Movies by Year - 1939 (500)| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| $1000 a TouchdownA show-biz couple inherit a college on the brink of bankruptcy. In a bid to increase funding they attempt to build up the college football team by offering $1,000 for every touchdown scored. | 1939 | James P. Hogan | Comedy, Romance, Sport | 5.4 (125 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| 5th Avenue GirlFeeling unwanted by his wife and children, a wealthy industrialist hires an unemployed young woman to pose as his mistress. | 1939 | Gregory La Cava (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 (1.5K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| 20,000 Men a YearPilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year. | 1939 | Alfred E. Green | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (78 votes) | 84 | 20220414 |
| 6000 EnemiesA tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself. | 1939 | George B. Seitz | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.1 (241 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Across the PlainsTwo brothers separated when young meet as adults, one good and one bad. | 1939 | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Drama, Western | 5.8 (110 votes) | 59 | 20240722 |
| Activists [Aktvists]In 1916, Finland is still a part of Russian Empire. Eugen Schauman murders the governor of Finland, and his fellow activists take on smaller tasks in the fight for freedom. | 1939 | Risto Orko | Drama, History, Thriller | 5.3 (53 votes) | 110 | 20220414 |
| A-Ducking They Did GoCon men hire the Stooges to sell memberships to a phony duck hunting club. | 1939 | Del Lord | Comedy, Short | 7.5 (609 votes) | 17 | 20240224 |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, TheTo avoid his abusive father, a rambunctious boy rafts the Mississippi River with a slave, encountering many wild characters. | 1939 | Richard Thorpe | Adventure, Drama, Family | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Adventures of Jane Arden, TheReporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is discovered early on by one of the gang leaders. | 1939 | Terry O. Morse | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.9 (220 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, TheThe master sleuth hunts his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, who is planning the crime of the century. | 1939 | Alfred L. Werker | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (6.7K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| All Women Have SecretsWhen they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can | 1939 | Kurt Neumann | Comedy | 5.0 (32 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Allegheny UprisingIn 1759, in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Valley, local settlers and Indian fighters try to persuade the British authorities to ban the trading of alcohol and arms with the marauding Indians. | 1939 | William A. Seiter (*) | Adventure, History, War, Western | 6.3 (1.7K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Amazing Mr. Forrest, The [The Gang's All Here]John Forrest (Jack Buchanan) ace investigator for an insurance company retires, only to be promptly recalled following the theft of a priceless collection of jewels belonging to Prince Homouska (Walter Rilla). | 1939 | Thornton Freeland | Comedy | 6.0 (77 votes) | 71 | 20240222 |
| Amazing Mr. Williams, TheKenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it | 1939 | Alexander Hall | Comedy, Drama, Mystery | 6.5 (484 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| An Adventure of Salvator Rosa [Un'avventura di Salvator Rosa]Gino Cervi, Luisa Ferida, and Osvaldo Valenti star in this Italian swashbuckler which would have starred Errol Flynn or Douglas Fairbanks had it been made in Hollywood. Salvatore Rosa was a versatile poet and painter of landscapes an | 1939 | Alessandro Blasetti | Adventure | 6.4 (81 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| An Hour for LunchBenchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned. | 1939 | Roy Rowland | Short, Comedy | 6.2 (114 votes) | 9 | 20211228 |
| Andy Hardy Gets Spring FeverYoung Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation. | 1939 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Comedy, Family, Romance | 6.6 (610 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Angels Wash Their Faces, TheA young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed fo | 1939 | Ray Enright | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (501 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Animali pazziA baron is obliged to marry his cousin within two days in order for him to get an inheritance. If he doesn't marry, the inheritance will go to an animal clinic. | 1939 | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Comedy | 5.9 (98 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Another Thin ManAn explosives manufacturer suspects a young man is out to kill him. He calls in new parents Nick and Nora to sort things out. | 1939 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance | 7.4 (7.2K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Arizona Kid, TheRoy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy. | 1939 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.1 (215 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Arizona Wildcat, TheIn 1870 Arizona Jane helps her foster-father ex-bandit (Carrillo) who has been accused of gold robbery. | 1939 | Herbert I. Leeds | Comedy, Western | 6.0 (15 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Arsenal Stadium Mystery, TheWhen a star player drops dead during a charity football match between Arsenal and amateur side the Trojans, Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in to solve the crime. | 1939 | Thorold Dickinson | Comedy, Crime, Sport, Thriller | 6.2 (702 votes) | 85 | 20240329 |
| Ask a PolicemanThe mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---then find themselves involved in the real thing. | 1939 | Marcel Varnel | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 7.5 (905 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| At HomeMr. and Mrs. Jesse Crawford host a formal dress audition in their home for a prospective sponsor of their proposed radio show. | 1939 | Lloyd French | Short, Comedy, Music | 4.9 (63 votes) | 11 | 20220824 |
| At the CircusThe Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job. | 1939 | Edward Buzzell | Comedy, Musical | 6.9 (6K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Awful Goof, TheA girl keeps meeting Charley the wrong moments, including losing her dress in his car, and later he finds himself in her apartment. Her jealous boxer-husband is obsessed with killing Charley after seeing them together again and again | 1939 | Del Lord | Comedy, Short | 6.3 (24 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| Babes in ArmsA group of vaudevillians struggling to compete with talkies hits the road hoping for a comeback. Frustrated to be left behind, all of their kids put on a show themselves to raise money for the families and to prove they've got talent | 1939 | Busby Berkeley (*) | Comedy, Musical | 6.4 (2.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Bachelor MotherAn unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job. | 1939 | Garson Kanin | Comedy, Romance | 7.6 (4K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Back Door to HeavenLittle Frankie Rogers lives on the wrong side of the tracks; his father is a drunkard and his mother is unable to support the family. After stealing a harmonica to play in his grammar school graduation recital, Frankie is sent to ... | 1939 | William K. Howard | Crime, Drama | 6.0 (178 votes) | 85 | 20240105 |
| Bad BoyJohnny Fraser (Johnny Downs) leaves his mother (Helen MacKellar) in their small home town and sets out for the big city. He obtains a job with a large firm of architects. Steve Carson (Archie Robbins), a fellow employee, is consta... | 1939 | Herbert Meyer | Drama, Crime | 5.5 (73 votes) | 70 | 20240105 |
| Bad Little AngelA Bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town. | 1939 | Wilhelm Thiele | Drama | 6.9 (245 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| BalalaikaA Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love. | 1939 | Reinhold Schünzel | Musical, Romance | 6.3 (327 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| BarricadeIn China in the 1930s a singer (Faye) and journalist (Baxter) meet on a train attacked by bandits. | 1939 | Gregory Ratoff | Adventure, Drama, Romance, War | 5.7 (131 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Beau GesteThree adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire. | 1939 | William A. Wellman (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, War | 7.6 (5.9K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Beauty for the AskingDenny drops fiancée Jean and marries Flora who is worth ten million dollars. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. She goes to Jeffrey and he sends a sample of the product to 12 selected r | 1939 | Glenn Tryon | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (365 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Behind Prison GatesDet. Norman Craig assumes the identity of a dead bank robber (killed in a police shoot out), Red Murray, so he can infiltrate the prison and find three other bank robbers that the police are looking for. Things are going fine unti... | 1939 | Charles Barton | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama | 6.4 (33 votes) | 63 | 20240105 |
| Behind the Facade [Derrière la façade]The owner of an apartment building is found murdered. Two rival policemen, Boucheron and Lambert, investigate the matter and get into the private lives of the tenants: an unfaithful judge, a crippled blind man and his daughter, an... | 1939 | Georges Lacombe, Yves Mirande | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.6 (143 votes) | 85 | 20230328 |
| Bel AmiShortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer. Thanks to his good looks and his charming manners and his unabashed cynicism he will rapidly rise to the top | 1939 | Willi Forst | Drama | 6.8 (127 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Best of the Blues [St Louis Blues]A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans to put together a musical revue. But a competing carnival owner hatches a s | 1939 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Comedy, Musical | 6.5 (66 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Beware SpooksA bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house. | 1939 | Edward Sedgwick | Comedy | 6.3 (70 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Big Town CzarWhen gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make h... | 1939 | Arthur Lubin | Mystery | 4.9 (22 votes) | 66 | 20230728 |
| BirthrightA black Harvard graduate confronts racism. | 1939 | Oscar Micheaux | Drama | 6.1 (166 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| BlackmailJohn Ingram, successful oil field firefighter, is really a chain gang escapee. Someone out of his past finds him. | 1939 | H.C. Potter | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.7 (857 votes) | 81 | 20240316 |
| Blackwell's IslandIn 1934, a New York reporter infiltrates a crime syndicate by befriending its boss who is serving time inside Blackwell Island prison. | 1939 | William C. McGann, Michael Curtiz | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.0 (443 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Blind AlleyGangster Hal Wilson takes psychiatrist Dr. Shelby hostage. While captive, the doctor analyzes Wilson as though he were a patient. | 1939 | Charles Vidor (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.3 (714 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Blondie Brings Up BabyA salesman convinces Blondie that Baby Dumpling is a budding genius, so the Bumsteads enroll him in a special school from which he disappears. | 1939 | Frank R. Strayer | Comedy, Family | 6.7 (372 votes) | 68 | 20220423 |
| Blondie Meets the BossBlondie takes over Dagwood's job while he goes off on a fishing trip. | 1939 | Frank R. Strayer | Comedy, Family, Music | 6.7 (366 votes) | 75 | 20220423 |
| Blondie Takes a VacationBlondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings. Among other things, arson threatens. | 1939 | Frank R. Strayer | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 6.8 (376 votes) | 69 | 20220423 |
| Body Vanished, The1939. Drama. Directed by Walter Tennyson. Starring Anthony Hulme, C. Denier Warren & Ernest Sefton. This murder mystery poses the dilemma of a vanishing corpse. | 1939 | Walter Tennyson | Comedy, Crime, Mystery | 5.7 (184 votes) | 46 | 20220414 |
| Bookworm, TheThree witches need a worm to complete their potion; they dispatch a raven to catch one, and he goes after a bookworm. He chases the worm into the horror section, where the monsters attack but soon, Paul Revere rides Black Beauty to t | 1939 | Friz Freleng, Hugh Harman | Comedy, Animation, Short, Family | 6.1 (203 votes) | 8 | 20211228 |
| Boy FriendA cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop's sister helps him by singing there; otherwise, she's busy making love to a military cadet. | 1939 | James Tinling | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 5.8 (26 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Boy SlavesA runaway follows the leader of a gang of boys, and they all wind up working in a turpentine camp. | 1939 | P.J. Wolfson | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama | 6.4 (228 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Boy TroubleShopkeeper Homer Fitch (Ruggles) hates the changes in his household when his wife adopts two orphan boys but realizes how much he loves the boys when they are struck with scarlet fever. | 1939 | George Archainbaud | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7.1 (55 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Boys' ReformatoryA tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor. | 1939 | Howard Bretherton | Drama | 5.3 (77 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Bridal SuiteAn American playboy dumps his greedy fiance and ends up marrying a woman from the Alps. | 1939 | Wilhelm Thiele | Comedy, Romance | 5.5 (191 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| British IntelligenceAlthough the home of cabinet minister Arthur Bennett is a hotbed of spies, moles, and double agents, no one knows the true identity of notorious German spymaster Strendler. | 1939 | Terry O. Morse | Romance, Thriller, War | 6.1 (1.2K votes) | 61 | 20230424 |
| Broadway SerenadeMary Hale (a singer) and Jimmy Seymour (pianist/composer), are a show biz couple working in The Big Apple in small night clubs hoping to hit it big. One night, Larry Bryant (a Broadway producer) spots Mary and is taken with her beaut | 1939 | Robert Z. Leonard | Drama | 5.7 (226 votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Brother and His Younger Sister, A [Ani to sono imoto]On IMDb TV, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free! | 1939 | Yasujirô Shimazu | Drama | 7.2 (69 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Buck RogersA 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. | 1939 | Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi | 6.8 (1K votes) | 237 | 20240524 |
| Bulldog Drummond's BrideA bank-robbery in London prevents - again - the marriage of Bulldog Drummond with his girlfriend. But this time when the delinquents are caught it will be celebrated at last. | 1939 | James P. Hogan | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance | 6.1 (457 votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
| Bulldog Drummond's Secret PoliceCaptain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is complicating the situation. | 1939 | James P. Hogan | Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (571 votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
| Buried AliveA prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard. | 1939 | Victor Halperin | Drama, Thriller | 4.7 (183 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Burn 'Em Up O'ConnorA series of identical accidents kills racing drivers, but a dim-witted mechanic suspects they were not accidents. | 1939 | Edward Sedgwick | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport | 5.7 (118 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Cafe SocietyA wealthy young lady marries a reporter on a bet, but things might not work out so well when he finds out the truth. | 1939 | Edward H. Griffith | Comedy, Romance | 6.6 (91 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Call a MessengerA tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his brother is released from prison, attempts to | 1939 | Arthur Lubin | Crime, Drama | 6.6 (39 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Calling All CursThe stooges run a pet hospital and get an important patient, Garcon, a rich ladies poodle. When dognappers posing as reporters steal the poodle, the boys are in a tough spot. First they try to fool their client by disguising a mut... | 1939 | Jules White | Short, Comedy | 7.5 (554 votes) | 18 | 20240224 |
