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1. White Fire (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama
In London, American Gregor Stevens searches for his convicted murderer brother facing execution. He allies with smuggler Yvonne Durante to prove his brother's innocence, putting her at risk from her criminal associates.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Scott Brady, Mary Castle, John Blythe, Gabrielle Brune
Votes: 415
2. A Day to Remember (1953)
92 min | Drama
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Stanley Holloway, Joan Rice, Odile Versois, Donald Sinden
Votes: 279
3. Terror Street (1953)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An American pilot AWOL from the states is framed for his wife's murder and has just 36 hours to prove his innocence.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Dan Duryea, Elsie Albiin, Gudrun Ure, Eric Pohlmann
Votes: 387
4. Break to Freedom (1953)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, History, War
In 1944, at a POW camp in Germany the Allied prisoners use a dummy prop named Albert to fool the German guards and escape.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Anthony Steel, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, William Sylvester
Votes: 474
5. Her Three Bachelors (1953)
75 min | Comedy
Three bachelors raise a baby who grows into an eligible young woman.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Jerry Desmonde, Pauline Stroud, Olive Sloane, Peter Hammond
Votes: 8
6. Always a Bride (1953)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy
Victor Hemsley and his daughter, Clare ply their trade at swanky Riviera resorts, where they pose as a married couple---hence the title---and after he disappears with all of her savings, ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Smart | Stars: Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan, Ronald Squire, James Hayter
Votes: 229
7. Raiders in the Sky (1953)
Unrated | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War
War drama about the dangerous and stressful work of Lancaster bomber British crews during World War II.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Ian Hunter, Dinah Sheridan, Bryan Forbes
Votes: 821
8. Edge of Divorce (1953)
Approved | 83 min | Drama
In post-war London, upper-middle class barrister John Lomax and his wife Barbie decide after several years of constant bickering to divorce. They underestimate the effect of their ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Birt | Stars: Valerie Hobson, Philip Friend, Norman Wooland, Janette Scott
Votes: 60
9. Beat the Devil (1953)
Approved | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen...
Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley
Votes: 10,408
10. Behind the Headlines (1953)
53 min | Crime
Gilbert Harding is interviewed by John Fitzgerald and tells how Scotland Yard tracks down lorry thieves who killed a night watchman. (Authentic hospital operation scenes)
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Gilbert Harding, John Fitzgerald, Adrienne Scott, Vi Kaley
Votes: 7
11. Black 13 (1953)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama
20th Century-Fox gets the blame for distributing this in the USA but they were not the production company in any manner. Peter Reynolds is the screwed-up son of a college professor who ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Peter Reynolds, Rona Anderson, Patrick Barr, Lana Morris
Votes: 16
12. Black Orchid (1953)
Not Rated | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A doctor's ex-wife dies of nicotine poison.
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Ronald Howard, Olga Edwardes, John Bentley, Mary Laura Wood
Votes: 248
13. Three Stops to Murder (1953)
76 min | Crime, Drama
Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Tom Conway, Mila Parély, Naomi Chance, Eric Pohlmann
Votes: 188
15. The Slasher (1953)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The life of a juvenile delinquent is threatened by his own incessant desire for trouble.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: James Kenney, Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies, Robert Ayres
Votes: 509
16. Undercover Agent (1953)
68 min | Drama
An auditor comes into possession of an envelope containing prints and drawings which the British government is anxious to obtain and also a great many other people, all of whom try to get ... See full summary »
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hermione Baddeley, Alexander Gauge
Votes: 146
17. Deadly Nightshade (1953)
61 min | Crime, Drama
Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Emrys Jones, Zena Marshall, John Horsley, Joan Hickson
Votes: 243
18. Death Goes to School (1953)
64 min | Crime, Mystery
A Teacher is murdered at an all girls school. Police investigate and discover that the staff room is full of suspects.
Director: Stephen Clarkson | Stars: Barbara Murray, Gordon Jackson, Pamela Alan, Jane Aird
Votes: 305
19. Decameron Nights (1953)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Adventure, Romance
The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa ... See full summary »
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Godfrey Tearle, Joan Collins
Votes: 292
20. Desperate Moment (1953)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Simon Van Halder (Sir Dirk Bogarde) is accused of murdering a British soldier during post-World War II mayhem. His girlfriend works on his behalf to expose the true villain.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Philip Friend, Albert Lieven
Votes: 214
21. The Man from Cairo (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama
An American tourist, who served in Algeria during WW2, is mistaken for an American agent hired by the French government to recover its gold reserves that went missing in the Algerian desert during the war.
