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| 1 |  | From Here to Eternity (1953) |  3.2187 52 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Romance |
$3.95
| It's 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield in ...more about From Here to Eternity starring Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift |
| 2 |  | Big Heat, The (1953) | 3.1877 35 reviews | PG | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir |
$17.37
| Detective Dave Bannion investigates a police sergeant's suicide. Strictly routine...until a B-girl ...more about Big Heat starring Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame |
| 3 |  | Stalag 17 (1953) | 3.1646 18 reviews | Not Rated | Drama, War, Adaptation |
$11.25
| Set in a German POW Camp for enlisted American airmen, a spy is discovered to be living in one of ...more about Stalag 17 starring William Holden and Don Taylor |
| 4 |  | Roman Holiday (1953) | 3.1084 44 reviews | G | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$2.10
| Princess Anne is touring Rome, and decides to get 'out and about' away from her normal life. She ...more about Roman Holiday starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn |
| 5 |  | War of the Worlds, The (1953) | 3.0598 79 reviews | PG | Action, Drama, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$5.64
| H.G. Well's classic novel is brought to life is this tale of alien invasion. The resisdents of a ...more about War of the Worlds starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson |
| 6 |  | Peter Pan (1953) | 3.0517 14 reviews | G | Adventure, Fantasy, Musical, Family, Animation, Disney |
$9.99
| Adaptation of J. M. Barrie's story about a boy who never grew up. The three children of the Darling ...more about Peter Pan starring Bobby Driscoll and Kathryn Beaumont |
| 7 |  | Band Wagon, The (1953) | 3.0462 40 reviews | PG | Musical, Comedy, Family |
$15.71
| Tony Hunter, a famous singer/dancer movie star, is feeling washed up and old hat (old top hat, tie ...more about Band Wagon starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse |
| 8 |  | House of Wax (1953) | 3.0443 46 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Crime, Mystery |
$3.68
| A sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his partner proposes setting fire to the ...more about House of Wax starring Vincent Price and Frank Lovejoy |
| 9 |  | Little Fugitive (1953) | 2.9995 13 reviews | NA | Drama |
$22.90
| Joey, a young boy, runs away to Coney Island after he is tricked into believing he has killed his ...more about Little Fugitive starring Richie Andrusco and Winifred Cushing |
| 10 |  | Julius Caesar (1953) | 2.9849 12 reviews | PG | Drama, History |
$12.71
| Brutus, Cassius, and other high-ranking Romans murder Caesar, because they believe his ambition ...more about Julius Caesar starring Marlon Brando and John Gielgud |
| 11 |  | Island in the Sky (1953) | 2.9684 16 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama |
$7.18
| A transport plane crash-lands in the frozen wastes of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Dooley, must ...more about Island in the Sky starring John Wayne and Walter Abel |
| 12 |  | Shane (1953) | 2.9644 36 reviews | NA | Drama, Western |
$3.66
| Shane rides into a conflict between cattleman Ryker and a bunch of settlers, like the Starretts, ...more about Shane starring Alan Ladd and Jean Arthur |
| 13 |  | 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T., The (1953) | 2.9597 26 reviews | G | Fantasy, Musical, Family |
$10.23
| Bart has only one enemy in the world: his piano teacher Dr. Terwilliker. Dr. T has a mad plan to ...more about 5 starring Mary Healy and Hans Conried |
| 14 |  | It Came from Outer Space (1953) | 2.9540 40 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi, Teen |
$10.99
| A young astronomer and his wife witness a small being emerge from large object that has plummeted ...more about It Came from Outer Space starring Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush |
| 15 |  | I Confess (1953) | 2.9344 17 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller |
$8.63
| Otto Kellar and his wife Alma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Quebec. ...more about I Confess starring Montgomery Clift and Dolly Haas |
| 16 |  | Beat the Devil (1953) | 2.8985 15 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Crime, Romance, Comedy |
$3.82
