Keyword: 1950s

Insignificance

6.7

1985

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Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.

Wish You Were Here

6.8

1987

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In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.

Daniel

6.7

1983

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Daniel Isaacson attempts to determine the true complicity of his parents Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed for espionage in the 1950s.

P.S. Burn This Letter Please

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2020

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P.S. Burn This Letter Please is a documentary film about New York Citys drag community. A box of letters, held in secret for nearly 60 years, ignites a 5-year exploration into a part of LGBT history that has never been told. The letters open a window into a forgotten world where being yourself meant breaking the law and where the penalties for masquerading as a woman were swift and severe. The government sought to destroy them, then history tried to erase them, now they tell their story for the first time.

The Devil's Playground

6.8

1976

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Fred Schepisis first feature is this lushly photographed period drama detailing a young boys coming-of-age in a strict Catholic seminary in 1950s Australia.

Desert Bloom

6.7

1986

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The story involves Rose Chismores youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic stepfather. Her memories of Robin, her first love, are much happier, and she also recalls her colorful Aunt Starr, whose visit is fun, but also detrimental to her familys health. The setting of 1950s Nevada bomb testing is increasingly significant to the development of the story.

The One and Only

5.8

1978

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Henry Winkler portrays an outrageously self-confident but out-of-work actor, a young man who dreams of stardom and leaves college to pursue fame and fortune.

Shout

5

1991

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A new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

7.1

1987

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A middle-aged spinster falls in love with a fellow resident of her boardinghouse, who mistakenly believes she has the money to help him start a new business.

The Delinquents

5.6

1989

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A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they are under-age, their parents are against their relationship and try to separate them.

Return to Macon County

5.5

1975

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Two young men in a fast car travel through Georgia in the summer of 1958 en route to enter the National Championship drag races in California. In Macon County they pick up a wild girl who brings trouble and attract the ire of a local cop.

Stars in Your Eyes

5

1956

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A group of talented young performers buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts - but unscrupulous property developers plan dirty tricks to disrupt the first nights performance.