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51. Tenzing
Adventure, Biography, Drama | Announced
The untold and inspiring tale of one of the most important mountain climbers in history who, with Edmund Hillary, became the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Director: Jennifer Peedom | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Tom Hiddleston
52. Clarita (2019)
85 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young woman is apprehended and held by police when they suspect that she is possessed by a demon.
Director: Roderick Cabrido | Stars: Jodi Sta. Maria, Ricky Davao, Arron Villaflor, Alyssa Muhlach
Votes: 542 | Gross: $0.04M
53. The Rack (1956)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, War
A decorated Korean War hero inexplicably collaborates with the enemy while interred in a POW camp and is court-martialed.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, Walter Pidgeon, Edmond O'Brien
Votes: 1,683
54. Churchill's Secret (2016 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 100 min | Biography, Drama, History
British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (Sir Michael Gambon) suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953, which is consequently kept a secret from the rest of the world.
Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: Michael Gambon, Romola Garai, Lindsay Duncan, Daisy Lewis
Votes: 1,561
55. Hell and High Water (1954)
Approved | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During the Cold War, a scientific team refits a Japanese submarine and hires an ex-Navy officer to find a secret Chinese atomic island base and prevent a Communist plot against America that could trigger WW3.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 2,245
56. The Devil's Playground (1976)
107 min | Drama
Fred Schepisi's first feature is this lushly photographed period drama detailing a young boy's coming-of-age in a strict Catholic seminary in 1950s Australia.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Charles McCallum, John Frawley, Arthur Dignam, Nick Tate
Votes: 1,318
57. A Stranger in My Arms (1959)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Romance, War
After the Korean War, an Air Force pilot meets the family of his KIA navigator and recalls, in flashbacks, the circumstances of their ordeal after being shot down.
Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: June Allyson, Jeff Chandler, Sandra Dee, Charles Coburn
Votes: 244
58. Hiroshima (1953)
TV-PG | 85 min | Drama, War
Brilliant and extremely realistic retelling of the day in Hiroshima that the bomb dropped and following days.
Director: Hideo Sekigawa | Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Eiji Okada, Yoshi Katô, Yumeji Tsukioka
Votes: 653
59. Coup 53 (2019)
120 min | Documentary, History
Theatrical feature documentary on the story of Operation Ajax, the CIA/MI6 staged coup in 1953 in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister Mossadegh.
Director: Taghi Amirani | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Walter Murch, Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Votes: 694
60. War Hunt (1962)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, War
Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon.
Director: Denis Sanders | Stars: John Saxon, Charles Aidman, Sydney Pollack, Tommy Matsuda
Votes: 1,123
61. The Fencer (2015)
99 min | Biography, Drama, History
Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.
Director: Klaus Härö | Stars: Märt Avandi, Ursula Ratasepp, Hendrik Toompere Jr., Liisa Koppel
Votes: 5,278 | Gross: $0.10M
62. The Unwilling (2016)
TV-MA | 84 min | Horror, Thriller
After the death of a much despised patriarch, a mysterious box shows up during the reading of the will, forcing the family to reckon with each of their own deadly sins.
Director: Jonathan Heap | Stars: David Lipper, Dina Meyer, Bree Williamson, Robert Rusler
Votes: 620
63. Ben and Me (1953)
Passed | 21 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A mouse tells the story of how he guided Benjamin Franklin to success and prominence.
Directors: Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Sterling Holloway, Hans Conried, Stan Freberg, James MacDonald
Votes: 1,025
64. Once a Year on Blackpool Sands (2021)
Unrated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A gritty Northern LGBTQ comedy drama. Blackpool 1953. Two young gay Yorkshire miners, Eddy and Tommy, on their annual holiday there, meet transvestite James Elbridge who is summoning up the courage to do the fabled walk from pier to pier.
Director: Karlton Parris | Stars: Kyle Brookes, Macaulay Cooper, Wendy Laurence James, Elizabeth Coombs
Votes: 142
65. Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
107 min | Drama
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Masahiko Tsugawa, Hiroshi Akutagawa
Votes: 858
66. The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)
101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Former political inmates Sergei and Nikolai live as exiles in a remote Siberian village. After the general Soviet gulag amnesty of 1953 8 pardoned common criminals terrorize the inhabitants.
Director: Aleksandr Proshkin | Stars: Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoliy Papanov, Viktor Stepanov, Nina Usatova
Votes: 2,563
67. True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956 (2024)
90 min | Drama, History
The influential politician and activist Frantz Fanon works as a psychiatrist in Algeria between 1953-1956. He pioneers new social therapies to treat the psychological effects of racism during the decolonization movement.
