The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Battle of Algiers (1966), Shutter Island (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009), Ray (2004), Murmur of the Heart (1971), Cold War (2018), Trumbo (2015) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Year 1954 movies.
Storyline: This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. A widowed French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was her own daughter. She, and her daughter both fall in love with a young French navy officer, which will change both their lives significantly.
Plot Keywords: wedding, escape, pregnancy, murder, baby, political prisoner, racism ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons: in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall, 1955. Racial integration comes to the high school, TV is killing burlesque, and rock and roll is pushing the Four Lads off the Hit Parade. Ben, a high school senior, and his older brother Van are exploring "the other": in Ben's case, it's friendship with Sylvia, a Black student; with Van, it's a party in the WASP part of town and falling for a debutante, Dubbie. Sylvia gives Ben tickets to a James Brown concert; Dubbie invites Van to a motel: new worlds open. Meanwhile, their dad Nate, who runs a numbers game, loses big to a small-time pusher, Little Melvin; a partnership ensues.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: marriage, intimacy, racist, teenager, fraud, gambling, lottery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Lost City of Z tells the incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific establishment who regard indigenous populations as "savages," the determined Fawcett - supported by his devoted wife, son and aide de camp returns time and again to his beloved jungle in an attempt to prove his case, culminating in his mysterious disappearance in 1925.
Plot Keywords: jungle, based on true story, based on book, explorer, travel, tribe, englishman abroad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Four 1950's cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joseph MacCarthy) who conceivably could have met and probably didn't, fictionally do in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually intriguing, the film has a fluid progression of flash-backs and flash-forwards centering on the fictional Einstein's current observations, childhood memories and apprehensions for the future.—Jeanne Baker <jbaker@erim.org>
Plot Keywords: 1950s, new york city, based on play, punched in the stomach, price of fame, post modern, reference to marilyn monroe ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Allison is a "square" good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker, a Greaser (or "Drape" in John Waters parlance). Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the '50s, this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who, though he is sent to juvie, is determined to cross class (and taste) boundaries to get Allison back.
Plot Keywords: 1950s, forbidden love, dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquent, wrong side of the tracks, teen movie, greaser ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Director Chris Weitz's historical thriller is based on the story of how a group of Israeli secret agents arrested notorious SS officer Adolf Eichmann - the man who masterminded the "Final Solution" - in Argentina. Oscar Isaac plays the legendary Mossad agent Peter Malkin, while Ben Kingsley plays his emotionally manipulative arch-nemesis. After tracking Eichmann down to Buenos Aires, Malkin and his men captured him and brought him to Israel for a historic 8-month trial.
Plot Keywords: year 1954, war criminal, nazi, hate, year 1945, year 1939, year 1944 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Post WWII yarn about a young GI abducted by the Soviets in West Berlin and hauled off to the East. His recovery gets complicated as Colonel Steve Van Dyke (Peck) tries to sort out the usefulness of informants, spies, bureaucrats, and the abductee's influential father (Crawford)!—Corey Hatch
Plot Keywords: espionage, cold war, berlin germany, poisoned drink, germany, knocked out, colonel ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joe, a rootless young drifter, finds work on a barge travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh, owned by Les and his wife Ella. One afternoon they discover the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Accident? Suicide? Murder? As the police investigate and suspect is arrested, we discover that Joe knows more than he is letting on. Gradually we learn of Joe's past relationship with the dead woman. Meanwhile an unspoken attraction develops between Joe and Ella, heightening the claustrophobic tensions in the confined space of the barge.
Plot Keywords: sex scene, violent sex, female nudity, female frontal nudity, hand job, outdoor sex, public sex ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An epic set in post-WWII Japan and centered on an American former G.I. who joins the yakuza.
Plot Keywords: yakuza, male rear nudity, organized crime, japanese, bloody violence, graphic violence, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Story of an upper class college in the early '50s and how a "harmless" hazing resulted in a student's death.
Plot Keywords: year 1954, accidental death, 1950s, college campus, initiation, sorority, college ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the 57-day battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam between the French army and the Vietminh, which finally resulted in the defeat and surrender of the French forces and France's eventual withdrawal from Vietnam.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: year 1954, french soldier, trapped, siege, jungle, uniform, place name in title ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1954. The sexual hijinks of a group of mid-teen male students of Angel Beach High School in Florida are presented. Their main goal is to lose their collective virginity. In the process, they embark on games of sexual innuendo with their female classmates, as witnessed by the activities of Billy, Tommy and Pee Wee in their secret surveillance. Pee Wee is the most desperate, that desperation which gets him into one predicament after another, especially as he is the butt of many a prank. A side issue for Tim, basically a good guy, is dealing with his learned racism, which comes to the surface with the arrival to their school of new student, Jewish Brian Schwartz. The sexual pursuits at the school are not limited to the student body as new boys Phys Ed coach, Roy Brackett, has a mutual attraction with cheer-leading coach, Miss Lynn Honeywell, who doesn't want to go all the way; Coach Brackett's goal is to find out why Coach Warren has nicknamed Miss Honeywell "Lassie". All these goings-on...
Plot Keywords: female full frontal nudity, male frontal nudity, voyeurism, female nudity, bare butt, female rear nudity, virgin ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On April 8, 2000, aspiring artist Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carell) became a victim of a violent assault when five men beat him up and left him for dead. Following the attack, Mark was left with little to no memory of his previous life due to brain damage inflicted by his attackers. In a desperate attempt to regain his memories, Hogancamp constructs a miniature World War II village called Marwen in his yard to help in his recovery. Unfortunately, Mark's demons come back to haunt him when he's asked to testify against the five men that attacked him..
Plot Keywords: based on true story, 2000s, 1960s, year 1944, flashback, female judge, world war two ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Michael Laemie (played by Brian Madorsky) is a young boy living in a typical 1950's suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Especially his father, Nick Laemie (played by Randy Quaid). Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on the grill outside, but has trouble explaining his fears to his new-found friend Sheila, or the school's social worker.—Jeff Mercer <riffer@afn.org>
Plot Keywords: cannibal, cannibalism, fire, housewife, hypnosis, interrupted sex, laboratory ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: SAVANNAH is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his loyal friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. Master of Shakespeare, and the shotgun that provides Savannah's markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: cabin, thunder, singer, trespassing, mirror, looking at oneself in a mirror, talking to oneself in a mirror ...
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