Search results for "1953"
The Desert Rats

The Desert Rats

The Desert Rats
IMDb: 6.7
88

Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to…

Scared Stiff

Scared Stiff

Scared Stiff
IMDb: 6.5
108

A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for…

Genre: Comedy
Eaux d’artifice

Eaux d’artifice

Eaux d’artifice
IMDb: 6.9
12

A woman dressed elegantly walks purposely through the water gardens at the Villa d’Este in Tivoli, as the music of Vivaldi’s Winter movement of The Four Seasons plays. Heavy red…

Genre: Music
Four Sided Triangle

Four Sided Triangle

Four Sided Triangle
IMDb: 5.8
81

A young man, in love with a woman who can never be his, discovers a way to fulfil his dreams. In their childhood the three were the best of friends,…

Mogambo

Mogambo

Mogambo
IMDb: 6.7
115

Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for…

Invaders from Mars

Invaders from Mars

Invaders from Mars
IMDb: 6.3
78

In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappear into the sand dunes just beyond his house. Slowly, all of the adults,…

Arrowhead

Arrowhead

Arrowhead
IMDb: 5.8
105

Director Charles Marquis Warren’s 1953 western stars Charlton Heston and Jack Palance.

Genre: Action, Western
Dream Wife

Dream Wife

Dream Wife
IMDb: 6
100

Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Martin Luther

Martin Luther

Martin Luther
IMDb: 6.9
105

The dramatic black and white classic film of Martin Luther’s life made in the 1950’s. This film was originally released in theaters worldwide and nominated for an Academy Award. A…

Genre: Drama
Jeopardy

Jeopardy

Jeopardy
IMDb: 6.8
69

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.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter
IMDb: 6.8
105

Based on Graham Greeneā€™s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.

Genre: Drama
Thunder Over the Plains

Thunder Over the Plains

Thunder Over the Plains
IMDb: 6.5
82

Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, hiding behind the legal protection of the Union Army of occupation, had…

Sea Devils

Sea Devils

Sea Devils
IMDb: 5.6
91

Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her…

Call Me Madam

Call Me Madam

Call Me Madam
IMDb: 6.8
114

Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.

Take the High Ground!

Take the High Ground!

Take the High Ground!
IMDb: 6.1
101

Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he really the man…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Fort Vengeance

Fort Vengeance

Fort Vengeance
IMDb: 5.8
75

Two brothers flee America and join the Canadian North West Mounted Police. One brother is good, the other bad, both men on a collision course just as trouble starts to…

Genre: Western
White Witch Doctor

White Witch Doctor

White Witch Doctor
IMDb: 6.1
96

Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Lonni Douglas, an animal wrangler and fortune hunter, agrees to take…

Genre: Adventure
The Great Sioux Uprising

The Great Sioux Uprising

The Great Sioux Uprising
IMDb: 5.6
80

During the Civil War, in Wyoming, horse dealers Joan Britton and Stephen Cook are competing to supply the Union Army with horses. A Cherokee is in the area to stir…

Genre: Western
By the Light of the Silvery Moon

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

By the Light of the Silvery Moon
IMDb: 7
101

Marjorie Winfield’s engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.

Man in the Attic

Man in the Attic

Man in the Attic
IMDb: 6.2
82

London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for “experiments.”…

Small Town Girl

Small Town Girl

Small Town Girl
IMDb: 6.3
93

Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge’s daughter Cindy to let…

Genre: Music, Romance
Destination Gobi

Destination Gobi

Destination Gobi
IMDb: 6.3
90

A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to seek the help of Mongol nomads to regain their ship while…

Genre: Adventure, War
Tarzan and the She-Devil

Tarzan and the She-Devil

Tarzan and the She-Devil
IMDb: 5.4
75

The king of the jungle fights off ivory poachers.

Genre: Action, Adventure
The Marksman

The Marksman

The Marksman
IMDb: 5.7
62

Mike Martin becomes a deputy marshal and takes on a gang of cattle rustlers.

Genre: Western
Spaceways

Spaceways

Spaceways
IMDb: 5.1
76

The test launch for the first inter-planetary research station goes wrong when the satellite station is inadvertently set up instead of returning to earth. Two people attached to the secret…

Wings of the Hawk

Wings of the Hawk

Wings of the Hawk
IMDb: 6
81

Gringo miner Gallager is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11 when corrupt administrator Ruiz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the life of guerilla leader Raquel, then finds there’s…

Genre: Western
Lili

Lili

Lili
IMDb: 7.4
81

Members of a circus troupe “adopt” Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and…

The Girl Who Had Everything

The Girl Who Had Everything

The Girl Who Had Everything
IMDb: 5.5
69

Attorney’s daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Miss Robin Crusoe

Miss Robin Crusoe

Miss Robin Crusoe
IMDb: 4.6
75

This 1954 feminist version of “Robinson Crusoe” stars Amanda Blake as a woman shipwrecked on a jungle island. Also with George Nader and Rosalind Hayes.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
The Steel Lady

The Steel Lady

The Steel Lady
IMDb: 6.5
84

Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps tank which had been buried in the sand since WWII.

Genre: Action, Drama
Bright Road

Bright Road

Bright Road
IMDb: 6.6
68

Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.

Genre: Drama, Music
Project Moon Base

Project Moon Base

Project Moon Base
IMDb: 3.2
63

In the future (1970) the US sends a mission to the moon to investigate the building of a moon base.

The Glory Brigade

The Glory Brigade

The Glory Brigade
IMDb: 6
82

During the Korean War Lt. Sam Pryor volunteers his platoon to escort Greek troops to perform a reconnaissance mission behind Communist lines. Due to his Greek heritage Pryor is initially…

Genre: War
Ride, Vaquero!

Ride, Vaquero!

Ride, Vaquero!
IMDb: 6.1
90

Ranchers in New Mexico have to face Indians and bandits.

Genre: Western
Split Second

Split Second

Split Second
IMDb: 6.9
85

Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Scandal at Scourie

Scandal at Scourie

Scandal at Scourie
IMDb: 6.6
90

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,…

Genre: Drama
The Beggar’s Opera

The Beggar’s Opera

The Beggar’s Opera
IMDb: 6.2
94

Adaptation of John Gay’s 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.

Genre: Crime, History, Music
Dangerous When Wet

Dangerous When Wet

Dangerous When Wet
IMDb: 6.3
95

The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Plunder of the Sun

Plunder of the Sun

Plunder of the Sun
IMDb: 6.5
81

An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca.

I Love Lucy: The Movie

I Love Lucy: The Movie

I Love Lucy: The Movie
IMDb: 8.2
80

The film plays out, with three first-season episodes edited together into a single story: “The Benefit”, “Breaking the Lease”, and “The Ballet”, with new footage included between episodes to help…

Genre: Comedy, Family