The best movies 1940 Pagina 6

The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.

Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat,...

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

Featuring the clash between modern thinking against traditional conservatism, the story has the troubled romance between the noble princess, RA...

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

Fifty years old Baron von Fibberg lives at The Fibberg Castle with his wife Olga and daughter Charley. Besides the delight in hunting, Baron is very...

Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.

Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet...

A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.

Titi loses her mind after her beloved child passed away. His husband, Suria is in love with Kartinah, the nurse. But he does not want to have two...

Ma Webster and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.

Two devoted sisters find themselves in love with the same man, and in an act of sacrifice, one lets the other marry him. Life seems settled until a...

A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.

An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York...

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil...

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's...

In 19th-century England, German journalist Paul Julius Reuter and his partner, Max Wagner, utilize messenger pigeons to connect telegraph stations...

A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.

A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.

Love confusion between a girl and her benefactors.

A naive car caretaker must take care of a baby and search for his father.

A 1940 film directed by José Bohr.

The birds in question are a group of young ladies who, for different reasons, leave the convent where they grew up in order to face "the struggle of...

Catita goes with her husband to spend the honeymoon in Rio de Janeiro and on the trip they fall into the hands of a player who will try to use them...

A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.

It narrates the history of the Argentine ship that served for many generations like school for the formation of sailors.

Unreleased Argentine film.

A 1940 film.

In 1868, while the Cuban War of Independence develops, Gaston de Montero, a noble Spanish knight, rescues a young girl named Siboney and he helps her...

A newsreel from the 1940s shows the drinking water of Lima, Callao, and its coastal resorts. It reports that the water is considered to be of the...

This film by Jorge Bedoya Forga (Arequipa, 1902 - New York, 1968), a pioneer of amateur 8mm filmmaking in Peru, contains footage from approximately...

A newsreel from the 1940s depicts the festivities honoring the Virgin of Alta Gracia in Ayaviri, one of the most important cities in the Puno region...