Year 1953 movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant year 1953 movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspense, captivating, tense and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with murder, death, flashback, husband wife relationship, investigation, storytelling, mentor, photograph, family relations and world war two plots mostly in Drama, Mystery and Biography genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as year 1953: Where the Crawdads Sing (2022), Dark (2017), The Death of Stalin (2017), Hocus Pocus 2 (2022), The Right Stuff (1983), MUR is MUR (2004), L.A. Confidential (1997), The Brutalist (2024), Naked Lunch (1991), Girl You Know It's True (2023).
Best films
New films
| The Unwilling (2016) | 4.3 | |
| Churchill's Secret (2016) | 6.8 | |
| The Fencer (2015) | 7.1 | |
| Grantchester (2014) | 7.9 | |
| Child 44 (2015) | 6.4 |
List of year 1953 movies
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is instantly branded by the local townspeople and law enforcement as the prime suspect for his murder.
Style:
suspense, romantic drama, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
coming of age, murder mystery, swamp, secret relationship, lonely, woman, twists and turns, nature, outcast, abusive father, teenage girl, domestic abuse ...
Time:
1950s, year 1953, year 1968, year 1969, year 1962 ...
Place:
north carolina
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531K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.
Style:
mysterious, mind bending, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time loop, investigation, mysterious past, time machine, cave, missing child, time portal, deja vu, small town, disappearance, alternate dimension ...
Time:
year 1986, year 2019, 50s, 80s, year 1953 ...
Place:
germany, chernobyl, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: France, UK, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin dies in 1953, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. Among the contenders are the dweebish Georgy Malenkov, the wily Nikita Khrushchev and Lavrenti Beria ...
Style:
black comedy, satirical, sexy, dark comedy, political ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dictator, political satire, satire, power struggle, repression, communism, politics, totalitarian regime, death, chaos, funeral, nkvd ...
Time:
1950s, year 1953, 2010s, 90s, year 2017 ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr, moscow russia, siberia
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
29 years since the Black Flame Candle was last lit, the 17th-century Sanderson sisters are resurrected, and they are looking for revenge. Now it's up to three high school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc ...
Style:
saga, dramatic, captivating, enigmatic, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, horror for children
Plot:
magic, witch, halloween, sister, power, spell, witchcraft, village, female protagonist, curse, wizard, magical ...
Time:
2020s, year 1953, 90s, 17th century, year 1993
Place:
salem massachusetts
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 193 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the original Mercury astronauts in the formation of America's space program: Alan Shepherd, the first American in space; Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing works out as planned; John Glenn, the straight-arrow ...
Style:
epic, inspirational, sincere, factual, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
cold war, astronaut, nasa, u.s. air force, aviation, test pilot, space travel, space exploration, space race, politics, space program, spacecraft ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1953, year 1960 ...
Place:
washington d.c., florida, australia, houston texas, usa ...
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Genre: Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Style:
suspenseful, serious, crime drama, suspense, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
organized crime, robbery, police procedural, investigation, criminal, criminal gang, rookie, gangster, criminal heroes, gang, law enforcement, false accusation ...
Time:
1950s, year 1953
Place:
moscow russia, soviet union
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspense, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
corruption, police corruption, organized crime, police, murder, police detective, twists and turns, murder mystery, police brutality, justice, shootout, gunfight ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, arizona, persia ...
Is relevant?
133K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 216 min.
Story:
Fleeing from post-war Europe in 1947, a visionary architect and his wife settle in Pennsylvania where a wealthy and mysterious client changes their lives forever.
Style:
epic, bleak, saga, crying, serious ...
Plot:
architect, architecture, immigrant, holocaust survivor, library, sex scene, strong sexual content, male rape, oral sex, husband wife relationship, female nudity, hand job ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1953 ...
Place:
philadelphia, venice, pennsylvania, italy, israel ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands, UK, Japan, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, cult classic, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot:
hallucination, surrealism, exterminator, nightmare, addiction, trippy, repressed homosexual, secret agent, drug addiction, paranoia, reality vs fantasy, homosexuality ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1953, year 1991, 90s ...
Place:
north africa, usa, new york, canada
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Dancers Pilatus and Morvan rise to fame in the late 80's who become stars with No.1 hits and won a Grammy. The duo never sang a word in their songs and when the truth was revealed they starred one of the biggest scandals in music history.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot:
scandal, dancer, fame, dancing, dancer's life, celebrity, musician, dance, popularity, uncover truth, music, pop group ...
Time:
90s, year 1995, year 1988, year 1987, year 1998 ...
Place:
europe, bristol, michigan, new york, los angeles ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A Very British Sex Scandal tells the story of Peter Wildeblood, a royal correspondent for the Daily Mail newspaper. He is a closet homosexual and like many gay men at that time, lives in secret as homosexuality is against the law. One evening he ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sexual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gay interest, sex scandal, homosexuality, gay, closeted homosexual, scandal, lgbt, homosexual history, homosexual, gay slur, love affair, journalism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1955, year 1953 ...
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: South Africa, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, realistic, serious, political ...
Plot:
ambition, politics, state affairs, society, feminism, confined, hopes, political unrest, isolation, black, biopic, black cast ...
Time:
20th century, year 1953
Place:
africa, south africa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he ...
Style:
psychological, touching, cerebral, dramatic, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
mathematics, mental illness, schizophrenia, genius, paranoia, insanity, imagination, scientist, prodigy, nobel prize, imaginary friend, mathematician ...
