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1. 1. April 2000 (1952)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
It is the year 2000 and the World Global Union is in charge, although other countries are allowed to elect their own government leaders, as long as they support the Union. When Austria's ... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Hilde Krahl, Josef Meinrad, Waltraut Haas, Judith Holzmeister
Votes: 256
2. Awaara (1951)
193 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A poor young man named Raj joins a criminal gang to feed his mother. But when he falls in love with Rita, he decides to reform himself for her.
Director: Raj Kapoor | Stars: Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Prithviraj Kapoor, K.N. Singh
Votes: 4,493
3. Barabbas (1953)
123 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was chosen to take his place.
Director: Alf Sjöberg | Stars: Ulf Palme, Inge Wærn, Olof Widgren, Erik Strandmark
Votes: 130
4. Welcome Mr. Marshall! (1953)
78 min | Comedy
After finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del Río start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive.
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Lolita Sevilla, Manolo Morán, José Isbert, Alberto Romea
Votes: 4,819
5. Bongolo (1952)
85 min
Helped by a nurse ,a young native tries to escape from the fate that awaits her.
Director: André Cauvin | Stars: Petronelle Abapataki, Peter Baylis, Yves Furet, Joseph Lifela
6. Call Me Madam (1953)
Approved | 114 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, George Sanders
Votes: 1,463
7. Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance
An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore, Richard Jaeckel
Votes: 5,384
8. Daibutsu kaigen (1952)
129 min | Drama
A talented sculptor is hired to erect a giant Buddha statue when the capital is moved to Nara, in 745 AD. Those opposed to the statue try to use the artist's girlfriend to get him to stop it from being completed.
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa | Stars: Shinobu Araki, Kôtarô Bandô, Kazuo Hasegawa, Sumiko Hidaka
Votes: 21
9. Doña Francisquita (1952)
88 min | Comedy, Musical
Francisquita, owner of a pastry shop with her widowed mother, loves Fernando, but he only has eyes for Aurora, a temperamental artist. It's his father who courts Francisquita, despite her ... See full summary »
Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Mirtha Legrand, Armando Calvo, Antonio Casal, Manolo Morán
Votes: 59
10. Flamenco (1952)
Approved | 110 min | Documentary
Title changed to "Flamenco" when it was first released in the USA in 1954, this is a program of Spanish songs and dances with the emphasis on "flamenco" or gypsy contributions. The USA ... See full summary »
Director: Edgar Neville | Stars: Antonio El Bailarín, Pilar López, Luz María Larraguivel, Juanita Acevedo
Votes: 89
11. El (1953)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Romance
A husband's suave exterior unravels after his marriage, and he unleashes his paranoid and volatile temper on his wife, which escalates to more dangerous and unpredictable tantrums.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Carlos Martínez Baena
Votes: 6,569
12. För min heta ungdoms skull (1952)
115 min | Romance, Drama
A high school in a small city. Torben and Ninni are deeply infatuated with each other but their parents dislike the pair seeing each other. After graduation Torben joins the army and when ... See full summary »
Director: Arne Mattsson | Stars: Aino Taube, Georg Rydeberg, Nils Hallberg, Ulla-Bella Fridh
Votes: 40
13. Children of Hiroshima (1952)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, War
Post war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Osamu Takizawa, Masao Shimizu, Jûkichi Uno
Votes: 1,371
14. Gendai-jin (1952)
112 min | Drama
In post-war Japan, a bureaucrat in the land ministry self-destructively spirals into squalor.
Director: Minoru Shibuya | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Isuzu Yamada, Sô Yamamura, Toshiko Kobayashi
Votes: 23
15. Horizons sans fin (1953)
104 min | Adventure, Drama
To all those daring women ,who had a dream to fly.
