1950s

Far from Heaven | France| United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.3 (42615 votes)
Budget
13,500,000.00$
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.

The Bookshop | Spain| Germany| United Kingdom
Genre
IMDB
6.5 (10580 votes)
Budget
3,582,070.00$
Set in an small English town in 1959, the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

Genre
IMDB
7.3 (4937 votes)
The man behind the legend and a knowing look at the 1950's Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic bioepic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant.

The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.9 (455 votes)
Interrupted at dinner by a street kid with a strange story, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin find themselves drawn into a strange case when their young informant is found murdered. The victim's mother soon appears with his life savings totally $4.30, Wolfe's fee for taking the case! Archie's fancy legwork brings Wolfe to a mysterious woman with golden spider earrings. And when everyone else investigating the matter hits a dead end, only the inimitable Wolfe can get to the bottom of the crime.

Genre
IMDB
6.6 (1397 votes)
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.

Genre
IMDB
6.7 (12334 votes)
Budget
5,000,000.00$
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.

Il signor Diavolo | Italy
Genre
IMDB
5.9 (1398 votes)
Italy, 1952. The young official Furio Momenté is sent to Veneto region, near Polesine, to investigate a shocking and mysterious case: a minor has in fact killed one of his peers claiming to have killed the devil himself.

Genre
IMDB
6.9 (19726 votes)
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

Mulholland Falls | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.3 (15230 votes)
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

The Big Town | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
5.9 (2347 votes)
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.

Genre
IMDB
7.4 (167400 votes)
Budget
85,000,000.00$
A biopic about Elvis Presley, with focus on his early years.

Genre
IMDB
7.5 (62415 votes)
Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s.

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