Movies by Year - 1953 (499)| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 49th Man, TheDuring the Cold War, the Defense Department's War Games team smuggles 48 nuclear bomb parts into the USA to test the nation's readiness for a subversive attack but an unexplained 49th bomb part mysteriously shows up. | 1953 | Fred F. Sears | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 5.9 (207 votes) | 73 | 20230424 |
| 99 River StreetA former boxer turned cab driver has to hide from the police when his badgering wife is murdered by the jewel thief she was having an affair with. | 1953 | Phil Karlson (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.4 (2.9K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| 5000 Fingers of Dr.T, TheA young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother. | 1953 | Roy Rowland | Family, Fantasy, Music, Romance | 6.8 (4.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Abbott And Costello Go To MarsTwo workmen accidentally launch a space rocket intended for Mars, and find mistakenly landing in New Orleans just the beginning of their misadventures. | 1953 | Charles Lamont | Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 6.0 (3.3K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Abbott And Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeTwo bumbling American cops hunt for the mysterious Mr. Hyde in London, England. | 1953 | Charles Lamont | Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 6.5 (4.6K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Act of Love [Un acte d'amour]A former soldier on holiday in the French Riviera recalls his time in France during WWII, and his love for a French peasant woman. | 1953 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Drama, War, Romance | 6.6 (532 votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Actress, TheThis is an account of the real life experience of actress/playwright Ruth Gordon. | 1953 | George Cukor (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (1.3K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Admiral UshakovHistorical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War. | 1953 | Mikhail Romm | Biography, Drama, History | 7.3 (222 votes) | 108 | 20240605 |
| Adultress, The [Thérèse Raquin]A truck driver kills the husband of the woman he loves, and becomes the object of blackmail. | 1953 | Marcel Carné (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (1.5K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Affair With a StrangerWhen a TV gossip columnist wrongly announces that the marriage between now successful playwright William Blakeley and his wife Carolyn is breaking up, New York friends variously reminisce about how the two met and married. | 1953 | Roy Rowland | Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance | 5.8 (490 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Affairs of Dobie Gillis, ThePansy is sent off broken-hearted to an eastern school, but with help from Happy Stella Kowalski's all-girl band, several hundred students, and an enraged police force, Dobie secures Pansy's return to Grainbelt. | 1953 | Don Weis | Comedy, Musical | 6.1 (678 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Ai margini della metropoliIn Rome a young man is falsely accused of killing his girlfriend. | 1953 | Carlo Lizzani, Massimo Mida | Crime, Drama | 6.2 (97 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| AidaAida, featuring the actress Sophia Loren, is a film adaptation of a theatre performance written by Verdi. The plot revolves around the character Radames who falls in love with what he thinks is a slave in a country his armies has con | 1953 | Clemente Fracassi | Musical | 5.2 (232 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Albert R. N. [Break to Freedom]In 1944, at a POW camp in Germany the Allied prisoners use a dummy prop named Albert to fool the German guards and escape. | 1953 | Lewis Gilbert | Drama, History, War | 6.8 (344 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| All American, TheNick Bonelli, quarterback for Mid-State, proves himself an All American in the championship, but his parents die in an auto accident coming to the game. Nick decides to transfer to Sheridan University to pursue his real interest of s | 1953 | Jesse Hibbs | Drama, Romance, Sport | 6.0 (275 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| All AshoreThree sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls. | 1953 | Richard Quine | Comedy, Musical | 5.0 (185 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| All I DesireIn 1910, a wayward mother re-visits the family she deserted. | 1953 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (1.9K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| All the Brothers Were ValiantIn the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls. | 1953 | Richard Thorpe | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (971 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Always a BrideVictor Hemsley and his daughter, Clare ply their trade at swanky Riviera resorts, where they pose as a married couple---hence the title---and he "disappears with all of her savings" and sympathetic money contributions pour in on her | 1953 | Ralph Smart | Comedy | 6.0 (202 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Amei um BicheiroIntent on offering his fiancée a better life, countryman heads for Rio de Janeiro in search of a place in the sun. With no contacts in the big city, he gets involved with the crime underworld connected with illegal betting. | 1953 | Jorge Ileli, Paulo Wanderley | Crime, Drama | 7.5 (96 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| AnatahanIn June 1944, twelve Japanese seaman are stranded on an abandoned-and-forgotten island called Ana-ta-han for seven years. | 1953 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Drama, History, War | 7.0 (1.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Angel FaceAmbulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne. | 1953 | Otto Preminger (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.2 (7.7K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Anna's Sin [Il peccato di Anna]This is the story of an American Negro Actor who goes to Italy to play Othello and falls in love with his Desdemona. | 1953 | Camillo Mastrocinque | Drama | 5.8 (7 votes) | 0 | 20240121 |
| Appointment in HondurasA wealthy American couple are hostages on an arduous jungle journey. | 1953 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Adventure, Crime, Thriller | 5.6 (587 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| ArenaRodeo rider's marriage is endangered because of his commitment to the sport. | 1953 | Richard Fleischer | Drama, Sport, Western | 5.3 (309 votes) | 83 | 20240622 |
| ArrowheadChief of Scouts Ed Bannon works for the US Army at Fort Clark, Texas and he dreams of aiding in bringing peace to the region, despite opposition from both the Army and the Apaches. | 1953 | Charles Marquis Warren | Drama, Romance, Western | 5.9 (1.4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| As Long as You're Near Me [Solange Du da bist]An actress used to playing only bit parts becomes the center of attention when a movie director buys her life story as a film project, she is now faced with a psychological crisis. | 1953 | Harald Braun | Drama | 7.2 (70 votes) | 90 | 20240820 |
| Assignation, TheLong considered lost, THE ASSIGNATION was Curtis Harrington's first color film. It was shot in Venice, Italy, and follows a masked figure through the labyrinthine canals of the city, building to a spectacular climax. | 1953 | Curtis Harrington | Short, Drama | 5.8 (217 votes) | 8 | 20240709 |
| Back to God's CountryIn north-western Canada,in the 1870s,American schooner captain Peter Keith hopes to return to America with a cargo of furs before winter but two local crooks plan to steal Keith's cargo,boat and wife. | 1953 | Joseph Pevney | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western | 5.8 (210 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Bad Blonde [The Flanagan Boy]A scheming blonde seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager. | 1953 | Reginald Le Borg | Drama, Sport | 5.8 (305 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Bad For Each OtherA doctor returning from the Korean War to his hometown in Pennsylvania must choose what next to do with his life | 1953 | Irving Rapper | Drama | 5.8 (611 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Band Wagon, TheA pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition. | 1953 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.5 (11.1K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Bandits of CorsicaSiamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link - each feels the other's pain and happiness. | 1953 | Ray Nazarro | Adventure | 5.5 (113 votes) | 81 | 20220315 |
| BarabbasThe story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place. | 1953 | Alf Sjöberg | Biography, Drama, History | 6.1 (116 votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Battle CircusSet in Korea and made during the war, this is the love story of a hard-bitten Army surgeon, and a new nurse ready to save the world. | 1953 | Richard Brooks | Drama, Romance, War | 6.0 (1.6K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Beast From 20,000 FathomsA ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City. | 1953 | Eugène Lourié | Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.7 (7.7K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Beat the DevilOn their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen... | 1953 | John Huston (*) | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (8.9K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Beautiful But DangerousA wealthy heiress returns to a small Arkansas town to furtively reward the townsfolk who helped to save her life when she was a young girl. | 1953 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 (709 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Beggar's Opera, TheWhen the composer of an opera about a swashbuckling, wenching highwayman meets his hero's real-life counterpart, he's disappointed with his lack of dash. | 1953 | Peter Brook | Crime, History, Musical | 6.1 (368 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Ben and MeA mouse tells the story of how he guided Benjamin Franklin to success and prominence. | 1953 | Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family | 7.4 (1K votes) | 21 | 20240622 |
| Beneath the 12-Mile ReefFierce competition among sponge fishermen forces a Greek-American family to fish in the dangerous 12-mile reef area off the western coast of Florida. | 1953 | Robert D. Webb | Adventure, Drama | 5.7 (1.4K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Big Heat, TheTough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate. | 1953 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.9 (26K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Big LeaguerJohn Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the hopefuls to pick the best for a minor league contract. They all have dreams and talent, but the elimination whittles them down to a luc | 1953 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Drama, Family, Sport | 6.0 (409 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Bigamist, TheA man secretly married to two women feels the pressure of his deceit. | 1953 | Ida Lupino (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 6.8 (3.7K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Black Vampire, The [El vampiro negro]This clever "feminist" reworking of Fritz Lang's classic M focuses on the mothers of children stalked by a deranged pedophile. | 1953 | Román Viñoly Barreto | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 7.3 (158 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Blowing WildIn South America, when Jeff Dawson and Dutch Peterson's oil rigs are dynamited by local bandits, the two partners resort to risky transportation of nitroglycerin to raise money. | 1953 | Hugo Fregonese | Action, Adventure, Drama, Western | 6.4 (981 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Blue Gardenia, TheA telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a cad in his apartment. The next morning she wakes up with a hangover and the terrible fear she may be a murderess. | 1953 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (5.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Blue Parrot, TheA London Soho nightclub is the focus for an undercover investigation into the murder of a small-time crook. | 1953 | John Harlow | Crime, Drama | 5.4 (211 votes) | 69 | 20240515 |
| Blueprint for Murder, AWhitney Cameron suspects his sister-in-law has poisoned his brother and niece, but without proof how does he prevent the murder of his nephew? | 1953 | Andrew L. Stone | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (1.5K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Booty And The BeastThe stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the stooges go ... | 1953 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 6.7 (309 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
| Boy and the Fog, The [El niño y la niebla]Marta (Dolores del Río) es una mujer que vive obsesionada, ya que su madre y su hermano murieron de esquizofrenia. Temerosa de que la enfermedad sea congénita, sobreprotege hasta el extremo a su único hijo (Alejandro Ciangherotti ... | 1953 | Roberto Gavaldón | Drama, Mystery | 7.2 (99 votes) | 111 | 20230126 |
| Bread, Love and Dreams [Pane Amore e Fantasia]When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky". | 1953 | Luigi Comencini | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 (1.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Bright RoadBased on the story, See How They Run (The Ladies' Home Journal June 51), and subsequently won that year's Christopher award. The story was written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, a 4th generation schoolteacher from the British West Indies. | 1953 | Gerald Mayer | Drama, Music | 6.6 (630 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Broken Horseshoe, TheA hit and run victim is operated on by Dr. Fenton (Robert Beatty) who becomes implicated after his patient is later murdered. | 1953 | Martyn C. Webster | Crime | 5.6 (118 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Brutality [Flucht ins Schilf]On IMDb TV, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free! | 1953 | Kurt Steinwendner | Drama | 6.3 (25 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Bubble TroubleThe stooges run a local drug store and are about to have their lease taken away by Amos Flint, the mean old man who owns the place. When Flint kicks out his wife for being old, the stooges try to help her by inventing a formula th... | 1953 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 6.9 (345 votes) | 17 | 20240224 |
| By the Light of the Silvery MoonMarjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family. | 1953 | David Butler | Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance | 7.1 (2.2K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Caddy, TheAlthough gifted golfer Harvey Miller is too nervous to golf in public tournaments, he acts as coach and caddy for friend Joe Anthony. | 1953 | Norman Taurog | Comedy, Musical, Sport | 6.5 (2.1K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Calamity JaneThe story of Calamity Jane, her saloon, and her romance with Wild Bill Hickok. | 1953 | David Butler | Musical, Romance, Western | 7.3 (9.6K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Call Me MadamWashington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy. | 1953 | Walter Lang | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Call of Destiny, The [L'appel du destin]Young conductor Roberto Lombardini has never known his father who is actually a former musician, a failed piano player who has sunk into alcoholism. | 1953 | Georges Lacombe | Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical | 7.2 (26 votes) | 100 | 20230328 |
| Cangaceiro [O Cangaceiro]'Capitão', a bandit, terrorizes poor villages in the Northeast region of Brazil, looting and frequently killing with his armed gang, until he kidnaps and becomes attracted to a beautiful schoolteacher, creating discord in his group. | 1953 | Lima Barreto | Action, Drama, History, Western | 7.4 (608 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Captain John Smith and PocahontasCaptain John Smith overcomes the treachery of some of his men and resentment of the local Native Americans to establish the colony of Jamestown. | 1953 | Lew Landers | Drama, History, Romance | 4.4 (166 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Captain Slipper [Capitaine Pantoufle]A bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss' watchful eye. His missus is a pain in the neck and his in-laws are not any better. | 1953 | Guy Lefranc | Comedy | 5.9 (59 votes) | 101 | 20240826 |
