Drama Movies
Return to Paradise (1953)
An American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down.
Second Chance (1953)
A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster’s moll on the run in Mexico.
Ride Vaquero! (1953)
Ranchers in New Mexico have to face Indians and bandits.
The Square Ring (1953)
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
All I Desire (1953)
In 1910, a stage actress re-visits her husband and children she deserted ten years ago.
Houdini (1953)
By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and… Scotland Yard’s jails.
A Japanese Tragedy (1953)
The Beast from 20000 Fathoms (1953)
The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City.
City That Never Sleeps (1953)
Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night,…
Sailor of the King (1953)
A British naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in England and never knows that she bears him a son. 20 years later the boy is on a…
Julius Caesar (1953)
The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and for the republic.
Malta Story (1953)
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
Stalag 17 (1953)
It’s a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be…
Thunder Bay (1953)
Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
Sangaree (1953)
Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.
Scandal at Scourie (1953)
After 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,…
The Juggler (1953)
A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.
Desert Legion (1953)
A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess.
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving…
Split Second (1953)
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.
Wife (1953)
Shane (1953)
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
The Wages of Fear (1953)
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop…
City Beneath the Sea (1953)
Two adventures dive for treasure off the coast of Jamaica.
Bright Road (1953)
Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.
Titanic (1953)
Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have…
One Girl’s Confession (1953)
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…
Trouble Along the Way (1953)
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to…
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953)
While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love…
Glen or Glenda (1953)
A psychiatrist tells two stories: one of a trans woman, the other of a pseudohermaphrodite.
Count the Hours! (1953)
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.
The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953)
In 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,…
Fear and Desire (1953)
After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl…
Jeopardy (1953)
A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Roy and Gilbert’s fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He’s killed before,…