Posts Tagged '1950s'

Hounddog

Categories: 2007, Drama, Music, USA

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

Clue

Categories: 1985, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, USA

Here is the murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue board game. Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and discover all their foul play. You’ll love their dastardly doings as [...]

Way We Were, The

Categories: 1973, Drama, Romance, USA

Katie and Hubbell are students in the same college but with very different lives. She is a communist compromised against the civil war in Spain and the rise of Hitler in Europe, and has to work to pay her studies. He is more interested in sports a and sceptic about politics. However, Katie is impressed [...]

Revolutionary Road

Categories: 2008, Drama, Romance, UK, USA

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

Five People You Meet in Heaven, The

Categories: 2004

Eddie is the responsible for the maintenance of the Ruby Pier amusement park and a veteran of World War II. While trying to save a five year old girl from an accident with ride that is falling after rupturing the wire, Eddie dies. He awakes in Heaven, and the Blue Man explains him that he [...]

Hannibal Rising

Based on Thomas Harris’ book of the same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lecter in three different phases of his life from childhood in Lithuania to his ten years in England up to his time in Russia before his capture by FBI agent Will Graham in Red Dragon.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man

Categories: 1951, Comedy, Sci-Fi, USA

Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy’s invisible help.

Fido

Categories: 2006, Canada, Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Timmy Robinson’s best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when FIDO eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, [...]

Walker, The

Categories: 2007, Drama, UK, USA

An escort (Harrelson) who caters to Washington D.C.’s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.

Walker, The

Categories: 2007, Drama, UK, USA

An escort (Harrelson) who caters to Washington D.C.’s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.

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