1953 Venice Film Festival – Silver Lion – Best Director Winner
I vitelloni
Federico Fellini
A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.
Little Fugitive
Ray Ashley
A young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits.
Moulin Rouge
John Huston
Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Sadko
Aleksandr Ptushko
Arriving home to find his native land under the yoke of corrupt merchants, an adventurer named Sadko sets sail in search of a mythical bird of happiness.
The Adultress
Marcel Carné
A truckdriver kills the husband of the woman he loves, and becomes the object of blackmail.
Ugetsu
Kenji Mizoguchi
A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.