| Calling Dr. KildareDr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic. Only Kildare gets called to take a bullet out of a suspected murderer, and when the cops collar him for it, he has to try and prove his patient' | 1939 | Harold S. Bucquet | Crime, Drama | 6.3 (501 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Captain FuryAn Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landowner. | 1939 | Hal Roach | Western | 6.1 (317 votes) | 92 | 20240105 |
| Cardinal Messias [Abuna Messias - Vendetta africana]The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic Church. He comes back to Italy and he tries to get the help of the government of Pie | 1939 | Goffredo Alessandrini | Drama, History, War | 6.6 (45 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| CargoesOn IMDb TV, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free! | 1939 | Humphrey Jennings (*) | Documentary, Short | 5.8 (29 votes) | 9 | 20211228 |
| Cat and the Canary, TheWhen an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow. | 1939 | Elliott Nugent | Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (3K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Cavalleria rusticanaYoung Tiruddu returns home to his Sicilian village after completing his military service to find his fiancée, Lola, married to a rich and possessive businessman. But Lola soon provokes her former beau and Tiruddu succumbs to her char | 1939 | Amleto Palermi | Drama, Musical | 6.6 (25 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Charlie Chan at Treasure IslandCharlie's investigation of a phony psychic during the 1939 World Exposition on San Francisco's Treasure Island leads him to expose a suicide as murder. | 1939 | Norman Foster | Mystery | 7.2 (1.7K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Charlie Chan in RenoMary Whitman, an old friend of Charlie's in Reno for a divorce, finds herself accused of murdering the woman her husband planned to marry after the decree became final. | 1939 | Norman Foster | Mystery | 7.1 (1.4K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Charlie McCarthy, DetectiveScotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspecte | 1939 | Frank Tuttle | Comedy, Family | 6.2 (84 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Chasing DangerWhen American newsreel cameraman stationed in Paris is sent to cover an Arab rebellion he finds a financier presumed dead but actually fomenting desert warfare. | 1939 | Ricardo Cortez | Action, Adventure | 6.4 (26 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Cheer Boys CheerSet in the world of brewing, a classic tale (an Ealing speciality) of the small, friendly, family run company being threatened with closure by the nasty, modern, large organisation. Bringing in familiar farce elements such as mistake | 1939 | Walter Forde | Comedy | 6.6 (87 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Chicken Wagon FamilyAddie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father | 1939 | Herbert I. Leeds | Comedy | 6.1 (24 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Chicken Wagon Family.Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father | 1939 | Herbert I. Leeds | Comedy | 6.1 (24 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Child Is Born, AA maternity ward, staffed by sympathetic nurses, serves mothers-to-be from all walks of life. These include a happy mother of a large family; a secretly-married teenager who thinks their parents won't approve of either their children | 1939 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Drama | 6.1 (195 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Christian [Kristián]Alois Novák (Oldrich Nový), a minor clerk in a travel agency and the husband of a dowdy housewife Marenka (Natasa Gollová), lives a run-of-the-mill, dull life. In his soul, however, there resides an inextinguishable desire for adv... | 1939 | Martin Fric | Comedy, Romance | 7.8 (436 votes) | 95 | 20230328 |
| Chump at Oxford, AAs a reward for capturing a bank robber, Stan and Ollie get scholarship to Oxford, but are met with resentment by other students. | 1939 | Alfred J. Goulding | Comedy, Family | 7.3 (3.9K votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Chump Takes a Bump, TheAt a nightclub, Charley fails to recognize his newly blonde wife. | 1939 | Del Lord | Comedy, Short | 6.9 (21 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| Cisco Kid and the Lady, TheAn orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother. | 1939 | Herbert I. Leeds | Western | 6.2 (168 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| City in DarknessWhile in Paris for a reunion on the eve of World War II, Charlie finds that the murder of a hated businessman leads him to a conspiracy to smuggle arms to Germany. | 1939 | Herbert I. Leeds | Mystery | 6.6 (1.2K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Clouds Over Europe [Q Planes]A quirky British Secret Service Agent named Major Hammond tries to discover who is using a secret weapon to steal experimental planes. | 1939 | Tim Whelan, Arthur B. Woods | Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War | 6.5 (869 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Coast GuardSteady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Spee | 1939 | Edward Ludwig | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (103 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Code of the Secret ServiceBrass is assigned to uncovering a counterfeiting ring that has stolen bona fide treasury plates and is converting $1 bills to $100 bills through a Mexican casino. | 1939 | Noel M. Smith | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama | 5.1 (273 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Code of the StreetsHoodlum Tommy Shay is sentenced to die for the murder of Police Lieutenant Carson, although Tommy was in a poker game at the time with a man calling himself "Denver" Collins. Collins has disappeared, and perjured evidence leads to To | 1939 | Harold Young | Drama | 5.4 (39 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Color Print of Edo - Hatamoto to Machiyakko, The [Nishikie edosugata hatamoto to machiyakko]A cheerful period drama, sprinkled with comical scenes tells the story of a loyal and handsome Edo servant who fights to help his older brother marry the woman he loves. | 1939 | Kazuo Mori | Drama | 7.4 (33 votes) | 65 | 20220531 |
| Come on George!George (George Formby) is an old stable hand and is the only one who can control a jittery racehorse. | 1939 | Anthony Kimmins | Comedy, Musical | 6.5 (180 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Confessions of a Nazi SpyFBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund. | 1939 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Drama, War | 6.8 (1.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| ConspiracyAmerican Steve Kendall, a freighter's radio officer, discovers seaman Carlson sending an unauthorized message ashore as the ship approaches his war-poised homeland. Carlson is shot in cold blood when he jumps ship and Kendall, implic | 1939 | Lew Landers | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 5.4 (140 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Convict's CodeA man is framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. When he is let out on limited parole, he sets out to clear his name and find the real criminals. | 1939 | Lambert Hillyer | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 5.3 (186 votes) | 62 | 20230715 |
| Coral Reefs [Le récif de corail]The adventures of a sailor (Lennard) from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl (Lilian White). | 1939 | Maurice Gleize | Adventure, Drama | 6.1 (182 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Cordial Agreement [Entente cordiale]The history of the Entente Cordiale in the big and small picture, from 1898, when a French officer occupied the village of Fashoda, Sudan to 8 April 1904, when a series or agreements marking the rapprochement between England and F... | 1939 | Marcel L'Herbier | Drama | 5.7 (70 votes) | 110 | 20240105 |
| Courage [Muzhestvo]nan | 1939 | Mikhail Kalatozov (*) | Adventure | 6.1 (62 votes) | 73 | 20240105 |
| Cowboy Quarterback, TheFootball scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn C | 1939 | Noel M. Smith | Comedy, Romance, Sport | 4.6 (133 votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
| Dancing Co-EdAfter discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star. | 1939 | S. Sylvan Simon | Comedy, Music, Romance | 6.3 (472 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Dangerous Masquerade [Dead Men Are Dangerous]A down-and-out writer being hounded by collectors stumbles upon dead man lying under a fallen tree limb. Little did he know the man had been murdered, and he concocts a scheme of exchanging clothes and identifications in hopes of mak | 1939 | Harold French | Crime, Drama | 5.3 (67 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Daredevils of the Red CircleUsing a diabolical disguise, Harry Crowel embarks on a vengeful career of destruction...opposed by three heroic daredevils. | 1939 | John English, William Witney | Action, Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery | 7.1 (254 votes) | 211 | 20240530 |
| Dark MagicJoseph A. Doakes goes into a toy shop looking for a gift for his 12-year-old son, and the clerk shows him a box of magic tricks. After a store employee demonstrates several of them, Doakes purchases the box - as well as a larger, mor | 1939 | Roy Rowland | Comedy, Short | 6.2 (126 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
| Dark VictoryA young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she'll meet her final days with dignity. | 1939 | Edmund Goulding | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (10.9K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Daughter of the TongA detective matches wits with the female leader of an Oriental crime ring. | 1939 | Raymond K. Johnson | Crime, Thriller | 4.7 (220 votes) | 56 | 20240530 |
| Daughters CourageousNan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets | 1939 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.5 (662 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Day of Rest, TheA family man tries to spend a quiet Sunday at home, but his wife and children have other ideas. | 1939 | Basil Wrangell | Short, Comedy | 6.2 (88 votes) | 9 | 20211228 |
| Day the Bookies Wept, TheA group of taxi drivers pool their money and buy a beer-loving racehorse. | 1939 | Leslie Goodwins | Comedy | 5.3 (85 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Daybreak [Le Jour se leve]After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing. | 1939 | Marcel Carné (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.7 (7.5K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Days of Jesse James, TheBank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang. | 1939 | Joseph Kane | Western | 5.8 (241 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Day-Time WifeWhen a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival. | 1939 | Gregory Ratoff | Comedy, Romance | 6.5 (683 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Death of a ChampionOliver Quade is a pitchman who follows state fairs that feature dog shows---which limits his territory more than a little---at which he sells encyclopedias...and does it well as he possesses a photographic memory that amazes the rube | 1939 | Robert Florey | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance | 6.7 (30 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Department Store [I grandi magazzini]In a fit of jealousy, store clerk Assia Norris walks out on her boyfriend and heads for a vacation in the Alps, but not before "borrowing" a high-priced ski wardrobe. | 1939 | Mario Camerini | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (170 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Dernier tournant, LeFrank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, although not a fan of hard work, accepts Nick's | 1939 | Pierre Chenal | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (261 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Destry Rides AgainDeputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy. | 1939 | George Marshall (*) | Comedy, Western | 7.7 (11.2K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Devil's Daughter, TheSylvia Walton returns from Harlem to take over a Jamaican plantation from her vindictive half-sister, amid the growing sound of drums. | 1939 | Arthur H. Leonard | Drama, Horror | 3.3 (303 votes) | 52 | 20211228 |
| Devil's IslandUnjustly condemned to Devil's Island and condemned to death, Dr. Gaudet's life is spared when his surgical skills save the life of the commandant's daughter. | 1939 | William Clemens | Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (586 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| DisbarredThe Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to be without an income,is impressed by the way Joan Carroll handled a small-town mur | 1939 | Robert Florey | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.8 (43 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Disputed PassageA doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid. | 1939 | Frank Borzage (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 6.5 (124 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Dodge CityA Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up. | 1939 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Western | 7.1 (5.1K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Dora Nelsonnan | 1939 | Mario Soldati | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 (63 votes) | 79 | 20240105 |
| Drums Along the MohawkNewlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins. | 1939 | John Ford (*) | Drama, Romance, War, Western | 7.1 (6.1K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Due milioni per un sorrisoEnjoy a night in with these popular movies available to stream now with Prime Video. | 1939 | Carlo Borghesio, Mario Soldati | Comedy | 5.5 (19 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Dust Be My DestinyEmbittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. | 1939 | Lewis Seiler | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.9 (716 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Each Dawn I DieA corrupt D.A. with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter who wrote them for manslaughter in order to silence him. | 1939 | William Keighley | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.3 (3.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Earth [Tsuchi]The setting is that of a farming family in Ibaraki from where also the originating writers hailed. The film depicts the events of a year during the Meiji era and occurrences and actualities of the farmers of the period. The family ha | 1939 | Tomu Uchida | Drama | 7.4 (71 votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| East Side of HeavenA man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family. | 1939 | David Butler | Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance | 6.5 (250 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Empress Wu Tse-Tien, The [Wu Ze Tian]Film about the Empress Wu Tse-Tien (624-705 AD), who became the Emperor's concubine in 665, ruthlessly removed all her female rivals, including the Empress, and ruled as Empress of all Chiinea for fifteen years after the Emperor's... | 1939 | Peilin Fang | Biography | 6.3 (30 votes) | 95 | 20240105 |
