The Fifties Saison 1

Single widow Alona is the mother of three children. Before she turns 50, Alona wants to do two things: sell the script for her dramedy series and sleep with a man ... - The irresistible Ilanit Ben-Yaakov ("Jellyfish", "Your Honor") plays the heroine of this Israeli dramedy series, which also turns out to be a moving portrait of women. [arte.tv]

A comedy about the 1950's. The general focus is put on the people and their habits that existed in the fifties...

Qi Hua, Wang Qi and Ke Long are childhood friends, although fast approaching their mid-fifties, they still kept the promise of cycling together to catch the sunrise on each other's birthday. Qi Hua is a doting husband and father who handles everything from household chores to bills. But that causes his wife and two children to be overly dependent on him. He becomes despondent with his family's neglect when he falls ill. What will he do to make them learn? Wang Qi is estranged from his son who blames the former for causing the death of his mother. Wang Qi may look unaffected but he has been secretly helping his son out whenever he can. Will his efforts win back his family? Ke Long is proud of his athletic body even at his age, but an injury makes him realizes that he cannot stay young forever, and his world starts to crumble. Does fifty really spells the end of a productive life? Or can these three friends press the restart button and turn their fifties into the new twenties?

The nostalgic retrospective of the time from a very candid perspective, over five chapters.

Nawaf sneaks into a house to steal, but he is forced to play a game with the homeowner to save himself from death.

Marion and Andi thought they were happily divorced until their old love unexpectedly reignites during a family vacation with their son Milan.

The S Club leaves Miami and heads to L.A., but on the way, they drive through a time-warp and end up in a small town in the 50’s. They meet a diner busboy who is being tormented by the local motorcycle gang, and decide to use their S Club powers to help out.

The Fabulous Fifties, CBS, combines style, humor, and imagination. It was rich in touches of quality showmanship and equally rich in the memories of a decade which it revived. In recognition, the Peabody Television Award for entertainment is presented to The Fabulous Fifties, with a special word of praise for producer Leland Hayward and the top talent which appeared in this memorable entertainment special*. *The two-hour special featured comic takes and commentary about the previous decade by, among others, Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Dick Van Dyke, Shelley Berman, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Jackie Gleason, Eric Severeid and Henry Fonda.

What happens in the mountains, stay in the mountains. Giant Mountains are truly the spice of local highlanders who live here, whether any season. Skier with one leg, the legendary womanizer adorned with infertility, the bartender with a penchant for divination... And Pavka, the oldest living member of a traditional cross-country Bulán family.

The Class 50s were the last passenger diesels built for British Rail and since their introduction in 1967 they have worked express services on three different regions. This programme takes a look back over the years to see the class hard at work on BR and also documents the survivors that made it into preservation plus the 1994 Farewell Railtours.

This short documentary chronicles Frank Sinatra's artistic evolution coming into the 1950's.

Archival footage and interviews with historians mark this fascinating documentary on the 1950s, based on David Halberstam's bestseller. Among the subjects covered: work and the family; the impact of TV; the Cold War; and the beginnings of the civil-rights movement and the sexual revolution.

This documentary was broadcast on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable channel to kick off the presentation of films related to TCM's theme of the month for September 2001. Actors Lee Grant and Paul Mazursky, producer Roger Corman, director John Carpenter, film critic Molly Haskell, and journalist Peter Biskind discuss the issues involved in six films of the 1950s. Topics include teenage loneliness, youth rebellion, changing gender roles, and the beginning of the sexual revolution.

In this Israeli comedy, the baker has half a winning lottery ticket, and his deceased partner has the other. In order to benefit from winning, somebody needs to put the two together. The baker searches stealthily for the missing half, so do the dead partner's son-in-law and a group of thieves who hear of this potential windfall. There is some slapstick as this group chases one or another of its member through the streets and shops of Tel-Aviv

New York in the Fifties is the story of a unique time and place, when New York was the hotbed of new artistic expressions, free love, drinking, hot jazz, and radical politics. The film combines stunning archival footage of New York with interviews and footage of icons of the day-Kerouac, Ginsberg, Baldwin, Mailer, Basie, etc. Offering modern day perspective and reminiscences are writers, actors, and artists such as Joan Didion, Robert Redford, Nat Hentoff, Gay and Nan Talese, John Gregory Dunne, William F. Buckley, and Calvin Trillin-all part of the rich cultural and artistic scene of the time. Based on the best-selling book by Dan Wakefield, the film also traces Wakefield's restless rebellion in conformist Indianapolis, and his escape to New York with dreams of writin ga novel, falling in love, meeting like-minded souls and questioning the meaning of life.

Samson sells a magazine on the streets of Düsseldorf called "Fifty-Fifty". Half the proceeds from each sale go to the magazine's homeless seller. It is the run-up to Christmas and his presence is far from welcome inside the posh new department store, 'Sevens', on Düsseldorf's upmarket shopping street, the "Kö".No sooner does he enter the store than he is shown the door again. Outside in the open air, the chilliest, darkest places await him. His is a fate that has become a commonplace occurrence; it is documented in this film without sentimentality or self-pity.

A Soviet KGB agents are trying to prevent British-American operation of stealing information about an important scientific project from USSR.