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Portia Faces Life
1954 ★ 1.0Portia Faces Life was heard on radio from 1940 to 1970, and this soap opera was also telecast for a single season in the mid-1950s. It began in syndication on A
Playhouse 90
1956 ★ 7.6Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Televisio
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021 ★ 6.2In the mid-1950s, Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, young composers and romantic partners, are hired by legendary silent film star Gloria Swanson to write a m
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
2017 ★ 8.1It’s 1958 Manhattan and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she’s ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life sud
Call the Midwife
2012 ★ 7.5Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jenni
Project Blue Book
2019 ★ 8.1A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book”. Proje
Fallen Angels
1993 ★ 6.6A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The ep
Topper
1953 ★ 6.1Topper is an American fantasy sitcom based on the 1937 film of the same name. The series was broadcast on CBS from October 9, 1953 to July 15, 1955, and stars L
Better Times
2004 ★ 6.3The lives of two fictional families during the historical development of Danmarks Radio television network from the 1950s to the 1970s. Better Times is a telev
Fellow Travelers
2023 ★ 8.4A chronicle of a decades-long volatile romance between two men — from their first meeting during the height of the 1950s Lavender Scare to the AIDS crises of th
Masters of Sex
2013 ★ 7.1William Masters and Virginia Johnson are real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Their research touched off the sexual revolution and took them fr
Lolita
1997 ★ 7.1Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the board
Leave It to Beaver
1957 ★ 6.9An inquisitive and often naïve boy, Theodore 'The Beaver' Cleaver, has adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starre
Hilda Hurricane
1998 ★ 8.1After breaking off her engagement on her wedding day and going directly to a prostitution house, a young model becomes the city's most famous harlot, known as "
Once Upon a Time in London
2019 ★ 5.3Billy Hill and Jack 'Spot' Comer were among the most notorious criminals in London up until the 1950s. Dramatising the violent reign of two of London's most not
Middle of the Night
1959 ★ 7.0Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with d
Ann Savage
Ann Savage was an American film and television actress. Born on February 19, 1921, in Columbia, South Carolina, USA, she is best-remembered for her role in the
Ingeborg Schöner
Ingeborg Schöner (born July 2, 1935, Wiesbaden) is a German actress, Zen teacher, and author. She began her film career in the mid-1950s and became a familiar
Don't Give Up the Ship
1959 ★ 6.4The Navy expects a veteran to pay for the ship he commanded, as they have no record of its return. Don't Give Up the Ship is a 1959 American black-and-white U.S
Stamp Day for Superman
1954 ★ 5.5Superman's commitment to promote US Savings Stamps is temporarily delayed when Lois is kidnapped. Stamp Day for Superman is a 1954 fantasy and science fiction f
Sunday in Peking
1956 ★ 6.4Chris Marker’s travel essay Sunday in Peking transforms a long-held childhood dream into a cinematic journey through Beijing. Blending documentary observation w
The Bob Cummings Show
1955 ★ 6.3The Bob Cummings Show is an American sitcom starring Robert "Bob" Cummings which was produced from January 2, 1955 to September 15, 1959. The Bob Cummings Show
Nowhere Boy
2009 ★ 7.2A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s Liverpool, England. Mimi's husband suddenly dies, and John
A Berlin Romance
1956 ★ 6.1Mid-1950s Berlin, before the building of the Wall. Uschi, a salesgirl and aspiring fashion model from the East, is attracted to Hans, from the West. But she als