| End of the Day, The [La fin du jour]Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealou | 1939 | Julien Duvivier (*) | Drama | 7.8 (876 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Escape, TheFrom the slums emerge a policeman (Richmond) and a criminal (Norris) whose sister (Duff) loves the policeman who father has been murdered. | 1939 | Ricardo Cortez | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.0 (33 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Espionage AgentWhen Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability. | 1939 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller, War | 5.9 (360 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Eternally YoursAnita Halstead, swept off her feet by magician Arturo, finds the results less than magical. | 1939 | Tay Garnett | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.8 (738 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Everybodys BabyThe Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic. | 1939 | Malcolm St. Clair | Comedy | 6.4 (20 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Everything Happens at NightTwo competing reporters fall in love with the daughter of a Nobel Prize winner living in hiding. | 1939 | Irving Cummings | Comedy, Drama | 6.0 (230 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Ex-ChampA former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts. | 1939 | Phil Rosen (*) | Drama | 6.3 (17 votes) | 64 | 20240105 |
| Face at the Window, TheSet in France in 1880. A series of murders is attributed to a Wolf Man. | 1939 | George King | Drama, Horror | 6.0 (475 votes) | 65 | 20220414 |
| False Rapture [Black Eyes]A waiter in Moscow, pre-1914, leads his daughter into thinking he is prosperous businessman. | 1939 | Herbert Brenon | Drama, Romance | 5.9 (21 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| False Step, The [Der Schritt vom Wege]A very young girl is married to a older Baron, the commissioner of the county. With the duty clashing with love, he can't give her the attention she needs. A retired Major, as old as her husband, is ready to give company. When the hu | 1939 | Gustaf Gründgens | Drama | 7.1 (48 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Family Next Door, TheAbout a plumber (a Rodney Dangerfield type) and the misadventures of his family. | 1939 | Joseph Santley | Comedy | 6.0 (70 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Fast and FuriousRare book dealers Joel and Garda take a summertime jaunt to the seashore where he becomes involved in a beauty pageant as investor and judge much to her chagrin. | 1939 | Busby Berkeley (*) | Comedy, Crime, Mystery | 6.1 (796 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Fast and LooseRare booksellers Joel and Garda Sloane are engaged to find who is stealing rare books from a private library. | 1939 | Edwin L. Marin | Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Drama | 6.3 (640 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| First Days, TheLondoners prepare for war. | 1939 | Pat Jackson, Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt | Documentary, Short, War | 7.2 (64 votes) | 23 | 20211228 |
| First LoveAn orphaned boarding school graduate secretly attends a prestigious ball, where she falls for the boyfriend of her snobbish cousin. | 1939 | Henry Koster (*) | Comedy, Musical | 7.0 (666 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Five Came BackA plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals. | 1939 | John Farrow | Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.1 (2K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Five Little Peppers and How They GrewThe Peppers - Mrs. Pepper and her five children Polly, Ben, Joey, Davie and Phronsie - are a poor family (the six of them sleep in a total of four beds in two rooms), but they love each other and as a result are happy. Mrs. Pepper's | 1939 | Charles Barton | Comedy, Drama, Family | 6.6 (221 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Fixer DuganA young girl is orphaned when her mother, a circus aerialist, is killed in a fall. A rival circus informs the sheriff that the girl is an orphan, and she is subsequently placed in an orphanage. The circus' manager, known as "The Fixe | 1939 | Lew Landers | Drama | 5.9 (121 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Flight at MidnightSpinner"" McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by ""Pop"" Hussey from being condemned. ""Spinner's"" recklessness, combined with the efforts... | 1939 | Sidney Salkow | Action, Adventure, Drama, Music, Romance | 5.4 (51 votes) | 66 | 20240826 |
| Flying Deuces, TheOllie has fallen in love with the innkeeper's daughter in Paris. The only problem - she's very much in love with her husband. To forget her he joins the Foreign Legion with Stan. Bad idea. | 1939 | A. Edward Sutherland | Comedy, Family, War | 6.8 (5.1K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| For Love or MoneyTed Frazier and Sleeper work for a gambler, Foster, who takes racetrack bets over the telephone. A mysterious millionaire, J.C. Poindexter always wins Foster ""lays off"" his most recent bet of $50,000 to another gambler, Kelly, and... | 1939 | Albert S. Rogell | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.0 (19 votes) | 76 | 20240105 |
| Forged PassportDan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly lead to the death of a fellow trooper. He resigns from the force in order to find | 1939 | John H. Auer | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 5.7 (20 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Four Feathers, TheA timid 1880s British Army officer resigns, burning his last-day summons to war in Egypt. Accusing him of cowardice, his girlfriend and three friends give him white feathers. To gain redemption, he shadows his friends to save their l | 1939 | Zoltan Korda | Adventure, Drama, Romance, War | 7.5 (5.9K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Four Flights to Love [Paradis perdu]Before World War I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre Leblanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until war breaks o | 1939 | Abel Gance (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.0 (191 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Four Girls in WhiteFour student nurses cope with life and career problems while interning at a major hospital. | 1939 | S. Sylvan Simon | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.0 (288 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Four Seasons of Children [Kodomo no shiki]The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their grandfather, which means making new friends and struggling with a different environ | 1939 | Hiroshi Shimizu | Drama | 7.1 (114 votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| Four WivesThree of the four musically inclined daughters of Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, are settling into their lives as wives, but not all is well. Thea Lemp has long since married wealthy banker, Ben Crowley. Thea | 1939 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (644 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Fric-FracMarcel works as assistant to a jeweller whose bossy daughter Renée keeps hitting on him. When he meets lovely Loulou and her lazy friend Jo, he is fascinated by the girl and somehow attracted by their world : Loulou and Jo are crooks | 1939 | Maurice Lehmann, Claude Autant-Lara | Comedy | 7.0 (475 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Frontier HorizonThe Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our good guys, is going to be worthless. They are captured before they can warn the ranchers. | 1939 | George Sherman | Western | 5.6 (528 votes) | 57 | 20211228 |
| Frontier MarshalWyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. | 1939 | Allan Dwan | Drama, Western | 6.6 (986 votes) | 71 | 20231223 |
| Frontier Pony ExpressPony Express rider Roy and his sidekick must round up a pack of villains, as Yankee and Rebel forces contend for the allegiance of California, before Roy can turn his attentions to the girl. | 1939 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.3 (98 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Fugitive, The [On the Night of the Fire]A barber commits a petty theft, which leads to his becoming involved in blackmail and murder. | 1939 | Brian Desmond Hurst | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.5 (261 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Full ConfessionA Catholic priest by the name of Father Loma must convince a man to step forward to save an innocent man from being sent to the electric chair. | 1939 | John Farrow | Crime, Drama | 6.2 (206 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| GeronimoThe army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son. | 1939 | Paul Sloane | Adventure, Drama, Western | 5.8 (136 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Girl from Mexico, TheAn advertising executive goes to Mexico looking for talent and finds a hot-tempered singer, who goes to New York to stay with him, his aunt and uncle, and decides to steal him from his fiancée. | 1939 | Leslie Goodwins | Comedy, Music, Romance | 6.6 (305 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Girl from Rio, TheA girl who is a famous singer in Brazil comes to New York to help clear her brother, who has been charged with arson and murder. | 1939 | Lambert Hillyer | Action, Crime, Music, Mystery | 5.1 (76 votes) | 62 | 20221116 |
| Girl Must Live, AA runaway schoolgirl falls amongst chorus girls planning to marry into nobility. | 1939 | Carol Reed (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (184 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Golden BoyDespite his musical talent, Joe Bonaparte wants to be a boxer. | 1939 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Drama, Romance, Sport | 6.9 (1.9K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Gone with the WindThe manipulative daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a turbulent romance with a roguish profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods. | 1939 | Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Drama, History, Romance, War | 8.1 (306.3K votes) | 238 | 20211228 |
| Good Girls Go to ParisA Midwesterner waitress, scheming to gold-dig her way to Paris, gets mixed up with a wealthy New York family. | 1939 | Alexander Hall | Comedy | 6.7 (460 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Goodbye Mr. ChipsAn aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades. | 1939 | Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin | Drama, Romance | 7.9 (10.4K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Gorilla, TheWhen a wealthy man is threatened by a killer known as The Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real escaped gorilla shows up at the mansion just as the investigators arrive. | 1939 | Allan Dwan | Comedy, Horror | 4.8 (1.4K votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Gracie Allen Murder Case, TheThe zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. Allen's uncle fixes her up with Bill at a company picnic. When the two go out to a nightclub that night, Gracie inadvertently links Bi | 1939 | Alfred E. Green | Comedy, Crime, Mystery | 6.5 (221 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Grand Jury SecretsNewspaper reporter and amateur ham radio operator John Keefe, anxious for a scoop, plants a shortwave radio in the courtroom to eavesdrop on the grand jury's investigation into the brokerage house owned by Anthony Pelton and Thoma... | 1939 | James P. Hogan | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 5.8 (24 votes) | 68 | 20240105 |
| Great Man Votes, TheIn 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admire | 1939 | Garson Kanin | Drama | 6.7 (583 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Great Victor Herbert, TheA fictionalized version of famous opera composer Victor Herbert where he witnesses the romance, stardom, parenthood, and troubled experiences of his star singers. | 1939 | Andrew L. Stone | Biography, Music, Musical, Romance | 6.3 (97 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Gulliver's TravelsA doctor washes ashore on an island inhabited by little people. | 1939 | Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky, Orestes Calpini, Roland Crandall, William Henning | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (4.3K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Gunga DinIn 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land. | 1939 | George Stevens (*) | Adventure, Comedy, War | 7.3 (11.7K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Hardys Ride High, TheJudge Hardy and family travel to Detroit to claim an inheritance where they experience life as millionaires and learn the cost of riding high. | 1939 | George B. Seitz | Comedy, Family | 6.6 (391 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Harlem Rides the RangeA cowboy and his sidekick try to help a homesteader from being cheated out of his property. | 1939 | Richard C. Kahn | Western | 5.1 (159 votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
| Hätävara [The Stopgap]The priest's daughter, Vappu Kankare who first irritates and then admires the ambitious habitant, Jalmar "Jali" Kinnu. After the studies, Vappu and Jali get married, but the marriage is disappointing. | 1939 | Orvo Saarikivi | Comedy | 5.3 (67 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Heartbeat [Batticuore]The sole girl pupil of a school for pickpockets is caught in the act stealing from a well dressed Count but he hires her to steal the watch of an ambassador who he thinks is having an affair with the countess. | 1939 | Mario Camerini | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (13 votes) | 87 | 20231126 |
| Heaven with a Barbed Wire FenceNew York store clerk (Ford) joins a hobo (Conte) and an illegal immigrant (Rogers) heading for his newly bought land in Arizona. | 1939 | Ricardo Cortez | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (355 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Hells KitchenA group of tough city kids have 'graduated' from reform school and are assigned to a "Boy's Town" type of inmate self-government city shelter. The shelter is run by Hiram Krispan (Grant Mitchell), a crooked superintendent, assisted b | 1939 | Ewald André Dupont, Lewis Seiler | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (291 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Henry Aldrich What a LifeIn the first Henry Aldrich film, Henry (Jackie Cooper) is falsely accused of making trouble at school. He must clear himself. | 1939 | Theodore Reed | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 (89 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Henry Goes ArizonaHenry, a destitute New York actor, inherits his murdered brother, Jim's ranch located just outside Tonto City, AZ. Ricky Dole (Douglas Fowley) dishes out as much trouble as he can because he and his gang want control of the JC Ranch. | 1939 | Edwin L. Marin | Western, Comedy, Drama | 6.0 (195 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Here I Am a StrangerYoung Englishman (Greene) meets his real father (Dix) in America, a former alcoholic. They both grow in getting know one another. | 1939 | Roy Del Ruth | Drama | 7.2 (48 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Heritage of the Desert [Heritage of the Plains]John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about to marry | 1939 | Lesley Selander | Western | 6.7 (89 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Hero for a DayWhen a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense. | 1939 | Harold Young | Drama | 5.1 (14 votes) | 60 | 20240105 |
| Hitler - Beast of BerlinHans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and | 1939 | Sam Newfield | Drama, War | 5.2 (132 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Hoffnungsloser Fall, EinA headstrong woman studying medicine ignores the advice of her surgeon professor to avoid romance, and falls for a fellow student who will whisk her away to Argentina. | 1939 | Erich Engel | Comedy | 7.5 (24 votes) | 89 | 20230126 |
| Hollywood CavalcadeStarting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to | 1939 | Irving Cummings, Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair | Comedy, Drama, History | 6.5 (404 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Home EarlyA businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club. | 1939 | Roy Rowland | Comedy, Short | 6.0 (84 votes) | 9 | 20211228 |
| Honeymoon in BaliBill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill g | 1939 | Edward H. Griffith | Comedy, Music, Romance | 6.3 (404 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| HonoluluWanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks. | 1939 | Edward Buzzell | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.6 (600 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Hopeless Case, A [Ein hoffnungsloser Fall]A headstrong woman studying medicine ignores the advice of her surgeon professor to avoid romance, and falls for a fellow student who will whisk her away to Argentina. | 1939 | Erich Engel | Comedy | 7.2 (25 votes) | 89 | 20240105 |
| Hotel For WomenA girl from Syracuse goes to New York to see her boyfriend, successful architect who no longer cares for her. Fellow residents at a women's hotel encourage her to become a top model. When boyfriend tries to come back to her he has ri | 1939 | Gregory Ratoff | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (107 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Hotel ImperialIt is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and | 1939 | Robert Florey | Adventure, Drama, Romance, War | 7.2 (70 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| House of Fear, TheA detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play. The actor's body disappeared shortly after the crime, and his ghost is rumored to be haunting the theater. | 1939 | Joe May | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (115 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Housekeeper's Daughter, TheMovie opens with a murder involving gangster. Gangster's girl goes to stay with mother. Mother is the housekeeper for upper class family with an attractive son. Family returns early from vacation. Gangster's gang follows girl to hous | 1939 | Hal Roach | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 6.0 (302 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| How to EatHumorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his stock everyman and slightly bumbling character Joe Doakes to dramatize such situations. | 1939 | Roy Rowland, Cal Dalton, Ben Hardaway | Comedy, Short | 6.8 (104 votes) | 9 | 20211228 |
| How to Sub-LetBenchley, in this MGM short (production number B-723), in his usual befuddlement state, demonstrates the proper(?) method of sub-letting an apartment; he manages to show all the worst features. | 1939 | Roy Rowland | Comedy, Short | 6.2 (78 votes) | 8 | 20211228 |
| Human Monster, The [The Dark Eyes of London]Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call. | 1939 | Walter Summers | Drama, Horror | 5.8 (1.3K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Hunchback of Notre Dame, TheIn 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her. | 1939 | William Dieterle (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (11.2K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| I Met a MurdererFarmer Mark Warrow lives an unhappy existence with his shrewish wife Martha. His only happiness comes from his dog. When his wife loses her temper and kills his beloved pet, Warrow snaps and murders Martha. He goes on the run and com | 1939 | Roy Kellino | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.2 (169 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| I Stole a MillionA grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to get police assistance. | 1939 | Frank Tuttle | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.4 (105 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Ice Follies of 1939, TheAn ice skater jeopardizes her marriage when she becomes a movie star. | 1939 | Reinhold Schünzel | Drama, Music, Romance | 5.0 (941 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Idiot's DelightA group of disparate travelers are caught and thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the beginning of World War II. | 1939 | Clarence Brown | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.5 (1.5K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| I'm from MissouriSweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to buy mules or tractors for its colonial troops. He is accompanied by his ritzy wife... | 1939 | Theodore Reed | Comedy, Romance | 6.6 (24 votes) | 80 | 20240826 |
| Immortal Heart, The [Das unsterbliche Herz]Biography of Paul Henlein, the man who invented the pocket watch. | 1939 | Veit Harlan | Drama, History | 7.0 (71 votes) | 107 | 20240105 |
| Imputato, alzatevi!Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse. | 1939 | Mario Mattoli | Comedy | 7.2 (60 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| In Name OnlyAfter a wealthy man finds out his wife is a gold digger, he meets and falls for a widowed mother, and complications ensue. | 1939 | John Cromwell | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (3K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| In Old CalienteAmericans come west to California in the hope of peaceful settlement. | 1939 | Joseph Kane | Western | 5.8 (221 votes) | 57 | 20211228 |
| In Old MontereyGene runs into opposition from a bunch of ranchers when the U.S. army send him to buy up land for bombing maneuvers. | 1939 | Joseph Kane | Drama, Western | 6.2 (114 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Indianapolis SpeedwayJoe is the three-time Indy champion who still races to put young Eddie through college. Joe wants a better life for Eddie, and he explodes when he finds out that Eddie quit school for a racing career. Joe tries to teach Eddie the tra | 1939 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Action, Drama, Romance, Sport | 5.7 (220 votes) | 85 | 20220315 |
| InquestMargaret Hamilton (Elizabeth Allan) faces trial by Coroner's Court, an archaic British institution where justice can't be guaranteed. | 1939 | Roy Boulting | Crime, Mystery | 5.7 (145 votes) | 60 | 20240105 |
| Inspector HornleighInspector Hornleigh and his assistant Sergeant Bingham are called in to investigate a murder that involves the theft of government secrets. | 1939 | Eugene Forde | Comedy, Mystery | 6.7 (252 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Inspector Hornleigh on HolidayIt comes as no surprise when Inspector Hornleigh and his assistant, Sergeant Bingham, go to enjoy the winds and rains on their annual seaside vacation, when they run into a "busman's holiday." One of their fellow boarders at Balmoral | 1939 | Walter Forde | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.9 (210 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| IntermezzoA violinist's piano accompanist retires. He hears his daughter's piano teacher/Ingrid Bergman play and asks her to play on his next int'l tour. They fall in love. | 1939 | Gregory Ratoff | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (2.5K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Invisible Killer, TheA fiendish killer uses sound waves to commit his murders. | 1939 | Sam Newfield | Mystery | 4.2 (154 votes) | 63 | 20240530 |
| Invisible StripesAn ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole. | 1939 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (1.6K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Invitation to HappinessAn egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter. | 1939 | Wesley Ruggles | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (149 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Irish LuckBuzzy O'Brien is a bellhop in a hotel where a guest is murdered. The police blame Kitty Monahan and Buzzy succeeds in helping her escape and hides her at his home with his mother. | 1939 | Howard Bretherton | Mystery | 5.5 (197 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Island of Lost MenA Chinese general, who disappeared in the Malaysian jungles with stolen government funds, is sought by his cabaret-singing daughter who wants to clear his name. | 1939 | Kurt Neumann | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.5 (83 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| It Was a Gay Ballnight [Es war eine rauschende Ballnacht]1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only love. The young, who is now married to wealthy Michael Iwanowitsch Murakin, a man she does not love, has not forgotten Piotr Illich, the | 1939 | Carl Froelich | Drama | 6.6 (140 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| It's a Wonderful WorldWhen a tycoon is accused of murder, the private eye tracking him finds himself roped in as an accessory and attempts to evade police, kidnapping a poetess along the way. | 1939 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance | 7.0 (2.9K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Jamaica InnIn Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit. | 1939 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Adventure, Crime | 6.3 (9.9K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Jeepers CreepersA greedy land baron tries to cheat a family out of its land because he secretly knows there's oil under it. | 1939 | Frank McDonald | Comedy, Western | 6.0 (115 votes) | 69 | 20240105 |
| Jesse JamesAfter railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge. | 1939 | Henry King, Irving Cummings | Western | 7.1 (4.4K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the PresidentBrooklyn residents Joe Turp (William Gargan) and his wife, Ethel (Ann Sothern), travel to Washington D. C. to call on the US President (Lewis Stone)to make a pleas on the behalf of their mailman, Jim (Walter Brennan), is who about to | 1939 | Robert B. Sinclair | Comedy | 6.1 (77 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Jones Family in Hollywood, TheFather goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set. | 1939 | Malcolm St. Clair | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 6.4 (21 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| JuarezLouis Napoleon III takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximillian Hapsburg to add Mexico to his empire. | 1939 | William Dieterle (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.1 (2.3K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Judge Hardy and SonJudge Hardy, trying to find a relative of an aged couple to prevent them from losing their home, enlists the aid of his son Andy. | 1939 | George B. Seitz | Comedy, Family | 6.8 (440 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Keep PunchingHenry Jackson, known as Little Dynamite, is a Golden Gloves champion who agrees to turn professional when approached by fight manager Ed Watson, despite the opposition raised by his father and Fanny Singleton, his sweetheart. Jack... | 1939 | John Clein | Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport | 5.7 (38 votes) | 81 | 20231001 |
| Kid From Kokomo, TheA fight promoter finds his fighter, Wayne Morris, in the sticks, a country hick left by his mother when he was young and he won't leave his home as he is still waiting for her to return to him. promoter, Pat o'brien cons him into com | 1939 | Lewis Seiler | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 (186 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Kid NightingaleA singing waiter gets into an argument with some obnoxious customers and winds up knocking them out. The incident is witnessed by a shady boxing promoter who sees an opportunity to cash in and pretty soon the waiter is being promoted | 1939 | George Amy | Comedy, Music, Sport | 5.7 (203 votes) | 57 | 20211228 |
| King of ChinatownViolence and death stalk the Chinese of a big American city, but one man, Dr. Chang Ling, and his daughter, Dr. Mary Ling, defy the racketeers who are responsible, and, against terrific odds, bring peace to their oppressed neighbors. | 1939 | Nick Grinde | Action, Crime, Drama, Sport | 6.2 (205 votes) | 57 | 20230424 |
| King of the UnderworldAfter the killing of her husband by friendly fire during a police raid, Dr. Carole Nelson tries to find gangster Joe Gurney to clear her name with the medical board. | 1939 | Lewis Seiler | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (1.3K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Lady and the Mob, TheSociety-woman Hattie Leonard organizes her own band of 'gang-busters' when she discovers a garment she sent to the dry-cleaners had been taxed twenty-five-cents to pay for gang 'protection.' She sends to New York City for a reformed | 1939 | Benjamin Stoloff | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance | 6.4 (251 votes) | 66 | 20220414 |
| Lady of the TropicsPlayboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier. | 1939 | Jack Conway, Leslie Fenton | Drama | 6.2 (569 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Lady's from Kentucky, TheGood-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times. His one out is a marker for half-ownership in a young thoroughbred, which he quickly calls in. He discovers the other owner to ... | 1939 | Alexander Hall | Drama, Music, Romance | 6.1 (50 votes) | 67 | 20230619 |
| Landstormens lilla LottaIt's time for conscription training outside the small town Lillköping. The bank clerk becomes an officer - the bank manager ordinary soldier. Everybody seems to be trying to get a date with Elsa, who makes their food. Nobody takes th | 1939 | Weyler Hildebrand | Comedy | 5.1 (109 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Law of the PampasHoppy and Lucky are headed to South America to deliver a herd of cattle. Bad guy Ralph Merritt gets in their way. For a while. | 1939 | Nate Watt | Western | 6.9 (166 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Lenin in 1918 [Lenin v 1918 godu]Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin's activities in the first years of Soviet power. | 1939 | Mikhail Romm, Yefim Aron, Isidor Simkov | Drama | 6.5 (248 votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Let Freedom RingRailroad owner Jim Knox uses everything to get the land he needs for his new railroad cheaply. Everybody hopes, that Steve Logan ends his regime, but he allies with Jim Knox. Nobody knows, that he's actually a government agent. But w | 1939 | Jack Conway | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.3 (215 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Let George Do ItA unwitting spy nearly fouls up British Intelligence. | 1939 | Ken G. Hall | Comedy | 5.8 (39 votes) | 75 | 20220414 |
| Let Us LiveTwo innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men's execution date. | 1939 | John Brahm | Crime, Drama | 6.8 (539 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Let's Be FamousAn Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show. He causes mayhem in the studio and the publicity attracts the attention of an agent who thinks he c | 1939 | Walter Forde | Comedy | 5.6 (70 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Life is For the Living [Manoos]A love tragedy featuring a policeman, Moti (Modak) and a prostitute, Kesar (Hublikar). Moti saves Kesar from a police raid on a brothel and they fall in love. Her reputation and sense of guilt resist his attempts to rehabilitate h... | 1939 | Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (16 votes) | 164 | 20231001 |
| Light Ahead, TheIn a small town in Russia in the 1880s, two young but poor lovers are helped by a wise old bookseller. | 1939 | Edgar G. Ulmer (*) | Drama | 6.6 (82 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Light That Failed, TheDick Heldar, a London artist, is gradually losing his sight. He struggles to complete his masterpiece, the portrait of Bessie Broke, a cockney girl, before his eyesight fails him. | 1939 | William A. Wellman (*) | Adventure, Drama, War | 6.7 (467 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Lion Has Wings, TheA look at the current might of the Royal Air Force. Place - Great Britain, time - two months after the start of World War ll. | 1939 | Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst, Michael Powell, Alexander Korda | Drama, War | 5.7 (752 votes) | 76 | 20230328 |
| Little AccidentA baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her. | 1939 | Charles Lamont | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 6.0 (18 votes) | 65 | 20231001 |
| Little Princess, TheA little girl is left by her father in an exclusive seminary for girls, when her father fights in the Second Boer War. Later, when he is presumed dead she is forced to become a servant. | 1939 | Walter Lang, William A. Seiter | Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical | 7.2 (6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Lively Teresa [La vispa Teresa]A girl, about ten, tries to catch a butterfly but all the other insects intervene to save it. | 1939 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Short | 5.5 (37 votes) | 8 | 20220822 |
| Lone Wolf Spy Hunt, TheA group of "spies" is after the plans for an anti-aircraft gun, and the leader uses the opportunity to embroil the Lone Wolf in the plot. Trying to settle an old score, this shady character implicates his old nemesis by forcing him t | 1939 | Peter Godfrey | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.5 (710 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| LouiseLouise, a young seamstress, has fallen in love with Julien, her neighbor, a composer who lives a Bohemian life with his friends, artists like him. Her over-possessive working class parents unfortunately object to her marrying her bel | 1939 | Abel Gance (*) | Musical | 6.7 (70 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Love AffairA French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. | 1939 | Leo McCarey (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (5K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Love On TapPenny, the dance captain/manager of the Abbott Dancers, who are just concluding their engagement at the Cocoanut Grove, and Tommy are just about to be married, Penny to join the dance troupe in San Francisco after the conclusion of t | 1939 | George Sidney | Musical, Short | 4.8 (231 votes) | 11 | 20211228 |
