Movies Set in the 1950s

Kinora's catalogue lists 46 films set in the 1950s, spanning 1950–2023. 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
  Urban · Undergrounddir. Sidney Lumet
• 1991

  A Brighter Summer Day

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

  All About Eve

  New York City — 1940s · 1950s
  Urbandir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 2022

  Babylon

  Los Angeles · New York City — 1920s · 1930s · 1950s
  Urban · Suburbandir. Damien Chazelle
• 1974

  Badlands

  South Dakota — 1950s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Terrence Malick
• 1960

  Breathless

  Paris · Marseille — 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Jean-Luc Godard
• 1988

  Cinema Paradiso

  Sicily · Rome — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1980s
  Rural · Urbandir. Giuseppe Tornatore
• 1967

  Cool Hand Luke

  Florida — 1950s
  Ruraldir. Stuart Rosenberg
• 1993

  Farewell My Concubine

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

  Forrest Gump

  Alabama · New York City · Washington DC — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Rural · Urbandir. Robert Zemeckis
• 1990

  GoodFellas

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

  Hiroshima Mon Amour

  Hiroshima — 1950s · 1940s
  Urbandir. Alain Resnais
• 1952

  Ikiru

  Tokyo — 1950s
  Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa
• 1997

  L.A. Confidential

  Los Angeles — 1950s
  Urbandir. Curtis Hanson
• 1960

  La Dolce Vita

  Rome — 1950s · 1960s
  Urban · Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Federico Fellini
• 1954

  La Strada

  Italy — 1950s
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Federico Fellini
• 1992

  Malcolm X

  Omaha · Boston · New York City · Chicago — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Spike Lee
• 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 · New Mexico — 1930s · 1940s · 1950s
  Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Christopher Nolan
• 2017

  Phantom Thread

  London — 1950s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Paul Thomas Anderson
• 1959

  Pickpocket

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

  Psycho

  Phoenix · California — 1950s
  Rural · Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1980

  Raging Bull

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

  Rear Window

  1950s
  Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1960

  Rocco and His Brothers

  Milan — 1950s
  Urbandir. Luchino Visconti
• 1959

  The 400 Blows

  Paris — 1950s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. François Truffaut
• 1960

  The Apartment

  New York City — 1950s
  Urbandir. Billy Wilder
• 1966

  The Battle of Algiers

  Algiers — 1950s
  Urbandir. Gillo Pontecorvo
• 2017

  The Death of Stalin

  Moscow — 1950s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Armando Iannucci
• 1972

  The Godfather

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

  The Godfather Part II

  New York City · Cuba · Las Vegas — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1950s
  Urban · Rural · Coastal Seadir. Francis Ford Coppola
• 2019

  The Irishman

  Philadelphia · Chicago · Detroit — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s · 2000s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 1971

  The Last Picture Show

  Texas — 1950s
  Rural · Urbandir. Peter Bogdanovich
• 1979

  The Marriage of Maria Braun

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

  The Master

  San Francisco · New York City · London — 1940s · 1950s
  Urban · Coastal Sea · Desertdir. Paul Thomas Anderson
• 1994

  The Shawshank Redemption

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

  The Talented Mr. Ripley

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

  The Tree of Life

  Waco · Dallas — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 2010s · Far Future
  Suburban · Urban · 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

  Mexico — 1950s
  Urban · Desertdir. Orson Welles
• 1958

  Vertigo

  San Francisco — 1950s
  Urban · Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1957

  Wild Strawberries

  Stockholm · Lund — 1950s
  Rural · Urbandir. Ingmar Bergman