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1950s Independent Movies (Indie)

Public list by WPS with 45 movies or TV shows/series

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12 Angry Men(1957)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 37min | Drama
4.3/5 (with 3,899 votes)

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

Fear and Desire(1953)

1h 2min | Drama, War
2.7/5 (with 210 votes)

After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the horrors of war quickly become apparent.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick - With Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky, Virginia Leith, David Allen, Dave Allen

La Strada(1954)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 55min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 480 votes)

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.

The Blob(1958)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 26min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 246 votes)

A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.

Directed by Irvin Yeaworth - With Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Olin Howland, Earl Rowe, Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan, John Benson, ...

Killer's Kiss(1955)

1h 8min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 226 votes)

The film revolves around Davey Gordon, a 29 year old welterweight New York boxer in the end of his career, and his relationship with a dancer and her violent employer.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick - With Frank Silvera, Chris Chase, Barbara Brand, Felice Orlandi, Ruth Sobotka, Shaun O'Brien, ...

Glen or Glenda(1953)

1h 11min | Drama
2.2/5 (with 48 votes)

A psychiatrist tells two stories: one of a trans woman, the other of a pseudohermaphrodite.

I Vitelloni(1953)

1h 43min | Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 288 votes)

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

Plan 9 from Outer Space(1959)

2.1/5 (with 223 votes)

In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife and on the next day he also dies. However, the space soldier Eros and her mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both and the strong Inspector Clay that was murdered by the couple. Their intention is not to conquest Earth but to stop mankind from developing the powerful bomb “Solobonite” that would threaten the universe. When the population of Hollywood and Washington DC sees flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife and a policeman try to stop the aliens.

It! The Terror from Beyond Space(1958)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 9min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.0/5 (with 40 votes)

In 1973, the first manned expedition to Mars is marooned; by the time a rescue mission arrives, there is only one survivor: the leader, Col. Edward Carruthers, who appears to have murdered the others! According to Carruthers, an unknown life form killed his comrades during a sandstorm. But the skeptical rescuers little suspect that "it" has stowed away for the voyage back to Earth...

Destination Moon(1950)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 31min | Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure
3.0/5 (with 34 votes)

Postulates the first manned trip to the moon, happening in the (then) near future, and being funded by a consortium of private backers. Assorted difficulties occur and must be overcome in-flight. Attempted to be realistic, with Robert A. Heinlein providing advice.

Attack of the Crab Monsters(1957)

2.7/5 (with 29 votes)

A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane mysteriously explodes. The team soon discovers that the tests have given rise to crabs mutated into intelligent, impervious, telepathic giants intent on increasing their numbers by breeding, then travelling to populated areas to feed, and which do not intend to be stopped by their discoverers.

Day the World Ended(1955)

2.5/5 (with 25 votes)

After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll, and a prospector, find temporary shelter in the remote-valley home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter, but soon have to deal with the spread of radioactivity - and its effects on animal life, including humans.

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Indestructible Man(1956)

2.2/5 (with 20 votes)

A scientific experiment involving subjecting a corpse to an extreme charge of electricity accidentally revives an executed criminal and makes him impervious to harm, allowing him to seek revenge on his former partners, and deal similarly with anyone else who gets in his way.

Five(1951)

3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

The film's storyline involves five survivors, one woman and four men, of an atomic bomb disaster. The five come together at a remote, isolated hillside house, where they try to figure out how to survive.

Giant from the Unknown(1958)

1h 18min | Horror
1.9/5 (with 5 votes)

A series of grisly murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scientist whom he dislikes. Together with a former professor and the professor's pretty daughter, the scientist sets about solving the crimes and discovers the killer is an oversized 16th century conquistador, resurrected by a lightning bolt from his mountain grave.

Directed by Richard E. Cunha - With Ed Kemmer, Sally Fraser, Buddy Baer

Salt of the Earth(1954)

1h 34min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 35 votes)

At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza, with a similar unfairness. When an injunction stops the men from protesting, however, the gender roles are reversed, and women find themselves on the picket lines while the men stay at home.

Fiend Without a Face(1958)

3.0/5 (with 32 votes)

An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment from the nearby residents after fallout from nuclear experiments at the base are blamed for a recent spate of disappearances. A captain from the airbase is assigned to investigate, and begins to suspect that an elderly British scientist who lives near the base and conducts research in the field of mind over matter knows more than he is letting on..

Little Fugitive(1953)

1h 20min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

After a prank makes Joey Norton believe he killed his older brother, he runs away from home and spends the day at Coney Island while his brother tries to find him before their mother gets home.

Directed by Raymond Abrashkin, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin - With Will Lee

Missile to the Moon(1958)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 18min | Science Fiction, Horror
1.7/5 (with 9 votes)

Two escaped convicts are found hiding in a rocketship built by a renegade inventor, who forces them to become the crew for a trip to the Moon. Also on board, as inadvertent stowaways, are his assistant and his secretary; and none of them are aware that the inventor is actually a Lunarian explorer sent to Earth by the dying Lunar civilization and the only remaining male member of that civilization.

Flight To Mars(1951)

2.7/5 (with 12 votes)

Four scientists and a newsman crash land on Mars and meet martians who act friendly.

Surcos(1951)

1h 39min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 9 votes)

A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything is illegal or immoral or both.

The Cry Baby Killer(1958)

1h 2min | Crime
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

A teenage boy panics and takes hostages when he thinks he's committed murder.

The Astounding She-Monster(1957)

2.0/5 (with 8 votes)

A scientist and a gang that has kidnapped a rich heiress come up against a beautiful but lethal alien who has crash-landed her spaceship on Earth.

Directed by Ronald V. Ashcroft - With Robert Clarke, Kenne Duncan

The Beast with a Million Eyes(1955)

2.0/5 (with 14 votes)

An alien space craft lands in the desert. The alien takes over the minds of some of the local humans and animals and is able to see through them. The animals attack and the terror begins.

She Demons(1958)

2.3/5 (with 6 votes)

A couple wash up on an uncharted island where Nazi experiments are going on.

Donovan's Brain(1953)

3.1/5 (with 15 votes)

A scientist takes a the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.

The Hideous Sun Demon(1958)

2.1/5 (with 8 votes)

After exposure to radiation, an atomic research scientist finds himself changing into a murderous, lizard-like creature every time he is exposed to sunlight.

Directed by Robert Clarke - With Robert Clarke, Robert Garry

Voodoo Woman(1957)

2.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Deep in the jungles a mad scientist is using the natives' voodoo for his experiments to create an indestructible being to serve his will. When a party of gold seekers stumbles upon his village, the scientist realizes that Marilyn the expedition's evil leader is the perfect subject for his work.

Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla(1952)

1.8/5 (with 10 votes)

The Singer Duke Mitchell meets Sammy Petrillo in this parody of Martin & Lewis. They arrive on a jungle island, where a mad scientist played by Bela Lugosi makes human esperiments.

Adventures of Captain Fabian(1951)

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncle's fortune and marry a young woman from a good family. After an incident where she kills a man, she is saved from the gallows by Fabian, a ship's captain, who has personal reasons for antagonizing the Brissacs. He takes care of her and falls in love with her, but doesn't tell her. She, in turn, takes the opportunity to return to her lover Brissac's arms, forcing him to marry her after seeing him murder his uncle.

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