1953 Movies

War of the Worlds

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto

Country: United States of America

Outline: As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival.

Shane

Directed by: George Stevens

Starring: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde

Country: United States of America

Outline: A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act.

From Here to Eternity

Directed by: Fred Zinnemann

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed

Country: United States of America

Outline: In Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second-in-command are falling in love.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Directed by: Howard Hawks

Starring: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid

Country: United States of America

Outline: Showgirls 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.

House of Wax

Directed by: André De Toth

Starring: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones

Country: United States of America

Outline: An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.

How to Marry a Millionaire

Directed by: Jean Negulesco

Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, David Wayne

Country: United States of America

Outline: Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

The Robe

Directed by: Henry Koster

Starring: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie

Country: United States of America

Outline: In 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.

Mogambo

Directed by: John Ford

Starring: Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner, Donald Sinden

Country: United States of America

Outline: On 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.

Knights of the Round Table

Directed by: Richard Thorpe

Starring: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Anne Crawford

Country: United States of America

Outline: King Arthur's rule is threatened by the adulterous love between Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, a relationship the king's enemies hope to exploit.

Salome

Directed by: William Dieterle

Starring: Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Charles Laughton, Judith Anderson

Outline: After 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.

Do Bigha Zamin

Directed by: Bimal Roy

Starring: Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Rattan Kumar, Murad

Outline: In the hope of earning enough money to pay off his debts and save his land, a poor farmer becomes a rickshaw puller in the Calcutta and faces many difficulties.

Tokyo Story

Directed by: Yasujirô Ozu

Starring: Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura, Setsuko Hara

Country: United States of America

Outline: An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city; but the children have little time for them.

Roman Holiday

Directed by: William Wyler

Starring: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power

Country: United States of America

Outline: A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.

Stalag 17

Directed by: Billy Wilder

Starring: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss

Country: United States of America

Outline: When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.

I Vitelloni

Directed by: Federico Fellini

Starring: Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Leopoldo Trieste

Country: United States of America

Outline: A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.

The Big Heat

Directed by: Fritz Lang

Starring: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby

Country: United States of America

Outline: Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.

Hiroshima

Directed by: Hideo Sekigawa

Starring: Eiji Okada, Yumeji Tsukioka, Yoshi Katô, Takashi Kanda

Outline: Brilliant retelling of the Day in Hiroshima the day the bomb dropped. A bit heavy handed at times, yet extremely realistic.

Dos tipos de cuidado

Directed by: Ismael Rodríguez

Starring: Jorge Negrete, Pedro Infante, Carmelita González, Yolanda Varela

Outline: Two best friends clash when one marries the girlfriend of the other.

The Cruel Sea

Directed by: Charles Frend

Starring: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott

Country: United States of America

Outline: The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.

Tal para cual

Directed by: Rogelio A. González

Starring: Jorge Negrete, María Elena Marqués, Luis Aguilar, Rosa de Castilla

Summer with Monika

Directed by: Ingmar Bergman

Starring: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen, Åke Fridell

Country: United States of America

Outline: A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

Mr. Hulot's Holiday

Directed by: Jacques Tati

Starring: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla, Valentine Camax

Country: United States of America

Outline: Monsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation, where he accidentally (but good-naturedly) causes havoc.

The Band Wagon

Directed by: Vincente Minnelli

Starring: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray

Country: United States of America

Outline: A pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition.

99 River Street

Directed by: Phil Karlson

Starring: John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen

Outline: A 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.

The Naked Spur

Directed by: Anthony Mann

Starring: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker

Country: United States of America

Outline: A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.