Time:
year 2001, 60s, 1940s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
harvard university, boston, new jersey, detroit, persia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Aurora Borealis is a story of family that is rich in twists and turns. It breaks the depths of the relationship between mother and daughter. A successful lawyer in Vienna, Olga is called back to Hungary when her old mother, Mary suddenly falls ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, confronting the past, secret past, female protagonist, secret, mysterious past, lawyer, family relations, life is a bitch, family secret, iron curtain, breast feeding ...
Time:
year 1953, year 1954
Place:
europe, vienna, hungary
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Partially based on the true events surrounding a rural religious cult in the American Midwest, and how the members' children suffered for their parents' fanaticism.
Plot:
child bride, religion, polygamy, latter day saints, age difference, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, investigation, picnic, misogyny, engagement, attorney general, sheriff ...
Time:
year 1953, 1950s, 50s
Place:
arizona, utah
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Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: Vietnam, South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the vengeful ghost of his dead wife... who is out for blood.
Style:
enigmatic, suspense, serious, scary, tense ...
Plot:
orphan, chambermaid, female ghost, paranormal activity, forbidden love, vengeful ghost, revenge, servant, murder, ghost story, seduction, police investigation ...
Time:
1950s, year 1953, 50s
Place:
indochina, vietnam
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Recruits head to the front lines towards the close of the Korean War. The interaction between two of the soldiers...an idealistic newcomer and a psychotic who goes on one-man patrols slitting enemy throats under cover of night...and the orphan boy ...
Style:
neo noir, realistic, psychological, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
korean war, last stand, world war two, soldier, psychopath, children in wartime, casualty of war, young soldier, violent man, platoon, war, idealism ...
Time:
year 1962, 50s, 1950s, year 1953
Place:
iraq, korea, asia
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a "Match" photographer. As the friendship becomes a love ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sexual, sexy
Plot:
young love, age difference, friends, photojournalist, revolution, family relations, love and romance, society, coming of age, youth, rebellion, politics ...
Time:
50s, year 1937, year 1952, year 1953, 1950s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, dark ...
Plot:
serial killer, biopic, murder, killer, true crime, violent, death sentence, courtroom drama, psychopath, killing, death, british ...
Time:
1940s, year 1971, year 1949, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
london, england, europe, boston, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, War
Country: Canada, Hungary, Germany, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, touching, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violinist, mysterious disappearance, shoah, polish, family relations, investigation, wartime life, private investigation, wartime, war, musician's life, tragedy ...
Time:
year 1943, year 1953, 20th century, 1950s, 80s ...
Place:
london, new york, england, israel, poland ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton ...
Style:
independent film, period piece, witty, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, writers, gay cruising, male nudity, glbt, lgbt, murder, lgbtq, homosexual, gay relationship, biopic ...
Time:
60s, year 1987, 20th century, 1950s, year 1953 ...
Place:
england, europe, australia, morocco, london ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Set in contemporary Moscow and the frozen northern town of Archangel, the drama revisits the stark landscape of Communist Russia and takes place over four days in the life of academic Fluke Kelso. His fateful meeting with a former Stalinist ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sensual ...
Plot:
josef stalin, conspiracy, college professor, murder, murder witness, uncover truth, obsession, investigation, intrigue, soldier, politics, state affairs ...
Time:
year 1953
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip ...
Style:
visually stunning, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu master, wing chun, kung fu, medieval, tai chi, heir, wuxia, vengeance, heroes, fight, opponent ...
Time:
1930s, 2010s, year 2013, 1940s, 50s ...
Place:
china, japan, hong kong, east asia, asia ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
"Captain Johnno" is a deaf boy who befriends an Italian fisherman in this Australian made-for-TV family film.
Style:
children's story
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, youth, deaf, town, physical disability, young boy, beach, teaching, bicycle, school, rain, disability ...
Time:
year 1953, 1950s, 50s
Place:
australia, south australia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A 1950s accountant (Dennis Lipscomb) with a restless wife (Deborah Harry) grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.
Style:
neo noir, dark comedy, black comedy, independent film, eighties
Plot:
extramarital affair, exodus, paranoia, innovation, dead body, eccentricity, unfaithfulness, impotence, masturbation, murder, death, anger ...
Time:
year 1953
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A mother takes her two sons on an unusual road trip from New York. Pittsburgh, St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
road trip, coming of age, parents and children, obsessive quest, teenage life, siblings relations, starting over, father son relationship, teenager, writers, sarcasm, stepfather stepson relationship ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1953
Place:
usa, kansas city, los angeles, boston, new york ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Style:
detective, tense, serious, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
murder mystery, whodunit, amateur detective, murder, investigation, private detective, movie star, serial killer, death, unlikely criminals, haunted by the past, actor's life ...
Time:
1950s, year 1980, 20th century, 50s, year 1953 ...
Place:
england, scotland, united kingdom, europe, scotland yard
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family ...
Style:
intellectual, pre war
Plot:
renaissance, world war two, communism, tram, single mother, neighbor, politics, sacrifice, false accusation, torture, death of father, jail ...
Time:
year 1953, year 1956, year 1933
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Is relevant?
79K
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, USA, Russia, UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, factual, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, child murder, murder mystery, stalinism, investigation, murder, child murder investigation, politics, murder investigation, totalitarian regime, justice, betrayal ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 1950s, year 2015, 50s ...
Place:
moscow russia, soviet union, russia, ukraine, berlin germany ...
Is relevant?
20K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark, demonic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, time loop, afterlife, supernatural, rescue, trapped, coming of age, murder, youth, danger, haunted ...
Time:
2010s, year 1953, 80s, year 1983, year 1985 ...
Place:
usa, canada, ontario canada, california
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