Cannes 1953
List activity
71 views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
35 titles
- DirectorWolfgang LiebeneinerStarsHilde KrahlJosef MeinradWaltraut HaasIt is the year 2000 and the World Global Union is in charge, although other countries are allowed to elect their own government leaders, as long as they support the Union. When Austria's newly-elected president, makes his inauguration speech, he declares Austrian independence and issues an edict ending Austria's financial support for the Global Union. The Global Union President arrives in a flying-saucer with her retinue of world-soldiers, equipped with death-ray guns, to put an end to the rebellion. The president and the country are put on trial. The Austrian president recounts the country's' long battle for peace, and shows how Austria stopped the invasion of the Turks, and gave the world the operetta and the waltz. He organizes a mass parade with flora floats and a brass band playing the Austrian Freedom Song in order to appeal to the court's impartiality. A 1943 document signed by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin and assuring Austria of independence is presented.
- DirectorRaj KapoorStarsRaj KapoorNargisPrithviraj KapoorA poor young man named Raj joins a criminal gang to feed his mother. But when he falls in love with Rita, he decides to reform himself for her.
- DirectorAlf SjöbergStarsUlf PalmeInge WærnOlof WidgrenThe story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was chosen to take his place.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsLolita SevillaManolo MoránJosé IsbertAfter finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del Río start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive.
- DirectorAndré CauvinStarsPetronelle AbapatakiPeter BaylisYves FuretHelped by a nurse ,a young native tries to escape from the fate that awaits her.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsEthel MermanDonald O'ConnorVera-EllenWashington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsBurt LancasterShirley BoothTerry MooreAn emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.
- DirectorTeinosuke KinugasaStarsShinobu ArakiKôtarô BandôKazuo HasegawaA talented sculptor is hired to erect a giant Buddha statue when the capital is moved to Nara, in 745 AD. Those opposed to the statue try to use the artist's girlfriend to get him to stop it from being completed.
- DirectorLadislao VajdaStarsMirtha LegrandArmando CalvoAntonio CasalFrancisquita, owner of a pastry shop with her widowed mother, loves Fernando, but he only has eyes for Aurora, a temperamental artist. It's his father who courts Francisquita, despite her efforts to interest the son. Aided by Fernando's friend, she will follow the steps of the parallel story in the famed Zarzuela of the same name to make him jealous.
- DirectorEdgar NevilleStarsAntonio El BailarínPilar LópezLuz María LarraguivelTitle changed to "Flamenco" when it was first released in the USA in 1954, this is a program of Spanish songs and dances with the emphasis on "flamenco" or gypsy contributions. The USA version has an English narrative written by Walter Terry, the dance critic of the "New York Herald Tribune" newspaper. Heading the cast are Antonio (I), Pilar Lopez and Maria Luz, three of Spain's foremost dancers of the time, accompanied by members of the Ballet Espanol. Filmed in Cinefotocolor in which orange and blue dominated, a combination that should appeal to the fans of Auburn University athletic teams. Distributed in the USA by Martin J. Lewis.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsArturo de CórdovaDelia GarcésAurora WalkerA husband's suave exterior unravels after his marriage, and he unleashes his paranoid and volatile temper on his wife, which escalates to more dangerous and unpredictable tantrums.
- DirectorArne MattssonStarsAino TaubeGeorg RydebergNils HallbergA high school in a small city. Torben and Ninni are deeply infatuated with each other but their parents dislike the pair seeing each other. After graduation Torben joins the army and when Ninni discovers that she is pregnant her parents send her to a farm in Denmark to bear her child.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaOsamu TakizawaMasao ShimizuPost war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends.
- DirectorMinoru ShibuyaStarsRyô IkebeIsuzu YamadaSô YamamuraIn post-war Japan, a bureaucrat in the land ministry self-destructively spirals into squalor.
- DirectorJean DrévilleStarsGisèle PascalJean ChevrierRené BlancardTo all those daring women ,who had a dream to fly.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsMontgomery CliftAnne BaxterKarl MaldenA priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional.
