Films set in the 1950s

Kaantha is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language period crime thriller film directed by Selvamani Selvaraj who co-wrote the script with Thamizh Prabha. The film stars Dulquer Salmaan, Samuthirakani, Bhagyashri Borse and Rana Daggubati. The film is the fictionalized work inspired by the life of M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar. It is produced by Daggubati and Salmaan under Spirit Media and Wayfarer Films.

1994 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

1994 American drama film directed by Frank Darabont

2001 film by Ron Howard

Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as the United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss. The ensemble supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, the film narrates the rise and fall of Mafia associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.

1987 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

2014 film directed by Morten Tyldum

2008 film by David Fincher

1950 film by Billy Wilder

1957 film by Ingmar Bergman

1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese

1988 film by Giuseppe Tornatore

1961 film by Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins

1989 film directed by Bruce Beresford

2019 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2011 film directed by Terrence Malick

2003 film by Tim Burton

1962 USA film by Stanley Kubrick

2011 film directed by Phyllida Lloyd

2007 film directed by Olivier Dahan

2021 film directed by Enrico Casarosa

2005 film by James Mangold

1994 film by Tim Burton

1954 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1978 film directed by Randal Kleiser

2015 film directed by John Crowley

2002 film directed by Julie Taymor

1994 film by Michael Radford

2022 film directed by Baz Luhrmann

2008 film directed by Sam Mendes

1967 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg

1996 film directed by Alan Parker

2005 film directed by Bennett Miller

2009 film by Nora Ephron

2005 film by George Clooney

2011 film by Clint Eastwood

2004 American biographical musical drama film

2011 film directed by Simon Curtis

1996 film directed by Miloš Forman

1982 British live-action/animated musical drama film

2024 film directed by Brady Corbet

1993 film by Michael Caton-Jones

2019 film directed by Fernando Meirelles

2006 film directed by Clint Eastwood

2021 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2002 film by François Ozon

2013 film by Stephen Frears

2018 film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski

2019 film directed by Dexter Fletcher

2006 film directed by Robert De Niro

1973 film by Sydney Pollack

2016 US film by John Lee Hancock

1997 film by Adrian Lyne

2016 film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen

2000 US film directed by Julian Schnabel

2016 film by Denzel Washington

1996 film directed by Scott Hicks

1992 film by Spike Lee

1991 film by Rachel Talalay