Cannes 1954
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1. Before the Deluge (1954)
138 min | Crime, Drama
Self-centered parents of the 50's targeted by drama in which teenagers panicking after burglary supposed to finance the run from the Third World War.
Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Antoine Balpêtré, Paul Bisciglia, Bernard Blier, Jacques Castelot
Votes: 183
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2. The Adventurer of Seville (1954)
92 min | Comedy, Musical
Figaro, a singing barber, gets caught by some bandits who use his abilities to attract travelers and assault them. To escape justice he joins the army where he meets no other than the ... See full summary »
Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Luis Mariano, Lolita Sevilla, José Isbert, Danielle Godet
Votes: 70
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3. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
Approved | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Fierce competition among sponge fishermen forces a Greek-American family to fish in the dangerous 12-mile reef area off the western coast of Florida.
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 1,612
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4. Neapolitan Carousel (1954)
129 min | Comedy, Musical
The life of a family of street singers.
Director: Ettore Giannini | Stars: Léonide Massine, Achille Millo, Agostino Salvietti, Clelia Matania
Votes: 255
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5. Cirkus Fandango (1954)
87 min | Drama
Circus Fandango is a traveling workplace where everyone has to work together to make their living. A trade where occupational pride, commitment, but maybe also loneliness when getting old, like the clown Papa.
Director: Arne Skouen | Stars: Arne Arnardo, Joachim Holst-Jensen, Ilselil Larsen, Toralv Maurstad
Votes: 59
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6. Cómicos (1954)
92 min | Drama
Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, performs only small roles, but she hopes to succeed and puts her success before the love of Miguel. When the company ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Antonio Bardem | Stars: Elisa Galvé, Fernando Rey, Emma Penella, Mariano Asquerino
Votes: 210
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7. Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954)
107 min | Drama
In 1925 the young florentine typographer Mario moves to via del Corno to be near his girl-friend Bianca. Here he becomes friends with Maciste, his landlord, and Ugo, anti-fascists both of ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Anna Maria Ferrero, Cosetta Greco, Antonella Lualdi, Marcello Mastroianni
Votes: 454
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8. The Great Adventure (1953)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Family
A year in the lives of the animals living near a small Swedish farm.
Director: Arne Sucksdorff | Stars: Anders Nohrborg, Kjell Sucksdorff, Arne Sucksdorff, Gunnar Sjöberg
Votes: 338
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9. The Last Bridge (1954)
102 min | Drama, War
A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Serbian partisan during World War II.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Maria Schell, Bernhard Wicki, Barbara Rütting, Carl Möhner
Votes: 452
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10. Do Bigha Zamin (1953)
131 min | Drama
In the hope of earning enough money to pay off his debts and save his land, a poor farmer becomes a rickshaw puller in Calcutta and faces many difficulties.
Director: Bimal Roy | Stars: Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Ratan Kumar, Murad
Votes: 2,247
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11. El mártir del Calvario (1952)
113 min | Drama, History
Mexican drama that follows the teachings to disciples and events in the life of Jesus Christ, previous and during his passion, then rising from the dead on the third day.
Director: Miguel Morayta | Stars: Enrique Rambal, Manolo Fábregas, Consuelo Frank, Alicia Palacios
Votes: 148
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12. El niño y la niebla (1953)
TV-14 | 111 min | Drama, Mystery
Marta (Dolores del Río) es una mujer que vive obsesionada, ya que su madre y su hermano murieron de esquizofrenia. Temerosa de que la enfermedad sea congénita, sobreprotege hasta el extremo... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Pedro López Lagar, Eduardo Noriega, Alejandro Ciangherotti
Votes: 114
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13. The Monster (1954)
115 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Abdel Sabour [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] was a thief and a smuggler known as The Beast to the people in one of the villages of upper Egypt; everyone was afraid of him, including the police. He ... See full summary »
Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Anwar Wagdi, Mahmoud Al Meleji, Samia Gamal, Abbas Fares
Votes: 112
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14. Naked Amazon (1954)
69 min | Adventure
Exploitation documentary: A white girl is part of an expedition into the dark Amazon jungle. In addition to native nudity (sex) there are animal killings (violence).