| Captain's Paradise, TheThe captain of a ferry boat between the restricted British colony in Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco has a woman of differing appeal and temperament in each port. | 1953 | Anthony Kimmins | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 (1.7K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Caroline CherieCaroline de Bienre, the 16-year-old daughter of French nobility, meets the handsome rogue, Gaston de Sallanches, who is expected to ask for the hand of her older, plainer sister in marriage. Gaston instead joins Caroline in her secre | 1953 | Jean Devaivre | Romance, War | 4.9 (66 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Cat Women of the MoonAstronauts travel to the moon where they discover it is inhabited by attractive young women in black tights. | 1953 | Arthur Hilton | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 4.0 (1.8K votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Champ for a DayAn up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favored Frankie Sebastian. George arrives but his manager Dolan is nowhere to be foun... | 1953 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sport | 5.6 (64 votes) | 90 | 20240306 |
| Charge at Feather River, TheIn Colorado territory, Miles Archer is asked by the cavalry at Fort Bellows to aid in rescuing two white women abducted by the Cheyenne and to provide security for the railroad construction teams. | 1953 | Gordon Douglas | Action, Western | 6.3 (602 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| City Beneath the SeaTwo American divers are distracted by fair ladies and skulduggery while trying to salvage a gold ship off Jamaica. | 1953 | Budd Boetticher | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 5.4 (545 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| City of Bad MenAfter six years spent in Mexico a penniless Brett Stanton and his gang return to Carson City intending to make a quick dishonest buck. | 1953 | Harmon Jones | Western | 6.1 (314 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| City That Never SleepsJohnny Kelly, who plans on resigning from the police force and leaving his wife the next day, has a very eventful last night on duty. | 1953 | John H. Auer | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (1.4K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Clipped WingsSlip and Sach to go the local Air Force base to find out why their friend, an Air Force enlisted man, is in the stockade and charged with treason. Mistaking a recruiting office for a visitors office, they inadvertently enlist in the | 1953 | Edward Bernds | Comedy, Family | 6.2 (285 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Clown, TheOnce a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn, is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement parks as a result of his drinking. His son Little Dink idolizes Dodo and faithfully believes in a comeback. He persuades "Uncle" Goldie | 1953 | Robert Z. Leonard | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 (405 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Code TwoThe adventures of motorcycle cops, from their academy days, to chasing crooked truckers. | 1953 | Fred M. Wilcox (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (429 votes) | 69 | 20220414 |
| Column SouthBefore the Civil War, Lt. Jed Sayre's efforts to conciliate the cavalry and the Navajo are undermined by his racist C.O. and Confederate sympathizers. | 1953 | Frederick De Cordova | Western | 6.3 (654 votes) | 84 | 20221116 |
| Condemned Ones, The [Condenados]Aurelia is a Mancha's peasant who can barely keep up her husband's estate while he's in prison for murder. When Juan enters her service as a farmhand, the land begins to regain its former glory--and the boy feels increasingly attract | 1953 | Manuel Mur Oti | Drama | 7.1 (76 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Confidentially ConnieTexas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds | 1953 | Edward Buzzell | Comedy, Family | 5.7 (292 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Conquest of CochiseA cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is being prodded into starting a war. | 1953 | William Castle | Western | 5.5 (315 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Conquest Of Everest, TheDocumentary that covers the famous and successful expedition of the Everest conquest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers to reach its peak. | 1953 | George Lowe | Documentary, Adventure | 7.2 (582 votes) | 78 | 20220414 |
| Count the Hours!Lawyer defends migrant worker falsely accused of two murders. | 1953 | Don Siegel (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.2 (530 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Country Doctor, TheA country doctor makes an emergency visit to a sick patient. | 1953 | Lorenza Mazzetti | Short | 6.0 (7 votes) | 11 | 20240622 |
| Cow CountryIn 1875, the collapse of the world beef market creates hardships for Texas cattle growers. In Garnet Basin, many cattlemen are forced to sell their cattle for low prices. Processed in rendering plants, they're only used for their ... | 1953 | Lesley Selander | Western | 6.2 (219 votes) | 82 | 20240110 |
| Crime Wave {The City is Dark}Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. | 1953 | André De Toth | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.3 (3.8K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Crimson Curtain, The [Le Rideau Cramoisi]Albertine is a young woman full of grace. She pursues a forbidden relationship. | 1953 | Alexandre Astruc | Short, Drama | 7.3 (119 votes) | 44 | 20211228 |
| Cruel Sea, TheThe World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers. | 1953 | Charles Frend | Drama, War | 7.5 (4.5K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Cruisin' Down the RiverBeaurefard Clemment, a New York night club crooner, inherits a broken-down Georgia showboat. He decides to turn it into a nightclub. He falls in love with Sally Jane, the granddaughter of Thadeus Jackson, arch enemy of Beau's late gr | 1953 | Richard Quine | Musical | 6.7 (51 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Cry of the HuntedA fugitive is pursued by a lawman who is obsessed with his capture. | 1953 | Joseph H. Lewis (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.2 (422 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Dangerous CrossingWhen a beautiful bride boards an ocean liner with her new husband, he goes into hiding, and she becomes the target of a murder conspiracy. | 1953 | Joseph M. Newman | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (2K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Dangerous When WetA young woman enters a contest to be the first to swim the English Channel. | 1953 | Charles Walters, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Animation, Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.3 (948 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Dangerous Youth [Farlig ungdom]Egon, a young man from Jutland living with relatives in Copenhagen, meets sensible young girl Ruth and falls in love. But Egon is involved with a gang of criminals, and when they assault a man they meet in a bar they are caught by... | 1953 | Lau Lauritzen | Crime, Drama | 5.8 (90 votes) | 104 | 20240614 |
| Day to Remember, AA group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures. | 1953 | Ralph Thomas | Drama | 6.8 (229 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Deadly NightshadeEscapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful. | 1953 | John Gilling | Crime, Drama | 6.5 (193 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Death Goes To SchoolA Teacher is murdered at an all girls school. Police investigate and discover that the staff room is full of suspects. | 1953 | Stephen Clarkson | Mystery | 6.0 (220 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Decameron NightsThe main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa where she and five other women---The Contessa | 1953 | Hugo Fregonese | Drama, Adventure, Romance | 5.4 (271 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Desert LegionPaul Lartal of the Foreign Legion meets the princess of a lost city in the Algerian mountains. | 1953 | Joseph Pevney | Adventure | 5.5 (382 votes) | 86 | 20230728 |
| Desert Rats, TheRichard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them. | 1953 | Robert Wise (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, War | 6.7 (4.9K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Desert Song, TheShiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attac | 1953 | H. Bruce Humberstone | Musical, Romance | 6.2 (481 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Desperate MomentSimon Van Halder (Sir Dirk Bogarde) is accused of murdering a British soldier during post-World War II mayhem. His girlfriend works on his behalf to expose the true villain. | 1953 | Compton Bennett | Crime, Drama, Thriller, War | 6.7 (170 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Destination GobiIn 1944, US Navy specialists run a weather station in the Gobi desert where they are harassed by Japanese warplanes but aided by local Mongol nomads. | 1953 | Robert Wise (*) | Adventure, Drama, War | 6.2 (966 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Devil's CanyonIn 1897 Arizona, an ex-marshal is sent to the territorial prison where many of his enemies, among guards and inmates alike, are eager for a chance at payback. | 1953 | Alfred L. Werker | Western | 5.3 (433 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Diamond Queen, TheIn 1659, jeweler Gabriel Tavernier miscuts a diamond meant to surmount the coronation crown of Louis XIV. He's thrown into prison and his son, Jean, is sent to India, along with the Baron Paul de Cabannes, to procure a replacement... | 1953 | John Brahm | Adventure, Romance | 4.8 (113 votes) | 80 | 20240609 |
| Donovan's BrainThree scientists unlawfully remove the still living brain of a dead tycoon and experiment with it but the evil brain begins to telepathically control the lead scientist. | 1953 | Felix E. Feist | Sci-Fi, Horror | 6.0 (1.5K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Dracula in Istanbul [Drakula Istanbul'da]Azmi is a lawyer from Istanbul. Drakula of Romania has assumed a new title. Azmi travels to Romania for legal matters. He is warned of Drakula but Azmi is a strong believer of goodness. | 1953 | Mehmet Muhtar | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 6.4 (448 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Dream WifeA business tycoon decides to wed a Middle Eastern princess whose customs dictate the pair must live apart for several months before marrying. Even more complications settle in when the tycoon's ex-fiancée is assigned to chaperone the | 1953 | Sidney Sheldon | Comedy, Romance | 6.0 (2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Dva mrazíciTwo mischievous frost spirits make things chilly for a pair of travelers in this wintry comic folktale. | 1953 | Jirí Trnka | Short, Animation, Comedy | 7.4 (100 votes) | 26 | 20211228 |
| Eager to Live [Febbre di vivere]The crisis of conscience among the youth of post World War II Italy, with their new moral and cultural values, in opposition to the traditional spiritual values of a previous generation. | 1953 | Claudio Gora | Drama | 6.6 (55 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Earrings of Madame De..., TheWhen an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despa | 1953 | Max Ophüls (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (9.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Easy to LoveAn Aquatic performer tries to attract the man she loves. | 1953 | Charles Walters (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.3 (649 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Eaux d'ArtificeA man dressed in an elegant period dress wanders through the water gardens at the Villa d'Este. | 1953 | Kenneth Anger (*) | Short | 6.9 (1.6K votes) | 12 | 20211228 |
| Eddie Cantor Story, TheEddie Cantor and his wife Ida arrive at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California, for a private screening of The Eddie Cantor Story . Just before the film rolls, Cantor whispers, "Ida, I've never been so nervous in all my life." T | 1953 | Alfred E. Green | Biography, Drama, Music | 5.7 (189 votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Edge of Divorce [Background]In post-war London, upper-middle class barrister John Lomax and his wife Barbie decide after several years of constant bickering to divorce. They underestimate the effect of their announcement on their three children, who assume that | 1953 | Daniel Birt | Drama | 6.4 (53 votes) | 83 | 20220414 |
| El BrutoA tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished. | 1953 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Drama | 7.3 (2K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Empty Eyes [Il sole negli occhi]A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she ma... | 1953 | Antonio Pietrangeli | Drama | 7.1 (190 votes) | 98 | 20220723 |
| Epitome [Shukuzu]Shusei Tokuda's starkly realistic novel about a poor girl pressed into becoming a geisha was forcefully adapted by Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba). When Ginko (Nobuko Otowa, Shindo's wife) falls in love with one of her clients, she is handil | 1953 | Kaneto Shindô (*) | Drama | 7.2 (86 votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Escape by NightAn Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story. | 1953 | John Gilling | Crime, Drama | 5.8 (109 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Escape from Fort BravoDuring the Civil War, a group of Confederates escapes from the Union POW camp at Fort Bravo but has to contend with the desert, the Mescalero Apaches and the pursuing Union troops. | 1953 | John Sturges (*) | Western | 6.7 (2.7K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Fair Wind to JavaIn 1883, an American merchant ship's captain is searching for a treasure in diamonds from a sunken Dutch ship in the vicinity of a volcanic island in the Dutch East Indies. | 1953 | Joseph Kane | Action, Adventure, Drama | 5.7 (404 votes) | 92 | 20240419 |
| Fake, TheOn loan to the Tate Gallery in London, Da Vinci's 'Madonna and Child' is stolen and replaced with a fake but the American security expert working for Tate aims to recover the original painting and catch the culprits. | 1953 | Godfrey Grayson | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.1 (348 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Fangs of the ArcticCanadian Mounties Corporal Rod Webb and Constable Mike Kelly, along with Rod's dog Chinook, are sent to the Blackfoot Crossing country to find the killer of trapper Antonie Dubois, and also to investigate reports of illegal deals in | 1953 | Rex Bailey | Adventure | 5.9 (31 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Farmer Takes a Wife, TheA romantic triangle develops on Erie Canal boats in 1850. | 1953 | Henry Levin | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 5.3 (170 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Fast CompanyThe temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father's stable, she inherited. Rick Grayton is a horse racing trainer who lucked into training a champ, the horse 'Gay Fleet'. Only nobody knows 'Gay Fleet | 1953 | John Sturges (*) | Comedy | 5.2 (177 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Father of Four [Far til Fire]Denmarks most popular film family is ready. Ole has some problems at school and Søs feels like she has to take action, but her actions doesn't come without consequences | 1953 | Alice O'Fredericks | Comedy, Family | 6.2 (548 votes) | 97 | 20221116 |
| Fear and DesireFour soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires. | 1953 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Drama, Thriller, War | 5.4 (11.4K votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Femmes de ParisIt all begins when astronomer Charles spots a heretofore undiscovered exploding star while peering through is telescope. While calling his colleagues with the news, Charles inadvertently eavesdrops on a young girl, threatening suicid | 1953 | Jean Boyer | Comedy, Musical, Mystery | 6.1 (40 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Final Test, TheSam Palmer is a cricketer about to play the final test match of his career. His schoolboy son Reggie is a budding poet who disappoints him by not attending the penultimate day's play. Unexpectedly, Reggie is invited to the home of... | 1953 | Anthony Asquith | Comedy, Drama, Sport | 6.6 (247 votes) | 84 | 20240419 |
| Flame of CalcuttaIndian woman stands up for her people in 1750s India. | 1953 | Seymour Friedman | Adventure, Action, Romance | 5.2 (59 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Flight NurseDuring the Korean War, a United States Air Force nurse with the Medical Air Evacuation Unit flies on C-47 transport aircraft based in Japan where she ferries servicemen wounded in combat. | 1953 | Allan Dwan | Biography, Drama, War | 5.3 (156 votes) | 90 | 20240622 |
