1950s
  • Good Night, And Good Luck picture
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    Good Night, And Good Luck (2005)

    CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) criticizes Sen. Joseph McCarthy's tactics in the...

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    Cadillac Records (2008)

    In 1950s Chicago, Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody) starts his own recording company and launches the...

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    Deuces Wild (2002)

    Two brothers (Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro) and their gang battle violent rivals who threaten to...

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    Eichmann (2009)

    Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, as he is...

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    The Lost City (2006)

    Castro's Communist Revolution sweeps through Cuba, catching an apolitical Havana club owner (Andy...

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    L.A. Confidential (1997)

    Policemen (Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce) become immersed in corruption, scandal, politics...

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    Cuba (1979)

    An anti-Castro British mercenary (Sean Connery) sees his rich ex-lover (Brooke Adams) in hot 1958...

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    Absolute Beginners (1986)

    An adman (David Bowie) corrupts a photographer (Eddie O'Connell) who loves a fashion designer (Patsy...

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    Dance With a Stranger (1985)

    Nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis (Miranda Richardson) has a doomed affair with an upper-class auto racer...

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    Evening (2007)

    Drifting in and out of consciousness, a dying woman (Vanessa Redgrave) remembers her one true love,...

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    Far From Heaven (2002)

    Rumors circle around a woman (Julianne Moore) and her gardener (Dennis Haysbert) after her husband...

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    Mulholland Falls (1996)

    An ex-lover's murder creates problems for the married head (Nick Nolte) of an elite police unit in...

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    Vera Drake (2004)

    A middle-aged mother (Imelda Staunton) secretly works as an abortionist in low-rent London...

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    Pleasantville (1998)

    A shy suburban teen and his sister are transported into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV...

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    The Idolmaker (1980)

    A Bronx songwriter (Ray Sharkey) turns a saxophone player and a busboy into '50s/'60s teen idols.

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    Destination Moon (1950)

    Astronauts (John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers) land their rocket on the moon but must lessen...

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    Inventing the Abbotts (1997)

    Two brothers from the wrong side of the tracks share complicated relationships with the daughters of...

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    Great Balls of Fire (1989)

    Rock 'n' roll outlaw Jerry Lee Lewis (Dennis Quaid) causes a 1950s scandal by marrying his...

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    Honeydripper (2007)

    In an all-out effort to save his club, a man finds a drifter to play music in place of a famous...

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    Forrest Gump (1994)

    JFK, LBJ, Vietnam, Watergate and other history is seen through the eyes of an Alabama man (Tom...

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    Crazy Mama (1976)

    Cloris Leachman stars as Melba, a woman with whom violence is a way of life, in Jonathan Demme's...

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    Quiz Show (1994)

    A scandal rocks 1950s America when a former game-show champion admits he was given the answers....

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    Badlands (1973)

    A thrill-seeking teenage girl (Sissy Spacek) joins a garbageman (Martin Sheen) on a South Dakota...

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    The Bubble (2007)

    A gay Palestinian moves into a Tel Aviv apartment occupied by his Israeli lover (Ohad Knoller) and...

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    Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

    An Atlanta widow (Jessica Tandy) and her chauffeur (Morgan Freeman) reflect the changing times, from...

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    People

    Luis Mariano

    During the 1950s, tenor Luis Mariano was a matinée idol who found popularity in French and European...

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    Virginia Bell

    Virginia Bell appeared in the movie Fraulein Doktor.

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    The House on Carroll Street (1988)

    An FBI agent (Jeff Daniels) and a blacklisted writer (Kelly McGillis) catch a U.S. senator (Mandy...

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    Midnight Movie Massacre

    An alien creature preys on 1950s theater patrons watching stars (Robert Clarke, Ann Robinson) on the...

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    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1989)

    A Canadian 12-year-old (Noam Zylberman) wants to be a pianist, and his rabbi (Saul Rubinek) wants to...