Best movies of 1953

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

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

Two rival motorcycle gangs terrorize a small town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail.

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.

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 tough young man who helps to evict poor people from their houses falls in love with a girl who lives with her father in a building that's about to be demolished.

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

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

A priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional.

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.

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

Two friends pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.

As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.

Therese is a nun-in-training who returns to "civilian" life to care for her young sister Denise.

An ex-gunfighter defends homesteaders in 1889 Wyoming.

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.

Army dispatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and young son living in the midst of warring Apaches and becomes their protector.