| Lucky NightA wealthy woman meets a bum on a park bench and marries him the same evening. | 1939 | Norman Taurog | Drama, Comedy | 6.1 (492 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Made for Each OtherWhile on a business trip, an ambitious young lawyer meets and immediately falls in love with a stranger. They wed the following day, and tragedy soon strikes. | 1939 | John Cromwell | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (3.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Magnificent Fraud, TheIn this lively programmer a con man hires a character actor to masqueraded as the recently assassinated dictator of a tiny Latin American country so he can bilk an arriving American ambassador out of his fortune. | 1939 | Robert Florey | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.1 (51 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| MaisieA showgirl stranded in a Wyoming town ends up being hired as a maid at a ranch. | 1939 | Edwin L. Marin | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 (602 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Man About TownProducer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at | 1939 | Mark Sandrich (*) | Comedy | 6.5 (167 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Man in the Iron Mask, TheDespotic King Louis XIV discovers he has a twin brother who has grown up under the tutelage of his foster father, the patriotic musketeer D'Artagnan. | 1939 | James Whale (*) | Adventure, History, Romance | 7.1 (1.7K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Man of ConquestThe story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas. | 1939 | George Nichols Jr. | History, War, Western | 6.2 (159 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Man They Could Not Hang, TheWhen Dr. Savaard's experiment in cryonics is interrupted by the short-sighted authorities, his volunteer dies, and he is condemned to death. He vows vengeance if he can survive his own hanging. | 1939 | Nick Grinde | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.9 (1.7K votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Dared, TheOne man stands up to his dangerous corrupt local small town government. | 1939 | Crane Wilbur | Crime, Drama | 6.0 (77 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Mandrake, the MagicianMandrake and his assistant Lothar are working the cruise lines and make the acquaintance of Professor Houston who has developed a radium energy machine, which is much coveted by a masked Crime Lord known as ""The Wasp"". | 1939 | Norman Deming, Sam Nelson | Action, Adventure, Crime, Family | 6.3 (214 votes) | 215 | 20240524 |
| Me and My Girl [The Lambeth Walk]When Bill Snibson, a Lambeth cockney, discovers that he is a descendant from the Earl of Hareford and that he will now be residing in a Mayfair mansion with a bunch of snobbish relatives, he still holds to her plain girlfriend Sal... | 1939 | Albert de Courville | Comedy | 6.8 (47 votes) | 67 | 20240319 |
| MétropolitainOn his way to work on the subway, Pierre catches a glimpse of a man seemingly stabbing a woman. | 1939 | Maurice Cam | Drama | 6.1 (24 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Middleton Family at the New York Worlds Fair, TheThe Middleton family visits the 1939 New York World's Fair and witnesses the advent of the future, encountering robots and dishwashers for the first time. | 1939 | Robert R. Snody | Drama | 5.1 (169 votes) | 55 | 20211228 |
| MidnightA chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver. | 1939 | Mitchell Leisen | Comedy, Romance | 7.9 (4.9K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Mikado, TheThe son of the Mikado of Japan, a wandering minstrel, falls for a girl who is engaged to her guardian. | 1939 | Victor Schertzinger | Musical, Comedy | 6.4 (733 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Million Dollar LegsAt Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat r | 1939 | Nick Grinde, Edward Dmytryk | Comedy | 5.9 (131 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Minin and Pozharsky [Minin i Pozharskiy]This terrible film is a good example of how soviet movie makers served to the Stalin's regime. It's a typical soviet film having completely nothing to do with the historic true. Remarkable it was made in 1939, the year when Red Army together with Hitler's troops invaded Poland; so the main purpose of Pudovkin's movie was obvious - to show how savage and cruel were Polish occupants of Moscow's Kremlin in the beginning of 17th century. In the last film scene we see Polish cavalry, hussard's, escaping from a battlefield. In reality, during the battle of Kluszyn (04th July 1610)30 000 Russians escaped quickly after a short battle against 7000 Polish Army - this example shows how historical truth was shown in this ""masterpiece"". | 1939 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | Drama, History | 6.8 (92 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Miracle on Main StreetOn Christmas Eve in the Spanish quarter of L.A. police try to arrest a couple running a shady floor show. Hiding in a church, the girl finds an abandoned baby and uses it as cover to escape capture. Thus she finds herself with a baby | 1939 | Steve Sekely | Drama | 6.4 (43 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Miracles for SaleRetired performer Mike Morgan sells original illusions to fellow magicians, and although he believes in the supernatural, likes to expose sham psychics. This involves him in some mysterious murders. | 1939 | Tod Browning (*) | Crime, Mystery | 6.2 (686 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Missing EvidenceA Government agent finds romance while investigating a fraudulent sweepstakes racket. | 1939 | Phil Rosen (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.2 (65 votes) | 64 | 20240323 |
| Money to LoanThe MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths some will go to to get it. The loan sharking business has that want ... | 1939 | Joseph M. Newman | Short, Crime, Drama | 6.6 (72 votes) | 20 | 20240105 |
| Mooching Through GeorgiaA man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War. | 1939 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 6.3 (150 votes) | 19 | 20211228 |
| Moon Over HarlemMusical numbers highlight this story of a wealthy widow who disowns her daughter after a new man enters her life. | 1939 | Edgar G. Ulmer (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.0 (201 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Mr. Moto in Danger IslandThe U.S. government asks Mr. Moto to go to Puerto Rico to investigate diamond smuggling after an earlier investigator is murdered. | 1939 | Herbert I. Leeds | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (744 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Mr. Moto Takes A VacationDisguised as an Austrian archaeologist, Moto helps unearth the priceless crown of the legendary Queen of Sheba and sans disguise defends it from a variety of thugs and criminals. | 1939 | Norman Foster | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (659 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Mr. Moto's Last WarningMoto thwarts a ruthless band of international agents who try to foment an international incident by mining the entrance to the Suez Canal and blaming the British. | 1939 | Norman Foster | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.5 (1.3K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonA naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his char | 1939 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.1 (113.2K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Mr. Wong in ChinatownA pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa. | 1939 | William Nigh | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.0 (793 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Mud and Soldiers [Tsuchi to heitai]nan | 1939 | Tomotaka Tasaka | Drama, War | 6.8 (29 votes) | 120 | 20221212 |
| Murder in the Night [Murder in Soho]Soho's Cotton Club is proudly run by American Steve Marco. So when double-crossing Joe Lane threatened to tell the police of Steve's past, Joe had to be murdered. Steve was not going to have anyone destroy what had taken years to ... | 1939 | Norman Lee | Crime, Drama | 5.1 (148 votes) | 70 | 20230619 |
| Mutiny in the Big HouseA young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison. The prison chaplain, seeing that the new arrival is a good man who's had some bad luck, sets out to help keep him out of tr... | 1939 | William Nigh | Crime, Drama | 5.2 (86 votes) | 83 | 20230619 |
| My Son is a CriminalBig Tim"" Halloran retires as Police Chief, and hopes his son, Tim, will join the police force. But the son opts for racketeering and, running a garage for Velvikak Taxicabs. He uses his father's police entrée for knowledge of squ... | 1939 | Charles C. Coleman | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.6 (15 votes) | 60 | 20230424 |
| My Son Is GuiltyHonest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring. | 1939 | Charles Barton | Drama | 5.3 (77 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Mysterious Miss X, TheKeith Neville and Dan Casey, two small-time stage actors, are traveling by bus back to New York City, and have an overnight stay in a small town. They take a room in a local hotel and a murder is committed in an adjoining room to ... | 1939 | Gus Meins | Comedy, Crime, Mystery | 6.1 (40 votes) | 65 | 20220531 |
| Mystery of Mr. Wong, TheDetective tries to solve the murder of antiques collector who was in possession of a famous jewel known as "The Eye of the Daughter of The Moon." | 1939 | William Nigh | Mystery | 6.3 (822 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Mystery of the White RoomIn the middle of an eye-surgery operation in a large hospital, the lights in the operating room go out and the chief surgeon is murdered. It is the job of Police-Detective Spencer to figure out who in the room had something to gain f | 1939 | Otis Garrett | Crime, Mystery, Romance | 6.2 (66 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Nancy Drew and the Hidden StaircaseNancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters. | 1939 | William Clemens | Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery | 6.7 (785 votes) | 60 | 20220423 |
| Nancy Drew ReporterNancy Drew, reporter for the school newspaper, clears a girl of murder charges. | 1939 | William Clemens | Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery | 6.6 (1.2K votes) | 68 | 20220423 |
| Nancy Drew Trouble ShooterWhen a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers. | 1939 | William Clemens | Comedy, Crime, Mystery | 6.7 (625 votes) | 68 | 20220423 |
| Naughty But NiceProfessor Hardwick teaches at Winfield College and detests the new swing music that is the craze. He has written a rhapsody which he takes to New York to be published. Staying with his Aunt Martha, he is surrounded by swing and after | 1939 | Ray Enright | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.1 (343 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Navy SecretsA Navy officer is assigned to break up a spy ring within the service itself. | 1939 | Howard Bretherton | Adventure, Thriller | 5.7 (113 votes) | 62 | 20240605 |
| Never Say DieA wealthy hypochondriac and an heiress are both experiencing romantic complications, prompting them to marry each other. | 1939 | Elliott Nugent | Comedy | 7.0 (502 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| New Horizons [Vyborgskaya storona]In the culmination of the Maxim trilogy, the worker hero becomes a political commissar after October 1917 and with some embarrassment is appointed to nationalize a bank ,he has discussions with both Lenin and Stalin. | 1939 | Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Drama | 6.0 (164 votes) | 92 | 20240105 |
| Nick Carter Master DetectiveDetective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture. | 1939 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Crime, Mystery, Drama | 6.2 (471 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Night in September, A [Noch v sentyabre]The enemies are again trying to prevent the Stakhanovists from working in a new way. | 1939 | Boris Barnet | Drama | 6.0 (30 votes) | 0 | 20240105 |
| Night of Nights, TheDan O'Farrell and Barry Keith-Trimble, two actors, prepare for the opening night of ""Laughter"", a new play written by Dan, by getting drunk at the Lambs Club. By the time they go on stage, they are still not sober, and end up braw... | 1939 | Lewis Milestone | Drama | 5.3 (40 votes) | 86 | 20240609 |
| Night WorkMild-mannered Homer Fitch (Ruggles) must prove he is tough enough in the eyes of a young orphan's (O'Conner) grandfather (Bevins) to retain custody of the boy. Will Homer come through in the end? | 1939 | George Archainbaud | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 (37 votes) | 60 | 20240105 |
| Nightclub Hostess [L'entraîneuse]The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would like to have her as his girlfriend, Suzy wishes to leave this place, where she has | 1939 | Albert Valentin | Drama | 6.7 (60 votes) | 95 | 20220315 |
| Nine Bachelors [Ils étaient neuf célibataires]Fast-thinking Guitry contrives a scheme to earn easy money from rich women with expiring visas by marrying them with clochards and at the same time to win the charms of beautiful Polish countess. Everything seems to go wrong when the | 1939 | Sacha Guitry (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.1 (227 votes) | 85 | 20220408 |
| NinotchkaA stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest. | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.9 (20.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| No Place to GoAndrew Plummer is content living in an old soldiers home, but he agrees to move in with his son and his wife thinking that his son needs help with his business. Andrew later finds out that he's only in the way in his new surroundings | 1939 | Terry O. Morse | Drama | 6.1 (120 votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
| North of ShanghaiAmerican reporters Helen Warnet and Jed Howard meet on a boat to Shangai unaware that Japan had just invade China and enemy spies are everywhere. | 1939 | D. Ross Lederman | Drama, War | 6.0 (38 votes) | 59 | 20240826 |
| Nurse Edith CavellEnglish nurse Edith Cavell is matron in a small private hospital in German-occupied Brussels during WWI. When the son of a recently deceased patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, Cavell aids him to reach Holland and saf | 1939 | Herbert Wilcox | Biography, Drama, War | 6.6 (329 votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Of Mice and MenA mentally disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America. | 1939 | Lewis Milestone | Adventure, Drama | 7.9 (5.9K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Off the RecordTwo newspaper reporters, Thomas "Breezy" Elliott and Jane Morgan, inadvertently send a boy named Mickey Fallon to reform school after they write an expose of the illegal slot-machine racket the boy was a spotter for. Guilt-ridden, Ja | 1939 | James Flood | Drama | 5.9 (206 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Oily To Bed, Oily To RiseThe stooges are tramps looking for handouts. Although the boys are down and out, Curly seems to get everything he wishes for. After some trouble with a farmer, the boys come across an abandoned car, one of Curly's wishes. The car ... | 1939 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 8.0 (653 votes) | 18 | 20240224 |