Directors: Ray Enright, Edoardo Anton | Stars: George Raft, Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Guido Celano
Votes: 199
22. Escape by Night (1953)
79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Bonar Colleano, Andrew Ray, Sidney James, Ted Ray
Votes: 137
23. Flannelfoot (1953)
74 min | Crime, Drama
Thriller about a notorious jewel thief and murderer.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Ronald Howard, Mary Germaine, Jack Watling, Ronald Adam
Votes: 97
24. Forces' Sweetheart (1953)
76 min | Comedy
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Hy Hazell, Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine, John Ainsworth
Votes: 57
25. Four Sided Triangle (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Romance, Sci-Fi
Bill and Robin, helped by their childhood friend, Lena, develop a "reproducer" which can exactly duplicate any object. Bill, crushed when Lena marries Robin, convinces her to allow him to ... See full summary »
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Barbara Payton, James Hayter, Stephen Murray, John Van Eyssen
Votes: 823
26. Genevieve (1953)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy
Two British couples pit their vintage automobiles against each other in an exciting cross-country race.
Director: Henry Cornelius | Stars: Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall, Kenneth More
Votes: 3,447
27. Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder (1953)
Horror
A compilation of 3 stories, (i)"The Missing Passenger" (ii) "Falstaff's Fur Coat" (iii) "Thirty Days To Die". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers' UK series "Calling Scotland Yard" and... See full summary »
Director: Paul Dickson | Stars: Gilbert Harding, Kay Walsh, Betty Ann Davies, Patrick Barr
Votes: 13
28. Glad Tidings! (1953)
67 min | Comedy, Drama
Colonel's adult children object to him marrying an American widow.
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: Barbara Kelly, Raymond Huntley, Ronald Howard, Jean Lodge
Votes: 56
29. Wicked Wife (1953)
75 min | Crime, Thriller
After race horse trainer Gerald Coates' (Nigel Patrick) horse wins the Grand National, his wife comes home drunk, and the two of them have a violent argument, and she is accidentally killed... See full summary »
Director: Bob McNaught | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Moira Lister, Beatrice Campbell, Betty Ann Davies
Votes: 255
30. Heights of Danger (1953)
60 min | Drama
Produced by Howard Thomas for the British Pathe Documentary Unit in 1953. A big garage profiteer seeks to sabotage a British father and his children's chances of winning an Alpine motor car... See full summary »
Director: Peter Bradford | Stars: Basil Appleby, Freda Bamford, Wilfred Downing, Annette Cabot
Votes: 17
31. House of Blackmail (1953)
72 min | Drama, Mystery
A blackmailer is murdered, and the police find that there is a long list of suspects who wanted to see him dead.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: William Sylvester, Mary Germaine, Alexander Gauge, John Arnatt
Votes: 246
32. Innocents in Paris (1953)
93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A weekend trip to Paris affects the lives of a group of British tourists.
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Peter Illing, Gaby Bruyère, James Copeland, Monique Gérard
Votes: 530
33. Disobedient (1953)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Based on the play by Jean Cocteau, and looking like a play as all the action takes place indoors, a neurotic mother almost devours a son with smothering, possessive and misdirected love. ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Frank | Stars: Harold Warrender, Marian Spencer, Ruth Dunning, William Russell
Votes: 11
34. Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary (1953)
80 min | Comedy
An American soldier stationed in England is ready to go on his honeymoon with his new wife when his ex-wife, a gorgeous blonde, shows up and insists that they're still married. His two ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Bonar Colleano, Diana Decker, David Tomlinson, Diana Dors
Votes: 173
35. Uncle Willie's Bicycle Shop (1953)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
In England, alcoholic Uncle Willie vexes his family. They let him buy a bike shop to woo American heiress Virginia, who loves Willie's nephew Frank.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Cecil Parker, Eileen Herlie, Donald Wolfit, Peter Asher
Votes: 146
36. It Came to Pass (1953)
Drama
Director: Royal Gornold | Stars: Averil Gornold, Dan Meaden, Audrey Weston, Lisa Rayne
37. It's a Grand Life (1953)
102 min | Comedy
Classic British comedy following an accident-prone army Private, as he attempts to rescue a Corporal from the attentions of a predatory Sergeant-Major.
