# List of British films of 1953

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1953 (see 1953 in film):

## 1953

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1953 |||||||
| 36 Hours | Montgomery Tully | Dan Duryea, Elsie Albiin, Eric Pohlmann | Crime | |
| Albert R.N. | Lewis Gilbert | Anthony Steel, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty | War | |
| Alf's Baby | Maclean Rogers | Jerry Desmonde, Pauline Stroud, Sandra Dorne | Comedy | |
| Always a Bride | Ralph Smart | Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan, Ronald Squire | Comedy | |
| Appointment in London | Philip Leacock | Dirk Bogarde, Ian Hunter, Dinah Sheridan | War | |
| Background | Daniel Birt | Valerie Hobson, Philip Friend, Norman Woodland | Drama | |
| Beat the Devil | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida | Comedy thriller | Co-production with Italy |
| The Beggar's Opera | Peter Brook | Laurence Olivier, Dorothy Tutin, Hugh Griffith | Musical | |
| Behind the Headlines | Maclean Rogers | Gilbert Harding, Vi Kaley, Jack May | Crime | |
| Black 13 | Ken Hughes | Peter Reynolds, Rona Anderson, Lana Morris | Crime | |
| Black Orchid | Charles Saunders | Ronald Howard, Olga Edwardes, John Bentley | Crime | |
| Blood Orange | Terence Fisher | Tom Conway, Mila Parély, Naomi Chance | Crime | |
| The Blue Parrot | John Harlow | Dermot Walsh, Jacqueline Hill, Ballard Berkeley | Crime | |
| The Broken Horseshoe | Martyn C. Webster | Robert Beatty, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter Coke | Crime | |
| The Captain's Paradise | Anthony Kimmins | Alec Guinness, Celia Johnson, Yvonne De Carlo | Romantic comedy | |
| Cosh Boy | Lewis Gilbert | Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies, Hermione Baddeley | Crime drama | |
| Counterspy | Vernon Sewell | Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hermione Baddeley | Thriller | |
| The Cruel Sea | Charles Frend | Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Virginia McKenna | War | |
| A Day to Remember | Ralph Thomas | Stanley Holloway, Donald Sinden, Odile Versois | Comedy drama | |
| Deadly Nightshade | John Gilling | Emrys Jones, Zena Marshall, John Horsley | Crime | |
| Death Goes to School | Stephen Clarkson | Barbara Murray, Gordon Jackson, Beatrice Varley | Mystery | |
| Decameron Nights | Hugo Fregonese | Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Joan Collins | Drama | |
| Desperate Moment | Compton Bennett | Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Albert Lieven | Thriller | |
| The Dog and the Diamonds | Ralph Thomas | Kathleen Harrison, George Coulouris, Geoffrey Sumner | Family | |
| Escape by Night | John Gilling | Sid James, Bonar Colleano, Simone Silva | Crime | |
| The Fake | Godfrey Grayson | Dennis O'Keefe, Coleen Gray, Hugh Williams | Crime | |
| The Final Test | Anthony Asquith | Jack Warner, Robert Morley, Adrianne Allen | Sports | |
| The Flanagan Boy | Reginald Le Borg | Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, Tony Wright | Drama | |
| Flannelfoot | Maclean Rogers | Ronald Howard, Mary Germaine, Jack Watling | Crime | |
| Forces' Sweetheart | Maclean Rogers | Hy Hazell, Harry Secombe, Freddie Frinton | Comedy | |
| Four Sided Triangle | Terence Fisher | Barbara Payton, Stephen Murray, James Hayter | Sci-fi | |
| The Gambler and the Lady | Patrick Jenkins | Dane Clark, Kathleen Byron, Naomi Chance | Crime | |
| Genevieve | Henry Cornelius | Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall | Comedy | Number 86 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |
| The Girl on the Pier | Lance Comfort | Veronica Hurst, Ron Randell, Charles Victor | Crime | |
| Glad Tidings | Wolf Rilla | Barbara Kelly, Raymond Huntley, Ronald Howard | Comedy drama | |
| The Good Beginning | Gilbert Gunn | John Fraser, Eileen Moore, Peter Reynolds | Drama | |
