and Confederate sympathizers. When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. Monsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation and accidentally, but good-naturedly, causes havoc. Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events. Feature Film, Released between 1953-01-01 and 1953-12-31 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending) His schoolboy son, Reggie, is a budding poet who disappoints Sam by not attending the penultimate day's play... World War II veteran Clarence "Jigger" Millard forms a band with several other former GIs.
A 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. A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act. A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome. The winner of the Best Motion Picture category was Columbia Pictures's From Here to … A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
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As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder. Sam Palmer is a cricket player who is playing the last Test match of his career. Nora Taylor has $37,000,000 but thinks every man she meets prefers her bankbook figure to her own, and that includes her current fiancé, Paul Chevron, who has $48,000,000 of his own. Please try again in a few minutes. Wendy and her brothers are whisked away to the magical world of Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan. A list of 67 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Tokyo Story (1953), Ugetsu (1953), The Wages of Fear (1953), Mogambo (1953) and Shane (1953). On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. 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 despair. Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne. 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.
We believe that the movies that made the cut should not compete with one another any further, so we will just present them in … A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony. The threat of invasion by Axis forces is increasing as air raids wear down its defence. Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process. While composing the Best Films of the 1950s list, we tried to consider all of the factors mentioned in the ‘How to define Best’ paragraph above, and then some. Inspire others and create your own A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century. A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers. After three women are released from prison, we follow them for their first day of freedom. When 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. Entering this maelstrom is Flight Lieutenant Peter Ross, an RAF photo-reconnaissance pilot. During 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. Heart this idea list to save it Paul ... A psychiatrist tells the stories of a transvestite (Glen or Glenda) and a pseudohermaphrodite (Alan or Anne). A 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 pair.
A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.
Film legends Paul Newman and Jack Lemmon made their big screen debuts in 1954.