Director: John E. Blakeley | Stars: Frank Randle, Diana Dors, Dan Young, Michael Brennan
Votes: 81
38. Johnny on the Run (1953)
68 min | Adventure
A superb early work by illustrious British director Lewis Gilbert (Alfie, You Only Live Twice) which follows orphaned Polish refugee Janek, who runs into trouble in the shape of two ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Eugeniusz Chylek, Sydney Tafler, Michael Balfour, Edna Wynn
Votes: 117
39. Laughing Anne (1953)
Approved | 90 min | Adventure
Based on Conrad's short story of a red-headed beauty of the eighteen-eighties who was a singer in an elegant Parisian night-club, whose laugh gave her the title of "Laughing Anne". Her ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker, Ronald Shiner
Votes: 81
40. Scotch on the Rocks (1953)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
A parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote community in the Scottish Highlands where the residents are protesting at their poor links with the outside world. After a few days amongst ... See full summary »
Director: John Eldridge | Stars: Ronald Squire, Kathleen Ryan, Raymond Huntley, Sebastian Shaw
Votes: 179
41. Love in Pawn (1953)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy
Comedy. A penniless couple Roger (Bernard Braden) and Jean (Barbara Kelly) will get £10,000 if Roger can live a sober and profitable life.
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Bernard Braden, Barbara Kelly, Reg Dixon, Jeannie Carson
Votes: 99
42. Malta Story (1953)
97 min | Drama, History, War
1942 and the island of Malta is battling for survival. The threat of invasion by Axis forces is increasing as air raids wear down its defence. Entering this maelstrom is Flight Lieutenant Peter Ross, an RAF photo-reconnaissance pilot.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel, Muriel Pavlow
Votes: 1,962
43. Man of Africa (1953)
73 min | Drama
Dramatisation of the Bakiga people's attempt to cultivate the Kigezi district of Uganda, region inhabited by Pygmies. Jonathan, educated clerk, son of the village's chief, goes along with ... See full summary »
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Asaza, Erisa Bashungula, Frederick Bijuerenda, Mattayo Bukwirwa
Votes: 19
44. Man in Hiding (1953)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Mystery
A wrongly convicted murderer escapes prison to find the real killer.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Paul Henreid, Lois Maxwell, Kieron Moore, Hugh Sinclair
Votes: 229
45. Roadhouse Girl (1953)
70 min | Crime, Drama
1953. Crime drama directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Maxwell Reed and Sandra Dorne. The wife of the garage owner is caught with the mechanic, when he is accidentally killed and a cover up begins.
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: Maxwell Reed, Sandra Dorne, Leslie Dwyer, Vida Hope
Votes: 253
46. Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)
80 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A television given as a retirement present is sold on to different households, causing misery each time.
Director: Anthony Pelissier | Stars: Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray
Votes: 285
47. Melba (1953)
112 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
The highly fictionalized story of Nellie Melba, Australian-born soprano who rose to operatic fame in the latter part of the 19th century and who had a dessert and form of dry toast (true) ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Patrice Munsel, Robert Morley, John McCallum, John Justin
Votes: 47
48. Men Against the Sun (1953)
65 min | Adventure, Drama
An adventure story dealing with the building of a railway in Africa at the turn of the century. It tells of a group of white people and the many difficulties that beset them, including that... See full summary »
Director: Brendan J. Stafford | Stars: John Bentley, Zena Marshall, Liam O'Leary, Alan Tarlton
Votes: 53
49. Murder at 3am (1953)
Not Rated | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Dennis Price, Peggy Evans, Rex Garner, Arnold Bell
Votes: 225
50. Never Let Me Go (1953)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An American reporter stationed in post-war Moscow marries a ballet dancer, but their relationship is threatened by the country's political volatility.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Bernard Miles, Richard Haydn
Votes: 903
51. Noose for a Lady (1953)
76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman has been sentenced to death by hanging. Her cousin believes she is innocent and he works against time to prove it before she is executed.