| Oklahoma Kid, TheDuring the Oklahoma Land Rush, the lawlessness is exacerbated by the McCord gang's feud with the Kincaids, who are trying to bring law and justice to the region. | 1939 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Action, History, Western | 6.4 (2.2K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Old Maid, TheThe arrival of an ex-lover on a young woman's wedding day sets in motion a chain of events which will alter her and her cousin's lives forever. | 1939 | Edmund Goulding | Drama | 7.6 (3.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Old Mother Riley Joins UpOld Mother Riley, with the help of her daughter Kitty and Kitty's boyfriend Lieutenant Travers, thwarts a plan by enemy agents to steal important secret documents. | 1939 | Maclean Rogers | Comedy | 5.3 (42 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Old Mother Riley MPOld Mother Riley loses her laundry job and then battles her ex-boss in a parliamentary election. | 1939 | Oswald Mitchell | Comedy | 5.4 (63 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| On Borrowed TimeA cantankerous old man takes in his beloved, orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs, including from an agent of Death with the help of a magical apple tree. | 1939 | Harold S. Bucquet | Drama, Family, Fantasy | 7.7 (2K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| On Dress ParadeThe Dead End Kids are sent to military school. | 1939 | William Clemens, Noel M. Smith | Drama | 6.0 (310 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| On His Own [V lyudyakh]For the family really no money, Alexei began to make a living. Everything was limited to dirty chores, but while reading could end his depression. After hard working experience, he was determined to Kazan in the passion of being a st | 1939 | Mark Donskoy | Biography, Drama | 6.9 (247 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| On TrialA husband is put on trial for murder and he is ready to take the rap, for he is trying to shield his wife from scandal, along with their six-year-old daughter. But the smart young attorney appointed by the court to defend him puts... | 1939 | Terry O. Morse | Drama | 6.1 (77 votes) | 61 | 20240219 |
| On Your ToesA young hoofer quits vaudeville to become a composer and hooks up with a Russian ballet troupe. | 1939 | Ray Enright | Music, Comedy | 5.6 (216 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| One Hour to LiveSid Brady, the chief of police detectives, arrests gangster Rudolph Spain for murder on the day that the criminal marries Muriel Vance. Because Muriel had recently jilted Sid to marry Spain, the arrest generates malicious gossip r... | 1939 | Harold D. Schuster | Drama | 6.2 (10 votes) | 61 | 20231001 |
| One Third of a NationA fire in a run-down tenement building injures young Joey Rogers. Wealthy passerby Peter Cortlant rushes the boy and his attractive older sister Mary to the hospital and pays the medical expenses for the poverty-stricken family. Only | 1939 | Dudley Murphy | Drama | 6.1 (256 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Only Angels Have WingsAt a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air-freight company is forced to risk his pilots' lives in order to win an important contract as a traveling American showgirl stops in town. | 1939 | Howard Hawks (*) | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 7.7 (13.7K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Only One Night [En enda natt]Funfair worker Valdemar is unknowingly the illegitimate son of a rich landowner, colonel Von Brede. The colonel knows and employs Valdemar as his stable master. The colonel has a young and beautiful ward, Eva, but will she and Valdem | 1939 | Gustaf Molander | Drama, Romance | 5.8 (258 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Oregon Trail, TheFrontier scout Jeff Scott (Johnny Mack Brown) and his pal, Deadwood Hawkins (Fuzzy Knight), are hired by Washington officials to stop outlaw and Indian raids on pioneer wagon trains crossing the western plains. Strangely, only tho... | 1939 | Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Western | 5.9 (77 votes) | 320 | 20240820 |
| Our Leading CitizenLem Schofield practices law in a formerly small-town that has grown to be an industrialized big city, He bases his ideals on the examples set by Abraham Lincoln and never waivers in them nor his sense of justice for the poor. His ... | 1939 | Alfred Santell | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (64 votes) | 89 | 20231001 |
| Outside These WallsDan Sparling (;Michael Whalen (I)')is a brilliant, crusading journalist, but also a man with a prison record, earned after he had embezzled to meet the needs of an extravagant wife. He plunges into the fury of a political campaign, w | 1939 | Ray McCarey | Crime, Drama | 7.1 (19 votes) | 60 | 20220414 |
| Outsider, TheA controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process. | 1939 | Paul L. Stein | Drama, Romance | 5.4 (42 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Over The MoonYoung Jane Benson (Merle Oberon) just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis (Sir Rex Harrison), she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has | 1939 | Thornton Freeland, William K. Howard | Comedy | 5.6 (286 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Overland with Kit CarsonA mysterious outlaw known as Pegleg dreams of an empire in the vast, rich wilderness west of the Mississippi River. Army Lieurenant David Brent (Richard Fiske) is sent from Washington to persuade Kit Carson (Bill Elliott) to put a... | 1939 | Norman Deming, Sam Nelson | Western | 7.3 (33 votes) | 300 | 20240530 |
| Pacific LinerThe S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the ship's nurse. Chief Engineer 'Crusher" McKay also has his eyes on Ann, and this brings | 1939 | Lew Landers | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 5.7 (311 votes) | 76 | 20220423 |
| Pack Up Your TroublesOut of work vaudevillians join the army in WWI and head for France where they encounter an American girl (Withers) whose father (Schildkraut) is a French officer. Lots of slapstick. | 1939 | H. Bruce Humberstone | Comedy, Musical, War | 5.8 (76 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Panama LadyA weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon hooks up with a rough-and-tumble oil driller, who takes her to his oil-field in the jungle to show her what ""real"" life is like. | 1939 | Jack Hively | Drama, Romance | 5.8 (309 votes) | 65 | 20231001 |
| Panama PatrolThe head of the cipher bureau, Phillip Waring, is about to marry his secretary, Helen Lane, when he is informed that the state department has discovered a message that must be decoded. With the information given, Waring and his assis | 1939 | Charles Lamont | Action, Drama, Mystery | 5.0 (85 votes) | 67 | 20220315 |
| Paradise In HarlemBetween swing and blues musical numbers, the story of comedian Lem Anderson, whose long-awaited chance to act dramatically vanishes when he witnesses a mob killing and is forced to leave town. Lem becomes a wanderer, then an alcoholi | 1939 | Joseph Seiden | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 5.1 (117 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Paris HoneymoonAn American singing cowboy who has become an oil millionaire is convinced to stay at an Balkan village waiting for his bride-to-be who is getting the divorce in Paris, where they expect to spend their honeymoon. There he meets Manya | 1939 | Frank Tuttle | Comedy, Musical | 6.0 (95 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Passionate Spring, The [Halálos tavasz]This adaptation of Lajos Zilahy's novel about a fatal love triangle was the first film of Katalin Karády who became a star overnight. | 1939 | László Kalmár | Drama | 7.1 (350 votes) | 105 | 20240105 |
| Peace on EarthTwo baby squirrels ask grandpa to explain what "men" are when he comes in singing "peace on earth, goodwill to men". Grandpa tells the story of man's last war. | 1939 | Hugh Harman | Animation, Short, Drama | 7.5 (1.5K votes) | 9 | 20211228 |
| Personal Column [Pièges]After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who she met through a personal column advert, Adrienne Charpentier is recruited by the police to answer a series of similar adverts to try to track down the killer. | 1939 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Musical, Romance, Thriller | 6.9 (371 votes) | 106 | 20220414 |
| Persons in HidingA beautiful but greedy woman teams up with a small-time hoodlum to become two of the most wanted criminals in the country. | 1939 | Louis King | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.6 (34 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Pest from the WestA millionaire vacationing in Mexico falls for a local girl and sets out to win her. | 1939 | Del Lord | Comedy, Short | 6.4 (171 votes) | 18 | 20211228 |
| Phantom Creeps, TheA military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a scientist whose inventions can destroy the world. | 1939 | Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Action, Family, Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.7 (1.1K votes) | 265 | 20240530 |
| Phantom Wagon, The [La charrette fantôme]A nun suffering from TB is desperately trying to save an alcoholic tramp and to bring him back to his wife and kids.He has a friend who died last year and became the coachman of the "Ghost Wagon" . | 1939 | Julien Duvivier (*) | Drama, Fantasy | 6.8 (248 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Poison PenA small, sedate British village is shocked when its residents begin receiving hate-filled diatribes, known as "poison pen letters". | 1939 | Paul L. Stein | Drama | 6.7 (184 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Prisoners of the Land [Prisioneros de la tierra]By 1915, a contractor traveling to Posadas looking for new staff. Among the music and drinks in a bar and shipped to the mill. He is accompanied by a drunken doctor and his daughter. In the mill, injustices and cruelties are accen... | 1939 | Mario Soffici | Drama | 7.1 (195 votes) | 85 | 20230328 |
| Private DetectiveWhen they are forced to work together, rival detectives fall in love. | 1939 | Noel M. Smith | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Romance | 6.0 (262 votes) | 55 | 20211228 |
| Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, TheA depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex. | 1939 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.1 (5.5K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Quick MillionsIn Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon. | 1939 | Malcolm St. Clair | Comedy | 5.0 (21 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Racketeers of the RangeRanchers and cattlemen take on a packing company and a dubious lawyer. | 1939 | D. Ross Lederman | Western | 6.2 (111 votes) | 62 | 20230126 |
| RafflesMan about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend with her parents, Lord and Lady Melrose. A | 1939 | Sam Wood, William Wyler | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller | 6.4 (937 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Rains Came , TheIn India, a married British aristocrat is reunited with an old flame, but she truly has her sights set on a handsome surgeon. | 1939 | Clarence Brown | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (2K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Range WarHopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) comes to the rescue of the railroad when a land baron and his gang try to prevent its construction. | 1939 | Lesley Selander | Western | 6.9 (148 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Rattling RomeoCharley buys a wreck of an automobile that's been made to appear new by a disreputable used car dealer, but he soon realizes it's literally falling apart. He stops payment, and then must dodge repossesors as well. | 1939 | Del Lord | Comedy, Short | 6.7 (31 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| Real Glory, TheA small American contingent tries to train rural tribesmen to defend themselves against fanatical Muslim radicals in 1906 Philippines. | 1939 | Henry Hathaway | Action, History, Romance, War | 6.6 (1.1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| RememberA jilted man gives his divorced best friend and his ex-wife - to whom he was previously engaged - a potion that causes them to forget each other. Will they fall in love all over again? | 1939 | Norman Z. McLeod (*) | Comedy, Romance | 5.9 (580 votes) | 83 | 20220315 |
| Renegade TrailHoppy goes to town to help Marshal Windy with some rustlers and winds up helping the widow Joyce when confidence men try to take her herd. | 1939 | Lesley Selander | Western | 6.9 (156 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| RenoRichard Dix portrays Reno lawyer who helps women get a fast divorce but can he keep his wife (Gail Patrick) from divorcing him. | 1939 | John Farrow | Drama | 5.5 (148 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| RetroscenaA lady pianist and a baritone squabble,meeting on a ship and before Milan shows. After a rude response by critics and an audience claque, the singer makes a hit pretending to be a Russian artist and the couple find romance. | 1939 | Alessandro Blasetti | Comedy | 5.9 (19 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Return of Doctor XA hotshot reporter and a young doctor team up to investigate a series of grisly murders and a mysterious sample of synthetic blood. | 1939 | Vincent Sherman | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.8 (2.2K votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La CongaTwo girls sneak into a Hollywood club in order to get a look at stars. When they enter a conga line contest they get more than they expect. | 1939 | Sammy Lee | Short, Comedy, Music | 5.5 (58 votes) | 11 | 20240709 |
| Ride 'em, CowgirlSandy Doyle, gambler and political chief of a small border town, seeks to gain control of the Bar-X Ranch, owned by Rufe Rickson, to further some undercover activities of his own. He counts on Rickson's inability to stay away from... | 1939 | Samuel Diege | Western | 5.7 (46 votes) | 53 | 20221228 |
| Riders Of The FrontierTHe Rancho Grande, a Texas border ranch, cut off from the law by a gang of outlaws led by ranch foreman Bart Lane (Jack Rutherford), who is holding the elderly owner of the ranch, Sarah Burton (Marin Sais), a prisoner. Tex Lowery (Te | 1939 | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Western | 6.2 (45 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| RioA crazed man escapes from prison to kill his wife's lover. | 1939 | John Brahm | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (112 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Risky BusinessRadio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped. | 1939 | Arthur Lubin | Drama, Crime | 6.6 (25 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Roaring Twenties, TheThree men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I. | 1939 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.9 (13.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Robert and Bertram [Robert Und Bertram]Two vagabonds escape from jail and steal jewelry at a wedding to help a poor innkeeper pay his debts. | 1939 | Hans H. Zerlett | Comedy | 5.0 (35 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Rookie Cop, TheUsing his trained dog, a rookie cop tries to prove his friend innocent of a robbery, despite the police commissioner's objection. | 1939 | David Howard | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.7 (161 votes) | 61 | 20240625 |
| Rose of Washington SquareA singer becomes a star in the Ziegfeld Follies, but her marriage to a con man has a bad effect on her career. | 1939 | Gregory Ratoff | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.9 (613 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Rough Riders Round-UpNow that the Spanish-American war is over, Roy and other Rough Riders become border patrolmen. Their goal is to stop outlaws who are stealing gold from stage coaches and express offices. | 1939 | Joseph Kane | Western | 5.5 (243 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Rulers of the SeaStory of the beginnings of the steam-powered engine and its use in the first steamship voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. | 1939 | Frank Lloyd | Drama | 6.4 (108 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Rules of the Game, TheA bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau. | 1939 | Jean Renoir (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.0 (28.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| S O S Tidal WaveNewsman Jeff Shannon wants to expose political corruption in his city, but backs off when his wife and son are threatened. On election day politicians try to prevent voting by broadcasting footage from the disaster film Deluge (1933) | 1939 | John H. Auer | Crime, Sci-Fi | 5.9 (72 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| S.S. IonianJust before World War II begins, a British merchantman makes her rounds in the Mediterranean Sea. | 1939 | Humphrey Jennings (*) | Documentary, Short, War | 6.4 (51 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| SabotageFollowing a small town's aircraft plant closure amid sabotage, a young man stands accused of the crime. The young man's father comes to his rescue and starts an investigation of his own to clear his son. | 1939 | Harold Young | Action, Drama | 5.6 (59 votes) | 69 | 20220912 |
