1950s Movies

It's 1929. Antonio immigrates from Italy to become a success as an artist in America. Mary leaves Ireland to make a better life for her child. Their...

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

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...

In his five-decade career, the 1950s and 1960s were Frank Sinatra's Golden Age. He was at the top of his game in music, film and television, becoming...

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...

One of the strangest ET encounters in history happened in WA State in 1950.... learn the story of Samuel Eaton Thompson and the strange naked beings...

Martin Scorsese is among those paying tribute to Gene Tierney, the Academy Award-nominated American actress who was a leading lady in Hollywood...

In 1954, a callous medical student takes a summer internship at a nursing home. His view on life is forever changed after unraveling the identity of...

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,...

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country ....

A sociological drama with a detective plot taking place in the period of industry and agriculture collectivization of the 1950s. Peter Lánik,...

Inspired by real events, combat surgeon Sergio Passaro is deployed to a remote UN position in North Korea in November 1950, He finds himself at the...

A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything...

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...

To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they...

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

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...

Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to...