| A quartet of international crooks -- Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello -- is stranded in Italy ...more about Beat the Devil starring Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones |
| 17 |  | Kiss Me Kate (1953) | 2.8960 32 reviews | NA | Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$9.76
| Fred and Lilly are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter who has ...more about Kiss Me Kate starring Kathryn Grayson and Ann Miller |
| 18 |  | Wild One, The (1953) | 2.8674 16 reviews | NA | Drama, Teen |
$3.95
| A gang of 40 motorcyclists, the Black Rebels, gatecrash a legitimate motorcycle race. They are ...more about Wild One starring Marlon Brando and Mary Murphy |
| 19 |  | Invaders from Mars (1953) | 2.8403 29 reviews | NA | Sci-Fi |
$7.06
| Little David MacLean has a problem--all the adults in town begin acting strangely shortly after he ...more about Invaders from Mars starring Helena Carter and Arthur Franz |
| 20 |  | Robot Monster (1953) | 2.8310 14 reviews | NA | Sci-Fi |
$4.82
| The Robot Monster has been sent to Earth as the advance party of an impending invasion. Ordered by ...more about Robot Monster starring Claudia Barrett and Selena Royle |
| 21 |  | Hondo (1953) | 2.8130 14 reviews | NA | Western |
$4.86
| Hondo Lane, a despatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her ...more about Hondo starring John Wayne and Geraldine Page |
| 22 |  | Blue Gardenia, The (1953) | 2.8017 19 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir |
$7.64
| Nora is a pretty telephone operator engaged to a soldier overseas. On her birthday, she gets a Dear ...more about Blue Gardenia starring Anne Baxter and Richard Conte |
| 23 |  | Pickup on South Street (1953) | 2.7893 16 reviews | NA | Drama, Film-Noir |
$18.49
| While on the subway to deliver a piece of film she believes contains corporate secrets, Candy's ...more about Pickup on South Street starring Richard Widmark and Jean Peters |
| 24 |  | Glenn Miller Story, The (1953) | 2.7721 13 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography, Music |
$3.92
| The biography of the Bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English ...more about Glenn Miller Story starring James Stewart and June Allyson |
| 25 |  | Niagara (1953) | 2.7664 26 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir |
$10.91
| George and Rose Loomis are honeymooning at a Niagara Falls motel. She plots with Ted Patrick to do ...more about Niagara starring Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten |
| 26 |  | Calamity Jane (1953) | 2.7579 21 reviews | NA | Western, Biography, Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$12.71
| Deadwood, Dakota Territory, is largely the abode of men, where Indian scout Calamity Jane is as ...more about Calamity Jane starring Doris Day and Philip Carey |
| 27 |  | Captain's Paradise, The (1953) | 2.7561 16 reviews | NA |
$39.84
| Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organised - a loving and very ...more about Captain's Paradise starring Yvonne De Carlo and Alec Guinness | |
| 28 |  | Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The (1953) |  2.7419 30 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi |
$5.59
| As a result of an arctic nuclear test, a carnivorous dinosaur thaws out and starts making its way ...more about Beast from 20 starring Paula Raymond and Kenneth Tobey |
| 29 |  | Mogambo (1953) | 2.7273 12 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Romance |
$4.60
| Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an ...more about Mogambo starring Clark Gable and Ava Gardner |
| 30 |  | Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) | 2.7072 11 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Comedy |
$18.64
| Slim and Tubby are American cops in London to study police tactics. They wind up in jail and are ...more about Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello |
| 31 |  | Anatahan (1953) | 2.7017 7 reviews | NA | Drama, War | N/A | Josef von Sternberg directed, photographed, provides the voice-over narration and wrote the ...more about Anatahan |
| 32 | | Four Sided Triangle (1953) | 2.6691 8 reviews | NA | Sci-Fi, Romance |
$17.89
| Bill and Robin, helped by their childhood friend, Lena, develop a "reproducer" which can exactly ...more about Four Sided Triangle starring Barbara Payton and James Hayter |