| Flight to TangierDuring the Cold War, a mysterious plane carrying $3 million arrives at Tangier airport, and various interested parties try to grab the cash. | 1953 | Charles Marquis Warren | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 5.3 (372 votes) | 90 | 20240622 |
| ForbiddenEddie Darrow, seeking a mobster's widow in Macao, gets involved in a casino owner's affairs. | 1953 | Rudolph Maté | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 6.5 (448 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Forever FemaleAn aging actress refuses to admit she is too old to play the ingénue role anymore. | 1953 | Irving Rapper | Comedy | 6.6 (558 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Fort AlgiersIn northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers. | 1953 | Lesley Selander | Action, Adventure, Drama | 5.4 (193 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Fort VengeanceTwo American brothers chased by a posse cross into Canada and join the Canadian North-West Mounted Police at the height of the Sioux-American war. | 1953 | Lesley Selander | Western | 5.7 (272 votes) | 75 | 20230328 |
| Four Sided TriangleBill and Robin, helped by their childhood friend, Lena, develop a "reproducer" which can exactly duplicate any object. Bill, crushed when Lena marries Robin, convinces her to allow him to duplicate her, so that he may have a copy of | 1953 | Terence Fisher (*) | Romance, Sci-Fi | 5.8 (696 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Francis Covers the Big TownA man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial. | 1953 | Arthur Lubin | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Romance | 6.6 (320 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Françoise Steps Out [Rue de l'Estrapade]While Henri Laurent speeds along on the racing circuits, his pretty wife Françoise goes from luxury boutique to luxury boutique with her best friend Denise. One day, Denise lets her know that Henri has a lover. Outraged, Françoise mo | 1953 | Jacques Becker (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 (310 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| French Line, TheWhen her fiancé leaves her, an oil heiress takes a cruise incognito in order to find a man who will love her for herself and not for her money. | 1953 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 5.3 (596 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Frine Courtesan of Orient [Frine, cortigiana d'Oriente]nan | 1953 | Mario Bonnard | Drama, History | 6.1 (30 votes) | 101 | 20221116 |
| From Here To EternityAt a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair. | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.6 (45.9K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Funniest Show on Earth [Il più comico spettacolo del mondo]A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the jealousy of three women and even by a policeman. | 1953 | Mario Mattoli | Comedy | 6.4 (65 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Gate Of Hell [Jigokumon]A samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting. | 1953 | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Drama, History | 7.2 (3.6K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Geisha, A [Gion bayashi]A seasoned geisha and her apprentice maiko are forced to give in to their clients' sexual advances to survive. | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi (*) | Drama | 7.6 (2.1K votes) | 85 | 20220414 |
| GenevieveTwo British couples pit their vintage automobiles against each other in an exciting cross-country race. | 1953 | Henry Cornelius | Comedy | 7.1 (3.1K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Gentlemen Prefer BlondesShowgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers. | 1953 | Howard Hawks (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.2 (35.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| GeraldineJaney Edwards, working for Cambria Records, is managing the personal appearance tour of sobbing songster Billy Weber, and Janey is disgusted when Billy leaves her at Santa Fe College with orders to get the rights, by hook or crook... | 1953 | R.G. Springsteen | Comedy, Music, Romance | 5.6 (61 votes) | 90 | 20230424 |
| Girl Next Door, TheStage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird (June Haver) buys her first home, and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to be blinded by smoke from next door. Jeannie charges next door to bawl out her new neighbor a | 1953 | Richard Sale | Comedy, Musical | 6.2 (256 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Girl on the Pier, TheA London copper and his family on holiday, a Yank gangster/crooner, a junior journalist, a waxworks horror museum owner and his unfaithful dolly bird wife congregate on Brighton's Palace Pier for blackmail and murder. | 1953 | Lance Comfort | Crime | 6.0 (76 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Girl on the Roof, The [Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach]Actress Patty O'Neill meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and accepts his invitation to join him for drinks and dinner in his apartment. | 1953 | Otto Preminger (*) | Comedy | 5.8 (91 votes) | 90 | 20230126 |
| Girl on the RunPolice investigate a murder that occurred in a burlesque theater. | 1953 | Arthur J. Beckhard, Joseph Lee | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery | 5.2 (198 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Girl Who Had Everything, TheAttorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients. | 1953 | Richard Thorpe | Romance, Drama | 5.6 (699 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Girls' Dormitory [Dortoir des grandes]Detective Marco is assigned to investigate a murder that has occurred at an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls. The victim is a popular, wealthy girl found strangled in her bed. The school director tells Marco she expects | 1953 | Henri Decoin | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.7 (115 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Girls in the NightA family's efforts to move out of a slum area into a better neighborhood is hampered when their son is accused of the murder of a local blind beggar. | 1953 | Jack Arnold | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.0 (78 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Girls of Pleasure Island, TheIn the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet, along with the housekeeper, Thelma, who ha | 1953 | Alvin Ganzer, F. Hugh Herbert | Comedy, Romance | 5.9 (148 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Give a Girl a BreakThe star of an upcoming Broadway production, Janet Hallson, walks out during rehersals. The producers of the show, Ted Sturgis, Leo Belney and Bob Dowdy begin to search a replacement. After a quick audition, each favors someone else: | 1953 | Stanley Donen (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.3 (668 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Glad TidingsColonel's adult children object to him marrying an American widow. | 1953 | Wolf Rilla | Comedy, Drama | 5.3 (45 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Glass Wall, ThePeter, a WW II 'displaced person' about to be deported, jumps ship in New York harbor in an effort to find an ex-G.I named Tom whom he helped during the war and can prove Peter's right to legal entry in the United States. It is a rac | 1953 | Maxwell Shane | Drama, Film-Noir | 6.8 (1K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Glass Web, TheA beautiful but heartless television actress, uses seduction and tricks to blackmail the men in her life to a point, where she could get herself killed. | 1953 | Jack Arnold | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.6 (404 votes) | 81 | 20220806 |
| Glen or GlendaA psychiatrist tells the stories of a transvestite (Glen or Glenda) and a pseudohermaphrodite (Alan or Anne). | 1953 | Edward D. Wood Jr. | Drama | 4.2 (8.5K votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Glory Brigade, TheDuring the Korean War, an American unit of combat engineers must work with Greek troops in order to perform a reconnaissance mission behind Communist lines. | 1953 | Robert D. Webb | Action, Drama, War | 6.0 (323 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Golden Blade, TheBasra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One Nights. | 1953 | Nathan Juran | Adventure | 5.7 (733 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Golden Mask, The [South of Algiers]A British Museum archaeologist is searching for an ancient golden mask buried in a Roman tomb in Algeria but tomb robbers follow the academic in the hope of stealing the precious relic. | 1953 | Jack Lee | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 5.3 (269 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Good Beginning, TheA struggling pen-pusher and his wife envy the casual, live-now-pay-later lifestyle of their irresponsible friends. | 1953 | Gilbert Gunn | Drama | 6.2 (15 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Good Lord Without Confession [Le bon Dieu sans confession]Based on the novel by Paul Vialar. Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man's wife. | 1953 | Claude Autant-Lara | Drama | 6.1 (108 votes) | 105 | 20220315 |
| Goof On The RoofThe Stooges take care of a house while their friend is getting married. Their friend wants them to get a TV and have an antenna installed on the house. The Stooges have a great idea. They decide to install the TV themselves and sa... | 1953 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 7.5 (376 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
| Grand National Night [Wicked Wife]After race horse trainer Gerald Coates' (Nigel Patrick) horse wins the Grand National, his wife comes home drunk, and the two of them have a violent argument, and she is accidentally killed. Coates insists that she didn't come home a | 1953 | Bob McNaught | Crime, Thriller | 6.7 (198 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Great Adventure, The [Det stora äventyret]A year in the lives of the animals living near a small Swedish farm. | 1953 | Arne Sucksdorff | Drama, Family | 6.9 (270 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Great Game, TheThe wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job. | 1953 | Maurice Elvey | Comedy, Drama, Sport | 6.3 (95 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Great Jesse James Raid, TheThe famed outlaw is talked into saddling up for one more bank robbery. | 1953 | Reginald Le Borg | Western | 4.9 (85 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Great Sioux Uprising, TheDuring the Civil War, Southern agitators and a crooked horse dealer endanger the peace between the Union and the Wyoming Sioux. | 1953 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Western | 5.6 (319 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Guerrilla GirlDuring World War 2, a beautiful, brave, deadly woman helps to fight against communist in the Greek Civil War. | 1953 | Giannis Hristodoulou | Thriller, War, Drama | 4.6 (63 votes) | 82 | 20230619 |
| Gun FuryIn Arizona, Frank Slayton's gang robs a stagecoach and kidnaps Ben Warren's fiancée, prompting Warren to pursue Slayton. | 1953 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Western | 6.0 (1.5K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| GunsmokeA young gunslinger tries to help a rancher and his daughter save their land and cattle from an evil, wealthy land owner. | 1953 | Nathan Juran | Western | 6.7 (1.1K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Half a HeroMagazine writer copes with modern life in the suburbs, stressing about the expenses. Then his editor assigns an article calling the suburbs the slums of tomorrow. His research yields interesting conclusions. | 1953 | Don Weis | Comedy | 5.8 (236 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Hannah Lee - An American PrimitiveProfessional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle is sent to investigate, saloon owner Hallie becomes a reluctant witness. | 1953 | Lee Garmes, John Ireland | Western | 6.3 (76 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Have Mercy [Ismail and Abdel Meet Frankenstein; Haram alek]Arabic-language remake of 'Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein'. | 1953 | Isa Karamah | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 5.8 (105 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Heart of the Matter, TheAn unhappily married British security officer stationed in Sierra Leone during World War II falls in love with a young Austrian woman and starts an affair. He soon starts feeling guilty. | 1953 | George More O'Ferrall | Crime, Drama | 6.7 (460 votes) | 100 | 20220414 |
| Heights of DangerProduced by Howard Thomas for the British Pathe Documentary Unit in 1953. A big garage profiteer seeks to sabotage a British father and his children's chances of winning an Alpine motor car rally, the 500 pounds prize money from whic | 1953 | Peter Bradford | Drama | 5.5 (14 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Hell Raiders of the Deep [I sette dell'orsa maggiore]A team of Italian divers plan to attach high explosives to the hulls of Royal Navy ships at anchor in Gibraltar harbour. | 1953 | Duilio Coletti | Drama, War | 6.5 (40 votes) | 93 | 20231101 |
| Here Come the GirlsA clumsy, full-of-himself chorus boy gets a chance at Broadway stardom when he's a stand in for a leading actor threatened by an infamous killer. | 1953 | Claude Binyon | Comedy, Musical | 5.9 (382 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Hidden in the Fog [I dimma dold]Lora is driving away from her life. At the same time her husband is found dead in their villa. | 1953 | Lars-Eric Kjellgren | Crime, Mystery | 6.2 (288 votes) | 88 | 20240727 |
| Himeyuri Lily Tower [Himeyuri no Tô]High school girls, impressed to provide nursing care for the soldiers on Okinawa, find themselves on the front line during fierce onslaughts by American forces and are left to fend for themselves when the Japanese army dissolves. | 1953 | Tadashi Imai | Drama, War | 7.1 (93 votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| HiroshimaBrilliant and extremely realistic retelling of the day in Hiroshima that the bomb dropped and following days. | 1953 | Hideo Sekigawa | Drama, War | 7.5 (443 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Hitch-Hiker, TheTwo fishermen pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over. | 1953 | Ida Lupino (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.0 (8.6K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| HokusaiA documentary about the life and art of wood-block artist Katsushika Hokusai. | 1953 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | Documentary, Short, Biography | 6.6 (324 votes) | 23 | 20211228 |
| HondoArmy dispatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and young son living in the midst of warring Apaches and becomes their protector. | 1953 | John Farrow | Drama, Romance, War, Western | 7.1 (10.6K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Horse's Mouth, The [The Oracle]An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar. | 1953 | C.M. Pennington-Richards | Comedy, Fantasy | 6.5 (70 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Hostile Whirlwinds [Vikhri vrazhdebnye]nan | 1953 | Mikhail Kalatozov (*) | Biography, Drama | 6.3 (78 votes) | 103 | 20240511 |
| Hot NewsAfter fighter Jim O'Hara is killed during a bout against a much heavier opponent, Mark Miller, a former boxer who left the profession to become a sportswriter, learns that a gambling ring led by Dano Rizzo forced Jim into the unfair | 1953 | Edward Bernds | Action, Crime, Drama, Sport | 5.2 (33 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| HoudiniFrom his beginnings as a "wildman" carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an ice-jammed river, the great Harry Houdini emerged as the world's most captivating magician and escape artist. | 1953 | George Marshall (*) | Biography, Drama | 6.8 (3.4K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| House of the Arrow, TheA rich old lady dies in bed and leaves all of her money to her recently adopted daughter, who is quickly accused and exonerated of her murder. But that most British of questions remains. Who dunnit? (1953; B&W) | 1953 | Michael Anderson | Mystery | 6.5 (142 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| House of WaxAn associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous. | 1953 | André De Toth | Horror | 7.1 (17.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| How to Marry a MillionaireThree women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process. | 1953 | Jean Negulesco | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (22K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Husband and Wife [Fûfu]A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife. | 1953 | Mikio Naruse (*) | Drama | 7.0 (167 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Husband for Anna, A [Un marito per Anna Zaccheo]Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for ... | 1953 | Giuseppe De Santis | Drama | 6.9 (141 votes) | 95 | 20230728 |
