1950s Movies

Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, writer Flannery O'Connor visits her...

Han Byung-tae, who teaches at a private after-school academy in Seoul, receives word that his old teacher has passed away and sets off to the rural...

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.

In a French nightclub, choreographed song and dance routines are performed, rather than a streamlined narrative. They tell the story of Parisian...

In 1950s Germany, a farmer's children face an excruciating dilemma when the son resists expectations to take over the family farm.

Four women meet at Dar Joued on the eve of Independence. With different ages and social conditions, they are condemned to live together under the...

The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.

The extraordinary story of a a race driver coaching legend, his long lost son and the car that connects them after 60 years. A touching and...

22-year-old Miles Davis embarks on a transformative trip to Paris in 1949, where he falls into a passionate romance with Juliette Gréco, the...

The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.

French-American artist Niki de Saint-Phalle, from the age of 23, is a model and an aspiring actor who is married and has a two year old daughter....

Archival film maestro Göran Hugo Olsson has assembled—from a vast catalogue of footage in the vaults of Sweden’s national television...

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

Sandy Wilcox is a pre-teen girl in rural 1950s British Columbia whose longing to be treated as an adult is roused even further when her older...

In 1959 Hawkins, Indiana, Henry Creel hopes for a fresh start. His romance with outsider Patty Newby brings newfound hope, until local crimes force...

The fire was never threatened. It was assumed. Fed, protected, mourned in advance without ever asking what it was attached to. When the mirror...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship.

Australia, 1953. Thirteen-year-old Tom Allen attends a strict Catholic seminary for boys administered by De La Salle Brothers. The adolescent...

In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag...

Set in the Faubourg à mélasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic...