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The Best Movies of 1953 - Original Release   (100 Most Notable)

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 RATING    TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
# 1 for 1953, # 39 Overall Tokyo Story 1953 Ozu, Yasujiro Japan D
# 2 for 1953, # 86 Overall Ugetsu 1953 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan D
# 3 for 1953, # 143 Overall Shane 1953 Stevens, George USA DOP
# 4 for 1953, # 147 Overall Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Tati, Jacques France DOS
# 5 for 1953, # 151 Overall The Wages of Fear 1953 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France / Italy DB
# 6 for 1953, # 250 Overall From Here to Eternity 1953 Zinnemann, Fred USA DO
# 7 for 1953, # 290 Overall The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 Ophüls, Max France / Italy D
# 8 for 1953, # 334 Overall The Band Wagon 1953 Minnelli, Vincente USA DOS
# 9 for 1953, # 357 Overall Roman Holiday 1953 Wyler, William USA DOP
# 10 for 1953, # 418 Overall The Big Heat 1953 Lang, Fritz USA D
# 11 for 1953, # 472 Overall The Golden Coach 1953 Renoir, Jean France / Italy Y
# 12 for 1953, # 479 Overall Pickup on South Street 1953 Fuller, Samuel USA Y
# 13 for 1953, # 771 Overall Genevieve 1953 Cornelius, Henry UK DBO
# 14 for 1953, # 786 Overall Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Hawks, Howard USA DOPS
# 15 for 1953, # 889 Overall Julius Caesar 1953 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA DOS
# 16 for 1953, # 908 Overall Beat the Devil 1953 Huston, John UK / USA / Italy DBO
# 17 for 1953, # 964 Overall Stalag 17 1953 Wilder, Billy USA DOP
# 18 for 1953, # 982 Overall Gate of Hell 1953 Kinugasa, Teinosuke Japan Y
# 19 for 1953, # 995 Overall Naked Spur 1953 Mann, Anthony USA DO
# 20 for 1953, # 1207 Overall I Vitelloni 1953 Fellini, Federico France / Italy YS
# 21 for 1953, # 1227 Overall Lili 1953 Walters, Charles USA YS
# 22 for 1953, # 1272 Overall Voyage in Italy 1953 Rossellini, Roberto Italy / France Y
# 23 for 1953, # 1450 Overall The Little Kidnappers 1953 Leacock, Philip UK
# 24 for 1953, # 1463 Overall Sawdust and Tinsel 1953 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden D
# 25 for 1953, # 1469 Overall Mogambo 1953 Ford, John USA D
# 26 for 1953, # 1474 Overall The Glenn Miller Story 1953 Mann, Anthony USA DS
# 27 for 1953, # 1582 Overall The Little Fugitive 1953 Engel, Morris / Ashley, Ray / Orkin, Ruth USA D
# 28 for 1953, # 1646 Overall The Cruel Sea 1953 Frend, Charles / McCowen, Alec UK D
# 29 for 1953, # 1656 Overall Kiss Me Kate 1953 Sidney, George USA DS
# 30 for 1953, # 1700 Overall Niagara 1953 Hathaway, Henry USA DOP
# 31 for 1953, # 1729 Overall Duck Amuck 1953 Jones, Chuck USA D
# 32 for 1953, # 1747 Overall War of the Worlds 1953 Haskin, Byron USA D
# 33 for 1953, # 1761 Overall The Robe 1953 Koster, Henry USA DBOS
# 34 for 1953, # 1835 Overall Bread, Love, and Dreams 1953 Comencini, Luigi Italy Y
# 35 for 1953, # 1839 Overall The Great Adventure 1953 Sucksdorff, Arne Sweden
# 36 for 1953, # 1859 Overall The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. 1953 Rowland, Roy USA DOP
# 36 for 1953, # 1859 Overall The Wild One 1953 Benedek, László USA DO
# 37 for 1953, # 1929 Overall Call Me Madam 1953 Lang, Walter USA D
# 38 for 1953, # 1933 Overall Thérèse Raquin 1953 Carné, Marcel France / Italy
# 39 for 1953, # 2016 Overall How to Marry a Millionaire 1953 Negulesco, Jean USA YS
# 40 for 1953, # 2046 Overall The Living Desert 1953 Algar, James USA DOP
# 41 for 1953, # 2052 Overall Conquest of Everest 1953 Lowe, George UK YO
# 42 for 1953, # 2117 Overall The Bigamist 1953 Lupino, Ida USA VO
# 43 for 1953, # 2162 Overall The Titfield Thunderbolt 1953 Crichton, Charles UK D
# 44 for 1953, # 2189 Overall The Sun Shines Bright 1953 Ford, John USA Y
# 45 for 1953, # 2233 Overall Glen or Glenda? 