Best Movies of 1953

These are the 13 best-rated movies released in 1953, led by Dos tipos de cuidado, A Mouse Divided and Welcome Mr. Marshall!. Ranked by audience score, with cast, trailers and legal places to watch on every page.

1. Dos tipos de cuidado (1953)

★ 8.4/10

Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict…
2. A Mouse Divided (1953)

★ 7.4/10

A drunken stork delivers a baby mouse to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Cat. Sylvester is about to eat the little rodent when it calls him Daddy. Touched, Sylvester adopts the mouse as his son - which…
3. Welcome Mr. Marshall! (1953)

★ 7.4/10

A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the American visitors, in the hopes of benefiting under the Marshall…
4. Lumber Jack-Rabbit (1953)

★ 7.2/10

Bugs Bunny stumbles on the carrot patch of Paul Bunyan, but doesn't realize that it is guarded by a 124-foot, 4,600-ton dog named Smidgen.
5. Dracula in Istanbul (1953)

★ 7.1/10

Azmi has taken on the role of lawyer for a count named Dracula living in Romania. Dracula is a vampire descended from Vlad the Impaler and wants to buy many houses in Istanbul through Azmi. When Azmi learned that…
6. Ben and Me (1953)

★ 6.9/10

A revisionist version of American history as a small mouse comes to live with Benjamin Franklin and turns out to be responsible for many of his ideas; including the beginning of the Declaration of Independance!
7. Plop Goes the Weasel! (1953)

★ 6.9/10

A lip-smacking weasel invades the barnyard of Foghorn Leghorn and his usual canine foe, and Foghorn is quite willing to put baby chicks in danger of being taken by the weasel so long as it makes the dog appear to be…
8. Upswept Hare (1953)

★ 6.6/10

Penthouse dwelling Elmer Fudd brings home a beautiful flowering desert plant and - unknowingly - Bugs Bunny.
9. The Magic Horse (1953)

★ 6.2/10

Lotte Reiniger returns to the character of Prince Achmed for this “Arabian Nights”–inspired fantasy in which our hero takes off on a flying horse.
10. Knights of the Round Table (1953)

★ 6.0/10

In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.
11. The History of Flight: We Saw It Happen (1953)

★ 6.0/10

This documentary, chronicles the first 50 years of flight, from the Wright Brothers first flight in 1903 to 1953. It includes interviews with an original mechanic who worked in their bicycle shop and a wide range of…
12. Mantrap (1953)

★ 5.6/10

Branded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befriends private detective Hugo Bishop who, convinced that the wrong man…
13. The Seafarers (1953)

★ 4.5/10

Stanley Kubrick’s first color film, commissioned by the Seafarers International Union to promote the benefits of union membership. Shot inside the union’s Atlantic and Gulf Coast District facilities, it features scenes…