a generation...

    Big Beat
  • 2024
    Disfigura

    Disfigura

    Disfigura

    7.52024HD

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

    Disfigura
  • 2014
    Childhood

    Childhood

    Childhood

    7.72014HD

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

    Childhood
  • 2000
    Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy

    Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy

    Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy

    72000HD

    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...

    Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
  • 1986
    Marilyn Monroe

    Marilyn Monroe

    Marilyn Monroe

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    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...

    Marilyn Monroe