| Saga of Death ValleyIn the opening scene Roy as a boy philosophizes about marriage to his girl friend then sees his dad gunned down by bad guys who want to drive out the ranchers by cutting off their water. | 1939 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.6 (136 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Saint in London, TheThe Saint returns to London and with the help of an American pickpocket and a beautiful adventuress breaks a counterfeiting ring. | 1939 | John Paddy Carstairs | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.4 (832 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Saint Strikes Back, TheSimon Templar, the Saint, travels to San Francisco to solve crime mysteries within the police department. | 1939 | John Farrow | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.3 (945 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Sap Takes a Wrap, TheCharley gives his girlfriend a mink coat he was supposed to be guarding for three showgirls; when the ladies want their coat back, Charley goes to great lengths to recover it. | 1939 | Del Lord | Comedy, Short | 7.2 (23 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| Saved by the BelleThe stooges are traveling salesmen stranded in Valeska, a tropical country prone to earthquakes. Having no luck selling fur coats to the natives they are arrested when they receive a telegram instructing them to ""get rid of presen... | 1939 | Charley Chase | Comedy, Short | 6.7 (507 votes) | 18 | 20240224 |
| Scandal SheetJim Stevenson, publisher of a scandal mongering tabloid, takes pride in publishing only the news that's unfit to print. Stevenson attends the graduation ceremonies at Croft College, where he listens to graduating student Peter Haynes | 1939 | Nick Grinde | Crime, Drama | 6.6 (11 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Second FiddleA studio publicist discovers a Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her. | 1939 | Sidney Lanfield | Comedy, Music | 6.5 (477 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Secret of Dr. Kildare, TheDr. Gillespie's cancer has gotten worse, and to force him to take a rest instead of pursuing a sulfa-drug/pneumonia study, Kildare refuses to assist Gillespie, and instead accepts a case of hysterical blindness. She's also the daught | 1939 | Harold S. Bucquet | Drama | 6.4 (437 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Secret Service of the AirBrass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens. | 1939 | Noel M. Smith | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.6 (248 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| See Your DoctorA lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man has when he seeks treatment at the doctor's office. | 1939 | Basil Wrangell | Comedy, Short | 6.1 (140 votes) | 8 | 20211228 |
| Seeing RedWhen he is fired from his job, Red puts a hex on his boss. That evening, the boss goes to a nightclub and discovers that the hex worked. | 1939 | Roy Mack | Comedy, Short | 5.9 (144 votes) | 19 | 20230126 |
| Sergeant MaddenA highly respected Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force. Unfortunately, the son is more interested in rewards than in upholding the law. When he shoots a child caught stealing, the others frame him and he is s | 1939 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Drama | 6.0 (186 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Shanghai Landing Party [Shanhai rikusentai]A documentary style film that depicts the battle in Shanghai during World War II using the city and its actual ruins as an actual backdrop to the narrative. The realism extended to the use of actual armaments and a tank as film de... | 1939 | Hisatora Kumagai | Action, War | 5.0 (17 votes) | 93 | 20240605 |
| She Married a CopAt the New York branch of Mammoth Studios, motion picture animator Linda Fay and her boss, Bob Adams, search for a singing voice for their star cartoon, "Paddy the Pig." Linda holds auditions in her apartment, but a neighbor, disturb | 1939 | Sidney Salkow, Cal Dalton, Ben Hardaway | Comedy | 5.3 (55 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the BaskervillesSherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate. | 1939 | Sidney Lanfield | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.5 (10.3K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Shin josei mondonan | 1939 | Yasushi Sasaki | Drama | nan | 109 | 20211228 |
| Shipyard SallyA music hall performer manages the saloon her father bought. The clientèle includes unemployed shipyard workers who she entertains and helps. | 1939 | Monty Banks | Musical, Comedy | 6.6 (55 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Shors [Shchors]Biography of Ukrainian revolutionary Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors. Shchors leads the peasants and workers to advance on Kiev. | 1939 | Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva | Biography, Drama, War | 6.4 (189 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Should a Girl MarryA young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison. | 1939 | Lambert Hillyer | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 5.9 (37 votes) | 61 | 20240105 |
| Silver on the SageHoppy goes undercover as an Eastern gambler to rein in the fraternal perpetrators of a cattle-rustling scheme. | 1939 | Lesley Selander | Western | 7.1 (185 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Silvesternacht am AlexanderplatzYoung and old couples, elated, lonely and jealous hearts, hope and despair, crooked and honest souls, drunks and dutiful medics, a hit-and-run driver and the first baby of the year all converge on the first-aid station in downtown... | 1939 | Richard Schneider-Edenkoben | Unknown | 7.0 (11 votes) | 86 | 20230328 |
| Sincerity [Magokoro]Two young girls, Nobiko and Tomiko, go to the same school. The less fortunate girl Nobiko is one of the top students, while the rich girl Tomiko is not. At one time Tomiko's father was quite fond of Nobuko's mother. | 1939 | Mikio Naruse (*) | Drama | 7.0 (106 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Singing Lovebirds [Oshidori utagassen]Oharu is in love with a ronin who lives next door. A mistake puts Oharu's father deeply in debt to the local lord and he is confronted with having to sell Oharu in order to pay it off. | 1939 | Masahiro Makino | Comedy, Musical | 6.9 (194 votes) | 69 | 20220731 |
| Slightly HonorableA lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name. | 1939 | Tay Garnett | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Mystery | 6.1 (431 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Smashing the Money RingT-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop. | 1939 | Terry O. Morse | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.6 (256 votes) | 57 | 20211228 |
| Smuggled CargoA group of migrant workers must stand up to corruption and fight for their rights. | 1939 | John H. Auer | Drama | 5.6 (20 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Society LawyerSociety lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and crime boss Tony Gazotti (a former client), Du... | 1939 | Edwin L. Marin | Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance | 6.3 (276 votes) | 77 | 20231001 |
| Society SmugglersThe Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds. | 1939 | Joe May | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.3 (33 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Some Like It Hot [Rhythm Romance]Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Liv | 1939 | George Archainbaud | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (270 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Son of FrankensteinReturning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate | 1939 | Rowland V. Lee | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.1 (10K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Song of the White Orchid [Byakuran no uta - zenpen_ kôhen]nan | 1939 | Kunio Watanabe | Drama | 5.7 (9 votes) | 78 | 20240427 |
| Sons of LibertySet during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, American patriot and financier of the American Revolution. | 1939 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Short, Biography, Drama, History | 5.8 (414 votes) | 20 | 20240605 |
| Sorority HouseAnne Shirley plays Alice Fisher-the daughter of a small grocer who at the last minute gets to go to little Talbot College. She learns that joining a sorority is an essential thing at the school. Unfortunately her late admission means | 1939 | John Farrow | Drama, Romance | 5.9 (212 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Southward, Ho!In post Civil War Texas a former Union officer is the government's chief law enforcement official and tax collector. Roy discovers that the man is also the head of an outlaw gang. | 1939 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.6 (121 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Spare TimeA look at how industry workers spend their time when they are not at work. | 1939 | Humphrey Jennings (*) | Documentary, Short, Sport | 6.3 (180 votes) | 15 | 20211228 |
| Spellbinder, TheJed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father's courtroom performa | 1939 | Jack Hively | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (84 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Spooktrein, DeA group of travelers find themselves stranded for the night at a deserted train station, which according to the old stationmaster, has been haunted for the last 20 years. | 1939 | Karel Lamac | Comedy, Crime, Horror | 6.7 (71 votes) | 70 | 20221212 |
| Spy in Black, TheA German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet. | 1939 | Michael Powell (*) | Thriller, War | 6.9 (2.2K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| St. Louis BluesA Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans to put together a musical revue. But a competing carnival owner hatches a s | 1939 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Comedy, Musical | 6.5 (66 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| StagecoachA group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process. | 1939 | John Ford (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.9 (47.4K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Stand Up and FightIt starts in 1844 in Maryland, where Robert Taylor, plantation owner with slaves, is forced by debts to sell his estate and his people. Then he leaves for Cumberland, looking for a job (first time in his life), and ends up working fo | 1939 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Drama, History, Romance, Western | 6.4 (307 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Stanley and LivingstoneTasked by his editor, American reporter Henry M. Stanley travels to a dangerous and uncharted region of East Africa to find the missing Scottish pioneer missionary Dr. David Livingstone. | 1939 | Henry King, Otto Brower | Adventure, Drama, History | 7.0 (1.4K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Star Maker, TheThis is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer. | 1939 | Roy Del Ruth | Biography, Comedy, Music | 5.9 (94 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Stepan RazinDon Cossack Stepan Razin swore revenge on the boyars for his tortured friends. Leading the rebel peasants, he becomes the leader of the whole army. From all over the land of the Russian, humiliated and offended flock to him. Tsar Ale | 1939 | Ivan Pravov, Olga Preobrazhenskaya | Biography, Drama, History | 6.5 (29 votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Story of Alexander Graham Bell, TheThe story of how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. | 1939 | Irving Cummings | Biography, Drama, History | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, The [Zangiku monogatari] The adopted son of a legendary actor, and an aspiring star himself, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and affection - only for her to give up everything for her beloved's glory. | 1939 | Kenji Mizoguchi (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.9 (3.6K votes) | 148 | 20211228 |
| Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, TheThe story of the dancing team who taught the world to two-step. | 1939 | H.C. Potter | Biography, Drama, Musical, Romance, War | 6.9 (2.5K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Street of Missing MenWhen Cash Darwin is released from prison after serving five years for racketeering, he vows revenge on Charles Putnam, the crusading owner of the Clarion , the newspaper that obtained the evidence to convict him. While Cash is tra... | 1939 | Sidney Salkow | Drama | 7.1 (20 votes) | 65 | 20240803 |
| Stronger Than DesireWealthy socialite Elizabeth Flagg is courted by persistent Michael McLain, despite her protests that she is a married woman. McLain is just charming enough to attract Elizabeth into a series of harmless dalliances. But when he tri... | 1939 | Leslie Fenton | Drama | 6.4 (316 votes) | 78 | 20240530 |
| Sudden MoneyPromises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstakes contest. With their windfall, each member of t | 1939 | Nick Grinde | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport | 5.8 (58 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Sued For LibelThe trial of Albert Pomeroy on the charge of murdering Edward Webster,arouses interest because Webster's widow, Muriel insists Pomeroy is innocent. Meanwhile, back to radio station NYEB, owned by the Evening Bulletin, Steve Lonegan w | 1939 | Leslie Goodwins | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (149 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Sun Never Sets, TheWhen Clive Randolph finally returns "home" from Gold Coast colony, younger brother John balks at following the family Colonial Service tradition. But back in Gold Coast, one Zurof, nominally studying ants, pursues a hidden political | 1939 | Rowland V. Lee | Drama | 6.3 (118 votes) | 97 | 20220414 |
