1953 Movies

Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is devalued and alienated through colonial and museum...

The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few scrupulous people.

When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, back...

Woody Woodpecker is the small town sheriff who must face the feared gunslinger Buzz Buzzard.

A documentary about the city of Broken Hill in New South Wales.

Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend.

Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base.

The hilarious adventures of a swooning movie fan when she meets her favorite movie star.

A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.

A Los Angeles police captain ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.

Goofy plays everyman again. He's an average working joe who demonstrates "the up on time/work on time/bed on time" routine while going from work to ho...

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and...

A young composer is forced to work as a bar pianist. One night he gets hit by a car and is brought to a hospital. Severely injured he is injected with...

Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It...

A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.

In the biography of John of Austria the Spanish hero of Flanders, brother of Philip II, as an argument, the tape is a praise of Spain Emperor Charles...

Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. He asks for help from his ex-employer Ward Conway,...