The best movies 1940

When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named...

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and...

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died...

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his...

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his...

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place,...

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous...

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young...

In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his...

After having spent 22 months in prison, Viktor Pálos returns to his homeland, where he is going to be involved in the robbery committed by his...

Returning from Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On one hand, he plays the...

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an...

A con man heading west to search for gold teams up with a pair of scheming brothers along the way. The trio soon find themselves in the middle of a...

Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are...

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques...

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

The story focuses on a middle-class family. It introduces us to two characters: Corina, secretary of Don Emilio Condal, and his brother...

In order to seduce a humble man, a rich girl pretends to be a maid.

A single man and womanizer who enjoys the nightlife learns that he has a son who is already an adult. In order to gain his affection he decides to...

A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.

A mute stagehand dreams that he succeeds in the theater after having recovered his voice.

Dolores, a beautiful young woman, works at the inn Daroca and is courted by the local barber Melchor, and Mr. Patricio, the richest farmer in the...

Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down...

Two fishermen and pelotaris, Josechu and Mikel, compete for Mirentxu's love.

On the hacienda of El Soto lives Doña Raimunda and her daughter Acacia as well. After being widowed, Raimunda married Esteban, who is secretly...

A Galician immigrant loses her passport and cannot disembark in Buenos Aires. But finally he succeeds and triumphs.

Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.

"Marquesona" is the central figure of a flamenco picture made by a group of artists who go from town to town with their art. Rosa, "marquesona's"...

Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.

Espionage, intrigue, and passion surround the revolutionary invention of a secret weapon. A film that echoes with the world war, by German exiled...

A 1940 film directed by Manuel R. Ojeda,

Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the...

In 1840, a caravan of carts headed from Buenos Aires to Córdoba carrying merchandise, ammunition and prisoners, against the background of the...

A woman destroys her life, her marriage and her husband due to her obsessive jealousy.