| 33 |  | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) | 2.6601 34 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$6.59
| Lorelei and Dorothy are just "Two Little Girls from Little Rock", lounge singers on a transatlantic ...more about Gentlemen Prefer Blondes starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe |
| 34 |  | How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) | 2.6552 22 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$10.69
| Three New York models, Shatze, Pola and Loco set-up in an exclusive appartment with a plan: tired ...more about How to Marry a Millionaire starring Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe |
| 35 |  | Titanic (1953) | 2.6381 11 reviews | NA | Action, Drama |
$4.86
| Unhappily married and uncomfortable with life among the British upper crust, Julia Sturges takes ...more about Titanic starring Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck |
| 36 |  | Naked Spur, The (1953) | 2.6232 19 reviews | NA | Western |
$12.71
| A bitter Howard Kemp heads westward to the Rockies from Abilene, Kansas on the trail of murderer ...more about Naked Spur starring James Stewart and Janet Leigh |
| 37 |  | Blowing Wild (1953) | 2.6195 1 reviews | NA | Action, Drama | N/A | ...more about Blowing Wild starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck |
| 38 |  | All I Desire (1953) | 2.5227 8 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | In 1900, Naomi Murdoch deserted her small-town family to go on the stage. Some ten years later, ...more about All I Desire starring Barbara Stanwyck and Richard Carlson |
| 39 |  | Call Me Madam (1953) | 2.5177 9 reviews | NA | Musical |
$4.11
| ...more about Call Me Madam starring Richard Garrick and Ethel Merman |
| 40 | | Genevieve (1953) | 2.5168 6 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | It's time for the annual London to Brighton antique car rally, and Alan McKim and Ambrose ...more about Genevieve starring Dinah Sheridan and John Gregson |
| 41 |  | Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) | 2.5045 18 reviews | NA | Adventure, Sci-Fi |
$7.99
| Five astronauts travel to the dark side of the moon on a scientific expedition. There they discover ...more about Cat-Women of the Moon starring Sonny Tufts and Victor Jory |
| 42 | | Houdini (1953) | 2.4582 5 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography | N/A | A romanticized version of the life and times of the legendary escape artist , Harry Houdini. ...more about Houdini starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh |
| 43 | | Time Bomb (1953) | 2.4551 1 reviews | NA | Thriller | N/A | ...more about Time Bomb starring Glenn Ford and Anne Vernon |
| 44 |  | I Love Melvin (1953) | 2.4414 2 reviews | NA | Musical, Romance, Comedy | N/A | Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress ...more about I Love Melvin starring Debbie Reynolds and Una Merkel |
| 45 |  | Glen or Glenda (1953) | 2.4032 31 reviews | NA | Drama |
$11.99
| Upon discovering the suicide of a known transvestite, the police inspector seeks enlightenment from ...more about Glen or Glenda starring Bela Lugosi and Lyle Talbot |
| 46 |  | Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953) | 2.3748 5 reviews | NA | Drama |
$6.06
| A married American woman has gotten involved with another man while visiting relatives in Rome. She ...more about Indiscretion of an American Wife starring Jennifer Jones and Montgomery Clift |
| 47 |  | Spaceways (1953) | 2.3387 4 reviews | NA | Sci-Fi |
$5.85
| A small group of closely-guarded British scientists test their first rocket amidst indications of ...more about Spaceways starring Howard Duff and Eva Bartok |
| 48 | | Desert Rats, The (1953) | 2.3200 7 reviews | NA | Drama, War |
$6.88
| Rommel has the British in retreat on his way to the Suez Canal. All that stands in his way is ...more about Desert Rats starring Richard Burton and Robert Douglas |
| 49 |  | 99 River Street (1953) | 2.2908 4 reviews | PG | Action, Drama, Crime, Film-Noir | N/A | Having lost his heavyweight championship match, boxer Ernie Driscoll now drives a taxi for a living ...more about 99 River Street starring Evelyn Keyes and Brad Dexter |
| 50 |  | Arrowhead (1953) | 2.2634 4 reviews | NA | Drama, Western |
$3.66
| Chief of Scouts Ed Bannon narrowly avoids an Apache ambush while working with the cavalry stationed ...more about Arrowhead starring Charlton Heston and Jack Palance |
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