Scandal at Scourie

1953 90 min USA 6.6

• Director: Jean Negulesco
• Actors: Greer Garson,Walter Pidgeon,Agnes Moorehead,Donna Corcoran
• Genres: Drama

After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy ...

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

1953 89 min USA 6.9

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A young boy travels to an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.

Second Chance

1953 82 min USA 6.1

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Mobster Vic Spalato's girlfriend Claire is in hiding in Mexico and she's willing to testify for a US Senate investigation committee, if she can make it back to the US alive.

Man on a Tightrope

1953 105 min USA, West Germany 7.1

• Director: Elia Kazan
• Actors: Fredric March,Terry Moore,Gloria Grahame,Cameron Mitchell
• Genres: Drama,Film-Noir,Thriller

Czech circus owner-Clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

1953 77 min USA 6.5

• Director: Charles Lamont
• Actors: Bud Abbott,Lou Costello,Mari Blanchard,Robert Paige
• Genres: Comedy,Fantasy,Sci-Fi

Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry ...

A Blueprint for Murder

1953 77 min USA 6.8

• Director: Andrew L. Stone
• Actors: Joseph Cotten,Jean Peters,Gary Merrill,Catherine McLeod
• Genres: Crime,Drama,Film-Noir

Whitney Cameron suspects his sister-in-law has poisoned his brother and niece, but without proof how does he prevent the murder of his nephew?

Dream Wife

1953 100 min USA 6

• Director: Sidney Sheldon
• Actors: Cary Grant,Deborah Kerr,Walter Pidgeon,Betta St. John
• Genres: Comedy,Romance

A business tycoon decides to wed a Middle Eastern princess whose customs dictate the pair must live apart for several months before marrying; even more complications settle in when the tycoon's ex-fiancée is assigned to chaperone the pair.

Destination Gobi

1953 90 min USA 6.4

• Director: Robert Wise
• Actors: Richard Widmark,Don Taylor,Max Showalter,Murvyn Vye
• Genres: Adventure,Drama,War

In 1944, US Navy specialists run a weather station in the Gobi desert where they are harassed by Japanese warplanes but aided by local Mongol nomads.

Knights of the Round Table

1953 115 min USA 6.3

• Director: Richard Thorpe
• Actors: Robert Taylor,Ava Gardner,Mel Ferrer,Anne Crawford
• Genres: Action,Adventure,Drama

King Arthur's rule is threatened by the adulterous love between Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, a relationship the king's enemies hope to exploit.

Do Bigha Zamin

1953 131 min India 8.4

• Director: Bimal Roy
• Actors: Balraj Sahni,Nirupa Roy,Rattan Kumar,Murad
• Genres: Drama

In the hope of earning enough money to pay off his debts and save his land, a poor farmer becomes a rickshaw puller in the Calcutta and faces many difficulties.

Forbidden

1953 85 min USA 6.5

• Director: Rudolph Maté
• Actors: Tony Curtis,Joanne Dru,Lyle Bettger,Marvin Miller
• Genres: Crime,Drama,Film-Noir

Eddie Darrow, seeking a mobster's widow in Macao, gets involved in a casino owner's affairs.

Captain John Smith and Pocahontas

1953 75 min USA 4.7

• Director: Lew Landers
• Actors: Anthony Dexter,Jody Lawrance,Alan Hale Jr.,Robert Clarke
• Genres: Drama,History,Romance

Captain John Smith overcomes the treachery of some of his men and resentment of the local Native Americans to establish the colony of Jamestown.