Director: Jean Dréville | Stars: Gisèle Pascal, Jean Chevrier, René Blancard, Paul Frankeur
Votes: 35
16. I Confess (1953)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne
Votes: 23,254
17. 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
18. The Wayward Wife (1953)
91 min | Drama
Gemma, daughter of a lodger, is in love with her half-brother, but since she cannot marry him she ends up marrying a teacher. She doesn't love him and betrays him but is blackmailed by a ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Interlenghi, Nanda Primavera
Votes: 330
19. Rossana (1953)
83 min | Drama
Antonio dives for sponges which are sold by his sweetheart Rossana. One day, the escaped prisoner José-Luis appears and is hid by his friend Antonio. Although José-Luis does not want to ... See full summary »
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Rossana Podestà, Crox Alvarado, Armando Silvestre, Guillermo Cramer
Votes: 139
20. La vie passionnée de Clémenceau (1953)
95 min | Documentary
A documentary explores the life and work of French politician Georges Clemenceau.
Director: Gilbert Prouteau | Stars: Yves Furet, Jean-Pierre Grenier
21. Las tres perfectas casadas (1953)
110 min | Drama, Romance
During their collective marriage anniversaries, three husbands find out their best friend has died and decide to open a letter he left to be opened after his death.
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Laura Hidalgo, José María Linares-Rivas, René Cardona
Votes: 64
22. The Wages of Fear (1953)
Not Rated | 131 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli
Votes: 66,558
23. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy
Monsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation and accidentally, but good-naturedly, causes havoc.
Director: Jacques Tati | Stars: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla, Valentine Camax
Votes: 20,268
24. Lili (1953)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
An orphaned young woman becomes part of a puppet act and forms a relationship with the anti-social puppeteer.
Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Votes: 3,934
25. Luz en el páramo (1953)
90 min
Life changes for an Andean family when oil wealth and a fugitive arrive in town.
Director: Víctor Urruchúa | Stars: José Elías Moreno, Carmen Montejo, Hilda Vera, Luis Salazar
26. Green Magic (1953)
85 min | Documentary
A group of Italians explore the jungles of South America.
Director: Gian Gaspare Napolitano | Stars: Carlos Montalbán, Bret Morrison, Leonardo Bonzi, Gian Gaspare Napolitano
Votes: 10
27. Nevjera (1953)
80 min | Drama, Romance
A story about a young man tempted to kill his rival for a girl, only to find out that he may be his illegitimate son. The story is set in XIX century Dubrovnik.
Director: Vladimir Pogacic | Stars: Marija Crnobori, Milivoje Zivanovic, Viktor Starcic, Severin Bijelic
Votes: 26
28. The Bandit (1953)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Drama, History
'Capitão', a bandit, terrorizes poor villages in the Northeast region of Brazil, looting and frequently killing with his armed gang, until he kidnaps and becomes attracted to a beautiful schoolteacher, creating discord in his group.
Director: Lima Barreto | Stars: Alberto Ruschel, Marisa Prado, Milton Ribeiro, Vanja Orico
Votes: 704
29. Peter Pan (1953)
G | 77 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Wendy and her brothers are whisked away to the magical world of Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan.
Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney | Stars: Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson
Votes: 153,075 | Gross: $87.40M
30. Sala de guardia (1952)
101 min | Drama
An intern experiences a very tough day at the hospital while trying to romance a nurse.
Director: Tulio Demicheli | Stars: Aída Alberti, Tito Alonso, Arturo Arcari, Margarita Corona
Votes: 7
31. 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
32. Terminal Station (1953)
Not Rated | 63 min | Drama, Romance
Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi, Richard Beymer
Votes: 3,167
33. 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: 544
34. The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
William Pittman Priest has to use all his wiles to retain his position as judge in his Kentucky hometown, while continuing to be a voice for the town's underclass and for democratic values.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Charles Winninger, Arleen Whelan, John Russell, Stepin Fetchit
Votes: 1,812
35. The White Reindeer (1952)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A newlywed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life, but instead she gets turned into a white reindeer vampire.
Director: Erik Blomberg | Stars: Mirjami Kuosmanen, Kalervo Nissilä, Åke Lindman, Jouni Tapiola
Votes: 2,489
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