| Susannah of the MountiesShirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in. Everybody suffers further Indian attacks and the Mountie is saved from the stake only by Shirley's intervention with | 1939 | William A. Seiter, Walter Lang | Drama, Western | 6.5 (865 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Swanee RiverMore fictional than factual biography of Stephen Foster. Songwriter from Pittsburgh falls in love with the South, marries a Southern gal (Leeds), then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. | 1939 | Sidney Lanfield | Biography, Drama, Musical | 6.4 (180 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Sweepstakes WinnerA naive girl has $1,000 and is told to have two broke bookies bet it for her. They lose the money and she gets a job as a waitress. They come into the cafe and convince her to buy an Irish Sweepstake ticket. | 1939 | William C. McGann | Comedy | 5.2 (97 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Tail SpinFlyer enters a cross-country aerial derby, becomes rival to a wealthy society flyer, competes in parachute jumps and has love affairs. | 1939 | Roy Del Ruth | Drama | 6.0 (209 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Tarzan Finds A SonTarzan finds a boy from a crashed plane and raises him with Jane in the jungle. A search party comes looking for the plane. | 1939 | Richard Thorpe | Action, Adventure, Family, Romance | 6.6 (3.3K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Teacher's PestCharley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welcome. | 1939 | Del Lord | Comedy, Western, Short | 5.9 (23 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| Television Spy.A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it. | 1939 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 5.4 (56 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Tell No TalesMichael Cassidy is the editor of a failing newspaper. A scoop would be welcome to boost the sales and to avoid closure. To this end, he decides to personally track down a gang of kidnappers. | 1939 | Leslie Fenton | Crime, Mystery, Drama | 6.6 (390 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| TevyeThe original, non-musical film version of the book which inspired "Fiddler on the Roof". | 1939 | Maurice Schwartz | Drama | 6.9 (269 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| That's Right - You're WrongRadio sensation Kay Kyser and his band are lured to Hollywood to make a movie, but the screenwriters assigned to the project have difficulty tailoring a script to Kyser's persona. | 1939 | David Butler | Comedy, Music | 6.0 (350 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| There Ain't No JusticeA young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter. | 1939 | Pen Tennyson | Drama | 6.2 (53 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| There's No Tomorrow [Sans lendemain]After an unhappy marriage, a woman of the world is forced to become a dancer in a cabaret in order to raise her young son. | 1939 | Max Ophüls (*) | Drama | 7.1 (340 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| They All Come Out.A "Crime Doesn't Pay" morality drama about a young man sentenced to a prison term and attempts by the system to rehabilitate jailed criminals. | 1939 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.0 (234 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| They Made Her a SpyWhen her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits. | 1939 | Jack Hively | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 5.7 (108 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| They Made Me a CriminalA boxer flees believing he has comitted a murder while he was drunk. | 1939 | Busby Berkeley (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Sport | 6.9 (2.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| They Shall Have MusicA boy runs away from home and ends up at a music school for poor children. When the school suffers hard times, he enlists the aid of violinist Heifetz to save the day. | 1939 | Archie Mayo | Music, Drama, Family | 6.9 (435 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Those High Grey WallsDr.. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police. A man, whom he had brought into the world many years before. At Filmo | 1939 | Charles Vidor (*) | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.8 (23 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Three Hours [Je t'attendrai]During WW1, a train is stopped by a bombing ;a young soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to go to his native village to see his parents . | 1939 | Léonide Moguy | Drama, Romance, War | 7.2 (98 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Three Little Sew And SewsThe stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go to a party with Curly passing himself off as Admiral Taylor and Moe and Larry as his aides. Two ... | 1939 | Del Lord | Comedy, Short | 7.3 (487 votes) | 19 | 20240224 |
| Three Musketeers, TheD'Artagnan sings and fronts for slapstick cowardly Ritz brothers posing as musketeers. | 1939 | Allan Dwan | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.0 (593 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Three Sappy PeopleThe stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires them to treat his impetuous young wife who is always running of for submarine rides and the like. The boys r... | 1939 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 7.8 (629 votes) | 18 | 20240224 |
| Three Smart Girls Grow UpThree sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker. | 1939 | Henry Koster (*) | Comedy, Musical | 6.9 (376 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Three Texas SteersNancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the circus to force Nancy to sell the ranch; instea | 1939 | George Sherman | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Western | 5.8 (336 votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
| Thunder AfloatIn a New England port town, Pop Thorson and Rocky Blake are rival tugboat owners. Thorson's boat has sunk in the shallow water while docked, and he is certain Blake sabotaged it for winning a lucrative contract of military supplies. | 1939 | George B. Seitz | Romance, Drama, War, Action | 6.4 (198 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Too Busy to WorkThe Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores. | 1939 | Otto Brower | Comedy | 6.3 (16 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Torchy Blaine in ChinatownTorchy Blane has to solve a blackmail case. | 1939 | William Beaudine | Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery | 6.3 (429 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Torchy Blane Playing With DynamiteTorchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll. | 1939 | Noel M. Smith | Action, Comedy, Mystery | 6.1 (398 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Torchy Runs for MayorTorchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner. | 1939 | Ray McCarey | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance | 6.4 (407 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Torture ShipA mad scientist performs experiments on "the criminal mind" on captured criminals on board his private ship. | 1939 | Victor Halperin | Horror, Sci-Fi | 3.5 (401 votes) | 57 | 20211228 |
| Tower Of LondonIn the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplis | 1939 | Rowland V. Lee | Drama, History | 6.7 (2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Tractor Drivers [Traktoristy]An example of a popular genre in 1930s Soviet film, the musical comedy exalting the economic and social success of Communism, inspired by but in competition with the Hollywood musicals of the same era. | 1939 | Ivan Pyrev | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (239 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Trial and Death of Socrates [Processo e morte di Socrate]The great Greek philosopher Socrates, is accused of corruption of the young. | 1939 | Corrado D'Errico | Drama | 6.8 (33 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Trouble BrewingGeorge has won a lot of money at the races but he's paid with counterfeit money. He sets about tracking down the criminals himself. | 1939 | Anthony Kimmins | Action, Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance | 6.4 (242 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Trouble in SundownThe bank has been robbed, the night watchman killed and the safe opened. The townspeople want John as he was the only one with the combination. Clint gets John out of town but before the mob turns ugly but the deputy is shot when ... | 1939 | David Howard | Western | 6.0 (157 votes) | 60 | 20240715 |
| Twelve Crowded HoursOne night of twelve crowded hours in the life of a newspaper investigative reporter out to get the goods on the master-minds who operate the profitable Numbers Racket in a big city. His quest is somewhat hampered by a romantic redhea | 1939 | Lew Landers | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.5 (308 votes) | 64 | 20220414 |
| Two Girls on the Street [Két lány az utcán]A musician in an all-girl band and a bricklayer join forces as they both try to make it in Budapest, supporting each other through changing economic fortunes, the advances of lecherous men, and the highs and heartbreaks of love. | 1939 | André De Toth | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (82 votes) | 79 | 20221116 |
| Two ThoroughbredsA group of gangsters steal the valuable brood-mare ""Larkspur"" from the Conway Ranch in Arizona. The mare's three-month-old colt tries to follow its dam, but is outdistanced. The lost colt finds its way to the Carey farm, where Dav... | 1939 | Jack Hively | Crime, Drama, Family, Sport | 5.6 (71 votes) | 62 | 20240524 |
| Undercover DoctorDr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's i... | 1939 | Louis King | Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance | 6.2 (30 votes) | 67 | 20230728 |
| Under-Pup, TheA young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first ridiculed and scorned because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls that she's just as | 1939 | Richard Wallace | Comedy, Drama, Music | 6.7 (84 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Unexpected FatherJimmy Hanley learns that his former dancing partner has been killed, leaving a baby boy Sandy, so he takes the baby to live with him and his roommate Boris Bebenko. Theatre manager Allen Rand threatens to fire Jimmy for neglecting hi | 1939 | Charles Lamont | Comedy, Drama | 5.3 (11 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Union PacificIn 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California. | 1939 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Western | 7.1 (3K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| UnmarriedUnmarried is a 1939 American film starring Helen Twelvetrees, Buck Jones, and Donald O'Connor. | 1939 | Kurt Neumann | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport | 6.3 (54 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Village of White Clothes, The [Aldeia da Roupa Branca]The story of how Gracinda, a young washerwoman, tries to revitalize her decadent business with the help of Chico, for whom she's in love, and her uncle, who has a fiery rivalry with Quitéria, owner of another laundry business. | 1939 | Chianca de Garcia | Comedy | 6.5 (360 votes) | 92 | 20221228 |
| Wall Street CowboyRoy Rogers and his pals go to New York City to prevent a Wall Street conglomerate from taking their land. The land is rich in a mineral used for making steel and some greedy power brokers will stop at nothing to get it. | 1939 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.1 (112 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Warm Current [Danryû]nan | 1939 | Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (34 votes) | 177 | 20231001 |
| WaterfrontJim Dolen, head a a dock-worker's union, can't resist a good fight until Ann Stacey makes him promise to give up fighting to marry her. But when his brother Dan Dolen is killed by Mart Hendler, Jim, with the aid of his pal Frankie Do | 1939 | Terry O. Morse | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.8 (148 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| We Are Not AloneA husband hires a lonely pretty young woman to work as a nanny for his son. His wife becomes instantly jealous and things take turn for the worst. In the background, World War II is in the air, and anti-German sentiment is on the ris | 1939 | Edmund Goulding | Crime, Drama, History, Romance | 7.1 (347 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| We Want Our MummyThe stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rutentuten for which a museum will pay a $5000 prize. They wind up in the mummy's tomb where they are harassed by some criminals pursuing the same objective. These criminals a... | 1939 | Del Lord | Short, Adventure, Comedy, Horror | 7.8 (633 votes) | 18 | 20240224 |
| When Tomorrow ComesA concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress. | 1939 | John M. Stahl | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (603 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Where's That FireA hapless fire crew are given the ultimatum: put out a fire successfully or else be sacked. They fail miserably, and their ancient fire engine is stolen by criminals attempting to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London. | 1939 | Marcel Varnel | Comedy | 7.1 (387 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Whole Family Works, The [Hataraku ikka]Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and contribute to the family expenses. Eventually one rebels, with the support and sympathy... | 1939 | Mikio Naruse (*) | Drama | 6.4 (151 votes) | 65 | 20220531 |
| Wife, Husband and FriendWoman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops. | 1939 | Gregory Ratoff | Comedy | 6.1 (231 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Wilton's Zoo [Boefje]Twelve year old Jan Grovers spends more time in the alleys of Rotterdam than with his family (though he occasionally looks after his tree younger sisters, all of whom are called Mientje). Together with his best friend and partner in | 1939 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Crime | 6.3 (67 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Window in London, A [Lady in Distress]A passerby witnesses a murder through the windows of a passing train. He then tries to track down the killer. | 1939 | Herbert Mason | Thriller | 6.6 (317 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Wings of the NavyBiplanes flying in formation past the Washington Monument. A flotilla of seaplanes rising majestically off the surface of the Atlantic. | 1939 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Drama, Romance | 5.9 (341 votes) | 89 | 20221116 |
| Winter CarnivalA divorced glamour girl (Ann Sheridan) keeps warm with a professor (Richard Carlson) amid sports and romance at Dartmouth. | 1939 | Charles Reisner | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.9 (62 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Wizard of Oz, TheYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishe | 1939 | Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 8.0 (384.7K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Wolf CallNatalie is shallow; Mike doesn't care. Mike and Natalie join a scavenger hunt and break into a pet shop to get something they require for the treasure-hunt prize. | 1939 | George Waggner | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.1 (52 votes) | 62 | 20221116 |
| Women in the WindA pilot enters an aviation race in order to win enough money to pay for her brother's medical treatment, and encounters difficulty with a rival pilot. | 1939 | John Farrow | Drama, Romance, Sport | 6.0 (285 votes) | 63 | 20240530 |
| Women, TheA study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women. | 1939 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (13.6K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| World Will Shake, TheJean Durand ,a young scientist invents a machine which can predict the date of your death accurately.He tries to use a prostitute as a guinea pig to test the machine.Jean Durand is evil,and his ambition knows no bounds ,he goes as fa | 1939 | Richard Pottier | Sci-Fi | 6.0 (77 votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Wuthering HeightsA servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff. | 1939 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (17.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Wyoming OutlawWill Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers. | 1939 | George Sherman | Western | 6.2 (347 votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
| Yes, My Darling DaughterEllen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked t | 1939 | William Keighley | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 (212 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Yes, We Have No BonanzaSet in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of stolen money. The boys go prospect... | 1939 | Del Lord | Comedy, Western, Short | 7.4 (577 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
| You Can't Cheat an Honest ManThe owner of a debt-ridden circus contends with pursuant bill collectors and sheriffs and his beloved daughter's relationships with one of his performers and a stuffy but wealthy young man. | 1939 | George Marshall, Edward F. Cline | Comedy, Family | 7.1 (1.7K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| You Can't Get Away With MurderYouthful tough Johnnie Stone has fallen under the influence of petty crook Frank Wilson, who involves him and robbery and murder using his sister's boyfriend's stolen gun. | 1939 | Lewis Seiler | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.4 (1.1K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Young Girls in Trouble [Jeunes filles en détresse]The young girls struggle against their parents' divorces. | 1939 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 (56 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Young Man's FancyAn aristocratic Englishman is engaged to a brewery heiress. He's not happy though and, during a visit to a circus he meets and falls in love with a human cannonball. | 1939 | Robert Stevenson (*) | Comedy | 5.8 (98 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Young Mr LincolnA fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case. | 1939 | John Ford (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.6 (8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| ZenobiaA modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant. | 1939 | Gordon Douglas | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.0 (608 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Zorro's Fighting LegionThe masked hero leads a fighting force to fight a villian who plots the conquest of The Republic of Mexico. | 1939 | John English, William Witney | Action, Adventure, Family, Western | 7.1 (432 votes) | 114 | 20220822 |