Director: Zygmunt Sulistrowski | Stars: Kazuo Aoki, Andrea Bayard, Ary Blaustein, Bapista de Lima
Votes: 58
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15. From Here to Eternity (1953)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Romance, War
At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed
Votes: 50,847 | Gross: $30.50M
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16. Gate of Hell (1953)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, History
A samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting.
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Kazuo Hasegawa, Isao Yamagata, Yatarô Kurokawa
Votes: 4,280
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17. Kärlekens bröd (1953)
90 min | Drama, War
Four Swedish soldiers are trapped in Russia. In front of them lies the front with enemy outposts and patrols, behind them the enemy minefields.
Director: Arne Mattsson | Stars: Folke Sundquist, Georg Rydeberg, Nils Hallberg, Lennart Lindberg
Votes: 23
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18. Kiskrajcár (1953)
107 min | Comedy
A young woman goes to work on the construction site for the future Stalin City.
Director: Márton Keleti | Stars: Ági Mészáros, Ádám Szirtes, Erzsi Pápai, Imre Soós
Votes: 21
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19. Knave of Hearts (1954)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A philanderer fakes suicide with unexpected consequences.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Gérard Philipe, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Margaret Johnston
Votes: 509
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20. Knights of the Round Table (1953)
Approved | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
King Arthur's rule is threatened by the adulterous love between Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, a relationship the king's enemies hope to exploit.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Anne Crawford
Votes: 4,074
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21. Love Letter (1953)
98 min | Drama, Romance
Explores the wounds of war, the limits of love and the need to forgive. A sad and troubled man, Reikichi Mayumi finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka | Stars: Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga, Jûkichi Uno, Jûzô Dôsan
Votes: 519
In Competition
22. Komedianti (1954)
95 min | Drama
Literary adaptation: The life of a family of wandering comedians.
Director: Vladimír Vlcek | Stars: Jaroslav Vojta, Ladislav Pesek, Jaroslav Mares, Alena Martinovská
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23. Windfall in Athens (1954)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
On a lazy Athenian Sunday, a young and fresh saleswoman loses her soon-to-be winning lottery ticket, only to meet its handsome new owner. Of course, she wants it back; however, what if fortune and ardent Cupid are already on her doorstep?
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Ellie Lambeti, Giorgos Pappas, Dimitris Horn, Tasso Kavadia
Votes: 665
In Competition
24. Flesh and the Woman (1954)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Bankrupt and disbarred, Parisian lawyer Pierre Martel heads for Algiers where he's supposed to rejoin his high-maintenance Italian girlfriend Sylvia but when she fails to show-up a heart-broken Pierre joins the French Foreign Legion.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Claude Pascal, Raymond Pellegrin, Peter van Eyck
Votes: 155
In Competition
25. Little Boy Lost (1953)
Approved | 95 min | Drama
A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during World War II married a French girl who was murdered by the Germans. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost ... See full summary »
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Bing Crosby, Claude Dauphin, Christian Fourcade, Gabrielle Dorziat
Votes: 313
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26. Maddalena (1954)
90 min | Drama
During the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village, local priest Don Vincenzo faces a crisis when the girl selected to play the Virgin Mary shows up pregnant.
Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Märta Torén, Gino Cervi, Charles Vanel, Jacques Sernas
Votes: 55
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27. 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
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28. Stars of the Russian Ballet (1954)
80 min | Documentary, Music
Scenes from three ballets, staged on the works of Russian classics, immerse the viewer in a fabulous atmosphere. You can watch the story of the noble prince and beauty Odette. The magic ... See full summary »
Director: Gerbert Rappaport | Stars: Galina Ulanova, Konstantin Sergeyev, Natalya Dudinskaya, V. Bakanov
Votes: 36
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29. Mayurpankh (1954)
106 min | Adventure, Drama, Musical
An engaged England-based Caucasian author falls in love with an Indian.
Director: Kishore Sahu | Stars: Kishore Sahu, Sumitra Devi, Odette Ferguson, Reginald Jackson
Votes: 22
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30. Memorias de un mexicano (1950)
100 min | Documentary
Documentary compiling all the material registered by Mexican pioneer director and cinematographer Salvador Toscano, and others under his direction, chronicling the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and many other events.
