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Summary: The story of "Lunch atop a Skyscraper," the iconic photograph taken during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
Runtime: 1 h 15 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Sónta Films
Country: Ireland
Language: English
Domestic: $ 2,483
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Summary: Vic Brady draws young Don Gregor into a life of crime. He then blackmails Gregor's plastic surgeon father into fixing up his face so he can evade the cops.
Runtime: 1 h 11 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 22,000
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Summary: Laurel and Hardy, the world's most famous comedy duo, attempt to reignite their film careers as they embark on what becomes their swan song: a grueling theatre tour of post-war Britain.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
MPAA: PG

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 5,470,235
International: $ 18,950,688
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Summary: The Korean War, and a long lost letter, separate the lives of young lovers Jean Pargetter and Lionel Hardcastle, whose paths cross again by happenstance.
Release Date: January 12, 1992
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Runtime: 1 h 00 min
MPAA: TV-PG

Language: English
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Summary: An aristocrat's daughter falls in love with a visiting archaeologist, but he holds a secret that could drive them apart.
Runtime: 2 h 16 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: India
Language: Hindi
Domestic: $ 581,813
International: $ 207,858
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Summary: Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult...
Runtime: 1 h 39 min

Countries: Finland, Estonia, Germany
Language: Estonian
Movie budget: $ 1,605,000
Domestic: $ 95,952
International: $ 1,193,062
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Summary: During the Korean War peace talks, U.S. troops fight to retake a hill from the Communist Chinese forces.
Runtime: 1 h 37 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
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Summary: In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,200,000
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Summary: In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
Runtime: 1 h 35 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
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Summary: Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
Runtime: 1 h 47 min

Production: Shochiku
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
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Summary: In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 40,000,000
Domestic: $ 9,586,237
International: $ 12,380,397
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Summary: Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
Runtime: 2 h 31 min
MPAA: PG

Countries: United States, India
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 40,000,000
Domestic: $ 17,348,945
International: $ 28,298,378
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Summary: In 1950s London, a humorless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Domestic: $ 3,038,113
International: $ 9,339,197
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Summary: Desmond's wife leaves him and their 3 kids after Christmas 1953. As he's unemployed in Dublin, the authorities place the kids in orphanages; when he finds a job, he tries to get his kids back.
Runtime: 1 h 34 min
MPAA: PG

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 1,487,645
International: $ 2,699,271
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Summary: The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers pr...
Runtime: 3 h 13 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 27,000,000
Domestic: $ 21,192,102
International: $ 213
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Summary: The story of martial-arts master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee.
Runtime: 2 h 10 min
MPAA: PG-13

Countries: Hong Kong, China
Language: Chinese
Movie budget: $ 38,600,000
Domestic: $ 6,594,959
International: $ 67,338,087
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Summary: Several years after his childhood friend, a violin prodigy, disappears on the eve of his first solo concert, an Englishman travels throughout Europe to find him.
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: PG-13

Countries: Canada, Hungary
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,077,584
International: $ 63,603
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Summary: A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 1950s Wellesley girls to question their traditional social roles.
Runtime: 1 h 57 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 65,000,000
Domestic: $ 63,860,942
International: $ 77,477,047
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Summary: The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.
Runtime: 2 h 32 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 40,000,000
Domestic: $ 75,331,600
International: $ 48,639,776