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Movies Set in 1956

Public list by WPS with 58 movies or TV shows/series

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The Nun II(2023)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 50min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 712 votes)

In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered, and Sister Irene begins to investigate. She once again comes face-to-face with a powerful evil.

Directed by Michael Chaves - With Bonnie Aarons, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Storm Reid, Anna Popplewell, Katelyn Rose Downey, ...

Forrest Gump(1994)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 22min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
4.3/5 (with 12,194 votes)

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.

Elvis(2021)

2h 37min | Drama, Music

A biopic about Elvis Presley, with focus on his early years.

Elvis(2022)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 39min | Drama, Music
3.8/5 (with 1,427 votes)

The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

Raging Bull(1980)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 9min | Drama, History
4.0/5 (with 1,896 votes)

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Black Book(2006)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 25min | Drama, Thriller, War
3.8/5 (with 489 votes)

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Batman: Year One(2011)

1h 4min | Action, Animation, Crime
3.6/5 (with 397 votes)

A wealthy playboy named Bruce Wayne and a Chicago cop named Jim Gordon both return to Gotham City where their lives unexpectedly intersect.

The Remains of the Day(1993)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 14min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 553 votes)

A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

Ed Wood(1994)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 7min | Comedy, Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 1,034 votes)

The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.

Radioactive(2020)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love, History
3.3/5 (with 343 votes)

The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.

Cadillac Records(2008)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 49min | Drama, History, Music
3.6/5 (with 185 votes)

The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.

The Corruption(1986)

1h 22min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 11 votes)

The film takes place in Vicenza in 1956. Anna, a beautiful lawyer's wife, feels abandoned by her husband and grows closer to their maid, Angela. The maid convinces Anna to try increasingly daring erotic games.

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Jersey Boys(2014)

2h 14min | Music, Drama
3.4/5 (with 308 votes)

A musical biopic of the Four Seasons—the rise, the tough times and personal clashes, and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music became symbolic of a generation. Far from a mere tribute concert, it gets to the heart of the relationships at the centre of the group, with a special focus on frontman Frankie Valli, the small kid with the big falsetto.

Elvis(1979)

2h 30min | Drama, Music, TV Movie
3.4/5 (with 51 votes)

This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.

Kalank(2019)

2h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 21 votes)

Set in 1945, in Pre-Independent India, the elite, opulent and solemn world of the Chaudhry family, and the wild, mysterious and musical underbelly of the town, Hira Mandi, clash when Roop Chaudhry encounters Zafar, a daredevil from Hira Mandi, unleashing deep-buried truths, secrets of betrayal and affairs that threaten to bring both worlds crashing down.

Directed by Abhishek Varman - With Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Dutt, Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Sonakshi, Aditya Roy Kapur, ...

Great Balls of Fire!(1989)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 48min | Drama, History, Music
3.2/5 (with 134 votes)

The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unconventional lifestyle often brought him into conflict with others in the industry, and even earned him the scorn and condemnation of the public.

Mischief(1985)

3.5/5 (with 55 votes)

1956: The shy Jonathan's luck with girls changes when he wins the rebellious Gene as a friend in his last year of high school. Gene is adored by many girls and manages to teach Jonathan a few lessons. Gene himself would rather just be with one girl: his girlfriend Bunny. But since his father is poor, her parents don't accept him.

Hounddog(2007)

1h 42min | Drama, Music
3.1/5 (with 42 votes)

A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

Madeline(1998)

1h 29min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 99 votes)

Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, making an unlikely new friend in the process.

The Battle of Algiers(1966)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 1min | Drama, War, History
4.0/5 (with 299 votes)

Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.

Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo - With Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, Brahim Hadjadj, Larbi Zekkal, Fusia El Kader, Mohamed Ben Kassen, ...

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers(1956)

3.0/5 (with 66 votes)

Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction.

The Marrying Man(1991)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 56min | Action, Comedy, Romance / Love, Thriller, Drama
2.8/5 (with 48 votes)

Charley Pearl, wealthy heir and gadabout, is slated to marry Adele, the daughter of a Hollywood tycoon. But, during a wild bachelor party in Las Vegas, Charley strikes up a flirtation with nightclub crooner Vicki Anderson that soon leads to her bedroom. When the couple are discovered by Vicki's beau, infamous gangster Bugsy Siegel, he makes a surprising pronouncement -- they'd better marry, or Charley is a dead man.

The Keeper(2019)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 54min | Drama, War, History
3.8/5 (with 87 votes)

The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.

The Silent Revolution(2018)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 52min | Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 104 votes)

Stalinstadt, East Germany, 1956. While the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, teenage members of a classroom of the local school perform a seemingly harmless act that causes unexpected consequences.

Pollock(2000)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 2min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 129 votes)

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.

Prison(1987)

1h 42min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 50 votes)

After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being distributing his murderous rage to all, leading up to the Warden himself.

Sylvia(2003)

1h 49min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 50 votes)

Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

An American Rhapsody(2001)

1h 46min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 28 votes)

A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter then decides to travel to Budapest to discover her identity.

Ed Gein(2000)

1h 29min | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 46 votes)

The true story of Edward Gein, the farmer whose horrific crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. This is the first film to Gein's tormented upbringing, his adored but domineering mother, and the 1957 arrest uncovered the most bizarre series of murders America has ever seen.

Directed by Chuck Parello - With Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgress, Carol Mansell, Steve Blackwood, Danny Keogh, Pat Skipper, ...

The Entertainer(1960)

1h 36min | Drama, Music
3.1/5 (with 19 votes)

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

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