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: Dennis Price, Rona Anderson, Ronald Howard, Pamela Alan
Votes: 282
52. One Stop Shop (1953)
Drama
Director: Peter Mills | Stars: Derek Aylward, John Boxer, Jonathan Field, Sidney Vivian
53. Operation Diplomat (1953)
70 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Doctor Fenton is abducted and forced to operate on a mysterious figure. Meanwhile, Inspector Austin investigates the murder of Fenton's assistant. All this has something to do with a missing diplomat.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Guy Rolfe, Lisa Daniely, Patricia Dainton, Sydney Tafler
Votes: 239
54. The Adventures of Sadie (1953)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy
After a cruise ship emergency, a spoiled rich attractive female passenger and three men are marooned on a deserted island where the men compete for her favors.
Director: Noel Langley | Stars: Joan Collins, George Cole, Kenneth More, Robertson Hare
Votes: 333
55. Norman Conquest (1953)
75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A private detective solves a murder of which he has been accused, and tracks down a gang of jewel smugglers.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Tom Conway, Eva Bartok, Joy Shelton, Sidney James
Votes: 191
56. Personal Affair (1953)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In a 1950s British village, a teenager, who is in love with her Latin language teacher, disappears, prompting the police to investigate the teacher, amidst public rumors of rape and murder.
Director: Anthony Pelissier | Stars: Gene Tierney, Leo Genn, Pamela Brown, Walter Fitzgerald
Votes: 616
57. Recoil (1953)
Not Rated | 79 min | Crime, Drama
Jean Talbot poses as a crook to infiltrate the gang of thieves who killed her jeweler father, Michael.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Kieron Moore, Elizabeth Sellars, Edward Underdown, John Horsley
Votes: 219
58. Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The wartime adventures of Scotish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George I in the 18th century.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough
Votes: 661
59. Shoot First (1953)
Approved | 88 min | Adventure, Thriller
A retired U.S. Army Colonel living in England stumbles upon a spy ring when he shoots buckshot at a poacher during a hunt.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Joel McCrea, Laurence Naismith, Denis Lehrer, Marius Goring
Votes: 357
60. Sea Devils (1953)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Gilliat,a fisherman/smuggler is in jail, and is offered a pardon if he undertakes a mission to sail to France to rescue Droucette, an English agent whose cover has been blown, and who has now been jailed. Gilliat accepts the challenge.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Maxwell Reed, Denis O'Dea
Votes: 780
61. The Village (1953)
Approved | 98 min | Drama
This film deals with war orphans following WWII at a children's village in the Swiss Alps where over 200 children from all parts of Europe are gathered. The subplots involve a romance ... See full summary »
Director: Leopold Lindtberg | Stars: John Justin, Eva Dahlbeck, Sigfrit Steiner, Mary Hinton
Votes: 51
62. Sailor of the King (1953)
Approved | 83 min | Action, Drama, Romance
In 1940, Canadian sailor Andrew Brown is prisoner on a battle damaged German raider and he plans to delay the raider's at-sea repairs until a British naval task-force can destroy it.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller, Bernard Lee
Votes: 697
63. Skid Kids (1953)
65 min | Drama, Family
Swanky Clarke (Barry MacGregor) and his gang of chums take on a gang of bike thieves with the help of the local police.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Barry MacGregor, Anthony Lang, Angela Monk, Pauline Black
Votes: 74
64. Small Town Story (1953)
69 min | Drama
A Canadian ex-serviceman has to resist criminals and the temptation of signing for Arsenal in order to help non-league Oldchester United.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Susan Shaw, Donald Houston, Alan Wheatley, George Merritt
Votes: 84
65. The Golden Mask (1953)
Approved | 88 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A British Museum archaeologist is searching for an ancient golden mask buried in a Roman tomb in Algeria but tomb robbers follow the academic in the hope of stealing the precious relic.
