Movies Set in the 1950s

Kinora's catalogue lists 48 films set in the 1950s, spanning 1950–2024. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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• 1957

  12 Angry Men

  New York City — 1950s
  Urbandir. Sidney Lumet
• 1991

  A Brighter Summer Day

  Taipei — 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Edward Yang
• 1959

  Anatomy of a Murder

  Michigan — 1950s
  Ruraldir. Otto Preminger
• 1974

  Badlands

  South Dakota · Montana — 1950s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Terrence Malick
• 1988

  Cinema Paradiso

  Rome · Sicily — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1980s
  Rural · Urbandir. Giuseppe Tornatore
• 1980

  Coal Miner's Daughter

  Kentucky · Nashville · Los Angeles — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Ruraldir. Michael Apted
• 2018

  Cold War

  Poland · Berlin · Paris · Yugoslavia — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Paweł Pawlikowski
• 1967

  Cool Hand Luke

  Florida — 1950s
  Ruraldir. Stuart Rosenberg
• 2002

  Far from Heaven

  Connecticut — 1950s
  Suburbandir. Todd Haynes
• 1993

  Farewell My Concubine

  Beijing — 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Chen Kaige
• 1994

  Forrest Gump

  Alabama · Vietnam · Washington, D.C. · New York City — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Zemeckis
• 1990

  GoodFellas

  New York City · Tampa — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 1959

  Hiroshima Mon Amour

  Hiroshima — 1950s
  Urbandir. Alain Resnais
• 1952

  Ikiru

  Tokyo — 1950s
  Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa
• 1997

  L.A. Confidential

  Los Angeles — 1950s
  Urbandir. Curtis Hanson
• 1954

  La Strada

  Italy — 1950s
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Federico Fellini
• 2016

  Loving

  Virginia · Washington, D.C. — 1950s · 1960s
  Ruraldir. Jeff Nichols
• 1992

  Malcolm X

  New York City · Boston · Mecca — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Spike Lee
• 2016

  Maudie

  Nova Scotia — 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Aisling Walsh
• 1988

  My Neighbor Totoro

  Japan — 1950s
  Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki
• 1959

  North by Northwest

  New York City · Chicago — 1950s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1954

  On the Waterfront

  New York City — 1950s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Elia Kazan
• 2023

  Oppenheimer

  Los Alamos · Princeton — 1930s · 1940s · 1950s
  Desert · Urbandir. Christopher Nolan
• 2017

  Phantom Thread

  London — 1950s
  Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson
• 1959

  Pickpocket

  Paris · London — 1950s
  Urbandir. Robert Bresson
• 1960

  Psycho

  Phoenix — 1950s
  Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1980

  Raging Bull

  New York City · Miami — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 1954

  Rear Window

  1950s
  Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1950

  Sunset Boulevard

  Los Angeles — 1950s
  Urbandir. Billy Wilder
• 1959

  The 400 Blows

  Paris — 1950s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. François Truffaut
• 1966

  The Battle of Algiers

  Algiers — 1950s
  Urbandir. Gillo Pontecorvo
• 2024

  The Brutalist

  Philadelphia · New York City · Venice — 1940s · 1950s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Brady Corbet
• 2017

  The Death of Stalin

  Moscow — 1950s
  Urbandir. Armando Iannucci
• 1972

  The Godfather

  New York City · Sicily · Las Vegas — 1940s · 1950s
  Urbandir. Francis Ford Coppola
• 1974

  The Godfather Part II

  New York City · Sicily · Las Vegas · Havana — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1940s · 1950s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola
• 2019

  The Irishman

  Philadelphia · Detroit — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 1971

  The Last Picture Show

  Texas — 1950s
  Ruraldir. Peter Bogdanovich
• 1979

  The Marriage of Maria Braun

  Germany — 1940s · 1950s
  Urban · Suburbandir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 2012

  The Master

  1950s
  Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson
• 1994

  The Shawshank Redemption

  Maine — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Frank Darabont
• 1999

  The Talented Mr. Ripley

  New York City · Italy — 1950s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Anthony Minghella
• 2011

  The Tree of Life

  Texas — 1950s · 2010s · Timeless
  Suburban · Off Worlddir. Terrence Malick
• 1964

  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

  Cherbourg — 1950s · 1960s
  Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Jacques Demy
• 1953

  The Wages of Fear

  1950s
  Desert · Wildernessdir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 1953

  Tokyo Story

  Tokyo · Onomichi — 1950s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Yasujirō Ozu
• 1958

  Touch of Evil

  1950s
  Urbandir. Orson Welles
• 1958

  Vertigo

  San Francisco — 1950s
  Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1957

  Wild Strawberries

  Stockholm — 1950s
  Ruraldir. Ingmar Bergman