1953 Movies

Alan Ladd in 1953’s Shane

This movie page looks at The Top Grossing Movies of 1953.   Currently when you type in the search words….”Top Grossing Movies of 1953″ you do not get much information.  Wikipedia provides 10 movies.  The Numbers.com provides 10 movies.  Stats-a-mania offers up 7 movies.  You have to go to the 26th search result to find the next place that lists box office results….UMR’s (that’s us) Marilyn Monroe page which offers up her movies.  So in an effort to get more information out there…we have decided to unlock our 1953 movie database vault and share the information we have collected over the years.

To make this list a movie had to be made in 1953 (as listed on IMDB.com).  Obviously many movies made in 1952 earned box office dollars in 1953.  On the other side many movies made in 1953 made money in 1954 and later (it Tokyo Story almost 20 years to reach North America).  This page will looks at 173 Top Grossing Movies of 1953.  The movies are listed in a massive table that shows who starred in the movie, had much the movie grossed when it was released and how that gross means in today’s money.

Obviously this is not all of the 1953 movies…..but since our website is dynamic, ever time we add a 1953 movie….it will automatically be added to this page.

Top Grossing Movies of 1953 Can Be Sorted 6 Ways In This Table

Our UMR Top 50 of 1953

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1953 by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
  • Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1953 by domestic actual box office grosses (in millions)
  • Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1953 by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1953 by critic and audience rating
  • Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1953 by Oscar wins and Oscar nominations
  • Sort Top Grossing Movies of 1953 by it’s Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score

1951 Box Office Grosses – Adjusted World Wide


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43 thoughts on “1953 Movies

  1. you might debate me here but
    “144 Ana-ta-han (1953)”
    should be
    “144 Anatahan (1953)”
    or
    “144 The Saga of Anatahan (1953)”

  2. The Long, Long Trailer is listed in the worldwide grosses, but it came out in 1954, and sure enough the domestic numbers are on that page.

    1. Hey Bobby…not sure how I did that….but the error has been fixed. Thanks for the catch….fixed on both pages.

  3. Favorite films of 1953: From Here to Eternity, Pickup at South Street, Roman Holiday, Shane and best of all: Stalag 17. I heard that William Holden believed Burt Lancaster was more deserving of the Oscar than he for his performance in From Here to Eternity. As a Lancaster fan, I can honestly say Holden deserved it.

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