Director: Jack Lee | Stars: Van Heflin, Wanda Hendrix, Eric Portman, Charles Goldner
Votes: 289
66. Spaceways (1953)
74 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A small group of closely-guarded British scientists test their first rocket amidst indications of matrimonial strife in the community. After the partial failure of the firing, a couple go ... See full summary »
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley, Philip Leaver
Votes: 532
67. Strange Stories (1953)
45 min | Drama, Horror
Directors: Don Chaffey, John Guillermin | Stars: Peter Bull, Naomi Chance, Valentine Dyall, Helen Horton
Votes: 18
68. Both Sides of the Law (1953)
94 min | Crime, Drama
A pseudo-documentary in style with an emphasis on the daily work and routine of women police built around three different story lines. The first involves eighteen-year-old Bridget Foster (... See full summary »
Director: Muriel Box | Stars: Anne Crawford, Peggy Cummins, Rosamund John, Terence Morgan
Votes: 248
69. The Shadow Man (1953)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama
Small-time Soho hustler gets caught up in the murder of an ex-girl friend, evades the police and finally helps them to corner the real murderer.
Director: Richard Vernon | Stars: Cesar Romero, Kay Kendall, Edward Underdown, Victor Maddern
Votes: 358
70. Stryker of the Yard (1953)
67 min | Crime, Drama
Two episodes of the Stryker of Scotland Yard series: The Case of the Studio Payroll and The Case of Uncle Harry, edited together into feature film format.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Clifford Evans, Susan Stephen, Jack Watling, Eliot Makeham
71. Take a Powder (1953)
58 min | Comedy
Director: Lionel Tomlinson | Stars: Julien Vedey, Max Bacon, Isabel George, Maudie Edwards
72. The Accused (1953)
53 min | Crime, Drama
A combination of two made-for-television short stories, the first entitled THE ACCUSED and the second THE DOOR. The latter starred Ingeborg Wells, Peter Reynolds and Irene Handl, none of ... See full summary »
Directors: Lawrence Huntington, Charles Saunders | Stars: Clifford Evans, Robert Adair, Gwen Bacon, Cyril Chamberlain
73. The Beggar's Opera (1953)
Approved | 94 min | Crime, History, Musical
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.
Director: Peter Brook | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose, Stuart Burge
Votes: 395
74. The Blue Parrot (1953)
69 min | Crime, Drama
A London Soho nightclub is the focus for an undercover investigation into the murder of a small-time crook.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Jacqueline Hill, Ballard Berkeley, Richard Pearson
Votes: 211
75. The Broken Horseshoe (1953)
79 min | Crime, Drama
A hit and run victim is operated on by Dr. Fenton (Robert Beatty) who becomes implicated after his patient is later murdered.
Director: Martyn C. Webster | Stars: Robert Beatty, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter Coke, Hugh Kelly
Votes: 174
76. The Captain's Paradise (1953)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
The captain of a ferry boat between the restricted British colony in Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco has a woman of differing appeal and temperament in each port.
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: Alec Guinness, Peter Bull, Charles Goldner, Miles Malleson
Votes: 1,812
77. The Clue of the Missing Ape (1953)
58 min | Family
Two youngsters round up crooks to blow up British fleet off Gibraltar.
Director: James Hill | Stars: Nati Banda, Roy Savage, George Cole, Patrick Boxill
Votes: 62
78. The Cruel Sea (1953)
Approved | 126 min | Drama, War
The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.
Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 5,412
79. The Dog and the Diamonds (1953)
54 min | Drama, Family
A group of petless children secretly build a zoo behind an old manor, unaware it hides jewel thieves. The children find the crooks, then join forces with their animals to defeat them.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Kathleen Harrison, George Coulouris, Geoffrey Sumner, Brian Oulton
Votes: 47
80. The Dragon of Pendragon Castle (1953)
52 min | Family
Sir William Magnus lives in an old drafty castle with his daughter and his two grandchildren, Peter and Judy. Few visitors call and when there are guests they do not stay long, freezing ... See full summary »
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Leslie Bradley, David Hannaford, Lily Lapidus, J. Hubert Leslie
Votes: 12
81. The Fake (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
On loan to the Tate Gallery in London, Da Vinci's 'Madonna and Child' is stolen and replaced with a fake but the American security expert working for Tate aims to recover the original painting and catch the culprits.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Coleen Gray, Hugh Williams, Guy Middleton
Votes: 493
82. The Final Test (1953)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Sam Palmer is a cricketer about to play the final test match of his career. His schoolboy son Reggie is a budding poet who disappoints him by not attending the penultimate day's play. ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Jack Warner, Robert Morley, George Relph, Adrianne Allen
Votes: 247
83. Bad Blonde (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A scheming blonde seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, John Slater, Sidney James
Votes: 448
84. The Genie (1953)
75 min | Drama
A young woman discovers her grandfather owns the true Aladdin's lamp and discovers it's handsome Genie inside as well.
