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Best Movies of 1953, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
84 films from 1953 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Tokyo Story ('1953), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.5. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Tokyo Story, 8.1 on IMDb against 100 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tokyo Story '1953 | Drama | 8.1 | 100% | 100 | 8.1 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 2 | The Wages of Fear '1953 | Drama / Thriller | 8.1 | 100% | 85 | 8.0 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 3 | Duck Amuck '1953 | Animation / Comedy | 8.6 | - | - | 8.1 | Chuck Jones |
| 4 | Roman Holiday '1953 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 8.0 | 97% | 78 | 7.9 | William Wyler |
| 5 | Ugetsu '1953 | Fantasy / Drama / Mystery | 8.1 | 100% | - | 8.0 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 6 | Stalag 17 '1953 | Comedy / Drama / War | 7.9 | 91% | 84 | 7.7 | Billy Wilder |
| 7 | The Big Heat '1953 | Crime / Thriller | 7.9 | 95% | - | 7.7 | Fritz Lang |
| 8 | I Vitelloni '1953 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 100% | 87 | 7.7 | Federico Fellini |
| 9 | Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century '1953 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 8.1 | - | - | 7.6 | Chuck Jones |
| 10 | From Here to Eternity '1953 | War / Romance / Drama | 7.6 | 88% | 85 | 7.3 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 11 | The Earrings of Madame de... '1953 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 97% | - | 7.5 | Max Ophüls |
| 12 | Shane '1953 | Drama / Western | 7.6 | 97% | 85 | 7.3 | George Stevens |
| 13 | Él '1953 | Drama / Thriller | 7.9 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Luis Buñuel |
| 14 | Pickup on South Street '1953 | Thriller / Crime | 7.6 | 92% | - | 7.4 | Samuel Fuller |
| 15 | Duck! Rabbit, Duck! '1953 | Animation / Comedy | 8.1 | - | - | 7.4 | Chuck Jones |
| 16 | Welcome Mr. Marshall! '1953 | Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.4 | Luis García Berlanga |
| 17 | Summer with Monika '1953 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 18 | Bully for Bugs '1953 | Animation / Comedy | 8.0 | - | - | 7.3 | Chuck Jones |
| 19 | The Band Wagon '1953 | Comedy / Romance | 7.4 | 95% | 93 | 7.2 | Vincente Minnelli |
| 20 | Monsieur Hulot's Holiday '1953 | Comedy | 7.3 | 100% | 90 | 6.9 | Jacques Tati |
| 21 | Sawdust and Tinsel '1953 | Drama | 7.4 | 92% | - | 7.3 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 22 | The Naked Spur '1953 | Western | 7.3 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Anthony Mann |
| 23 | The Cruel Sea '1953 | Drama / War | 7.4 | 100% | - | 6.9 | Charles Frend |
| 24 | A Geisha '1953 | Drama | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 25 | Little Fugitive '1953 | Drama | 7.5 | 93% | 91 | 6.9 | Morris Engel |
| 26 | Peter Pan '1953 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.2 | 79% | 76 | 7.2 | Clyde Geronimi |
| 27 | Dos tipos de cuidado '1953 | Comedy / Musical / Romance | 8.0 | - | - | 8.4 | Ismael Rodríguez |
| 28 | 99 River Street '1953 | Crime | 7.4 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Phil Karlson |
| 29 | I Confess '1953 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.2 | 84% | 68 | 7.1 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 30 | The Tell-Tale Heart '1953 | Animation / Horror / Crime | 7.5 | - | - | 7.2 | Ted Parmelee |
| 31 | Crime Wave '1953 | Crime / Thriller | 7.3 | 75% | - | 7.1 | André de Toth |
| 32 | Julius Caesar '1953 | Drama | 7.2 | 97% | - | 7.1 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 33 | Calamity Jane '1953 | Western | 7.2 | 73% | 74 | 7.0 | David Butler |
| 34 | Angel Face '1953 | Drama / Crime | 7.2 | 77% | - | 7.1 | Otto Preminger |
| 35 | Thérèse Raquin '1953 | Drama / Crime / Romance | 7.4 | - | - | 6.6 | Marcel Carné |
| 36 | The Living Desert '1953 | Documentary | 7.4 | - | 69 | 7.1 | James Algar |
| 37 | Johann Mouse '1953 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 7.4 | - | - | 6.9 | Joseph Barbera |
| 38 | Lili '1953 | Romance / Drama | 7.2 | 75% | 65 | 6.7 | Charles Walters |
| 39 | The Return of Don Camillo '1953 | Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 7.2 | Julien Duvivier |
| 40 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes '1953 | Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 88% | - | 7.3 | Howard Hawks |
| 41 | White Mane '1953 | Drama | 7.2 | - | - | 6.8 | Albert Lamorisse |
| 42 | The Brute '1953 | Drama / Crime | 7.2 | 88% | - | 6.9 | Luis Buñuel |
| 43 | Gate of Hell '1953 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 93% | - | 7.1 | Teinosuke Kinugasa |
| 44 | Mr. Photographer '1953 | Comedy / Thriller | 7.3 | - | - | 8.3 | Miguel M. Delgado |
| 45 | The Lady Without Camelias '1953 | Drama | 7.1 | 90% | - | 6.5 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 46 | Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom '1953 | Animation | 7.1 | - | - | 6.7 | Charles August Nichols |
| 47 | Don's Fountain of Youth '1953 | Animation / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | Jack Hannah |
| 48 | Neapolitan Turk '1953 | Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 7.3 | Mario Mattoli |
| 49 | The Man Between '1953 | Thriller | 7.0 | - | - | 7.2 | Carol Reed |
| 50 | The Titfield Thunderbolt '1953 | Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 7.0 | Charles Crichton |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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