1950 Movies

This Oscar-nominated short explores the genesis of cancerous cells and the mid-20th century state of research into the fight against cancer. The film...

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vacant lot, the troupe parades through the grand avenu...

An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his...

A missionary film by photographer Sven Nykvist.

A drama about double personality

The first half of this Traveltalk entry is spent in the town of Bath, where we learn about the long history and architecture of the area. We then go t...

Educational short showing how you should never show any emotions at the dinner table.

An oil engineer surrounded by foul play helps an heiress bring in a well.

Charles Starrett plays The Durango Kid in the 1950 Columbia western Texas Dynamo. As a novelty, Starrett not only plays Durango and his "alter ego" S...

A little Métis girl, Kalina is saved from a massacre by Taraor, a black man from Sudan. Having become a great and beautiful dancer from the South, she...

The film depicts cotton production in the People's Republic of Macedonia, more precisely in the workers' cooperative of the village of Gradošarci; pre...

Lindolfo Chaves is the president of a tobacco company based in Havana and also the president of the Liga Pro Restauración de la Moral y la Virtud, but...

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

It's 1913, and noble Mexican General Pancho Villa leads his troops against the assassins of President Madero.

Pablo returns to the neighborhood where he spent the early years of his life, searching for Juanito, but he does not find him. His sister Delia tells...

The tale about an old, henpecked man whose new friend fulfills all desires of his wife.