1953 Movies

A pickpoket falls in love with one of his victims.

Life’s Musical Minute, recently re-discovered, is a short promotional film of this kind, based on Gene Krupa’s drum solo from “Golden Wedding” by the...

The plot revolves around a boy called Shyam and his relationship with his mother. It shares the effect Shyam's mother has had on Shyam's life and upbr...

This Traveltalk series short discusses how Johannesburg began as a farming community, but with the discovery of gold in the area, the city embraced mi...

Authority figures lecture school children about good posture until one little girl develops body dysmorphic disorder and hallucinates in front of her...

A sometimes uncomfortable marriage between fact and fiction, this film is part documentary and part drama, mixing actual war footage with reenactments...

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

Worldy renowned for his masterpiece The Housemaid (1960),Kim Ki-young debuts with his first short film I Am a Truck (1953),which was sponsored by UN...

On the run from the police, an atheist masquerades as a religious icon.

Part of BFI collection "London on the Move."

A British captain and a French official's daughter save the East India Company.

A woman witnesses a murder during a store robbery but claims the accused man is not the killer. After he is convicted and weeks away from his executio...

Pullaiah is sent by his father to work in the city for a landlord. Pullaiah faces a lot of hardships and goes to jail, but finally is proved innocent.

A comedy about a white yacht and four attractive young women who want to impress a sailing club with their seaworthiness. A fifth "girl" turns out to...

A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances.

In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken f...

Mario, a student from a noble Milanese family, falls in love with Lulù, a young slender girl.