| I ConfessA priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional. | 1953 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (20.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| I Dont Care Girl, TheThis semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jess | 1953 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Biography, Musical | 6.3 (208 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| I Love MelvinMelvin, a photographer for Look magazine, meets Judy and he wants to marry her. Her father is against that and as a last resort, Melvin promises to get Judy's photo on the cover of the next issue, a task easier said than done. | 1953 | Don Weis | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.6 (902 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| I Vitelloni A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy. | 1953 | Federico Fellini (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.9 (17.9K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| I Was a Parish Priest [La guerra de Dios]1930: Andrés, a young priest just out of the seminary, is intended to the imaginary village of Aldemoz, a poor mining parish. There will try by all means to end, through the Gospel, the justified anger of the miners, who live in a bl | 1953 | Rafael Gil | Drama | 7.1 (67 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| I, the JuryDectective Mike Hammer is determined to catch and kill the person who shot his close friend dead, so he follows clues that lead to a beautiful, seductive woman. | 1953 | Harry Essex | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.1 (404 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Indiscretion of an American WifePrior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini. | 1953 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (2.8K votes) | 63 | 20220414 |
| InfernoA tough, hard-driving business tycoon suffers a broken leg and is left to die in the desert by his scheming wife and her greedy lover. | 1953 | Roy Ward Baker | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.1 (1.4K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Inlet of Muddy Water, An [Nigorie]Story 1 : "The Thirteenth Night". Seki turns up at her parents' house in the dead of night, where she breaks down and says she cannot continue to live with her husband, a rich man to whom the family is indebted. After a tearful and l | 1953 | Tadashi Imai | Drama | 7.2 (132 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Innocents in ParisA weekend trip to Paris affects the lives of a group of British tourists. | 1953 | Gordon Parry | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 5.9 (435 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Intruder, TheEx regimental commander Colonel Merton catches one of his former NCOs burgling his house and investigates to find the reason behind this desperate act. | 1953 | Guy Hamilton (*) | Drama, War | 6.7 (330 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Invaders From MarsA young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings. | 1953 | William Cameron Menzies | Family, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.4 (7.7K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Is Your Honeymoon Really NecessaryAn American soldier stationed in England is ready to go on his honeymoon with his new wife when his ex-wife, a gorgeous blonde, shows up and insists that they're still married. His two buddies try to help him out of his predicament, | 1953 | Maurice Elvey | Comedy | 5.8 (122 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Island in the SkyA C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Quebec, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue. | 1953 | William A. Wellman (*) | Adventure, Drama | 6.8 (3.8K votes) | 109 | 20240303 |
| It Came from Outer SpaceA spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely. | 1953 | Jack Arnold | Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.5 (9.3K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| It Happens Every ThursdayA New York couple takes over a small town newspaper. | 1953 | Joseph Pevney | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 (257 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| It's a Grand LifeClassic British comedy following an accident-prone army Private, played by music hall legend Frank Randle in his final screen role, as he attempts to rescue a Corporal (played by icon Diana Dors) from the attentions of a predatory Se | 1953 | John E. Blakeley | Comedy | 6.3 (56 votes) | 102 | 20220414 |
| Jack SladeWhen his father is killed in front of him during a stagecoach holdup, a teenage boy vows to rid society of outlaws and he eventually grows into a vicious gunman working for a stagecoach line. | 1953 | Harold D. Schuster | Western | 6.4 (231 votes) | 90 | 20220414 |
| JalopyThose wacky Bowery Boys invent a super fast fuel, which will help them win an auto race (isn't this cheating?). However, the fuel is stolen by the bad guys just before the big race. | 1953 | William Beaudine | Comedy, Family | 6.3 (325 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Japanese Tragedy, A [Nihon no higeki]Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow, does what she can to keep her daughter Utako and son Seiichi safe, fed, and sheltered. By 1953, it's clear that the children, as they enter adulthood, wa | 1953 | Keisuke Kinoshita | Drama | 7.3 (318 votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Jealousy [Gelosia]A Sicilian nobleman is very jealous of his mistress and when she gets married flies off his handle and commits a murder of which an innocent man is accused. He is however tormented by his conscience. | 1953 | Pietro Germi | Drama | 6.9 (169 votes) | 86 | 20230328 |
| JenniferAgnes Langsley gets a job, through Jim Hollis, as caretaker of an old and vacated estate. The owner's cousin, Jennifer, was the last occupant and mysteriously disappeared. Agnes soon begins to believe that Jennifer was murdered and t | 1953 | Joel Newton | Mystery | 5.9 (362 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| JeopardyA family vacationing on the coast of Mexico have to cope with multiple threats to their safety. | 1953 | John Sturges (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.8 (2K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Johnny on the RunA superb early work by illustrious British director Lewis Gilbert (Alfie, You Only Live Twice) which follows orphaned Polish refugee Janek, who runs into trouble in the shape of two scheming thieves. Starring popular character actor | 1953 | Lewis Gilbert | Adventure | 7.1 (84 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Juggler, TheIn 1949, former concentration camp inmate and Berlin native Hans Muller, immigrates to Israel where, due to psychological problems, he can't adjust to peacetime life. | 1953 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Drama, History, War | 6.5 (625 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| JuliettaJulietta Valendor is a romantic and dreamy girl who accepts with difficulty the fifth-year-old fiancé chosen by her mother: the very worldly prince of Alpen. One day she is given the opportunity to meet the man of her dreams in th... | 1953 | Marc Allégret | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 (198 votes) | 96 | 20230806 |
| Julius CaesarThe growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony. | 1953 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*) | Drama, History | 7.3 (11.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Kansas PacificWith the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction. | 1953 | Ray Nazarro | Western | 5.7 (695 votes) | 73 | 20220315 |
| Killer ApeNasty white hunters are testing out their germ warfare weapons using wild animals in Africa ... until they run into Jungle Jim. | 1953 | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi | 5.9 (264 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| King LearAn old king, stepping down from the throne, disinherits his favorite daughter on a mad whim and gives his kingdom to his two older daughters, both of whom prove treacherous. | 1953 | Andrew McCullough | Drama, History, Music | 6.9 (185 votes) | 75 | 20230728 |
| King of the Khyber RiflesA half-caste British officer in 19th-century India battles the prejudices of both his Army colleagues and the local populace while trying to help put down a rebellion led by a greedy local ruler. | 1953 | Henry King | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance | 6.4 (769 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Kiss Me KateAn ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and two gangsters looking for some money owed to them. | 1953 | George Sidney | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.1 (6.2K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Knights of the Round TableKing Arthur's rule is threatened by the adulterous love between Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, a relationship the king's enemies hope to exploit. | 1953 | Richard Thorpe | Action, Adventure, Drama, History | 6.2 (3.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Lady Wants Mink, TheFor her birthday, Ritchie Connors gives his wife Nora a coat from the store where he works. His workday gloom is made even worse when their friend from next-door shows up that evening in a mink. To try and make things right, Nora goe | 1953 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy | 6.0 (129 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Lady Without Camelias, The [La signora senza camelie]A new starlet is discovered and has ups and downs in Italian films. | 1953 | Michelangelo Antonioni (*) | Drama | 7.1 (1.7K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Last of the ComanchesThe remnants of a massacred cavalry troop and ragtag group of stagecoach passengers fight for survival against fierce Comanches at a desert ruin. | 1953 | André De Toth | Action, Adventure, Western | 6.4 (780 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Last Posse, TheAfter a disgruntled rancher and his sons rob at gun-point a rival rancher, the town forms a posse to go after the culprits but the ensuing events are muddled by unclear facts, false testimony, old scores, secrets, murder and stolen m | 1953 | Alfred L. Werker | Western | 6.6 (377 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Laughing AnneBased on Conrad's short story of a red-headed beauty of the eighteen-eighties who was a singer in an elegant Parisian night-club, whose laugh gave her the title of "Laughing Anne". Her lover, Jen Farrell wins a fight that should have | 1953 | Herbert Wilcox | Adventure | 5.6 (61 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Law and OrderFrame Johnson already cleaned up Tombstone and hopes to settle down near Cottonwood. But a marshal's work is never done... | 1953 | Nathan Juran | Western | 6.0 (733 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Laxdale Hall [Scotch on the Rocks]A parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote community in the Scottish Highlands where the residents are protesting at their poor links with the outside world. After a few days amongst them, the visitors come to appreciate the loca | 1953 | John Eldridge | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 (172 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Let's Do It AgainIn this 1953 musical remake of "The Awful Truth", Wyman is married to womanizing composer Milland and sets out to give him some of his own medicine. She has an affair, but her ploy backfires, and the couple get a divorce. Once separa | 1953 | Alexander Hall | Comedy, Musical | 5.8 (384 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Life and Music of Giuseppe Verdi, The [Giuseppe Verdi]The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed o... | 1953 | Raffaello Matarazzo | Biography, Drama, Music, Romance | 6.4 (125 votes) | 118 | 20240727 |
| Lightly and Shortly Dressed [Légère et court vêtue] A lawyer, Jacques gets a visit from Gaétan, who his wife Jacqueline's infidelity. Jacques throws out his wife who takes refuge with a lover, Pierre. Pierre consequently breaks up with his fiancee, Simone. A detective, Duvernois, h... | 1953 | Jean Laviron | Comedy | 4.9 (59 votes) | 88 | 20240826 |
| LiliAn orphaned young woman becomes part of a puppet act and forms a relationship with the anti-social puppeteer. | 1953 | Charles Walters (*) | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.4 (3.6K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Limping Man, TheAn American WWII veteran goes back to England after the war only to discover that his wartime sweetheart has got mixed up with a dangerous spy ring. | 1953 | Cy Endfield | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 5.7 (635 votes) | 76 | 20220414 |
| Lion Is in the Streets, AA charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making? | 1953 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.2 (703 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Little Boy LostA war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but has been told is living in an | 1953 | George Seaton | Drama | 6.9 (296 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Little FugitiveA young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits. | 1953 | Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin | Drama, Family | 7.5 (2.7K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Little Kidnappers, The [The Kidnappers]A Scotsman, Jim MacKenzie, living on a primitive homestead in Nova Scotia, is raising his two grandsons, Harry and Davy, following the death of their father in the Boer War. His son's death has developed antagonism by MacKenzie towar | 1953 | Philip Leacock | Drama, Family, Romance, War | 7.1 (493 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Long Memory, TheReleased from prison after twelve years, a wrongfully convicted British man seeks revenge on the witnesses who lied at his trial. | 1953 | Robert Hamer (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (1.1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Long Rope, The [The Large Rope]A wrongly accused convict returns home, only to be maligned again. | 1953 | Wolf Rilla | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.2 (186 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Long Teeth, The [Les dents longues]A young journalist makes his debut in Lyon where he meets a young girl he falls in love with.He has big ambitions , nevertheless he hesitates to go to Paris. | 1953 | Daniel Gélin | Drama, Romance | 5.8 (88 votes) | 105 | 20240820 |
| Loose In LondonThe Bowery Boys find themselves in London, in an old mansion complete with a dungeon, an ominous bell tower and the ghost of an old hangman. | 1953 | Edward Bernds | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 6.6 (295 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Loose LootThe stooges are willed a lot of dough from a rich uncle, but the executor of the estate, Icabob Slipp, is a crook who absconds with the money. The stooges trail him to a theater where they engage in a wild chase and ultimately rec... | 1953 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 7.2 (331 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
| Love in the City [L'amore in città]Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution. | 1953 | Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli | Drama, Romance | 6.5 (1.2K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Love Letter [Koibumi]Explores the wounds of war, the limits of love and the need to forgive. A sad and troubled man, Reikichi Mayumi finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people. | 1953 | Kinuyo Tanaka | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (350 votes) | 98 | 20230328 |
| Love of a Woman, The [L'amour d'une femme]Marie Prieur, a young doctor, decides to settle down on Ushant, a remote island belonging to Brittany. Little by little she manages to be accepted by the population. One day she meets André Lorenzi, a handsome engineer, and it is lov | 1953 | Jean Grémillon | Drama | 7.0 (237 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Lucrèce BorgiaIn the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrètè. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister's husband murdered. But without her brother's knowledge, Lu | 1953 | Christian-Jaque | Action, Drama, History, Romance | 5.6 (191 votes) | 120 | 20220414 |
