Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1953

99 River Street – Phil Karlson

The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T – Roy Rowland

Abbott and Costello Go to Marz – Charles Lamont

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  – Charles Lamont

The Actress – George Cukor

The Adultress – Marcel Carne

Albert R.N. – Lewis Gilbert

The All American – Jesse Hibbs

All I Desire – Douglas Sirk

All the Brothers Were Valiant – Richard Thorpe

Anarkali – Nandlal Jaswantlal

Appointment in Honduras – Jacques Tourneur

Arrowhead – Charles Marquis Warren

Baaz – Guru Dutt

The Bandit of Brazil (O Cangaceiro) – Lima Barreto

Battle Circus – Richard Brooks

The Beggar’s Oppera – Peter Brook

Belinsky – Grigori Kozintsev

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef – Robert D. Webb

The Big Heat – Fritz Lang

Big Leaguer – Robert Aldrich

A Blueprint for Murder – Andrew L. Stone

The Boy and the Fog (El Nino la niebla) – Roberto Gavaldon

Bread, Love and Dreams (Pane, amore e fantasia) – Luigi Comencini

El Bruto (The Brute) – Luis Bunuel

The Caddy – Norman Taurog

Calamity Jane – David Butler

Call Me Madam – Walter Lang

Carbine Williams – Richard Thorpe

Cease Fire – Owen Crump

City Beneather the Sea – Budd Boetticher

City That Never Sleeps – John H. Auer

Dangerous Crossing – Joseph M. Newman

The Desert Rats – Robert Wise

Desperate Moment – Compoton Bennett

Devdas – Vedantam Raghavaiah

The Divided Heart – Charles Crichton

Do Bigha Zamin (Two Acres of Land) – Bimal Roy

Dona Francisquita - Ladislao

Down Among the Sheltering Palms – Edmund Goulding

Dream Wife – Sidney Sheldon

El (This Strange Passion) – Luis Bunuel

The Earrings of Madame de… (Madame de…) – Max Ophuls

East of Sumatra – Budd Boetticher

Easy to Love – Charles Walters

Easy Years (Anni facili) – Luigi Zampa

The Eddie Cantor Story – Alfred E. Green

Endless Horizons – Jean Dreville

Entotsu no mieru basho – Heinosuke Gosho

Escape by Night – John Gilling

Escapre from Fort Bravo – John Sturges

Fair Wind to Java – Joseph Kane

The Farmer takes a Wife – Victor Fleming

Fear and Desire – Sanley Kubrick

Fast Company – John Sturges

The Final Test – Anthony Asquith

Flight to Tangier – Carles Marquis Warren

Folly to Be Wise – Frank Launder

Footpath – Zia Sarhadi

Gate of Hell (Jigokumon) – Teinosuke Kinugasa

A Geisha (Gion Bayashi) – Kenji Mizoguchi

Genevieve – Henry Cornelious

The Girl Next Door – Richard Sale

The Girl Who Had Everything – Richard Thorpe

Give a Girl a Break – Stanley Donen

The Glass Wall – Maxwell Shane

The Golden Blade – Nathan Juran

The Golden Coach – Jean Renoir

The Great Adventure (Det stora aventyret) – Arne Sucksdorff

The Great Sioux Uprising – Llyod Bacon

Gun Fury – Raoul Walsh

The Heart of the Matter – George More O’Ferrall

Houdini – George Marshall

I, the Jury – Harry Essex

I Love Lucy – Marc Daniels / Ed Sedgwick

Innocents in Paris – Gordon Parry

An Inlet of Muddy Water – Tadashi Imai

I Vitelloni – Frederico Fellini

Inferno – Roy Ward Baker

The Intruder – Guy Hamilton

Indiscretion of an American Wife – Vittorio De Sica

Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? – Maurice Elvey

Island in the Sky – William A. Wellman

Jennifer – Joel Mewton

The Kidnappers – Philip Leacock

King of the Khyber Rifels – Henry King

Kiss Me Kate – George Sidney

Koibumi – Kinuyo Tanaka

The Lady Without Camelias (La signora senza camelie) – Michelangelo Antonioni

The Landowner’s Daughter – Tom Payne

Latin Lovers – Mervyn LeRoy

Law and Order – Nathan Juran

The Lawless Breed – Raoul Walsh

The Limping Man – Cy Endfield

A Lion in the Streets – Raoul Walsh

Little Fugitive – Ray Ashley

Magia verde (Green Magic) – Gian Gaspare Napolitano

Malta Story – Brian Desmond Hurst

Martin Luther – Irving Pichel

Man in the Attic – Hugo Fregonese

The Man Between – Carol Reed

Man in the Dark – Lew Landers

Man on a Tightrope – Elia Kazan

Meet Me at the Fair – Douglas Sirk

Miss Sadie Thompson – Curtis Bernhardt

The Mississippi Gambler – Rudolph Mate

Million Pound Note – Ronald Neame

Mogambo – John Ford

Money From Home – George Marshall

The Moon Is Blue – Otto Preminger

The Moonlighter – Roy Rowland

The Naked Spur – Anthony Mann

The Net – Anthony Asquith

Patita – Amiya Chakrabarty

The Phantom Stockman – Lee Robinson

Plunder of the Sun – John Farrow

Pony Express – Jerry Hopper

The Presidet’s Lady – Henry Levin

The Red Beret – Terence Young

Reportaje (Report News) – Emilio Fernandez

Return to Paradise – Mark Robson

Ride, Vaquero! – John Farrow

The Robe – Hanry Koster

Rosanna – Emilio Fernandez

Salome – William Dieterle

Sawdust and Tinsel – Ingmar Bergman

Scared Still – George Marshall

Sea Devil – Raoul Walsh

Seminole – Budd Boetticher

We, the Women (Siamo donne) – 5 Directors

Small Town Girl – Laszlo Karos

So Big – Robert Wise

So This Is Love – Gordon Douglas

South Sea Woman – Arthur Lubin

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan – Sidney Gilliat

The Story of Little Muck (Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck) – Wolfgang Staudte

Stalag 17 – Billy Wilder

Stars of the Russian Ballet – Gerbert Rappaport

The Sotry of Three Loves – Vincente Minnelli / Gottfried Reinhardt

Summer with Monika – Ingmar Bergman

The Sun Shines Bright – John Ford

Take the Hight Ground! – Richard Brooks

Take Me to Town – Douglas Sirk

Therese Raquin – Marcel Carne

Three Perfect Wives (Las Tres perfectas casadas) –Robert Gavaldon

Thunder Over the Plains – Andre de Toth

Thunder Bay – Anthony Mann

Terminal Station (Stazione Termini) – Vittorio De Sica

Treasure of the Golden Condor – Delmer Daves

Trouble Along the Way – Michael Curtiz

Trouble in Store – John Paddy Carstairs

Twice Upon a Time – Emeric Pressburger

The Vanquished (I Vinti) – Michalangelo Antonioni

Young Bess – George Sidney

War Arrow – George Sherman

 

White Lightning – Edward Bernds

White Mane – Albert Lamorisse

White Witch Doctor – Henry Hathaway

Welcome Mr. Marshall! (Bienvenido, Mister Marshall) – Luis Garcia Berlanga

The Wild One – Paul Donnellu