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 period piece, realistic, serious, sexy, period drama and stylized films and TV shows about / with storytelling, dialogue, family relations, love, runaway, friendship, mentor, adaptation, kiss and husband wife relationship plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as 50s: Pleasantville (1998), The Queen's Gambit (2020), L.A. Confidential (1997), Brooklyn (2015), My One and Only (2009), A Place to Call Home (2013), Populaire (2012), Cry-Baby (1990), Dead Poets Society (1989), Stand by Me (1986).
Best films
New films
143K
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, retro, humorous, teen, clever ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
small town, coming of age, time travel, alternate reality, adolescence, parallel world, satire, utopia, siblings relations, fantasy world, small town life, american dream ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 90s, future, year 1998 ...
Place:
america, france, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 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:
period piece, psychological, captivating, tense, historical drama ...
Plot:
chess, genius, addiction, coming of age, female protagonist, prodigy, child prodigy, competition, champion, girl power, adoptive mother, girl ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 50s, 2020s, 20th century
Place:
europe, usa, kentucky, las vegas, paris france ...
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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, suspense, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
corruption, police corruption, organized crime, police, murder, police detective, twists and turns, murder mystery, police brutality, justice, shootout, gunfight ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, arizona, persia ...
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158K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, romantic, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
immigrant, love and romance, starting over, sex scene, marriage proposal, hopes, immigration, friendship, female protagonist, true love, love affair, homesickness ...
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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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, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
road trip, coming of age, parents and children, obsessive quest, teenage life, siblings relations, starting over, father son relationship, teenager, writers, sarcasm, stepfather stepson relationship ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1953
Place:
usa, kansas city, los angeles, boston, new york ...
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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, serious, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
love and romance, country estate, gay lead character, love affair, forbidden love, starting over, social differences, family relations, family secret, family life, male female relationship, medical profession ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, post world war two, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
australia
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13K
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, sexy, sentimental, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
boss and employee, fall in love, love and romance, receptionist, employer employee relationship, mentor, love story, workplace, workplace romance, competition, happy ending, ambition ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1958 ...
Place:
france, paris france, new york, normandy
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68K
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, satirical, light, parody ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
rock and roll, gang, forbidden love, youth, satire, music, couples, juvenile delinquency, teenage love, biker, juvenile delinquent, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 1954, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
maryland, baltimore, usa
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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, touching ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
teacher, suicide, poetry, coming of age, poet, mentor, teenager, literature, teachers and students, friendship, philosophy, dedicated educator ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1989, year 1959
Place:
vermont, new england, usa, harvard university
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482K
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, cult classic, atmospheric, emotional, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
childhood, friendship, coming of age, stephen king, teenager, boy, children, youth, summer, friends, courage, on the road ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1986, year 1959 ...
Place:
oregon, usa, normandy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 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:
humorous, witty, atmospheric, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick
Plot:
jewish family, female protagonist, comedian, stand up comedian, female comedian, career, strong female lead, divorce, husband wife relationship, judaism, feminist, lifestyle change ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, future, 2010s, 60s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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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, sentimental, romantic, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
feminism, teacher, college, coming of age, art, art history, feminist, gender, life philosophy, teachers and students, dedicated educator, boarding school ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 2003, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place:
massachusetts, boston, california, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
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, kids
Plot:
advertising, contests and competitions, optimism, underdog, adaptation, prize, creativity, courage, eviction, small town, ambition, family problems ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s, 60s, year 2005
Place:
ohio, usa
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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, sad, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
marriage, abortion, adultery, depression, passion, death of wife, destiny, under the surface, dysfunctional family, deadend life, mental illness, existentialism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2008, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place:
usa, new york, paris france, connecticut, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, China, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination.
Style:
clever, inspirational, captivating, political, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot:
courtroom, women's rights, feminist, supreme court, female lawyer, human rights, lawyer, equality, husband wife relationship, teacher, feminism, marriage ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1963, year 1956, 70s ...
Place:
usa, denver colorado, new york
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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, costume drama, contemplative, stylized ...
