1950s movies

Indexed titles: 29

Marty Supreme

2025

Rating: 7.7

Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness....

Shutter Island

2010

Rating: 8.2

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane...

River Returns

2025

Rating: 8.3

In 1958, as a deadly typhoon approaches, a young boy embarks on a perilous journey to a haunted mountain pool, determined to calm a sorrowfu...

Luca

2021

Rating: 7.8

Luca and his best friend Alberto experience an unforgettable summer on the Italian Riviera. But all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held s...

Reagan

2024

Rating: 6.3

Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked with Ronald Reagan's when Reagan first c...

Dead Poets Society

1989

Rating: 8.3

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention an...

The Incredibles

2004

Rating: 7.7

Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife ...

Asteroid City

2023

Rating: 6.5

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changi...

Stand by Me

1986

Rating: 7.8

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go see the body. Gordie, Vern, ...

Elvis

2022

Rating: 7.5

The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker....

Child 44

2015

Rating: 6.3

Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connec...

The Nun II

2023

Rating: 6.7

In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered, and Sister Irene begins to investigate. She once again comes face-to-face with a powerful ev...

House of Voices

2004

Rating: 5.7

In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with Helena while the orphans moved to new ...

The Iron Giant

1999

Rating: 7.9

In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity ...

L.A. Confidential

1997

Rating: 7.8

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun s...

A Pale View of Hills

2025

Rating: 7.8

Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow's memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in 1950s and England during 1980s Cold War era, unraveling sec...

Friday the 13th

1980

Rating: 6.4

Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drownin...

The Girl Next Door

2007

Rating: 6.6

In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. B...

The Reader

2008

Rating: 7.5

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappea...

Dawn

2015

Rating: 7.2

Dawn is a quiet young teenager who longs for something or someone to free her from her sheltered life....

Populaire

2012

Rating: 6.6

An insurance agent and his new secretary become locked in the grip of romance and competition as they train together for a speed-typing cont...

M*A*S*H

1970

Rating: 7.0

One of the world's most acclaimed comedies, M*A*S*H focuses on three Korean War Army surgeons brilliantly brought to life by Donald Sutherla...

Bride Flight

2008

Rating: 6.7

A romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war b...

Chocolat

2000

Rating: 7.0

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that ...

Indochine

1992

Rating: 7.0

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Devries, and her adopted Vietnamese daughte...