Search results for "1953"
Peek-a-Boo

Peek-a-Boo

Peek-a-Boo
IMDb: 4.3
63

A filmed record of a burlesque show featuring strippers and comedians.

Genre: Comedy, Musical
So This Is Love

So This Is Love

So This Is Love
IMDb: 6
101

Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.

Empty Eyes

Empty Eyes

Empty Eyes
IMDb: 7.1
98

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….

Genre: Drama
The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice
IMDb: 5.1
102

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he’s in love with Portia. Portia’s father has died and…

Genre: Drama
A Lion Is in the Streets

A Lion Is in the Streets

A Lion Is in the Streets
IMDb: 6.1
88

A charismatic peddler from the Bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?

The Twonky

The Twonky

The Twonky
IMDb: 5.3
72

A college professor, left alone by his wife for the weekend, discovers his new TV set is not only alive, but determined to take control of his entire life.

Little Johnny Jet

Little Johnny Jet

Little Johnny Jet
IMDb: 6.8
7

A veteran B-29 propeller plane, struggling to find work after the war, is upset after his wife gives birth to a little jet. When he tries to compete with modern…

Powder River

Powder River

Powder River
IMDb: 6.2
78

Ex-marshal Chino Bull has hung up his guns until his prospecting partner is shot dead. Chino then takes over as the law in town, forming a friendship with gun-man Mitch…

Genre: Western
The Great Jesse James Raid

The Great Jesse James Raid

The Great Jesse James Raid
IMDb: 4.8
73

The famed outlaw is talked into saddling up for one more bank robbery.

Genre: Western
Kansas Pacific

Kansas Pacific

Kansas Pacific
IMDb: 5.8
73

Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out…

Genre: Action, Western
Fort Algiers

Fort Algiers

Fort Algiers
IMDb: 5.4
78

In northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers.

A Japanese Tragedy

A Japanese Tragedy

A Japanese Tragedy
IMDb: 7.4
116

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard…

Genre: Drama
Meet Mr. Lucifer

Meet Mr. Lucifer

Meet Mr. Lucifer
IMDb: 5.9
83

A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Give a Girl a Break

Give a Girl a Break

Give a Girl a Break
IMDb: 6.3
82

When the temperamental star of a new Broadway musical revue in rehearsals walks out, director and choreographer Ted Sturgis suggests casting an unknown for the role. When it is announced…

Glen or Glenda

Glen or Glenda

Glen or Glenda
IMDb: 4.2
71

A psychiatrist tells two stories: one of a trans woman, the other of a pseudohermaphrodite.

Genre: Drama, Horror
I, the Jury

I, the Jury

I, the Jury
IMDb: 6.1
87

After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a limb to save…

Cease Fire!

Cease Fire!

Cease Fire!
IMDb: 6
75

A sometimes uncomfortable marriage between fact and fiction, this film is part documentary and part drama, mixing actual war footage with reenactments in which real veterans of the Korean War…

Genre: Documentary, War
Young Bess

Young Bess

Young Bess
IMDb: 6.6
112

The mother died under the executioner’s axe; the daughter rose to become England’s greatest monarch — the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this…

Appointment in Honduras

Appointment in Honduras

Appointment in Honduras
IMDb: 5.5
79

On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution….

The Net

The Net

The Net
IMDb: 5.6
86

A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, one of…

Confidentially Connie

Confidentially Connie

Confidentially Connie
IMDb: 5.7
74

Texas 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…

Genre: Comedy, Family
The Actress

The Actress

The Actress
IMDb: 6.4
90

The true story of Ruth Gordon’s early struggles on the road to stage stardom.

Turn the Key Softly

Turn the Key Softly

Turn the Key Softly
IMDb: 6.9
81

A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Stolen Identity

Stolen Identity

Stolen Identity
IMDb: 6.4
88

A jealous musician kills his wife and frames a cab driver.

Africa Under The Sea

Africa Under The Sea

Africa Under The Sea
IMDb: 5.2
90

The troublesome daughter of an American millionaire accompanies him aboard his yacht on a deep sea diving expedition in the Red Sea and falls in love with the captain.

Genre: Adventure
The Drayton Case

The Drayton Case

The Drayton Case
IMDb: 6.9
26

During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.

Genre: Crime, Short
The Wild Oat

The Wild Oat

The Wild Oat
IMDb: 6.4
103

A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker’s son, doing his…

Genre: Comedy
Innocents in Paris

Innocents in Paris

Innocents in Paris
IMDb: 5.8
102

Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.

One Girl’s Confession

One Girl’s Confession

One Girl’s Confession
IMDb: 6.4
74

Cleo Moore stars as Mary Adams, whose first step on the road to ruin is a $25,000 robbery. Mary hides the money, then confesses to the crime, secure in the…

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Mexican Manhunt

Mexican Manhunt

Mexican Manhunt
IMDb: 6.2
71

Los 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…

Genre: Crime, Mystery
Francis Covers the Big Town

Francis Covers the Big Town

Francis Covers the Big Town
IMDb: 6.3
86

A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.

Roadhouse Girl

Roadhouse Girl

Roadhouse Girl
IMDb: 5.7
70

A middle-aged garage owner’s life is turned upside down when his new mechanics gets it on with his sexy younger wife.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Limping Man

The Limping Man

The Limping Man
IMDb: 5.6
76

An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a limping sniper.

The Large Rope

The Large Rope

The Large Rope
IMDb: 6.1
72

After being framed for a murder he didn’t commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another…

The Wedding of Lilli Marlene

The Wedding of Lilli Marlene

The Wedding of Lilli Marlene
IMDb: 4.6
87

The story leading up to the wedding of Lilli Marlene.

China Venture

China Venture

China Venture
IMDb: 5.4
83

American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in China during WWII.

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
The Sea has Risen

The Sea has Risen

The Sea has Risen
IMDb: 6.3
135

March 15, 1848; the revolution breaks out in the town of Pest. Yet at café Pilvax, in among he revolutionary youth, there is the informer of the imperial court as…

Genre: Drama, History
Mr. Pu

Mr. Pu

Mr. Pu
IMDb: 6.4
98

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Man in the Dark

Man in the Dark

Man in the Dark
IMDb: 6.2
70

Many 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.

Love Letter

Love Letter

Love Letter
IMDb: 7.1
98

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Genre: Drama, Romance