25 greatest films of 1953

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.

An ex-gunfighter defends homesteaders in 1889 Wyoming.

When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.

Monsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation and accidentally, but good-naturedly, causes havoc.

After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.

Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.

At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a pugilistic private is cruelly punished for refusing to join his unit's boxing team. Meanwhile, his commanding officer's wife and top NCO are indulging in a torrid love affair.

Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.

A seasoned geisha and her apprentice maiko are forced to give in to their clients' sexual advances to survive.

A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.

An aging movie star uncertain of his future teams up with a top ballerina to headline a new Broadway musical, but the pretentiously artistic goals of its director threaten to change it beyond recognition.

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

Wendy and her brothers are whisked away to the magical world of Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan.

The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.

Harry and Davy, two orphaned boys raised by authoritarian grandparents in Nova Scotia, yearn for a dog despite their grandfather's stern refusal, mirroring other children's pet ownership.

A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.

A samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting.

A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

An orphaned young woman becomes part of a puppet act and forms a relationship with the anti-social puppeteer.

The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.

A young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits.

A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.