Director: Abdenour Zahzah | Stars: Omar Boulakirba, Alexandre Desane, Nicolas Dromard, Gérard Dubouche
Votes: 18
68. Matka Królów (1987)
127 min | Drama, History, War
Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the ... See full summary »
Director: Janusz Zaorski | Stars: Magda Teresa Wójcik, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Franciszek Pieczka, Boguslaw Linda
Votes: 307
69. Red Kiss (1985)
110 min | Drama, Romance
1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a "Match" ... See full summary »
Director: Véra Belmont | Stars: Charlotte Valandrey, Lambert Wilson, Marthe Keller, Laurent Terzieff
Votes: 335
70. World War Three (1998 TV Movie)
94 min | Drama, War
This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Stone | Stars: Boris Sichkin, Christoph Gutknecht, Boris Lyoskin, Hans Sievers
Votes: 295
71. Zhena kerosinshchika (1989)
101 min | Drama, Fantasy
One of the brothers operated on a boy. Another assisted him. It took a blood transfusion. Expensive for a moment, the surgeon did not check the material submitted by the assistant and ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy | Stars: Vytautas Paukste, Aleksandr Baluev, Anna Myasoyedova, Sergey Veksler
Votes: 172
72. Georg (2007)
105 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A movie about the life of legendary Estonian singer Georg Ots.
Director: Peeter Simm | Stars: Marko Matvere, Anastasiya Makeeva, Renars Kaupers, Tõnu Kark
Votes: 424
73. Captain Johnno (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Family
A deaf boy befriends an Italian fisherman in his village.
Director: Mario Andreacchio | Stars: John Waters, Damien Walters, Rebecca Sykes, Michele Fawdon
Votes: 94
74. By Sidney Lumet (2015)
103 min | Documentary
In a never-before-seen interview filmed in 2008, three years before his death, Sidney Lumet discusses his life and career.
Director: Nancy Buirski | Star: Sidney Lumet
Votes: 455
75. Les Alsaciens: ou les deux Mathilde (1996)
90 min | Drama, History
The history of four generations of a family in Alsace between 1870 and 1953. Over this time, the family and the villagers live through three wars between France and Germany and their ... See full summary »
Stars: Caroline Tresca, Catherine Aymerie, Hélène Schwaller, Aurore Clément
Votes: 85
76. Pamietnik znaleziony w garbie (1993)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The film is set in Silesia, a disputed piece of provincial real estate that has variably belonged to both Poland and Germany. This tragi-comic family saga opens in 1939. Ewald is called up ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Kidawa-Blonski | Stars: Olaf Lubaszenko, Edward Linde-Lubaszenko, Boguslaw Linda, Marzena Trybala
Votes: 68
77. Corée, une guerre sans fin (2020 TV Movie)
89 min | Documentary, History
Documentary that offers fresh insights into the Korean War, a conflict that, despite the 1953 armistice, has never officially ended.
Director: John Maggio | Stars: Madeleine Albright, Clement Attlee, Charles Bonesteel, H.W. Brands
Votes: 45
78. Stasi East Germany's Secret Police (2007 Video)
59 min | Documentary
Under the control of the Stasi East Germany was the most repressive police state in the history of the world. Yet it managed to convince the West that it was being progressive. Here is the ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Gierke | Stars: Christian Schult, Jeff Matzka, James Spencer, Uwe Hillmer
Votes: 66
79. Men at Lunch (2012)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, Mystery
The story of "Lunch atop a Skyscraper," the iconic photograph taken during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
Director: Seán Ó Cualáin | Stars: Fionnula Flanagan, Peter Quinn, Ric Burns, Christine Roussel
Votes: 351 | Gross: $0.00M
80. Has Anybody Here Seen Canada? A History of Canadian Movies 1939-1953 (1979 TV Movie)
85 min | Documentary, History
Director: John Kramer | Stars: Michael Kane, Evelyn Cherry, Leo Choquette, F.R. Crawley
Votes: 49
81. Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiaca (2000)
103 min | Drama
Director: Teresa Kotlarczyk | Stars: Andrzej Seweryn, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Maja Ostaszewska, Grzegorz Sikora
Votes: 253
82. Recsk 1950-1953, egy titkos kényszermunkatábor története (1989)
230 min | Documentary
This European Film Award winner documentary tells the story of Recsk, Hungary's most notorious political prison camp, which operated between 1950 and 1953. During the early 1950's the very ... See full summary »
Directors: Géza Böszörményi, Lívia Gyarmathy | Stars: István Balázs, Zoltán Benkõ, Pál Bihari, János Bálint
Votes: 60
84. Mille miglia 1953 (1953)
40 min | Documentary
The Mille Miglia, a thousand mile motor race around Italy, starts and finishes at Brescia and passes through Rome, Florence and Bologna. This video documents the twentieth Mille Miglia of ... See full synopsis »
Director: Bill Mason | Stars: Nevil Lloyd, Clemente Biondetti, Felice Bonetto, Giovanni Bracco
85. Bertud ng putik (2003)
105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The sin of the past is the tragedy of the present. The year is 1953 and Gabriel de Dios, a man who lives a simple and happy life with his family, possesses the good half of a powerful ... See full summary »
Directors: Marlon Bautista, Augusto Salvador | Stars: Ramon 'Bong' Revilla Jr., Roi Vinzon, Regine Tolentino, Rochelle Pangilinan
Votes: 21
86. Velikoye proshchaniye (1953)
73 min | Documentary
March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizably grew, prettier and matured - this Moscow froze in solemn grief. The country escorts its father and leader, Joseph Stalin.
Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Mikheil Chiaureli, Sergey Gerasimov, Ilya Kopalin, Irina Setkina, Elizaveta Svilova | Stars: Lavrenti Beria, Boleslaw Bierut, Nikolai Bulganin, Valko Chervenkov
Votes: 25
87. Monsters, Madmen & Machines: 80 Years of Science Fiction (1983 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary, Drama, Fantasy
"Monsters, Madmen and Machines: 80 Years of Science Fiction" was a retrospective on science fiction and fantasy films from early efforts like George Melies' "A Trip to the Moon" (1902) to George Lucas' "Star Wars" (1977).
Directors: Pamela V. Kobbe, Jerry Kramer | Star: Gil Gerard
Votes: 14
88. Carnival in April (1953)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Music
Universal released this short in both 3-D (production number 9101) and 2-D (production number 9301) format, the latter for theatres not equipped to show 3-D films. The Carlos Molina ... See full summary »
Director: Will Cowan | Stars: Carlos Molina, Toni Arden, Josephine Premice, Fernando Rodríguez
89. Korea: The Forgotten War 1950-1953 (2008 Video)
255 min | Documentary
Documentary of the Korean War.
Director: Gabriel Cooley
Votes: 14
90. Unforgotten. Myroslava (2018)
Documentary, Short, Biography
Myroslava, 90-year-old Ukrainian poetess and activist in Estonia known as Miroslava Butshko-Jürissaar, unfolds her turbulent and romantic life in verses, prose and music, resonating in souls and hearts of the young.
Director: Vyacheslav Bihun | Stars: Miroslava Butshko-Jürissaar, Ottniell Jürissaar, Lyra Andra, Marion Andra
Votes: 56
91. Konets epokhi (2014)
38 min | Short, Drama
Young doctor Irina Mikhaylovna works in Soviet province and has to hire ex-con Lyuba as baby tender for her daughter. When anti-Semitic company starts in Soviet Union and danger is threatening Irina, Lyuba stays her only devoted friend.
Director: Sofya Chernyshova | Stars: Polina Pakhomova, Nina Loshchinina, Elena Tokmakova-Gorbushina, Mark Lihanov
Votes: 17
92. Stalins Tod - Das Ende einer Ära (2013 TV Movie)
43 min | Documentary, History
March 5, 1953. Stalin is dead. One day later, he is lying in state in an open coffin as more than 1.5 million mourners make their way through the streets of Moscow to pay their last respects.
Directors: Jürgen Ast, Martin Hübner | Stars: Joseph Stalin, Sergei Khrushchev, Igor Prelin, Oleg Chlevniuk
93. François Mauriac, blocs-notes 1953-1970 (1985– )
10 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Henri Virlojeux, François Mauriac
94. Target: Tornado (1994 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 45 min | Documentary
Director: Linda Mercer Lloyd | Stars: Frances Bauer, Casey Crosbie, Matthew Crowther, Robert Davies-Jones
95. Blackout (VI) (2013)
90 min | Crime
A man has lost his memory. He has no idea who is is, why he has woken up in a grungy motel room, or why people are trying to kill him.
Director: Douglas Monce | Stars: Toby Ambrose, Katherine Stewart, Tracy Timm, Fred Gerle
Votes: 39
96. Zatím dobrý
Drama, History | Announced
Director: Tomas Masin | Stars: Krister Henriksson, Anna Kameníková, Adam Misík, Oldrich Hajlich
97. Marshall-Plan in Action - Filme für Europa 1950-1953 (1997 TV Movie)
87 min | Documentary
Director: Hans Beller | Stars: Albert Hemsing, Toby E. Rodes, Georg Tressler
98. Gwiazdy musza plonac (1954)
63 min | Documentary, Drama
Directors: Witold Lesiewicz, Andrzej Munk | Stars: S. Halama, Gustaw Holoubek, P. Kania, Bernard Krawczyk
Votes: 30
99. Eventyret om dansk film 11: Folkelighed og film - 1950-1953 (1996 Video)
45 min | Documentary
Director: Svend Aage Lorentz
100. Pulverfaß Provinz. Der 17. Juni 1953 im Bezirk Halle (1992 TV Movie)
Directors: Ingo Bethke, Ulrich Brochhagen