| L'uomo la bestia e la virtùPaolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant. | 1953 | Steno | Comedy | 6.6 (142 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Ma and Pa Kettle at WaikikiMa and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from an illness. Pa soon causes a major explosion and gets himself kidnapped. | 1953 | Lee Sholem | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 6.8 (505 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Magnetic Monster, TheThe Office of Scientific Investigation sends A-Men agents to investigate reports of unusual magnetic activity in various communities. | 1953 | Curt Siodmak, Herbert L. Strock | Horror, Sci-Fi | 5.9 (1.3K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Malta Story1942 and the island of Malta is battling for survival. The threat of invasion by Axis forces is increasing as air raids wear down its defence. Entering this maelstrom is Flight Lieutenant Peter Ross, an RAF photo-reconnaissance pilot | 1953 | Brian Desmond Hurst | Drama, History, War | 6.6 (1.7K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Man Behind the Gun, TheAn undercover government agent battles insurrectionists whose want Southern California to secede and become a slave state. | 1953 | Felix E. Feist | Western | 6.0 (610 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Man Between, TheIn post-WW2 Berlin, when travel to the East was still possible, the sister of a British officer from West Berlin is abducted by Communist agents and taken into the Soviet sector where her eventual rescue is arranged by a German smugg | 1953 | Carol Reed (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.0 (2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Man from Cairo, The [Dramma nella Kasbah]An American tourist, who served in Algeria during WW2, is mistaken for an American agent hired by the French government to recover its gold reserves that went missing in the Algerian desert during the war. | 1953 | Ray Enright, Edoardo Anton | Crime, Drama | 5.3 (194 votes) | 81 | 20240228 |
| Man from the Alamo, TheDuring the Alamo siege, John Stroud is sent to Ox Bow to protect the townsfolk but, following a massacre, he infiltrates Jess Wade's gang of turncoat renegades supporting the Mexicans. | 1953 | Budd Boetticher | Drama, Western | 6.5 (1.9K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Man in Hiding [Mantrap]A wrongly convicted murderer escapes prison to find the real killer. | 1953 | Terence Fisher (*) | Crime, Mystery | 6.0 (131 votes) | 73 | 20220414 |
| Man in the AtticAfter an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a Victorian house, his landlady begins to suspect her lodger is Jack the Ripper. | 1953 | Hugo Fregonese | Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (1.6K votes) | 82 | 20220414 |
| Man in the DarkMany interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain surgery in the prison hospital. | 1953 | Lew Landers | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.2 (624 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Man of ConflictThe college-educated son of a tyrannical industrialist collides with his father over matters of ethics, honesty and empathy regarding the handling of his companies and the treatment of his workers. | 1953 | Hal R. Makelim | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.9 (89 votes) | 72 | 20240622 |
| Man on a TightropeA Czech circus owner/clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain. | 1953 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (1.5K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Marriage Agency (Agenzia matrimoniale)nan | 1953 | Giorgio Pastina | Comedy | 8.0 (15 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Marry Me AgainA pilot discharged from the Korean War is disappointed to discover that his fiancée has since become independently wealthy thanks to a $1 million inheritance. | 1953 | Frank Tashlin | Comedy | 7.2 (27 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Martin LutherBiopic of German priest Martin Luther (Niall MacGinnis), covering his life between 1505 and 1530 A.D., and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement. | 1953 | Irving Pichel | Biography, Drama, History | 6.9 (561 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Master of Ballantrae, TheTwo noble Scottish brothers deliberately take opposite sides when Bonnie Prince Charlie returns to claim the throne of Scotland in order to preserve the family fortune. | 1953 | William Keighley | Action, Adventure, History, Romance | 6.4 (1.8K votes) | 90 | 20240419 |
| Maze, TheA Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenly aged. Some mysterious things ha | 1953 | William Cameron Menzies | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 5.9 (1.1K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Meet Me at the FairIn 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft) are being investigated by new appointee Zerelda Wi | 1953 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Musical | 6.0 (120 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Meet Mr. LuciferA television given as a retirement present is sold on to different households, causing misery each time. | 1953 | Anthony Pelissier | Comedy, Fantasy | 6.0 (259 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Mesa Of Lost WomenA mad scientist named Arana is creating giant spiders and dwarfs in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider venom. | 1953 | Ron Ormond, Herbert Tevos | Horror, Sci-Fi | 2.8 (1.6K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Mexican ManhuntLos Angeles, 1953. The author David L. "Dave" Brady wants to bring a missed ex-newspaperman back to Los Angeles. Therefore Dave has to travel to Mexico City. Dave gets involved with a murder case that occurred fifteen years ago. It's | 1953 | Rex Bailey | Crime, Mystery | 6.2 (48 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Mina de VanghelOn IMDb TV, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free! | 1953 | Maurice Barry, Maurice Clavel | Drama | 5.5 (17 votes) | 47 | 20211228 |
| Miss Robin CrusoeA shipwrecked lass sets up housekeeping on a desert island and rescues a female native from certain doom, thereby winning herself a Girl Friday. | 1953 | Eugene Frenke | Adventure, Comedy | 4.6 (241 votes) | 75 | 20220414 |
| Miss Sadie ThompsonA self-righteous missionary man seeks to save the soul of a former prostitute. | 1953 | Curtis Bernhardt | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.0 (1.5K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Mississippi Gambler, TheIn 1854 Mississippi, honest riverboat card gambler Mark Fallon wins young Laurent Dureau's diamond necklace, a family heirloom which, in the end, will bring him happiness and tragedy alike. | 1953 | Rudolph Maté | Western | 6.7 (707 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Mister ScoutmasterSnobby TV star (Clifton Webb) worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy Scout leader in an effort to "get in touch." Overnight hikes and other adventures follo | 1953 | Henry Levin | Comedy | 7.0 (400 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| MogamboOn a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda. | 1953 | John Ford (*) | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (8.1K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Mole Alley [Mogura yokochô]33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marr... | 1953 | Hiroshi Shimizu | Drama | 7.4 (8 votes) | 97 | 20241012 |
| Money From HomeWhen Herman promises the mob to fix a racing horse in order to pay off his debts, he selects his veterinarian cousin as a patsy to help him but things go awry. | 1953 | George Marshall (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.3 (817 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Moon is Blue, TheTwo aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections. | 1953 | Otto Preminger (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.7 (2.3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Moonlighter, TheA cattle herder turned rustler runs from a lynch mob and falls, again, for an ex-lover. | 1953 | Roy Rowland | Western | 5.8 (611 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Most Wanted Man, The [L'ennemi public n° 1]Joe Calvert (Fernandel) is a nearsighted, friendly man who works as a clerk in a large department store, who gets into embarrassing situations when he isn't wearing his glasses. Since Joe works in the department that sells cowboy clo | 1953 | Henri Verneuil | Comedy | 5.9 (284 votes) | 85 | 20220315 |
| Mr. Hulot's HolidayMonsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation and accidentally, but good-naturedly, causes havoc. | 1953 | Jacques Tati (*) | Comedy | 7.4 (18.1K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Mr. Photographer [El Senor Fotografo]An apprentice of photography is accidentally involved in a n international complot. | 1953 | Miguel M. Delgado | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (307 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Mr. Pu [Pu-san]A dark satire of a contemporary Japan still exhausted from the aftermath of war, hunger, poverty and unemployment. And just as its people are recovering, there is a threat during these Cold War years of renewed militarism and rear... | 1953 | Kon Ichikawa (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 (70 votes) | 98 | 20230328 |
| Mr. ScoutmasterSnobby TV star (Clifton Webb) worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy Scout leader in an effort to "get in touch." Overnight hikes and other adventures follo | 1953 | Henry Levin | Comedy | 7.0 (400 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Murder at 3amA police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer. | 1953 | Francis Searle | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 5.2 (189 votes) | 60 | 20230328 |
| Murder Without TearsA husband hires a killer to murder his wife, then arranges for it to look like he committed the crime. At his trial, he presents irrefutable evidence that he could not have committed the crime - which, of course, he didn't - and is a | 1953 | William Beaudine | Action, Thriller | 5.8 (34 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Mustasukkaisuus [Jealousy]The siblings Riitta and Anja love the same man, the treasurer Jyri Mara. Riitta ends up marrying Jyri, but when the couple loses their children Riitta gets jealous and mad. | 1953 | Teuvo Tulio | Drama, Romance | 5.7 (84 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| My Brother from Senegal [Mon frangin du Sénégal] A photographer is in love with the grocer's daughter.Alas the girl is an adventures movie fan and spends her time daydreaming of Gary Cooper or Eroll Flynn . | 1953 | Guy Lacourt | Comedy, Romance | 5.9 (53 votes) | 85 | 20240820 |
| Naked Spur, TheA bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers. | 1953 | Anthony Mann (*) | Drama, Thriller, Western | 7.3 (11K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Natsuko's Adventure in Hokkaido [Natsuko no boken]nan | 1953 | Noboru Nakamura | Drama | nan | 95 | 20240303 |
| The Neanderthal ManProfessor Groves, an expert in prehistoric life, proves his theories with an extract that'll regress a cat to a saber-tooth tiger and man to a Neanderthal. | 1953 | Ewald André Dupont | Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.4 (628 votes) | 78 | 20220423 |
| Neapolitan Turk [Un turco napoletano]A petty criminal poses as a Turkish eunuch hired by a wealthy merchant to guard the women of his house. | 1953 | Mario Mattoli | Comedy | 7.0 (597 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Neapolitans in Milan [Napoletani a Milano]After 5 die in crumbling Naples housing run by Northerners, the Southern relatives trek to Milan to sue for damages. | 1953 | Eduardo De Filippo | Comedy | 6.7 (96 votes) | 98 | 20230328 |
| Nero and the Burning of Rome [Nerone e Messalina]nan | 1953 | Primo Zeglio | Drama | nan | 97 | 20221116 |
| Never Let Me GoAn American reporter stationed in post-war Moscow marries a ballet dancer, but their relationship is threatened by the country's political volatility. | 1953 | Delmer Daves | Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.2 (803 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Never Wave at a WACA shallow society matron is urged by her senator father to join the Women's Army Corps. | 1953 | Norman Z. McLeod (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 6.0 (482 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| NiagraAs two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder. | 1953 | Henry Hathaway | Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.0 (16.8K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| No EscapeWhen the available evidence in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, her boyfriend, a police detective, arranges for a struggling songwriter who is playing piano in a bar to be blamed for the crime. The girl, kno | 1953 | Charles Bennett | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 5.6 (321 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| No Way BackIn 1945, Mischa, a Red Army officer, discovers a frightened German girl, Anna, huddled in a Berlin cellar. He gives her a safe escort home and wins her gratitude. Seven years later, Mischa returns to Berlin as a civilian engineer in | 1953 | Victor Vicas | Drama, History, Romance, War | 6.4 (81 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Noose for a LadyA woman has been sentenced to death by hanging. Her cousin believes she is innocent and he works against time to prove it before she is executed. | 1953 | Wolf Rilla | Crime, Drama | 6.1 (189 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Norman Conquest [Park Plaza 605]A private detective solves a murder of which he has been accused, and tracks down a gang of jewel smugglers. | 1953 | Bernard Knowles | Crime, Drama | 5.5 (134 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Old Czech Legends [Staré povesti ceské]Excellent stop-motion animation film from one of the best Czech filmmakers, Jirí Trnka. It tells the ancient story of Bohemia, how it was founded by Czech, the Forefather, and a series of legendary episodes of heroes, queens and king | 1953 | Jirí Trnka | Animation, Fantasy | 7.1 (225 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Older Brother, Younger Sister [Ani imôto]In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruse's adaptation of an oft-filmed popular novel by Saisei Murô, the eldest daughter (Machiko Kyô) of a rural family comes home pregnant, testing some already tenuous family bonds. N | 1953 | Mikio Naruse (*) | Drama | 7.3 (397 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| One Girl's ConfessionAnother of the "Fate and Irony" films from director-writer-producer-actor Hugo Haas but this one has less hair-shirt torment than most of his offerings, although his camera, as usual, lingers provocatively on the contours of the lead | 1953 | Hugo Haas | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.5 (482 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Operation DiplomatDoctor Fenton is abducted and forced to operate on a mysterious figure. Meanwhile, Inspector Austin investigates the murder of Fenton's assistant. All this has something to do with a missing diplomat. | 1953 | John Guillermin | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (217 votes) | 70 | 20230424 |
| Our Girl FridayAfter a cruise ship emergency, a spoiled rich attractive female passenger and three men are marooned on a deserted island where the men compete for her favors. | 1953 | Noel Langley | Comedy | 5.5 (291 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Paratrooper [The Red Beret]In 1940, an American claiming to be Canadian volunteers for the British Army's paratroop school. | 1953 | Terence Young | Drama, War | 5.9 (763 votes) | 88 | 20230728 |
| Pardon My BackfireThe Stooges' ten-year engagement to their fiances has reached the end of their future father-in-law's patience. He gives them a week to earn enough money to marry his daughters, or they'll be promised to the three plumbers down th... | 1953 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 6.9 (361 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
| Pepe El ToroPepe el Toro becomes a boxer and accidentally kills his best friend during a semi-final match. Channeling his anger and frustration, Pepe goes on to win the championship while beginning close friends with his friend's widower. The th | 1953 | Ismael Rodríguez | Drama | 7.3 (508 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Perdonami!nan | 1953 | Mario Costa | Drama | 6.2 (21 votes) | 95 | 20220912 |
