1950s
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Folk Songs of Mexico Spotify
Alfonso Cruz Jimenez
release date Jan. 1, 1958 publisher: (C) 1958 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / (P) 1958 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Originally released on Folkways Records.
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The Monster That Challenged the World (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Monster That Challenged the World
director: Arnold Laven actor: Tim Holt / Audrey Dalton …
other title: Il mostro che sfidò il mondo / O Monstro Que Desafiou o Mundo …
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
April 6, 2026 watched
Has effects, characters and monsters not as terrible as the usual 1950s fare.

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
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Throne of Blood (1957) Douban IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData
蜘蛛巣城
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Isuzu Yamada …
other title: Il trono di sangue / Blodets trone …
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
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The Lost One (1951) IMDb WikiData
Der Verlorene
director: Peter Lorre actor: Peter Lorre / Karl John …
other title: Un uomo perduto / Der Verlorene …
A German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.
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The Man in the White Suit (1951) ReviewDB TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
The Man in the White Suit
director: Alexander Mackendrick actor: Alec Guinness / Joan Greenwood …
other title: Lo scandalo del vestito bianco / O Homem do Fato Claro …
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...
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The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
The Quatermass Xperiment
director: Val Guest actor: Brian Donlevy / Richard Wordsworth …
other title: L'astronave atomica del dottor Quatermass / Terror Que Mata …
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
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4D Man (1959) Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
4D Man
director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. actor: Robert Lansing / Lee Meriwether …
other title: Delitto in quarta dimensione / Demônio Enfurecido …
Two brothers, scientists Scott and Tony Nelson, develop an amplifier which enables a person to enter a 4th dimensional state, allowing him to pass through any object. Scott experiments on himself and discovers that each time he passes through something he ages rapidly. He begins killing people, sucking out their life energies and regaining his youth as a result.
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Trigger Tales (1951) IMDb
director: Harry L. Fraser actor: James Warren / Frank Yaconelli …
Trigger sets out to find the bank robber who killed a rancher. This can be seen on The Forsaken Westerns.
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Night and the City (1950) TMDB WikiData IMDb
Night and the City
director: Jules Dassin actor: Richard Widmark / Francis L. Sullivan …
other title: I trafficanti della notte / Foragidos da Noite …
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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The She-Creature (1956) IMDb WikiData TMDB
The She-Creature
director: Edward L. Cahn actor: Chester Morris / Marla English …
other title: Geschöpf des Schreckens / La criatura …
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
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Diabolique (1955) Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb KevGa-NeoDB
Les Diaboliques
8.5 (6 ratings) director: Henri-Georges Clouzot actor: Véra Clouzot / Simone Signoret …
other title: I diabolici / Rædslernes hus …
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
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Singin' in the Rain (1952) TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData NeoDB
Singin' in the Rain
8.4 (12 ratings) director: Gene Kelly / Stanley Donen actor: Gene Kelly / Donald O'Connor …
other title: Cantando sotto la pioggia / Syng i sol og regn …
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.