| Grand National Night | Bob McNaught | Nigel Patrick, Moira Lister, Beatrice Campbell | Thriller | |
| The Great Game | Maurice Elvey | James Hayter, Thora Hird, Diana Dors | Sports | |
| The Heart of the Matter | George More O'Ferrall | Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan, Maria Schell | Drama | |
| The House of the Arrow | Michael Anderson | Oskar Homolka, Yvonne Furneaux, Robert Urquhart | Mystery | |
| House of Blackmail | Maurice Elvey | Mary Germaine, William Sylvester, Alexander Gauge | Drama | |
| Innocents in Paris | Gordon Parry | Alastair Sim, Jimmy Edwards, Claire Bloom | Comedy | |
| Intimate Relations | Charles Frank | Harold Warrender, William Russell, Elsie Albiin | Drama | Entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Intruder | Guy Hamilton | Jack Hawkins, Michael Medwin, George Cole | Drama | |
| Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? | Maurice Elvey | Diana Dors, Bonar Colleano, David Tomlinson | Comedy | |
| Isn't Life Wonderful! | Harold French | Cecil Parker, Eileen Herlie, Donald Wolfit | Comedy | |
| It's a Grand Life | John E. Blakeley | Frank Randle, Diana Dors, Jennifer Jayne | Comedy | |
| Johnny on the Run | Lewis Gilbert | Sydney Tafler, Michael Balfour, Jean Anderson | Drama | |
| The Kidnappers | Philip Leacock | Duncan Macrae, Theodore Bikel, Adrienne Corri | Drama | |
| The Large Rope | Wolf Rilla | Donald Houston, Susan Shaw, Vanda Godsell | Crime | |
| Laughing Anne | Herbert Wilcox | Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker | Adventure | |
| Laxdale Hall | John Eldridge | Kathleen Ryan, Raymond Huntley, Ronald Squire | Comedy | |
| The Limping Man | Cy Endfield | Lloyd Bridges, Moira Lister, Alan Wheatley | Thriller | |
| The Long Memory | Robert Hamer | John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars | Drama | |
| Love in Pawn | Charles Saunders | Bernard Braden, Barbara Kelly, Jeannie Carson | Comedy | |
| Malta Story | Brian Desmond Hurst | Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Muriel Pavlow | War | |
| The Man Between | Carol Reed | James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef | Thriller | |
| The Man from Cairo | Ray Enright | George Raft, Gianna Maria Canale, Irene Papas | Crime | Co-production with Italy |
| Mantrap | Terence Fisher | Paul Henreid, Lois Maxwell, Kieron Moore | Crime | |
| Marilyn | Wolf Rilla | Sandra Dorne, Maxwell Reed, Leslie Dwyer | Crime | |
| The Master of Ballantrae | William Keighley | Errol Flynn, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell | Adventure | |
| Meet Mr. Lucifer | Anthony Pelissier | Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Barbara Murray | Comedy | |
| Melba | Lewis Milestone | Patrice Munsel, Robert Morley, John McCallum | Biopic | |
| Murder at 3am | Francis Searle | Dennis Price, Peggy Evans, Arnold Bell | Crime | |
| Murder at Scotland Yard | Victor M. Gover | Tod Slaughter, Patrick Barr, Tucker McGuire | Thriller | |
| The Net | Anthony Asquith | James Donald, Phyllis Calvert, Herbert Lom | Thriller | |
| Never Let Me Go | Delmer Daves | Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Bernard Miles | Adventure | |
| Noose for a Lady | Wolf Rilla | Dennis Price, Rona Anderson, Ronald Howard | Crime | |
| Operation Diplomat | John Guillermin | Guy Rolfe, Lisa Daniely, Patricia Dainton | Drama | |
| The Oracle | C. M. Pennington-Richards | Robert Beatty, Michael Medwin, Virginia McKenna | Comedy | |
| Our Girl Friday | Noel Langley | Joan Collins, Kenneth More George Cole | Comedy | |
| Park Plaza 605 | Bernard Knowles | Tom Conway, Eva Bartok, Joy Shelton | Crime | |
| Personal Affair | Anthony Pelissier | Gene Tierney, Leo Genn, Glynis Johns | Drama | |
| Recoil | John Gilling | Kieron Moore, Elizabeth Sellars, Edward Underdown | Crime | |
| The Red Beret | Terence Young | Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Susan Stephen | War | |
| Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue | Harold French | Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice | Historical adventure | |
| Rough Shoot | Robert Parrish | Joel McCrea, Evelyn Keyes, Herbert Lom | Thriller | |
| Sailor of the King | Roy Boulting | Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller | War | |
| The Saint's Return | Seymour Friedman | Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler | Thriller | |
| Sea Devils | Raoul Walsh | Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Maxwell Reed | Adventure | Co-production with the United States |
| Small Town Story | Montgomery Tully | Donald Houston, Susan Shaw, Alan Wheatley | Thriller | |
| South of Algiers | Jack Lee | Van Heflin, Eric Portman, Wanda Hendrix | Adventure | |
| Spaceways | Terence Fisher | Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley | Sci-fi | |
| The Square Ring | Basil Dearden | Sid James, Jack Warner, Joan Collins | Drama | |
| The Steel Key | Robert S. Baker | Terence Morgan, Joan Rice, Raymond Lovell | Thriller | |
| The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan | Sidney Gilliat | Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie | Musical | |
| Strange Stories | Don Chaffey, John Guillermin | Peter Bull, Naomi Chance, Valentine Dyall | Drama | |
| The Straw Man | Donald Taylor | Dermot Walsh, Lana Morris, Clifford Evans | Crime | |
| Street Corner | Muriel Box | Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan, Anne Crawford | Drama | |
| Street of Shadows | Richard Vernon | Cesar Romero, Kay Kendall, Simone Silva | Crime | |
| Stryker of the Yard | Arthur Crabtree | Clifford Evans, Susan Stephen, Jack Watling | Crime | |
| The Sword and the Rose | Ken Annakin | Glynis Johns, Richard Todd, James Robertson Justice | Adventure | Co-production with the United States |
| Take a Powder | Lionel Tomlinson | Julian Vedey, Max Bacon, Maudie Edwards | Comedy | |
| There Was a Young Lady | Lawrence Huntington | Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Sydney Tafler | Comedy | |
| Those People Next Door | John Harlow | Jack Warner, Charles Victor, Garry Marsh | Comedy | |
| Three Steps in the Dark | Daniel Birt | Greta Gynt, Hugh Sinclair, Sarah Lawson | Crime | |
| Three Steps to the Gallows | John Gilling | Scott Brady, Mary Castle, Gabrielle Brune | Crime | |
| Time Bomb | Ted Tetzlaff | Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham | Thriller | |
| The Titfield Thunderbolt | Charles Crichton | Stanley Holloway, Naunton Wayne, John Gregson | Comedy | |
| Top of the Form | John Paddy Carstairs | Ronald Shiner, Harry Fowler, Jacqueline Pierreux | Comedy | |
| Trouble in Store | John Paddy Carstairs | Norman Wisdom, Moira Lister, Lana Morris | Comedy | |
| Turn the Key Softly | Jack Lee | Yvonne Mitchell, Joan Collins, Kathleen Harrison | Drama | |
| Twice Upon a Time | Emeric Pressburger | Hugh Williams, Elizabeth Allan, Jack Hawkins | Comedy | |
| Valley of Song | Gilbert Gunn | Mervyn Johns, Clifford Evans, Maureen Swanson | Comedy | |
| The Wedding of Lilli Marlene | Arthur Crabtree | Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott, Sid James | Drama | |
| Wheel of Fate | Francis Searle | Patric Doonan, Sandra Dorne, Bryan Forbes | Drama | |
| Will Any Gentleman...? | Michael Anderson | George Cole, Veronica Hurst, Heather Thatcher | Comedy | |
| The Yellow Balloon | J. Lee Thompson | Andrew Ray, Kathleen Ryan, Kenneth More | Drama | |

## Documentaries

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| The Conquest of Everest | George Lowe | Meredith Edwards (narrator) | Documentary | |
| Man of Africa | Cyril Frankel | Frederick Bijuerenda, Gordon Heath | | Entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival |
| O Dreamland | Lindsay Anderson | | Documentary short subject | |
| A Queen Is Crowned | | Narrated by Laurence Olivier | Documentary | |