1950s Movies

An excited person. A promising party. The perfect match for a joyful night. What could go wrong?

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

A short about a conductor and his small-change cash.

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

Jakub and Dominika enter an abandoned prison to have sex. During a freak storm, they are moved in time for about fifty years, when the prison was...

The fifties, a Soviet space shuttle crashes in West Germany. The only passenger, a cosmonaut chimpanzee, spreads a deadly virus all over the country.

In the movies since he was an infant, Chris Olsen appeared in films by some of the best directors of the 1950's. Even though he never became a...

A family reflects on what they are grateful for, even though they cannot afford a turkey for their Thanksgiving dinner.

One day a friend will betray you, and the enemy at the crucial moment will save lives.

A promotional short for the feature film "Roach Motel". The short film "Modern Living and You!" satirizes "Red Scare" era instructional shorts, while...

James and Linda struggle to take care of her nephew, and his grandma, but when they receive more bad news, their only solution is to retreat to a...

A domestic black comedy, MISTER E expresses some of the edgier mischief and discontent that women of mid-century America could rarely express openly....

The new steward of Siltala ends up falling in love with the beautiful widow of the house. Their romance is endangered by misunderstandings and the...

Chapter 12 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico between...

Documentary about how the arrival of the railway industry impacted Puerto Rican culture economically, socially, and humanistically during the first...

Told as the memory of an aging gentleman, this is the story of Adan, a Puerto Rican boy who has one day to find a home for his pet goat, Chivo,...