Directors: Carmen Toscano, Salvador Toscano | Stars: Manuel Bernal, Porfirio Díaz, Francisco I. Madero, Venustiano Carranza
Votes: 65
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31. Nigorie (1953)
104 min | Drama
Story 1 : "The Thirteenth Night". Seki turns up at her parents' house in the dead of night, where she breaks down and says she cannot continue to live with her husband, a rich man to whom ... See full summary »
Director: Tadashi Imai | Stars: Akiko Tamura, Yatsuko Tan'ami, Ken Mitsuda, Hiroshi Akutagawa
Votes: 172
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32. Song of the Sea (1953)
124 min | Drama
In the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil, groups of migrants move trying to find better place to live, at least with water. Some of them go to Recife, to get a vessel to Santos ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Margarida Cardoso, Cacilda Lanuza, Ruy Saraiva, Aurora Duarte
Votes: 132
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33. Pamposh (1954)
70 min | Drama
Pamposh is India's first film in Gevacolor and tells the story of a deaf orphan Mogli who is adopted by the impoverished owner of a dilapidated houseboat Kassim. Though Kassim and his ... See full summary »
Director: Ezra Mir | Stars: Mogli, Savi Multani, Rusi Patel
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34. Five from Barska Street (1954)
108 min | Drama
In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.
Director: Aleksander Ford | Stars: Aleksandra Slaska, Tadeusz Janczar, Andrzej Kozak, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Votes: 119
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35. Beauty and the Bullfighter (1954)
70 min | Drama
Dashing matador Ricardo resists getting back into action after a fellow bullfighter is killed in the ring, even if it means losing his fickle actress mistress.
Directors: Georges Rouquier, Ricardo Muñoz Suay | Stars: Daniel Gélin, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Henri Vilbert, Jacques Dufilho
Votes: 18
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36. Si mis campos hablaran (1947)
77 min | Drama
In the mid 19th century, a colony of German pioneers comes to remote southern Chile to work the land. Two brothers compete over a beautiful woman.
Director: José Bohr | Stars: Chela Bon, Armando Bo, Carlo Bon, Humberto Onetto
Votes: 23
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37. The Blazing Sun (1954)
TV-14 | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A rich landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Omar Sharif, Zaki Rostom, Farid Shawqi
Votes: 1,559
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38. As Long as You're Near Me (1953)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama
An actress used to playing only bit parts becomes the center of attention when a movie director buys her life story as a film project, she is now faced with a psychological crisis.
Director: Harald Braun | Stars: Maria Schell, O.W. Fischer, Hardy Krüger, Brigitte Horney
Votes: 70
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39. Sudba Mariny (1954)
99 min | Drama
Marina awaits the return of her husband, who has gone to Kiev for university. When he returns, though, he divorces her for being too uneducated, leaving Marina to throw herself into caring for their daughter and resuming her own studies.
Directors: Viktor Ivchenko, Isaak Shmaruk | Stars: Ekaterina Litvinenko, Nikolai Gritsenko, Tatyana Konyukhova, Aleksandr Serdyuk
Votes: 39
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40. 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
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41. The Living Desert (1953)
G | 69 min | Family, Documentary
Although first glance reveals little more than stones and sand, the desert is alive. Witness moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers and the never-ending battle for survival between creatures of every shape, size and description.
Director: James Algar | Star: Winston Hibler
Votes: 1,717
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42. ¡¡Todo es posible en Granada!! (1954)
90 min | Comedy, Fantasy
An American oil company buys land in Granada, but they have problems when one owner alone does not want to sell.
Director: José Luis Sáenz de Heredia | Stars: Merle Oberon, Francisco Rabal, Peter Damon, Rafael Bardem
Votes: 41
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43. Skanderbeg (1953)
95 min | Action, Drama, History
This is the true story of the National Hero of Albanians, George Kastrioti Scanderbeg, from his birth to his death. 1405-1468. Based mainly upon the monk writer Marin Barleti, the movie ... See full summary »
Director: Sergei Yutkevich | Stars: Akaki Khorava, Besa Imami, Adivie Alibali, Semyon Sokolovsky
Votes: 778
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