1950s Movies

Through the narration of a tenant of a block of flats on 288 Stournara street, we watch the everyday stories of people living in the city, their...

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...

This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears...

In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his...

The film takes place among the prisoners in the camp, who are secretly praying and being bullied by the guards. At the same time, the screen shows...

On a Saturday night, in a small 1950s Californian town, a young man, whose parents are an inch from a divorce, takes his brand new pink Cadillac for...

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it...

Louisiana's governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg to lead the state police against corruption.

Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort...

Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the family supposed to get by without their wages?...

This documentary film from the 1950s explains how the citizens of a small midwestern town restore community spirit through a 4-H club.

Set in the 1950s, the PLA exterminates residual bandits in the Yunwushan Mountain.

Two sisters worlds apart face a decision that will set them both free.

The Baroness de Courtebise presides over an association of mothers-in-law with grievances against their sons-in-law. Armed with her prerogatives, she...

Consumed with the monotony of her domestic life, a lonely housewife is forced onto tranquilizers to survive her mundane routines and isolation.

Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of...

Two strangers in the night meet at a diner, but there seems to be a mysterious secret standing in the way of their romance.

A modest film of three independent parts showing sad couple stories.

Refusing to realise that she has become a lovely sixteen-year-old woman, a gawky tomboy taunts her bookish neighbour. But, the effervescent feelings...