Keyword: 1950s

The Buddy Holly Story

7.2

1978

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The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.

Circle of Friends

6.6

1995

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3 women, whove been friends since childhood, meet at university in Dublin in 1957. Student and boyfriend life begins.

The Other Side of Heaven

6.5

2001

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John Groberg, a farm kid from Idaho Falls, crosses an ocean to become a missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan islands during the 1950s.

The Bookshop

6.5

2017

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England 1959. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.

Lake of Death

4.2

2019

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Lillan and some friends travel back to the remote cabin by the little lake, where her twin brother died last year, and soon after arriving strange things starts happening. Inspired by the 1958 classic horror film.

Indignation

6.9

2016

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In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.

Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

7.6

2011

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A documentary on DIY producer/director Roger Corman and his alternative approach to making movies in Hollywood.

A Very British Sex Scandal

5.8

2007

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A docu-drama which chronicles the experiences and actions of Peter Wildeblood which eventually led to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Great Britain.

The Housemaid

5.8

2016

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When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the vengeful ghost of his dead wife... who is out for blood.

The Loss of Sexual Innocence

5.4

1999

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Nics life in glimpses at ages 5, 12, 16 and later film director and husband/dad.

Under Suspicion

6.5

1991

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Brighton, England, 1959. Disgraced cop turned private detective Tony Aaron falsifies adulteries for use as evidence in divorce cases. He involves his wife as the fictional co-respondent for painter Carlo Stasio but the pair are shot dead in a hotel room. In charge of the case is Frank, Tonys ex-partner still on the Brighton force. His most likely suspects are Angeline, Stasios mistress who is set to inherit his house and pictures, and Tony himself, parts of whose story dont seem to add up.

Howl

6.8

2010

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As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.