| Perilous Journey, AFrancie Landereaux is one of 29 women on a voyage to California on a barter-bride deal in which any qualified man can buy a wife. Unknown to the sponsors, she is already married to a man who has deserted her and she is on the voyage | 1953 | R.G. Springsteen | Western | 6.1 (71 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Personal AffairIn a 1950s British village, a teenager, who is in love with her Latin language teacher, disappears, prompting the police to investigate the teacher, amidst public rumors of rape and murder. | 1953 | Anthony Pelissier | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.4 (532 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Peter PanWendy and her brothers are whisked away to the magical world of Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan. | 1953 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney | Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 7.3 (134.9K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Phantom from SpaceWhen an asteroid crashes, the search begins to track down the mysterious aliens. | 1953 | W. Lee Wilder | Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.1 (1.3K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Pickup on South StreetA pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring. | 1953 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.7 (14.2K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Pleasure Garden, ThePeople quietly or campily pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities. | 1953 | James Broughton | Short, Comedy | 6.6 (159 votes) | 38 | 20211228 |
| Plunder of the SunAmerican adventurer gets involved in archaeological artifact smuggling and treasure hunting in Mexico. | 1953 | John Farrow | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 6.5 (732 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Poison Ivy [La mome vert de gris ]FBI Agent Lemmy is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Carlotta plays both sides of the law. | 1953 | Bernard Borderie | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.8 (292 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Pony ExpressBuffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickock work to establish the Pony Express and fight Indians and California Separatists who seek to destroy it. | 1953 | Jerry Hopper | History, Romance, Western | 5.9 (1.3K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Powder RiverIn 1875, ex-lawman Chino Bull becomes temporary town marshal when his gold prospecting partner is robbed and killed in Powder River country but Chino runs into the murderous Logan brothers. | 1953 | Louis King | Western | 6.3 (281 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| President's Lady, TheThe story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, the film begins when he meets Rachel Donaldson Robards. The plot concentrates on the scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties | 1953 | Henry Levin | Biography, Drama | 6.8 (819 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Prince of PiratesIn a 16th century kingdom in the Netherlands, the newly crowned King Stephan concludes a secret treaty with the Spanish. This puts him at odds with his younger brother, Prince Roland, who favors a treaty with the French. Stephan orde | 1953 | Sidney Salkow | Adventure | 5.3 (102 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Prisoners of the CasbahA low-born thief loves a Moroccan Princess. She must marry to escape death at the hands of her enemies. The groom is able to wed or cast away his bride simply by saying ""I Marry You"" or ""I Divorce You"" three times. | 1953 | Richard L. Bare | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 4.8 (154 votes) | 78 | 20240319 |
| Private EyesAfter being punched in the nose, Sach finds out that he has the ability to read minds. Slip and the gang start up a detective agency try to cash in on Sach's new powers. | 1953 | Edward Bernds | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 6.2 (320 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Project M7 [The Net]A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists secretly. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious accident, and there are many ar | 1953 | Anthony Asquith | Drama, Sci-Fi | 5.6 (156 votes) | 86 | 20220414 |
| Project MoonbaseA saboteur posing as a scientist strives to destroy the world's first space station. | 1953 | Richard Talmadge | Sci-Fi | 3.3 (1.2K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Proud and the Beautiful, The [Les orgueilleux]Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic. | 1953 | Yves Allégret, Rafael E. Portas | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (832 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| PucciniProduced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama B | 1953 | Carmine Gallone | Biography, Drama, Music | 6.5 (72 votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Quatermass Experiment, TheFollows the first manned space flight from Australia. In its return to Earth, from the crew of 3, only Victor Carroon, is still aboard. Examinations reveal that something attacked the crew as they were on course back to Earth. | 1953 | Rudolph Cartier | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller | 7.2 (431 votes) | 0 | 20240308 |
| Raiders of the Seven SeasBarbarossa, a pirate, frees a group of Spanish prisoners and makes them his crew. On a raid, he takes as a prize a Spanish countess, Alida. He has fallen in love with her by the time he arranges for her ransom by the officer who was | 1953 | Sidney Salkow | Adventure | 5.7 (441 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| RecoilJean Talbot poses as a crook to infiltrate the gang who killed her jeweller father, Michael. | 1953 | John Gilling | Crime, Drama | 6.0 (150 votes) | 79 | 20220414 |
| Redhead from Wyoming , TheIn Wyoming, Sweetwater town sheriff Stan Blaine finds himself in the middle of a range war between greedy cattle barons and newcomer settlers who compete for public lands and unbranded stray cattle. | 1953 | Lee Sholem | Western | 6.2 (538 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Remains to Be SeenJody Revere (June Allyson) is a band singer working in New York City. Waldo Williams (Van Johnson) is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a murder is committed. The victim is Allyson's wealthy uncle, and since she can't acco | 1953 | Don Weis | Comedy, Crime, Music, Mystery | 6.1 (220 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Rendezvous in Paris [Boum sur Paris]O.K. there isn't really a plot as such but the film revolves around a French perfume by the name of boum. What we do get is the chance to see some of the all time great stars of France. Charles Trenet appears and sings two of his hits from the period. It is great to see Trenet at his prime and it helps one see why his career extended over six decades. Lucienne Delyle makes an all to brief appearance. Delyle was to die a few years later from leukemia. Edith Piaf, Annie Cordy, Juliette Greco all make appearances along with Gary Cooper and Gregory Peck, although quite why they were included is beyond me. A great platform for French stars of the 50s! | 1953 | Maurice de Canonge | Comedy, Musical | 5.8 (57 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Return of Don Camillo, The [Le retour de Don Camillo]Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone. | 1953 | Julien Duvivier (*) | Comedy | 7.3 (2.4K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Return to ParadiseAn American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down. | 1953 | Mark Robson | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.1 (658 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Revived Monster, The [El Monstruo Resucitado] The first major medical sci/fi movie in Mexico, loosely based on the Frankenstein story but injecting gory surgical motifs into it, laying the foundations of the genres that came to dominate Hispanic Science Fictionin the 60's and 70 | 1953 | Chano Urueta | Horror, Sci-Fi | 5.9 (114 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Rhine Virgin [La vierge du Rhin]Reported missing in 1940, Jacques Ledru comes back to Strasbourg as Martin Schmidt. He tracks down his wife Genevieve, but she's remarried and has taken the head of his shipping company. She and her husband will do anything to get... | 1953 | Gilles Grangier | Crime, Drama | 6.3 (259 votes) | 82 | 20240727 |
| Ride, Vaquero!Two outlaws, Rio and Esqueda, raised together as stepbrothers, have a showdown over the issue of whether to evict new settlers from their territory. | 1953 | John Farrow | Western | 6.1 (1.1K votes) | 90 | 20240605 |
| Rimskiy-KorsakovA musical biography of the great Russian classical composer. | 1953 | Gennadiy Kazanskiy, Grigoriy Roshal | Biography, Drama, Music | 6.4 (43 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Rip, Sew And StitchThe stooges run a tailor shop and need money to pay their creditors. A bank robber leaves his coat in the shop with a combination to a safe. When the crook comes back to retrieve the coat, the stooges capture him and get his bankr... | 1953 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 7.0 (351 votes) | 17 | 20240224 |
| Roadhouse Girl1953. Crime drama directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Maxwell Reed and Sandra Dorne. The wife of the garage owner is caught with the mechanic, when he is accidentally killed and a cover up begins. | 1953 | Wolf Rilla | Crime, Drama | 5.8 (202 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Rob Roy - The Highland RogueThe wartime adventures of Scotish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George I in the 18th century. | 1953 | Harold French | Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family, History, War | 6.3 (583 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Robe, TheIn the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth but is tormented by his guilty conscience afterwards. | 1953 | Henry Koster (*) | Drama | 6.8 (10.1K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Robot MonsterThe monstrous Ro-Man attempts to annihilate the last family alive on Earth, but finds himself falling for their beautiful daughter. | 1953 | Phil Tucker | Comedy, Family, Horror, Sci-Fi | 3.0 (4.9K votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Roman HolidayA bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome. | 1953 | William Wyler (*) | Comedy, Romance | 8.0 (135.2K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Rosa de AlfamaRosa Maria, whose father is a sailor, was picked up by Tomé, having a child of her son Renato, who is expelled from home. | 1953 | Henrique Campos | Drama, Musical, Comedy | 6.5 (31 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Rossana [La Red]Antonio dives for sponges which are sold by his sweetheart Rossana. One day, the escaped prisoner José-Luis appears and is hid by his friend Antonio. Although José-Luis does not want to betray his friend, a love affair with tragic co | 1953 | Emilio Fernández | Drama | 7.0 (125 votes) | 83 | 20220315 |
| Run for the HillsFearing nuclear war, an insurance man (Sonny Tufts) moves to a cave with his wife (Barbara Payton) and family. | 1953 | Lew Landers | Comedy | 4.4 (24 votes) | 72 | 20220531 |
| SadkoArriving home to find his native land under the yoke of corrupt merchants, an adventurer named Sadko sets sail in search of a mythical bird of happiness. | 1953 | Aleksandr Ptushko | Adventure, Fantasy | 5.4 (1.1K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Safari DrumsA bunch of movie makers arrive in Africa to make a film about jungle wildlife. One of their party kills a geologist and Bomba the Jungle Boy must find out whodunnit. He does, while helping them complete their movie. A lion finishes o | 1953 | Ford Beebe | Adventure | 5.2 (164 votes) | 71 | 20220423 |
| Saginaw TrailHamilton's Rangers, led by our hero Gene, must keep the Indians in the northern Michigan territory from attacking the settlers. | 1953 | George Archainbaud | Western | 6.7 (78 votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
| Sailor of the King [Single-Handed]In 1940, Canadian sailor Andrew Brown is prisoner on a battle damaged German raider and he plans to delay the raider's at-sea repairs until a British naval task-force can destroy it. | 1953 | Roy Boulting | Action, Drama, Romance, War | 6.9 (591 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Saint's Girl Friday, TheA private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend. | 1953 | Seymour Friedman | Crime, Mystery | 5.7 (144 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| SalomeAfter her banishment from Rome, Jewish Princess Salome returns to her Roman-ruled native land of Galilee, where prophet John the Baptist preaches against Salome's parents, King Herod and Queen Herodias. | 1953 | William Dieterle (*) | Drama, History | 5.8 (1.9K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| San AntoneA Texas cowboy is in-love with the fiancee of a despicable Confederate officer whose life he must save after the Civil War when the officer, fighting as a mercenary in Mexico, is captured by Mexican revolutionaries. | 1953 | Joseph Kane | Western | 5.9 (130 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| SangareeLamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War. | 1953 | Edward Ludwig | Drama, History | 6.2 (200 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Savage MutinyJungle Jim tries to relocate African natives so that the atom bomb can be tested on their island. Enemy agents interfere. | 1953 | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Adventure, Family | 6.1 (230 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Sawdust And TinselThe complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover. | 1953 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama | 7.5 (6.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Scandal at ScourieAfter their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her h | 1953 | Jean Negulesco | Drama | 6.6 (517 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Scared StiffFleeing a murder charge, a busboy and a nightclub singer wind up on a spooky Caribbean island inherited by a young woman. | 1953 | George Marshall (*) | Comedy, Horror, Musical, Mystery, Romance | 6.5 (1.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Sea DevilsGilliat,a fisherman/smuggler is in jail, and is offered a pardon if he undertakes a mission to sail to France to rescue Droucette, an English agent whose cover has been blown, and who has now been jailed. Gilliat accepts the chall... | 1953 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, History | 5.6 (778 votes) | 91 | 20240419 |
| Sea of Lost ShipsThe son of a deceased Coast Guard hero is raised by a Coast Guard NCO, who also has a son the same age. When they get older both are accepted into the Coast Guard Academy, but the hero's son winds up being thrown out, bringing disgra | 1953 | Joseph Kane | Action, Adventure, Drama | 6.8 (39 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Second ChanceMobster Vic Spalato's girlfriend Claire is in hiding in Mexico and she's willing to testify for a US Senate investigation committee, if she can make it back to the US alive. | 1953 | Rudolph Maté | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.0 (1.1K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Secret Cave, Thenan | 1953 | John Durst | Family | 7.3 (15 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| SeminoleA cavalry lieutenant recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major. | 1953 | Budd Boetticher | Adventure, Drama, Music, Romance, Western | 6.1 (1.2K votes) | 87 | 20230328 |
| Serpent of the NileIn 44 BC, after the assassination of the leader of Rome Julius Caesar, Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and one of the highest ranking Roman generals and Caesar's possible successor Mark Anthony begin a tragic love affair. | 1953 | William Castle | Adventure, Biography, History, Romance | 4.9 (238 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Shadow Man, The [Street of Shadows]Small-time Soho hustler gets caught up in the murder of an ex-girl friend, evades the police and finally helps them to corner the real murderer. | 1953 | Richard Vernon | Crime, Drama | 5.9 (253 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| ShaneA weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act. | 1953 | George Stevens (*) | Drama, Western | 7.6 (39.6K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| She Couldn’t Say NoA wealthy heiress returns to a small Arkansas town to furtively reward the townsfolk who helped to save her life when she was a young girl. | 1953 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 (709 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| She Wolf [La lupa]A woman in her thirties is a single mother of a teenager daughter, and both are in love with the same young soldier. Mother sacrifices herself for Maricchia's marriage, but ultimately falls to her own passion, leading to family disru | 1953 | Alberto Lattuada | Drama | 6.8 (62 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| She's Back on BroadwayAfter her Hollywood career fails, an actress returns to Broadway and tries for a comeback in a stage show directed by her former lover. | 1953 | Gordon Douglas | Comedy, Musical | 5.9 (206 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Ship of Condemned Women, The [La nave delle donne maledette]Isabella's family is noble but half-ruined, so her intended marriage with a dignitary of the kingdom appears as a godsend for all its members. But Isabella finds herself accused of infanticide after killing the baby she was carrying | 1953 | Raffaello Matarazzo | Adventure, Drama | 7.2 (127 votes) | 101 | 20220414 |