Directors: Lance Comfort, Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sean Barrett, Patricia Cutts, Tommy Duggan
85. The Girl on the Pier (1953)
65 min | Crime
A London copper and his family on holiday, a Yank gangster/crooner, a junior journalist, a waxworks horror museum owner and his unfaithful dolly bird wife congregate on Brighton's Palace Pier for blackmail and murder.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Veronica Hurst, Ron Randell, Charles Victor, Marjorie Rhodes
Votes: 125
86. The Good Beginning (1953)
65 min | Drama
A struggling pen-pusher and his wife envy the casual, live-now-pay-later lifestyle of their irresponsible friends.
Director: Gilbert Gunn | Stars: John Fraser, Eileen Moore, Peter Reynolds, Lana Morris
Votes: 20
87. The Great Game (1953)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: James Hayter, Diana Dors, Thora Hird, John Laurie
Votes: 105
88. The Heart of the Matter (1953)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama
An unhappily married British security officer stationed in Sierra Leone during World War II falls in love with a young Austrian woman and starts an affair. He soon starts feeling guilty.
Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan, Maria Schell, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 545
89. The House of the Arrow (1953)
Approved | 73 min | Mystery
A rich old lady dies in bed and leaves all of her money to her recently adopted daughter, who is quickly accused and exonerated of her murder. But that most British of questions remains. Who dunnit? (1953; B&W)
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Oscar Homolka, Robert Urquhart, Yvonne Furneaux, Josephine Griffin
Votes: 155
90. The Intruder (1953)
84 min | Drama, War
Ex regimental commander Colonel Merton catches one of his former NCOs burgling his house and investigates to find the reason behind this desperate act.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Michael Ripper, Jack Hawkins, Hugh Williams, Michael Medwin
Votes: 445
91. The Little Kidnappers (1953)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A Scotsman, Jim MacKenzie, living on a primitive homestead in Nova Scotia, is raising his two grandsons, Harry and Davy, following the death of their father in the Boer War. His son's death... See full summary »
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter, Adrienne Corri, Duncan Macrae
Votes: 549
92. The Long Rope (1953)
Not Rated | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wrongly accused convict returns home, only to be maligned again.
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: Donald Houston, Susan Shaw, Robert Brown, Peter Byrne
Votes: 212
93. The Limping Man (1953)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An American WWII veteran goes back to England after the war only to discover that his wartime sweetheart has got mixed up with a dangerous spy ring.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Moira Lister, Alan Wheatley, Leslie Phillips
Votes: 719
94. The Long Memory (1953)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released from prison after twelve years, a wrongfully convicted British man seeks revenge on the witnesses who lied at his trial.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars, Eva Bergh
Votes: 1,288
95. The Man Between (1953)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In post-WW2 Berlin, when travel to the East was still possible, the sister of a British officer from West Berlin is abducted by Communist agents and taken into the Soviet sector where her eventual rescue is arranged by a German smuggler.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef, Geoffrey Toone
Votes: 2,527
96. The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Adventure, History
Two noble Scottish brothers deliberately take opposite sides when Bonnie Prince Charlie returns to claim the throne of Scotland in order to preserve the family fortune.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell
Votes: 1,783
97. Project M7 (1953)
86 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists secretly. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, James Donald, Robert Beatty, Herbert Lom
Votes: 190
98. The Horse's Mouth (1953)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Fantasy
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards | Stars: Robert Beatty, Michael Medwin, Virginia McKenna, Mervyn Johns
Votes: 81
99. Paratrooper (1953)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, War
In 1940, an American claiming to be Canadian volunteers for the British Army's paratroop school.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Susan Stephen, Harry Andrews
Votes: 802 | Gross: $5.19M
100. The Saint's Girl Friday (1953)
73 min | Crime, Mystery
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler, Charles Victor
Votes: 250
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