50s movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant 50s movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, period piece, touching, crying and captivating films and TV shows about / with friendship, family relations, cigarette smoking, love, friend, kiss, post war, husband wife relationship, women and marriage plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Biography genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
50s
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50s movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as 50s: Stand by Me (1986), Pleasantville (1998), My One and Only (2009), Populaire (2012), A Place to Call Home (2013), Brooklyn (2015), Cry-Baby (1990), L.A. Confidential (1997), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), Project Blue Book (2019).

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 8.1
 438K
Stand by Me (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.
Style: sentimental, sad, emotional, feel good, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot: childhood, friendship, coming of age, stephen king, boy, children, youth, teenager, camping, on the road, summer, friends ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1986, year 1959, 20th century
Place: oregon, usa
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 7.5
 136K
Pleasantville (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's ...
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, visual, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, time travel, alternate reality, adolescence, parallel world, utopia, siblings relations, american dream, fantasy world, small town life, parallel universe ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 90s, future, year 1998 ...
Place: america, france, paris france
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My One and Only (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A mother takes her two sons on an unusual road trip from New York. Pittsburgh, St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: road trip, coming of age, parents and children, obsessive quest, siblings relations, teenage life, starting over, father son relationship, teenager, writers, mother, lgbt ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1953
Place: usa, kansas city, philadelphia, pittsburgh, los angeles ...
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 6.8
 13K
Populaire (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Set in 1958, Populaire focuses on Rose Pamphyle, who lives with her widowed father and is destined to marry a son of the local mechanic. Rose travels out of town and applies for a secretarial job with an insurance agency run by Louis Échard. Louis ...
Style: romantic, sweet, sentimental, sexy, light ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: secretary, boss and employee, fall in love, receptionist, employer employee relationship, workplace, love and romance, competition, ambition, love story, contests and competitions, happy ending ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1959 ...
Place: france, paris france, new york, normandy
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A Place to Call Home (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia. A sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia following the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated pastoralist family, ...
Style: emotional, captivating, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Plot: love affair, society, love and romance, family life, starting over, social differences, forbidden love, family secret, country estate, family relations, nurse, male female relationship ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 2010s, 20th century
Place: australia
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 7.5
 150K
Brooklyn (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style: sentimental, touching, romantic, sweet, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: starting over, love and romance, immigrant, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, female protagonist, immigration, true love, working class, homesickness, coming of age, hopes ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 2010s, year 2015, 1900s ...
Place: ireland, brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, america ...
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 6.5
 64K
Cry-Baby (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Style: humorous, sentimental, light, parody, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: rock and roll, forbidden love, youth, music, gang, teenage love, juvenile delinquent, couples, juvenile delinquency, biker, teenager, teenage life ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 90s, 20th century, year 1954
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Style: neo noir, tense, noir, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: corruption, police corruption, murder, murder mystery, police, police detective, organized crime, fighting the system, call girl, dangerous attraction, police brutality, twists and turns ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, persia, arizona
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 2408 min.
TV show
Story: It’s 1958 Manhattan and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she’s ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn and Midge must start over, she discovers a previously unknown ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, kids
Plot: female protagonist, jewish family, comedian, stand up comedian, female comedian, career, divorce, husband wife relationship, judaism, strong female lead, lifestyle change, changing lives ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, future, 2010s, 60s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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Project Blue Book (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book.”
Style: enigmatic, captivating, exciting, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: ufo, alien, physicist, political conspiracy, alien abduction, investigation, state affairs, space and aliens, paranormal activity, alien technology, alien contact, scientific research ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century, 60s
Place: usa
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan, a midwestern housewife who managed to rescue her family from debt by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies.
Style: inspirational, sentimental, touching, semi serious, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: advertising, optimism, underdog, prize, creativity, courage, eviction, small town, contests and competitions, ambition, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 60s, year 2005
Place: ohio, usa
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 7.0
 7K
Evelyn (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Ireland, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that ...
Style: sentimental, touching, sincere, feel good, intense ...
Plot: children, court, lawyer, mercy, family problems, unemployment, against the odds, parents and children, fighting the system, courtroom drama, 007, single father ...
Time: 50s, year 2002, 1950s, 20th century, year 1953
Place: ireland, sydney australia, scotland, europe, dublin ireland
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Revolutionary Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style: bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, crying, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: adultery, marriage, abortion, mental illness, infidelity, dysfunctional family, depression, death of wife, under the surface, family problems, cheating wife, midlife crisis ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1955, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place: usa, new york, paris france, connecticut
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Dead Poets Society (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Style: philosophical, inspirational, sentimental, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, kids, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: teacher, suicide, coming of age, friendship, poetry, poet, mentor, philosophy, teachers and students, literature, youth, teenager ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1989, year 1959
Place: vermont, new england, usa, harvard university
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 7.3
 70K
Ratched (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An origins story, beginning in 1947, which follows Ratched's journey and evolution from nurse to full-fledged monster tracking her murderous progression through the mental health care system.
Style: sexy, suspense, disturbing, tense, brutal ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, mental institution, lesbian relationship, strong sexual content, manipulative woman, lesbian romance, lobotomy, psychiatric nurse, nurse, mutilation, nymphomaniac, psycho killer ...