| Shoot First [Rough Shoot]A retired U.S. Army Colonel living in England stumbles upon a spy ring when he shoots buckshot at a poacher during a hunt. | 1953 | Robert Parrish | Adventure, Crime, Thriller | 6.1 (278 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Silver Dust [Serebristaya pyl]An American scientist invents a new weapon of mass destruction - silver dust. Corporate war breaks out between two military industry giants to own the weapon. The scientist dies and his son makes the discovery public with more conseq | 1953 | Abram Room | Drama, Sci-Fi | 5.8 (52 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Sins of JezebelThe aging Ahab, king of Israel, comes under the influence of a young and beautiful but scheming pagan woman named Jezebel and, against the advice of his advisers and the prophet Elijah, marries her. Her plan to introduce her pagan id | 1953 | Reginald Le Borg | Drama, History | 5.0 (117 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Siren of BagdadIn ancient Bagdad, a magician uses his powers and his magic box to save slave girls. | 1953 | Richard Quine | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 5.3 (208 votes) | 73 | 20220414 |
| Sky CommandoDuring the Korean War, two junior officers discuss their colonel's dour reputation dating back to his WW2 service in the bomber and reconnaissance command. | 1953 | Fred F. Sears | Drama, War | 5.5 (70 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Slasher, The [Cosh Boy]The life of a juvenile delinquent is threatened by his own incessant desire for trouble. | 1953 | Lewis Gilbert | Crime, Drama | 6.1 (380 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Slave, The [L'esclave]A young composer is forced to work as a bar pianist. One night he gets hit by a car and is brought to a hospital. Severely injured he is injected with morphine. He becomes addicted. | 1953 | Yves Ciampi | Drama | 6.5 (11 votes) | 99 | 20220731 |
| Slaves of BabylonIn ancient times, a Jew is instrumental in the crowning of a new Median-Persian king who, in return, conquers Babylon and frees all the Jewish slaves. | 1953 | William Castle | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance | 5.0 (116 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Slight Case of Larceny, ATwo army buddies down on their luck open up a gas station and get involved in a price war - in a somewhat underhanded way. | 1953 | Don Weis | Comedy, Crime | 6.1 (215 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Small Town GirlA judge's daughter keeps an eye on a playboy who gets 30 days in jail for speeding. | 1953 | László Kardos | Musical, Romance | 6.3 (769 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Small Town StoryA Canadian ex-serviceman has to resist criminals and the temptation of signing for Arsenal in order to help non-league Oldchester United. | 1953 | Montgomery Tully | Drama | 6.3 (70 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| So BigIn the late 1890s, a young widowed woman becomes a successful farmer and can send her son, nicknamed 'So Big', to college. After graduating, he finds a job as an architect, but forgoes his dream in favor of an immediate financial ... | 1953 | Robert Wise (*) | Drama, Romance, Western | 6.7 (732 votes) | 101 | 20220531 |
| So This Is LoveBiopic of opera star Grace Moore, who was killed in a plane crash in 1947. | 1953 | Gordon Douglas | Biography, Music, Musical, Romance | 6.2 (223 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| SombreroAdapted from the book, "Mexican Village," by Josefina Niggli, the film tells three interwoven love stories against the background of a feud between two villages. Cyd Charisse and Rick Jason are the lovers in a tender romance; Vittori | 1953 | Norman Foster | Musical, Romance | 5.3 (325 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Song of the Sea [O Canto do Mar]In the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil, groups of migrants move trying to find better place to live, at least with water. Some of them go to Recife, to get a vessel to Santos expecting to have a better life in the Southern. I | 1953 | Alberto Cavalcanti | Drama | 7.3 (116 votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| South Sea WomanAWOL marine Sgt. Jim O'Hearn is court-martialed for a variety of offenses that carry 143 years in the stockade or the death penalty but refuses to aid in his own defense. | 1953 | Arthur Lubin | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, War | 6.4 (744 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| SpacewaysA small group of closely-guarded British scientists test their first rocket amidst indications of matrimonial strife in the community. After the partial failure of the firing, a couple go missing - have they gone off together or are | 1953 | Terence Fisher (*) | Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.1 (409 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Spartacus the Gladiator [Spartaco]74 B.C. Somewhere in the Roman Empire, Spartacus, a young officer, is condemned to be a slave because he hit a superior. Brought back to Roma in a gladiators' school, he escapes and stirs up all the slaves in a revolt against the Rom | 1953 | Riccardo Freda | Adventure, History | 6.1 (138 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Split SecondTwo escaped killers take hostages and hide in a Nevada mining ghost town knowing that an atom bomb is scheduled to be tested there the next morning. | 1953 | Dick Powell | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (1.6K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Spooks!The Stooges are private detectives hired to find a missing girl. They disguise themselves as pie salesmen and end up wandering in a mad scientist's mansion trying to find her. They confront a gorilla and various other creepy chara... | 1953 | Jules White | Short, Comedy, Horror | 7.1 (496 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
| Square Ring, TheBoxing drama following the lives of five different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers. | 1953 | Basil Dearden | Drama, Sport | 6.3 (270 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Stalag 17After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer. | 1953 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Drama, War | 8.0 (54.8K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Stand at Apache River, TheAt Apache River Station, the passengers of a stagecoach, the owners of the station, a sheriff and his prisoner and a few ferry passengers are besieged by a band of renegade Apaches. | 1953 | Lee Sholem | Western | 5.6 (330 votes) | 77 | 20230619 |
| Stars Are Singing, TheFifteen-year-old Katri Walenska jumps a Polish ship, swims ashore and enters New York illegally. The United States Immigration officials are alerted and the search is on. Katri's only possessions are a ten-dollar bill and a letter... | 1953 | Norman Taurog | Musical | 6.3 (84 votes) | 99 | 20231017 |
| Steel Key, TheAn adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend. | 1953 | Robert S. Baker | Drama, Thriller | 5.7 (104 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Steel Lady, TheCameron finds a tank buried in the Arabian desert during WWII, and proceeds to attack the Arabs with it. | 1953 | Ewald André Dupont | Action, Adventure, Drama, War | 6.5 (310 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Stolen IdentityA jealous concert pianist murders his wife's lover, then frames an innocent taxi driver for the crime. | 1953 | Gunther von Fritsch | Drama | 6.4 (183 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Story of Gilbert and Sullivan, TheThe common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim. | 1953 | Sidney Gilliat | Biography, Drama, Musical | 6.9 (203 votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Story of Little Mook, The [Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck]An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was once a young boy by the name of Little Muck - much like them, but with better manners and a heap of problems. Having lost his father at | 1953 | Wolfgang Staudte | Family, Fantasy | 6.8 (661 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Story of Three Loves, TheAn anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback. | 1953 | Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt | Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance | 6.9 (1.3K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Strange Storiesnan | 1953 | Don Chaffey, John Guillermin | Drama | 6.5 (14 votes) | 45 | 20240110 |
| Stranger Wore a Gun, TheA former spy moves to Arizona to join a gold robbery, but when he gets there decides that it's not for him and tries to change his life. | 1953 | André De Toth | War, Western | 5.9 (1.1K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Street Corner [Both Sides of the Law]A pseudo-documentary in style with an emphasis on the daily work and routine of women police built around three different story lines. The first involves eighteen-year-old Bridget Foster (Peggy Cummins) who is picked up for shoplifti | 1953 | Muriel Box | Crime, Drama | 6.8 (211 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Summer With MonikaA pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another. | 1953 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (14K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Sun Shines Bright, TheJohn Ford weaves three "Judge Priest" stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the turn of the century. Judge William Priest is involved variously in revealing the rea | 1953 | John Ford (*) | Comedy, Drama, Western | 7.0 (1.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Sweethearts on ParadeCam Ellerby (Ray Middleton) brings his traveling medicine show to town and it spells glamor and excitement to young Sylvia Townsend (Eileen Christy). Her mother, Kathleen (Lucille Norman), recalls the days when she was part of a simi | 1953 | Allan Dwan | Drama, Music, Romance | 6.4 (41 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Sword and the Rose, TheDuring the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Tudor seeks to flee a forced marriage with the French king by escaping to America with her true love, but her plans are not so easily executed. | 1953 | Ken Annakin | Adventure, Drama, Family, History | 6.4 (849 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| System, TheGambler John Merrick (Frank Lovejoy) is the head of a bookie syndicate and the newspaper is crusading against him and the rackets, primarily because Merrick is in love with Felice Stuart (Joan Weldon), daughter of the newspaper publi | 1953 | Lewis Seiler | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.5 (119 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Taiheiyô no washiJapanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but overrule | 1953 | Ishirô Honda | Drama, History, War | 7.5 (86 votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Take Me to TownA pretty saloon entertainer escapes the marshal's custody and hides in a small town where she unexpectedly becomes surrogate mother to three motherless boys who wish to see their father re-married. | 1953 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Western | 6.5 (307 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Take the High GroundIn 1953, at Fort Bliss, Texas, two former Korean War combat veterans work as drill sergeants and fall in love with the same woman. | 1953 | Richard Brooks | Drama, War | 6.1 (970 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Tale Of Two Cities, ADuring the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay who's hiding his true identity and purpose. | 1953 | Dick Darley | Drama | 5.4 (28 votes) | 30 | 20211228 |
| Tangier IncidentSteve Gordon, an American agent posing as a black market operator, is in Tangier on a mission to stop the plans of three atomic scientists who are there to pool their secrets and sell them in a package to the Communists. | 1953 | Lew Landers | Action, Adventure, Crime, Music, Mystery, Thriller | 5.0 (30 votes) | 77 | 20240622 |
| Tarzan and She-DevilIvory poachers, headed by Lyra the She-Devil, Vargo and Fidel, capture a native tribe to carry their loot. Tarzan intervenes and is captured. | 1953 | Kurt Neumann | Action, Adventure | 5.5 (529 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Tell-Tale Heart, TheA madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward. | 1953 | Ted Parmelee | Animation, Short, Crime, Horror | 7.5 (2.2K votes) | 8 | 20240110 |
| Terror on a Train [Time Bomb]After a terrorist plants a bomb on board a train, the police call in an army bomb disposal expert to find and dismantle it, but once it has been made safe, he has another shock in store. | 1953 | Ted Tetzlaff | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.0 (812 votes) | 72 | 20220414 |
| Terror Street [36 Hours]An American pilot AWOL from the states is framed for his wife's murder and has just 36 hours to prove his innocence. | 1953 | Montgomery Tully | Crime, Drama | 5.9 (274 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| That Happy Couple [Esa pareja feliz]Good-for-nothing Juan marries Carmen to begin suffering what he thinks her and their friends' scorn at his proven inability to make a living, until he's lured to an apparent sound business that will for sure make them rich. | 1953 | Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis García Berlanga | Comedy | 6.8 (379 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Their Last Night [Leur dernière nuit]Madeleine arrives in Paris looking for a job as an English teacher. She finds a room in a boarding house where she meets and takes interest in Pierre Ruffin, a quiet librarian, who actually lives a double life. | 1953 | Georges Lacombe | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (159 votes) | 95 | 20220806 |
| There Was a Young LadyA super-efficient young secretary foils the plans of a gang of smash-and grab robbers. | 1953 | Lawrence Huntington | Comedy | 6.6 (74 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| This Man Is Dangerous, [Cet homme est dangereux]An escaped convict on the run becomes the newest member of the international criminal network. In order to gain the respect of the gang, he gets involved in a plot to kidnap a rich American heiress. | 1953 | Jean Sacha | Adventure | 5.9 (133 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Those Redheads from SeattleA woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Dawson City Yukon during the Gold Rush to find their fortune. | 1953 | Lewis R. Foster | Musical, Western | 5.7 (250 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Three Musketeers, The [Les 3 Mousquetaires]D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades must thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power. | 1953 | André Hunebelle | Adventure | 6.1 (391 votes) | 116 | 20230728 |
| Three Sailors and a GirlThree navy men run into a shady producer who convinces them to invest into his new show. When they meet the show's female star attraction, they're sold. Have they become the latest showbiz players or just three more suckers? | 1953 | Roy Del Ruth | Comedy, Musical | 6.2 (405 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Three Steps in the DarkA country house, a patriarch, a fallout among siblings, a butler, a housemaid--and each of them have secrets: a perfect setting for a classic whodunnit. | 1953 | Daniel Birt | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 5.6 (127 votes) | 61 | 20240515 |
| Three Stops to Murder [Blood Orange]Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered. | 1953 | Terence Fisher (*) | Crime, Drama | 5.8 (102 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Thunder BayShrimpers and oilmen clash after an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oil rig. | 1953 | Anthony Mann (*) | Adventure, Drama | 6.5 (2.2K votes) | 103 | 20240319 |
| Thunder Over the PlainsIn Post-Bellum Texas, an army captain tries to keep the peace between overtaxed, impoverished farmers and greedy carpetbaggers. | 1953 | André De Toth | Western | 6.4 (963 votes) | 82 | 20240622 |
| TitanicAn unhappily married couple struggle to deal with their problems while on board the luxurious, ill-fated RMS Titanic. | 1953 | Jean Negulesco | Drama, History, Romance | 7.0 (7.1K votes) | 98 | 20220723 |
| Titfield Thunderbolt, TheVolunteers take over their local passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when the government announces its closure. | 1953 | Charles Crichton (*) | Comedy | 7.1 (2.8K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| To Hell with the Virtue [Au diable la vertu]Mr. Pierre Montabrel has spent all the night with his mistress.On the morning Gisèle Montabrel, his wife, is preoccupied because Pierre is not at home.Then arrives Jacques Lambert, the associate of Pierre, Gisèle asks him if he ha... | 1953 | Jean Laviron | Comedy | 5.0 (37 votes) | 90 | 20240826 |