Plot:
family business, brother brother relationship, restaurant, male female relationship, emigrant, mother daughter relationship, sexism, anti semitism, family relations, world war two, love, passion ...
Time:
50s, post world war two, 1940s, 1950s, 60s ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe
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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:
sexy, psychological, serious, sexual, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, sex, nazi, hotel, eroticism, sexual perversion, guilt, bdsm, haunted by the past, sexuality, public nudity, holocaust ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, post world war two, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
hungary, vienna, germany, frankfurt germany, italy ...
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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, period piece ...
Plot:
prostitute, rape, transsexual, gang rape, prostitution, sex, labor union, working class, outdoor sex, hooker, union, fight ...
Time:
50s, year 1989, 1950s, 20th century, year 1952
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, berlin germany
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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, period piece, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, child abuse, small town, childhood, single parent, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, homosexual, biopic, stepfather stepson relationship, abusive stepfather ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1993, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
seattle, washington state, salt lake city utah, washington d.c., usa ...
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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:
depressing, period piece, compassionate, contemplative, grim ...
Plot:
abortion, working class, unwanted pregnancy, injustice, miscarriage, neighbor, rape, double life, character study, mission, understanding, family problems ...
Time:
50s, year 2004, 90s, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place:
england, london, europe, melbourne, dunkirk ...
Is relevant?
79K
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, bloody ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, strong sexual content, mental institution, lesbian romance, manipulative woman, lobotomy, psychiatric nurse, mutilation, nymphomaniac, psycho killer, nurse ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
northern california
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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:
costume drama, sincere, touching, realistic, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
midwife, childbirth, pregnancy, convent, nursing, friends, doctor, nurse, medical, family life, home birth, friendship ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 1950s, year 1961, 2010s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, britain
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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, erotic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
hopes, brutality, friendship, children, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, parents and children, girl, relationship problems, friends, girlfriend, father daughter relationship, feminist ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 60s
Place:
naples italy, italy, usa, syria, new mexico
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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, sexy, black and white, factual ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
rape, photography, female nudity, sexualized violence, sex, photographer, bdsm, female protagonist, sexual abuse, investigation, sexual awakening, religion ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 2005, 1940s ...
Place:
usa, tennessee, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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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, crime drama, detective ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, adult
Plot:
private detective, murder investigation, interracial romance, politics, conspiracy, social injustice, homicide detective, private investigation, crime investigation, investigation, organized crime, racial segregation ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 2019, future, 20th century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, harlem, usa, new york
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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, exciting, stylized, social ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual repression, adolescence, existentialism, atheist, lgbtq, coming of age, adaptation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, love, student ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1951, year 2016, 20th century ...
Place:
ohio, new jersey, tokyo
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story:
Dr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning to take over not only his dead father's medical practice, but also his on-call role as the town's police surgeon, only to find change is afoot, nothing is ...
Style:
clever, detective, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
investigation, doctors and patients, forensics, doctor, social relations, homecoming, murder, crime investigation, homicide detective, danger, murderer, murder mystery ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century
Place:
australia
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210K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, chocolate, love story, prejudice, food, women, cooking and food, love and romance, culture clash, single mother, mother daughter relationship, lovers ...
Time:
50s, year 2000, 1950s, y2k, year 2001 ...
Place:
france, europe, america, central america, paris france ...
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38K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
Style:
romantic, inspirational, melancholic, thought provoking, period piece ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
interracial couple, racism, marriage, interracial marriage, interracial love, interracial romance, husband wife relationship, supreme court, civil rights, love story, forbidden love, miscegenation ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 60s, year 2016, 2010s ...
Place:
virginia, washington d.c., richmond virginia, usa, australia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport -- but when he meets Maureen, he falls hard and they ...
Style:
emotional, period piece, cute, romantic, tear jerker ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, corporal punishment, skinny dipping, sister sister relationship, sibling relationship, first love, childhood, small town, unrequited love, female nudity, sisters, love ...
Time:
year 1957, 50s, 1950s, year 1991, 20th century
Place:
southern usa, usa, louisiana, london
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