- DirectorCharles FrankStarsHarold WarrenderMarian SpencerRuth DunningBased on the play by Jean Cocteau, and looking like a play as all the action takes place indoors, a neurotic mother almost devours a son with smothering, possessive and misdirected love. When she learns that he is in love with a young girl, she moves to break up the romance. Complications arise when it is discovered that the girl, not knowing of the relationship, had also been in love with the boy's father.
- DirectorMario SoldatiStarsGina LollobrigidaGabriele FerzettiFranco InterlenghiGemma, daughter of a lodger, is in love with her half-brother, but since she cannot marry him she ends up marrying a teacher. She doesn't love him and betrays him but is blackmailed by a Romanian countess who forces her to become a prostitute. She's desperate but in the end she asks her husband for help. She has learned to love him in the meantime.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsRossana PodestàCrox AlvaradoArmando SilvestreAntonio dives for sponges which are sold by his sweetheart Rossana. One day, the escaped prisoner José-Luis appears and is hid by his friend Antonio. Although José-Luis does not want to betray his friend, a love affair with tragic consequences between him and Rossana develops.
- DirectorGilbert ProuteauStarsYves FuretJean-Pierre GrenierA documentary explores the life and work of French politician Georges Clemenceau.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsArturo de CórdovaLaura HidalgoJosé María Linares-RivasDuring their collective marriage anniversaries, three husbands find out their best friend has died and decide to open a letter he left to be opened after his death.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsYves MontandCharles VanelPeter van EyckIn a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiNathalie PascaudMicheline RollaMonsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation and accidentally, but good-naturedly, causes havoc.
- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsLeslie CaronMel FerrerJean-Pierre AumontAn orphaned young woman becomes part of a puppet act and forms a relationship with the anti-social puppeteer.
- DirectorVíctor UrruchúaStarsJosé Elías MorenoCarmen MontejoHilda VeraLife changes for an Andean family when oil wealth and a fugitive arrive in town.
- DirectorGian Gaspare NapolitanoStarsCarlos MontalbánBret MorrisonLeonardo BonziA group of Italians explore the jungles of South America.
- DirectorVladimir PogacicStarsMarija CrnoboriMilivoje ZivanovicViktor StarcicA story about a young man tempted to kill his rival for a girl, only to find out that he may be his illegitimate son. The story is set in XIX century Dubrovnik.
- DirectorLima BarretoStarsAlberto RuschelMarisa PradoMilton Ribeiro'Capitão', a bandit, terrorizes poor villages in the Northeast region of Brazil, looting and frequently killing with his armed gang, until he kidnaps and becomes attracted to a beautiful schoolteacher, creating discord in his group.
- DirectorClyde GeronimiWilfred JacksonHamilton LuskeStarsBobby DriscollKathryn BeaumontHans ConriedWendy and her brothers are whisked away to the magical world of Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan.
- DirectorTulio DemicheliStarsAída AlbertiTito AlonsoArturo ArcariAn intern experiences a very tough day at the hospital while trying to romance a nurse.
- DirectorLeopold LindtbergStarsJohn JustinEva DahlbeckSigfrit SteinerThis film deals with war orphans following WWII at a children's village in the Swiss Alps where over 200 children from all parts of Europe are gathered. The subplots involve a romance between two of the teachers, the grim decision of Red Poland to quit the experiment, and the problem of the German children being viewed as symbols of oppression rather than as victims the same as the children from other countries. The last credit line is for the Teachers and Children of Pestalozzi Village.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsJennifer JonesMontgomery CliftGino CerviPrior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini.
- DirectorGeorge More O'FerrallStarsTrevor HowardElizabeth AllanMaria SchellAn unhappily married British security officer stationed in Sierra Leone during World War II falls in love with a young Austrian woman and starts an affair. He soon starts feeling guilty.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsCharles WinningerArleen WhelanJohn RussellWilliam Pittman Priest has to use all his wiles to retain his position as judge in his Kentucky hometown, while continuing to be a voice for the town's underclass and for democratic values.
- DirectorErik BlombergStarsMirjami KuosmanenKalervo NissiläÅke LindmanA newlywed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life, but instead she gets turned into a white reindeer vampire.