| Tokyo Profile [Tokai no yokogao]A little girl named Michiko gets lost from her mom in the neighborhood of Ginza. A friendly couple, a sign carrier and and a shoe-shine girl, start helping her. The mother is simultaneously looking for the lost child. | 1953 | Hiroshi Shimizu | Drama | 6.8 (21 votes) | 75 | 20220315 |
| Tokyo Story [Tôkyô monogatari]An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention. | 1953 | Yasujirô Ozu (*) | Drama | 8.2 (59.2K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Tonight We SingStory of the legendary impresario Sol Hurok and the many stars that he introduced and represented to the world of music. | 1953 | Mitchell Leisen | Musical | 5.9 (126 votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Torch SongA tough but unhappy Broadway star re-evaluates her life when she crosses paths with a blind pianist. | 1953 | Charles Walters (*) | Drama, Music, Romance | 5.5 (1.4K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Tour of the Grand Dukes, The [La tournée des grands Ducs] Gaston Fromageot, the son of the lawyer Fromageot is in love with Brigitte , the daughter of the baroness.This night , the priest, the lawyer and Gaston have arrived at the house of the baroness who asks them why they have comer s... | 1953 | André Pellenc | Comedy, Musical | 4.3 (43 votes) | 0 | 20240820 |
| Traviata '53Updated version of the Camille melodrama: An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover and his family. | 1953 | Vittorio Cottafavi | Drama | 6.8 (106 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Treasure of the Golden CondorIn the 18th century France, Jean-Paul, who was cheated out of his inheritance, land and titles by his uncle, decides to go to Guatemala in search of a famed Mayan treasure. | 1953 | Delmer Daves, Otto Preminger | Adventure | 6.1 (552 votes) | 93 | 20240605 |
| Trial Of John Peter Zenger, TheThe story of John Peter Zenger who fought British rule in the American colonies and printed materials against King George III. This case is important to American historians and champions of the First Amendment because it represented | 1953 | Paul Nickell | Drama | 7.0 (30 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Tricky DicksThe stooges are policemen on the trail of a murderer. They unsuccessfully interrogate an Italian organ grinder, among other suspects, and then catch the bad guy after a gun fight that nearly destroys the police station. | 1953 | Jules White | Short, Comedy, Crime | 6.9 (364 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
| Trouble Along the WayAn ex-football coach is hired by a small Catholic college to train its football team in the hopes of winning games and making money to save the school from bankruptcy. | 1953 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport | 6.8 (1.9K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Trouble in StoreNorman (Norman Wisdom) is working in the stockroom of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always?): he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. While trying to fulfill his ambition, he | 1953 | John Paddy Carstairs | Comedy | 6.7 (1K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| TumbleweedWhen a wagon train is wiped-out by the Yaqui Indians, the surviving guide Jim Harvey is accused of desertion and cowardice but Jim escapes the town jail in search of the truth. | 1953 | Nathan Juran | Western | 6.7 (863 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Turn the Key SoftlyFollows three women through their first day of freedom after they are released from prison. | 1953 | Jack Lee | Crime, Drama | 6.9 (595 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Two Careful Fellows [Dos tipos de cuidado]Two best friends clash when one marries the girlfriend of the other. | 1953 | Ismael Rodríguez | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 8.0 (846 votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Twonky, TheTweedy college professor discovers his new TV set is animate, apparently possessed by something from the future, and militantly intent on regulating his daily life. | 1953 | Arch Oboler | Comedy, Sci-Fi | 5.5 (557 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Ugetsu [Ugetsu monogatari]A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century. | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi (*) | Drama, Fantasy, War | 8.2 (22.8K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Undercover Agent [Counterspy]An auditor comes into possession of an envelope containing prints and drawings which the British government is anxious to obtain and also a great many other people, all of whom try to get them from him by any means. He escapes man... | 1953 | Vernon Sewell | Drama | 5.5 (146 votes) | 68 | 20240826 |
| Unfaithfuls, The [Le infedeli]An industrialist has his wife tailed because he secretly hopes she is betraying him so that he can ask for a divorce and marry the model he's fallen in love with. This leads to a series of thefts, blackmail and a suicide as well. | 1953 | Mario Monicelli, Steno | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (192 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Unglassed Windows Cast A Terrible ReflectionAn anatomy of violence. Four young men and two young women are on a drive. There's a rivalry between two guys for one of the girls. On a remote road, the car stalls. The driver hitchhikes for help. Led by the intrepid girl, the other | 1953 | Stan Brakhage (*) | Drama, Short | 6.3 (119 votes) | 30 | 20211228 |
| Up In Daisy's PenthouseThe stooges' father strikes it rich in oil and immediately issues divorce papers to his wife. He plans to marry a gold digging younger woman unless the boys can disrupt the proceedings. | 1953 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 6.9 (355 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
| Valigia dei sogni, Lanan | 1953 | Luigi Comencini | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (95 votes) | 84 | 20220414 |
| Valley of Head HuntersBad guys trying to steal the mineral rights away from African natives find it isn't so easy fighting Jungle Jim. | 1953 | William Berke | Adventure, Family | 6.3 (247 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Vanquished, TheAfter the Civil War, unscrupulous and corrupt civilian administrators, backed by the Union Army, run Southern towns like despots, causing public outrage. | 1953 | Edward Ludwig | Western | 5.5 (190 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Vanquished, The [I Vinti]A trilogy of stories of well-off youths who commit murders. In the French episode, a group of high school students kill one of their colleagues for his money. In the Italian episode, a university student's involved in smuggling ci... | 1953 | Michelangelo Antonioni (*) | Drama | 6.6 (998 votes) | 113 | 20220731 |
| Veils of Bagdad, TheThe Ottoman leadership entrusts Antar with the task of preventing the Pasha of Bagdad from using local leader Mustapha's united hill tribes against the Ottoman Sultan. | 1953 | George Sherman | Action, Adventure, Drama | 6.1 (110 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| VesnaThree students try to pass their final exam by reluctant task of wooing their professor's daughter, but the unlucky winner, decided by a coin toss, will completely forget about studying once he meet her. | 1953 | Frantisek Cáp | Comedy, Music, Romance | 8.1 (573 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Viale della Speranza, IlJoys and disappointments of three young girls who dreaming of making a career in film: Luisa has talent and triumphs; Franca tries to seduce a producer, however no artistic skills, Giuditta, the most inexperienced and naive, will hav | 1953 | Dino Risi | Comedy | 6.8 (97 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Vice SquadPolice procedural film following a few cases assigned to LAPD captain of detectives Barney Barnaby. | 1953 | Arnold Laven | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.6 (675 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| VickiThe untimely murder of a New York glamor-girl sparks an investigation with an emotionally driven detective at the helm. | 1953 | Harry Horner | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.5 (1K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| ViolatedPsycho stalks the streets of Greenwich Village, killing and scalping his victims. | 1953 | Walter Strate | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 5.2 (135 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Virtuous Scoundrel, The [La vie d'un honnête homme]A mean bourgeois meets up with his twin brother again . | 1953 | Sacha Guitry (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.0 (239 votes) | 85 | 20230619 |
| Voices, Thenan | 1953 | John Schmitz | Short | 5.4 (47 votes) | 14 | 20230619 |
| Wages Of Fear, TheIn a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe. | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot (*) | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 8.1 (59.2K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Walking My Baby Back HomeWorld War II veteran Clarence "Jigger" Millard forms a band with several other former GIs. The band fails to take off and he is forced to join a minstrel show headed by Colonel Wallace. He soon falls for Wallace's niece Chris Hall. | 1953 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Musical | 6.1 (148 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| War ArrowMajor Howell Brady arrives in Indian Territory in hopes of recruiting peaceful, relocated Seminoles to help the army fight rampaging Kiowas. | 1953 | George Sherman | Romance, War, Western | 5.9 (800 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| War of the Worlds, TheA small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion. | 1953 | Byron Haskin | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.1 (34.8K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Wayward Wife, The [La provinciale]Gemma, daughter of a lodger, is in love with her half-brother, but since she cannot marry him she ends up marrying a teacher. She doesn't love him and betrays him but is blackmailed by a Romanian countess who forces her to become a p | 1953 | Mario Soldati | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 (268 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| We, the Women [Siamo donne]Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars. | 1953 | Gianni Franciolini, Alfredo Guarini, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Luigi Zampa | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (434 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Wedding of Lilli Marlene, TheWar time drama. Lili will not marry her true Love, an American reporter, until she becomes a star. Starring Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott and Sid James. | 1953 | Arthur Crabtree | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 4.5 (37 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Welcome, Mr. Marshall [Bienvenido Mister Marshall]After finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del Río start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive. | 1953 | Luis García Berlanga (*) | Comedy | 8.0 (4.2K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| What Is Your Name [Kimi no na wa]Machiko and Haruki are not allowed to meet. When at last they find each other, Haruki has to part for Europe. | 1953 | Hideo Ôba | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (49 votes) | 127 | 20240211 |
| What Is Your Name_ Part II [Kimi no na wa_ Dainibu]nan | 1953 | Hideo Ôba | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (24 votes) | 120 | 20240211 |
| Wheel of FateTwo brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. The brothers feud over Lucky, a beautiful band singer. Then their life is complicated: first by a police se | 1953 | Francis Searle | Drama | 6.0 (61 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| When You Read This Letter [Quand tu liras cette lettre]Therese is a nun-in-training who returns to "civilian" life to care for her young sister Denise. | 1953 | Jean-Pierre Melville (*) | Drama | 6.6 (660 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Where Chimneys Are Seen [Entotsu no mieru basho]Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo. | 1953 | Heinosuke Gosho | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (260 votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| White Fire [3 Steps to the Gallows]American Gregor Stevens arrives in London searching for his brother who, unknown to him, has been convicted of a murder and is within three days of being executed. He meets Yvonne Durante, a night-club entertainer and part-time smugg | 1953 | John Gilling | Crime, Drama | 6.6 (285 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| White Mane [Crin blanc - Le cheval sauvage]In the Camargue, France, a young boy bonds with a white haired horse that escaped from ranchers. | 1953 | Albert Lamorisse | Drama, Family | 7.3 (2.1K votes) | 47 | 20211228 |
| White Witch DoctorIn 1907, a nurse arrives in the Belgian Congo to work for a missionary doctor but meets a grumpy animal hunter who secretly plans to search for gold in the dangerous Bakuba tribal region. | 1953 | Henry Hathaway | Action, Adventure, Romance | 6.1 (667 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Wicked WomanDrifting floozy Billie Nash gets a bar job where she seduces the owner's husband by convincing him to defraud his drunkard wife in order to elope together to Mexico but a sleazy neighbor with designs on Billie jeopardizes her plans. | 1953 | Russell Rouse | Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (851 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Wife [Tsuma]Tokyo. Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawa's ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia. Each knows the other isn't happy, they themselves aren't happy, but they don't talk about their problems with each other, each festering in their unha | 1953 | Mikio Naruse (*) | Drama | 6.9 (280 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Wild Geese [Gan]A lowly divorcee is tricked into becoming the mistress of a despised moneylender but soon falls in love with a student. | 1953 | Shirô Toyoda | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (239 votes) | 104 | 20220723 |
| Wild Oat, The [Le boulanger de Valorgue]After his son leaves to join the army, a temperamental French baker learns a villager's new baby is his grandson. | 1953 | Henri Verneuil | Comedy | 6.4 (275 votes) | 103 | 20231001 |
| Wild One, TheTwo rival motorcycle gangs terrorize a small town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail. | 1953 | Laslo Benedek | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.8 (15.8K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Will Any Gentleman...?About a henpecked bank clerk who lives a dreary existence in suburban London. After a mix-up at a music hall, he finds himself onstage with ambiguously foreign magician Mendoza, who hypnotizes him into losing all of his inhibitions. | 1953 | Michael Anderson | Comedy | 5.9 (180 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Will Any GentlemenAbout a henpecked bank clerk who lives a dreary existence in suburban London. After a mix-up at a music hall, he finds himself onstage with ambiguously foreign magician Mendoza, who hypnotizes him into losing all of his inhibitions. | 1953 | Michael Anderson | Comedy | 5.9 (181 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Wings of the HawkDuring the Mexican revolution of 1910, an American prospector gets involved with the revolutionaries after a corrupt Mexican official confiscates his mine. | 1953 | Budd Boetticher | Adventure, Romance, Western | 6.1 (275 votes) | 81 | 20220531 |
| Woman They Almost LynchedLaying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up | 1953 | Allan Dwan | Western | 6.6 (340 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Yellow Balloon, TheIn post-war London, a small boy who blames himself for the accidental death of a friend, falls under the bad influence of a street criminal. | 1953 | J. Lee Thompson | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (319 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Young BessThe early life of Elizabeth I, from her childhood until her accession to the throne of England in 1558. | 1953 | George Sidney | Biography, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (1.6K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Young Woman Missing, A [Ung frue forsvunnet]A young teacher comes back home after a mountain trip, and finds his wife missing. Noone has seen her since the day he left for the trip. The police starts an investigation starts to find out what has happened. | 1953 | Edith Carlmar | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (107 votes) | 91 | 20221116 |