The best movies 1940 Pagina 2

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

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle...

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a...

Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage....

Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King...

A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving...

A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach...

Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend....

An MGM short promoting the studio's impact on fashion through film through their chief of costume design, Adrian; in rural America, a mother and...

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided...

Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million...

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett,...

Donald visits the house of his new love interest for their first known date. At first Daisy acts shy and has her back turned to her visitor. But...

Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their...

Evocation of the Carnival of 1912 and of 1940 through 4 characters: an entrepreneur and three singers.

A young woman gives birth in Buenos Aires at the time of Rosas. As her husband was a young opponent of the government, supposedly murdered, she must...

Abslan and Hamed, two cousins of very different character and lives, whose families have put an end to old quarrels, become rivals for the love of...

A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...

A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.

Accidental meeting between a pop-music superstar and a politician's daughter turns into a big romance... but class distinctions, and scandal in the...

A young woman criticized by her family for her dissipated life embarks on a new path.

Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.

A man pretends to be a doctor to kidnap a miser's wife.

A 1940 film directed by Boris Maicon.

During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of...

In Murcia, a southern province of Spain rich in fruits and vegetables parcels, a girl and a boy are in love but he is so shy that she accepts a rich...

The murder of an 8-year-old boy by a young soldier in Tijuana, Mexico, leads to riots on the streets. Based on a true story.

Group of tango musicians picks up an aspiring young chanteuse at one of their whistle stop engagements; film focuses on their collective path to...

A young woman pretends to be the daughter of a financier and enters a rich girls' college, where she commits a thousand mischiefs.

A country girl falls in love with an English professor who's in the country studying fossils, but must return to his land.

Carita finds herself forced to reject the advances of her wealthy godfather because she already has a steady boyfriend. Spurned, the godfather...