Best 1953 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1953 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

#17. It Came from Outer Space
- Stacker score: 73.5
- IMDb user rating: 6.5 (votes: 12,000)
- Metascore: 68
- Director: Jack Arnold
- Actors: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake
- Runtime: 1 hour 21 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#16. The Wild One
- Stacker score: 74.0
- IMDb user rating: 6.7 (votes: 19,000)
- Metascore: 67
- Director: Laslo Benedek
- Actors: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith
- Runtime: 1 hour 19 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#15. House of Wax
- Stacker score: 76.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 22,000)
- Metascore: 68
- Director: André De Toth
- Actors: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk
- Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $23,750,000

#14. Niagara
- Stacker score: 77.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 21,000)
- Metascore: 70
- Director: Henry Hathaway
- Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters
- Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#13. I Confess
- Stacker score: 77.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 25,000)
- Metascore: 68
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Actors: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
- Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: $2,000,000

#12. Calamity Jane
- Stacker score: 80.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 12,000)
- Metascore: 74
- Director: David Butler
- Actors: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie
- Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#11. The War of the Worlds
- Stacker score: 81.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 41,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Byron Haskin
- Actors: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne
- Runtime: 1 hour 27 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: N/A

#10. Hondo
- Stacker score: 82.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 13,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: John Farrow
- Actors: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond
- Runtime: 1 hour 23 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A

#9. Peter Pan
- Stacker score: 82.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 161,000)
- Metascore: 76
- Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
- Actors: Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried
- Runtime: 1 hour 17 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $87,404,651

#8. Roman Holiday
- Stacker score: 87.3
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 155,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: William Wyler
- Actors: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
- Runtime: 1 hour 58 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#7. Shane
- Stacker score: 89.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 47,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: George Stevens
- Actors: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
- Runtime: 1 hour 58 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#6. From Here to Eternity
- Stacker score: 89.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 53,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Fred Zinnemann
- Actors: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
- Runtime: 1 hour 58 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: $36,416

#5. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
- Stacker score: 90.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 21,000)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: Jacques Tati
- Actors: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla
- Runtime: 1 hour 23 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: N/A

#4. Stalag 17
- Stacker score: 90.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 61,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Billy Wilder
- Actors: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger
- Runtime: 2 hours
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#3. The Wages of Fear
- Stacker score: 91.7
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 72,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Actors: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck
- Runtime: 2 hours 36 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $21,228

#2. The Band Wagon
- Stacker score: 92.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 13,000)
- Metascore: 93
- Director: Vincente Minnelli
- Actors: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant
- Runtime: 1 hour 52 minutes
- Rating: Approved
- Box office: N/A

#1. Tokyo Story
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 75,000)
- Metascore: 100
- Director: Yasujirô Ozu
- Actors: Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura
- Runtime: 2 hours 17 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: N/A