1953 Wood, Edward D. Jr. USA DO
# 46 for 1953, # 2238 Overall Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl 1953 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden V
# 47 for 1953, # 2241 Overall The Heart of the Matter 1953 O'Ferrall, George More UK
# 48 for 1953, # 2245 Overall Island in the Sky 1953 Wellman, William A. USA DO
# 48 for 1953, # 2245 Overall The Proud Ones 1953 Allégret, Yves / Portas, Rafael E. France / Mexico
# 48 for 1953, # 2245 Overall The Sword and the Rose 1953 Annakin, Ken USA OP
# 49 for 1953, # 2262 Overall A Geisha 1953 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan Y
# 50 for 1953, # 2287 Overall Peter Pan 1953 Geronimi, Clyde / Jackson, Wilfred / Luske, Hamilton USA DS
# 51 for 1953, # 2363 Overall All My Babies 1953 Stoney, George C. USA
# 51 for 1953, # 2363 Overall Eaux d'Artifice 1953 Anger, Kenneth USA D
# 51 for 1953, # 2363 Overall The Hitch-Hiker 1953 Lupino, Ida USA DO
# 51 for 1953, # 2363 Overall The Tell-Tale Heart 1953 Babbitt, Art / Parmelee, Ted USA Y
# 52 for 1953, # 2368 Overall A Queen Is Crowned 1953 unknown UK
# 53 for 1953, # 2373 Overall The Moon Is Blue 1953 Preminger, Otto USA
# 54 for 1953, # 2378 Overall Dangerous When Wet 1953 Walters, Charles USA D
# 54 for 1953, # 2378 Overall I Love Melvin 1953 Weis, Don USA Y
# 54 for 1953, # 2378 Overall The Lady Without Camelias 1953 Antonioni, Michelangelo Italy / France
# 54 for 1953, # 2378 Overall Les Statues meurent aussi 1953 Marker, Chris / Resnais, Alain France
# 54 for 1953, # 2378 Overall 99 River Street 1953 Karlson, Phil USA
# 54 for 1953, # 2378 Overall The Story of Three Loves 1953 Minnelli, Vincente / Reinhardt, Gottfried USA S
# 55 for 1953, # 2380 Overall No Way Back 1953 Vicas, Victor / von Mollo, Beate West Germany
# 56 for 1953, # 2390 Overall La Guerra de Dios 1953 Gil, Rafael Spain
# 56 for 1953, # 2390 Overall Le Bon Dieu sans confession 1953 Autant-Lara, Claude France
# 56 for 1953, # 2390 Overall Sadko 1953 Ptushko, Aleksandr Soviet Union Y
# 57 for 1953, # 2391 Overall Martin Luther 1953 Pichel, Irving USA / West Germany Y
# 58 for 1953, # 2392 Overall Angels One Five 1953 O'Ferrall, George More UK
# 59 for 1953, # 2393 Overall House of Wax 1953 De Toth, André USA DO
# 60 for 1953, # 2407 Overall King of the Khyber Rifles 1953 King, Henry USA S
# 60 for 1953, # 2407 Overall Titanic 1953 Negulesco, Jean USA DOPS
# 60 for 1953, # 2407 Overall Young Bess 1953 Sidney, George USA
# 61 for 1953, # 2410 Overall Do Bigha Zamin 1953 Roy, Bimal India
# 61 for 1953, # 2410 Overall Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg 1953 Yutkevich, Sergei Albania / Soviet Union
# 62 for 1953, # 2414 Overall The Abbott & Costello Show: 100th Anniversary Collection Season 1 1953 Yarbrough, Jean USA D
# 62 for 1953, # 2414 Overall The Abbott & Costello Show: 100th Anniversary Collection Season 2 1953 Yarbrough, Jean USA D
# 62 for 1953, # 2414 Overall The Black Prophet 1953 Mulligan, Robert USA D
# 62 for 1953, # 2414 Overall By the Light of the Silvery Moon 1953 Butler, David USA D
# 62 for 1953, # 2414 Overall From A to Z-Z-Z-Z 1953 Jones, Chuck USA D
# 62 for 1953, # 2414 Overall The Girl Next Door 1953 Sale, Richard USA DO
# 62 for 1953, # 2414 Overall Houdini 1953 Marshall, George USA D
# 62 for 1953, # 2414 Overall Hypnotic Hick 1953 Patterson, Don USA
# 62 for 1953, # 2414 Overall I Love Lucy: The Movie 1953 Daniels, Marc / Sedgwick, Edward USA D
# 62 for 1953, # 2414 Overall Invaders from Mars 1953 Menzies, William Cameron USA DO
# 62 for 1953, # 2414 Overall Pardon My Backfire 1953 White, Jules USA D
# 62 for 1953, # 2414 Overall Plunder of the Sun 1953 Farrow, John USA DO
# 62 for 1953, # 2414 Overall Spooks! 1953 White, Jules USA D
# 62 for 1953, # 2414 Overall Those Redheads from Seattle 1953 Foster, Lewis R. USA
# 62 for 1953, # 2414 Overall Thunder Bay 1953 Mann, Anthony USA D
# 63 for 1953, # 2432 Overall The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms 1953 Lourié, Eugène USA DOP
# 63 for 1953, # 2432 Overall The Beggar's Opera 1953 Brook, Peter UK V
# 63 for 1953, # 2432 Overall Calamity Jane 1953 Butler, David USA DOPS
# 63 for 1953, # 2432 Overall Hiroshima 1953 Sekigawa, Hideo Japan
# 63 for 1953, # 2432 Overall It Came from Outer Space 1953 Arnold, Jack USA D
# 63 for 1953, # 2432 Overall Miss Sadie Thompson 1953 Bernhardt, Curtis USA V
# 63 for 1953, # 2432 Overall O Cangaceiro 1953 Barreto, Lima Brazil
# 63 for 1953, # 2432 Overall Wild Geese 1953 Toyoda, Shirô Japan
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D   DVD
V   VHS
Y   Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
B   Blu-ray Disc
O   On Demand Video Download
P   Preview Trailer
S   Soundtrack
 
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