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Movies Set in 1953

Public list by WPS with 74 movies or TV shows/series

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The Fabelmans(2022)

PG-13
| 2h 31min | Drama, Comedy
3.9/5 (with 928 votes)

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Blonde(2022)

NC-17
| 2h 46min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 590 votes)

From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.

The Age of Adaline(2015)

PG-13
| 1h 52min | Romance / Love, Fantasy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 2,912 votes)

After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.

Brothers(2023)

2h 15min | History, Drama, War

The film follows brothers Josef and Ctirad Mašín, sons of Josef Mašín who put up armed resistance against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia during the period 1951–1953.

Directed by Tomáš Mašín - With Oskar Hes, Jan Nedbal, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Matěj Hádek, Adam Ernest, Antonín Mašek, ...

Insidious: The Last Key(2018)

PG-13
| 1h 58min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 1,209 votes)

Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

Child 44(2015)

R
| 2h 17min | Crime, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 757 votes)

Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

Carol(2015)

R
| 1h 58min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.8/5 (with 1,862 votes)

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

Twins(1988)

1h 47min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1,141 votes)

Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate low life and is about to be killed by loan sharks.

L.A. Confidential(1997)

R
| 2h 18min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 2,110 votes)

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.

Living(2022)

PG-13
| 1h 42min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 146 votes)

London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.

Directed by Oliver Hermanus - With Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Tom Burke, Rosie Sansom

Naked Lunch(1991)

R
| 1h 55min | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 479 votes)

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.

Trumbo(2015)

R
| 2h 4min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 788 votes)

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

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Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War(2004)

R
| 2h 29min | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
4.0/5 (with 293 votes)

When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.

The Death of Stalin(2017)

R
| 1h 47min | Comedy, Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 780 votes)

When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains — just who is running the government?

Wind Chill(2007)

R
| 1h 31min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 186 votes)

Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.

The Right Stuff(1983)

PG
| 3h 13min | Drama, History, Adventure
3.7/5 (with 439 votes)

As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings forth momentous challenges.

Mona Lisa Smile(2003)

PG-13
| 1h 57min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 870 votes)

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.

Justice League: The New Frontier(2008)

3.4/5 (with 256 votes)

The human race is threatened by a powerful creature, and only the combined power of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter and The Flash can stop it. But can they overcome their differences to thwart this enemy using the combined strength of their newly formed Justice League?

Directed by Dave Bullock - With Neil Patrick Harris, Lucy Lawless, Kyle MacLachlan

Maigret(2022)

1h 29min | Mystery, Drama
2.9/5 (with 102 votes)

In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify her and then understand what happened to the victim.

See How They Run(2022)

PG-13
| 1h 38min | Mystery, Comedy, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 353 votes)

In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.

The Wrong Man(1956)

NR
| 1h 46min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 224 votes)

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

Heavenly Creatures(1994)

R
| 1h 49min | Drama, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 385 votes)

Wealthy and precocious teenager Juliet transfers from England to New Zealand with her family, and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. When their parents begin to suspect that their increasingly intense and obsessive bond is becoming unhealthy, the girls hatch a dark plan for those who threaten to keep them apart.

Stan & Ollie(2018)

PG
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 475 votes)

With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille and Ida – a formidable double act in their own right – the pair's love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public.

The Front Line(2011)

2h 13min | Drama, Action, War
3.6/5 (with 82 votes)

In 1951 ceasefire is declared, but two remaining armies fought their final battle on the front line Towards the end of the Korean War, a South Korean battalion is fiercely battling over a hill on the front line border against the North in order to capture a strategic point that would determine the new border between two nations. The ownership of this small patch of land would swap multiple times each day. Kang is dispatched to the front line in order to investigate the tacit case that’s been happening there.

Directed by Jang Hoon - With Shin Ha-kyun, Go Soo, Lee Je-hoon, Ryu Seung-su, Ko Chang-seok, Kim Ok-vin, ...

The Mirror Crack'd(1980)

PG
| 1h 45min | Mystery, Crime, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 102 votes)

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Good Night, and Good Luck.(2005)

PG
| 1h 33min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 417 votes)

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

Gacy(2003)

R
| 1h 28min | Crime, Drama, Horror
2.3/5 (with 47 votes)

Based on a true story of serial killer a model citizen, loving father and husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his house which he shared with his family.

The Front(1976)

PG
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 65 votes)

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Silent Wedding(2008)

1h 27min | Comedy, Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 32 votes)

In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence.

Girl You Know It's True(2023)

2h 4min | Drama

Chronicles the rise and fall of infamous pop duo Milli Vanilli.

Directed by Simon Verhoeven - With Elan Ben Ali, Tijan Njie, Matthias Schweighöfer, Graham Rogers
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