1953 Movies

Worried about the ‘declining morals’ of 1950s Amsterdam, taxi driver Piet Amstel decides to emigrate to Australia. The government drive to build atomi...

Post-war reconstruction. New residents turn on their first television in their new apartment—a bulky bandura with a tiny screen. On the screen are Tar...

Dimwit is an overworked office worker who tries to escape the swelter of the city by driving out to the beach, but he finds nothing but petty problems...

The story revolves around a doctor living in the jungle with his daughter, surrounded by wild tribal people who are ruled by the jungle queen, Sheena.

Documentary by Enrico Grass. Produced by Franklin Urteaga Cazorla.

Photos from the III Railway Workers' Song and Music Festival in Jyväskylä in 1953.

Two young high school boys spike the punch at a Halloween party, mischievously let the air out of car tires, and finally steal a car to go for a joyri...

Ismail and Abdo work at an antiquities shop. One day, they bring a box with a mummy inside. They are watched by a man who claims to be an archaeologis...

Confined to two sets, this vaudeville-style burlesque film was photographed by veteran cinematographer William C. Thompson and released during the dec...

A documentary record of the 1953 Mille Miglia, tracing the race across Italy from Brescia to Rome and back.

Adel and Samia are in love, but her father is in financial trouble , when Adel decides to intervene to repay the man's debts he gets in an accident an...

A sheep rancher entrusts his goofy sheepdog Dizzy to guard his herd one night. The dog is told to blow a whistle when he sees a wolf, but he spends hi...

Promulgation of the Yugoslav Republic, held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on November 29, 1943.

Fourth installment in the "Achako's Notebook of Youth" series.

"Symphony Night" (Walter Lantz) Coca-Cola advertising cartoon.

Nobody has an easy time of it in the costume actioner Shark River. Wanted for murder, Clay Webley (Warren Stevens) and his wounded cellmate Curtis Par...

Herring Hunt is a 1953 French-English language documentary about the operations of a herring boat off the coast of British Columbia, directed by Julia...