Time: 50s, 1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: northern california
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This Boy's Life (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries ...
Style: depressing, realistic, emotional, touching, epic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, child abuse, small town, single parent, domestic violence, dysfunctional family, biopic, childhood, husband wife relationship, teenager, abusive stepfather, friendship ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1993, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: seattle, washington state, salt lake city utah, washington d.c., usa
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The Restaurant (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Monday May 7, 1945 – the Second World War finally comes to an end and a new, brighter future beckons. In the midst of central Stockholm celebrations, two strangers come together with a quick kiss, parting company immediately after. Upper-class ...
Style: family saga, captivating, stylized, light, contemplative ...
Plot: family business, restaurant, male female relationship, brother brother relationship, mother son relationship, family relations, sexism, anti semitism, mother daughter relationship, emigrant, world war two, love ...
Time: 50s, post world war two, 60s, 70s, 1940s ...
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Call the Midwife (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Style: sincere, touching, realistic, stylized, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midwife, childbirth, pregnancy, convent, nurse, doctor, nursing, friends, medical, family life, hospital, friendship ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 1950s, year 1961, 2020s ...
Place: england, london, europe, britain
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Far from Heaven (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
Style: sincere, emotional, stylized, visual, depressing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: racism, gay husband, gay, homosexuality, housewife, infidelity, crumbling marriage, friendship, couples, forbidden love, african american, prejudice ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 2000s, year 2002, year 1957 ...
Place: connecticut, usa, miami, new england, baltimore
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 7.6
 27K
Vera Drake (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Style: sincere, depressing, bleak, compassionate, contemplative ...
Plot: abortion, working class, unwanted pregnancy, pregnancy, neighbor, injustice, miscarriage, life is a bitch, double life, character study, abortionist, family life ...
Time: 50s, year 2004, 90s, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, europe, dunkirk, burma ...
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 6.7
 13K
Indignation (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China, Brazil, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.
Style: intellectual, melancholic, stylized, exciting, historical drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, existentialism, adolescence, war, atheist, adaptation, coming of age, sexual repression, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, love ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 2016, year 1955, year 1951 ...
Place: ohio
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The Night Porter (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic ...
Style: psychological, serious, controversial, disturbing, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, hotel, sadomasochism, nazi, eroticism, guilt, dangerous attraction, bdsm, haunted by the past, sexual perversion, holocaust, sexual abuse ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1940s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: hungary, germany, vienna, italy, frankfurt germany ...
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My Brilliant Friend (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.
Style: touching, sincere, suspense, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: life is a bitch, friendship, children, hopes, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, brutality, parents and children, feminist, friends, girlfriend, relationship problems, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 60s
Place: syria, usa, italy, naples italy
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My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the set. When film star Marilyn Monroe arrives for the start of shooting, all of London is excited to ...
Style: sentimental, period piece, romantic, factual, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: movie star, historical figure, biopic, fame, hollywood, actress, actor's life, ambition, cultural icon, women, depression, celebrity ...
Time: 50s, 2010s, year 2011, 1900s, 1950s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into ...
Style: erotic, melancholic, black and white, factual, bleak ...
Plot: rape, sexual abuse, photographer, photography, female nudity, bdsm, fetishism, photograph, female protagonist, investigation, model, sexuality ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 2005 ...
Place: usa, tennessee, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 397 min.
TV show
Story: In a Kentucky orphanage in the 1950s, a young girl discovers an astonishing talent for chess while struggling with addiction.
Style: captivating, psychological, period piece, historical drama, suspense ...
Plot: chess, addiction, genius, female protagonist, competition, child prodigy, prodigy, champion, coming of age, girl, girl power, adoptive mother ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 1950s, 2020s, 20th century
Place: europe, usa, kentucky, las vegas, mexico city ...
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Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend — a mystery that carries him from the gin-soaked jazz clubs of Harlem to the slums of Brooklyn to the gilded halls of New ...
Style: neo noir, enigmatic, period piece, cult classic, crime drama ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: private detective, interracial romance, murder investigation, investigation, murder, social injustice, politics, crime investigation, organized crime, murder mystery, racial segregation, detective agency ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, future, year 2019, 20th century
Place: brooklyn new york city, harlem, usa, new york
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Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in ...
Style: inspirational, touching, romantic, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: feminism, teacher, art, college, teachers and students, art history, coming of age, dedicated educator, college life, women, gender, feminist ...
Time: 50s, year 2003, 1950s, year 1953, post world war two ...
Place: massachusetts, california, boston, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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 7.8
 97K
October Sky (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.
Style: inspirational, touching, realistic, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, date night, teen drama
Plot: small town, teacher, follow your dream, teenage life, against the odds, friendship, biopic, generation gap, mathematics, mining, space program, scientist ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: west virginia, virginia, usa, appalachia, indianapolis indiana
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union bosses, the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.
Style: bleak, disturbing, rough, intense, social ...
Plot: prostitute, rape, prostitution, transsexual, gang rape, working class, gay, labor union, fight, union, hooker, society ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1989
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
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