1953 Movies

Art dealer Thormann asks for the hand of his beautiful secretary Nora, but Nora loves Captain Hans Westhoff. But while Westhoff is hiding in Italy to...

Compiled in 1953, this is a scrapbook-style documentary about Britain’s Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. It charts her transition from childhood to womanh...

Woody Woodpecker is watching a wrestling match on TV. It's "Precious Percy" (Woody's favorite) versus his opponent, "Bull Dozer". Eventually, Woody's...

A short film by artist Adaline Kent documenting her adventures in the Sierra Nevadas.

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

A renowned surgeon becomes involved with an attractive circus trapeze artist with the relationship threatening his marriage and family life.

In this abridged television production, Lear vows revenge against his conniving daughters after they try to take swift control of his power.

Views of the Kama River, landscapes of the Perm region, river traffic. Views of the cities of Solikamsk, Berezniki, Molotov (Perm),and Votkinsk. Indu...

A boy is by an accident a member of a crew that is going to travel to the moon.

Vigilante Terror was one of the last of the "Wild Bill" Elliot westerns for Columbia. This time, Elliot comes to rescue an imperiled storekeeper. A ba...

This short documentary, Elio Petri's directorial debut, deals with the passion of the Italians for cycling. It concentrates on a young deliveryman, wh...

Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)

A drunken stork delivers a baby mouse to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Cat. Sylvester is about to eat the little rodent when it calls him Daddy....

A woman who works doing chores in the convent where her paralyzed daughter, that believes that is dead, and falls in love of a doctor.

Joe and Alice buy a television set and, due to some excuse, or another, the neighbors begin to drop in, stay to watch television, and raid their refri...

Len Lye made this experiment in animating poetry circa 1953 utilising a clip of Sir John Gielgud reciting a passage from The Tempest.