Best award winning movies with a thrilling suspense from 1953
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a thrilling suspense from 1953! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a thrilling suspense from 1953, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 The Wages of Fear (1953)
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
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- 1953-04-22 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Yves Montand, Charles Vanel
Rating
8.036
2 Stalag 17 (1953)
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.
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- 1953-05-29 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- William Holden, Don Taylor
Rating
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7.698
3 Pickup on South Street (1953)
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
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- 1953-05-27 | Thriller / Crime
Cast
- Richard Widmark, Jean Peters
Rating
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7.388
4 The Naked Spur (1953)
A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.
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- 1953-01-30 | Western
Cast
- James Stewart, Janet Leigh
Rating
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6.858
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5 The Big Heat (1953)
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
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- 1953-10-14 | Crime / Thriller
Cast
- Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame
Rating
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7.634
6 The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.
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- 1953-03-30 | Thriller / Crime
Cast
- Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy
Rating
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6.799
7 From Here to Eternity (1953)
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
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- 1953-08-28 | War / Romance
Cast
- Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift
Rating
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7.289
8 Man on a Tightrope (1953)
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.
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- 1953-05-21 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Fredric March, Terry Moore
Rating
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6.5
9 Roman Holiday (1953)
Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.
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- 1953-08-26 | Romance / Comedy
Cast
- Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck
Rating
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7.88
10 It Came from Outer Space (1953)
Author & amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona, but Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
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- 1953-06-05 | Science Fiction / Horror
Cast
- Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush
Rating
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6.282
