Movies by Year - 1940 (463)| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 3 Cheers for the IrishPeter Casey has been with the New York City police department for 25 years. He's totally surprised when he's asked to retire on his 25th anniversary with the force. He's even more unprepared for the romance that develops between his | 1940 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.4 (278 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| 20 Mule TeamIn California's Death Valley, in 1892, Borax ore miners scratch a hard living until a map pinpointing the location of high-grade Borax ore surfaces, sending prospectors and crooks alike into a gold-rush-like frenzy. | 1940 | Richard Thorpe | Western | 6.4 (260 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| 21 DaysAfter Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before the trial and if the man is found guilty then Larry will give hims | 1940 | Basil Dean | Drama | 6.1 (1K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Abe Lincoln in IllinoisHumble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington. | 1940 | John Cromwell | Biography, Drama, History | 7.3 (1.8K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Adventure in DiamondsStarring George Brent, Isa Miranda, John Loder, Nigel Bruce, Elizabeth Patterson Directed by George Fitzmaurice Print: black/white Runtime: 76 min. Genre: drama British army pilot Stephen (George Brent) falls in love with jewel-thief | 1940 | George Fitzmaurice | Crime, Drama | 6.5 (46 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Adventures of Red RyderChapter One MURDER ON THE SANTA FE TRAIL - Mesquite banker Calvin Drake (Harry Worth) plans to profit from the Santa Fe Railroad's acquisition of right-of-way by gaining control of the land in the territory. In the ensuing war of ... | 1940 | John English, William Witney | Western | 7.1 (167 votes) | 205 | 20240530 |
| Alias the DeaconA hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game. | 1940 | Christy Cabanne | Adventure, Comedy | 5.5 (20 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Alice in MovielandIn a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets di | 1940 | Jean Negulesco | Short, Drama, Music | 5.9 (283 votes) | 22 | 20211228 |
| All This And Heaven TooA duchess' irrational behavior toward her children's governess triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever. | 1940 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (4.8K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| Always a BrideAlice Bond is under a lot of pressure from her parents to marry Marshall Winkler, an arrogant blowhard whose only positive quality is his money. Alice really cares for Michael Stevens, an incredibly charming but utterly unambitious n | 1940 | Noel M. Smith | Comedy, Romance | 5.2 (161 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| American Matchmaker [Americaner Shadchen]Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend. With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he can have Shirley back, and Nat graciously g | 1940 | Edgar G. Ulmer (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.0 (102 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| And One Was BeautifulA woman lets a family friend take the blame after she accidentally runs over a man with a car. | 1940 | Robert B. Sinclair | Drama, Romance | 6.5 (265 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Andy Hardy Meets DebutanteJudge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. However, he finds the high-society life too expensive and eventually decides that he liked it better back home. | 1940 | George B. Seitz | Comedy, Family, Romance | 6.7 (904 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Angel From Texas, AnStage struck Lydia Weston leaves her small Texas town for Broadway. Left behind is her steady beau Peter. Lydia sends letters and news clippings back home telling everyone she's now a big star. Peter soon heads to New York to surpris | 1940 | Ray Enright | Comedy, Romance | 5.7 (281 votes) | 69 | 20220315 |
| Angels over BroadwayA cuckolded embezzler on the verge of suicide is helped by a tout, an alcoholic playwright, and a pick-up girl to reimburse the money with a gambling sting. | 1940 | Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.6 (1.2K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Argentine NightsAn all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors. | 1940 | Albert S. Rogell | Comedy, Music | 6.4 (56 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Arise, My LoveA dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins. | 1940 | Mitchell Leisen | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (833 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| ArizonaDuring the 1860s Tucson, a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent local businessmen and rampaging Indians. | 1940 | Wesley Ruggles | Action, Romance, Western | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Babies for SaleA newsman exposes a doctor running an adoption ring from a home for expectant mothers. | 1940 | Charles Barton | Crime, Drama | 5.9 (114 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Band WaggonA plot involving spies in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs. | 1940 | Marcel Varnel | Comedy, Musical | 5.6 (184 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Bank Dick, TheHenpecked Egbert Sousé has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard. | 1940 | Edward F. Cline | Comedy | 7.2 (7.1K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Beating Heart [Battement de coeur]Danielle Darrieux plays an impoverished reform-school escapee who finds a new lease on life when she enrolls in a school for pickpockets run by Fagin-like Saturnin-Fabre. | 1940 | Henri Decoin | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 (268 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Before I HangA physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde. | 1940 | Nick Grinde | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.1 (1.2K votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Behind the NewsIt's school graduate, Jeff Flavin's, first day on the job as a cub reporter for the Enquirer. Boss, Archer, places Jeff with Stu Woodrow a lazying reporter. Stu detests cubs, treating Jeff badly. Jeff saves a drunken Stu's job by cov | 1940 | Joseph Santley | Drama | 5.3 (62 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Beware! The Enemy Is Listening! [Achtung! Feind hört mit!]This is the war and everybody in Germany should beware : the enemy is listening. One family in particular had better be even more careful than the average citizen of the Reich : the Kettwigs. Indeed they own an armament factory and t | 1940 | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Drama, History, Romance, War | 6.0 (40 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Beyond TomorrowThe ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple they initially brought together. | 1940 | A. Edward Sutherland | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 6.6 (1.8K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Biscuit Eater, TheTwo little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. The favorite is Georgia Boy bred and trained by the boys' fathers. And if Georgia Boy doesn't win, the | 1940 | Stuart Heisler | Drama, Family | 6.9 (219 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| BismarckA biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany. | 1940 | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Biography, Drama | 6.6 (192 votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Bitter SweetA woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet. | 1940 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Drama, Musical, Romance | 5.9 (514 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Black FridayDr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality. | 1940 | Arthur Lubin | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.3 (2.4K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Blame It on Lovenan | 1940 | Wallace Fox | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 (13 votes) | 47 | 20230728 |
| Blondie Has Servant TroubleDagwood and Blondie are overjoyed when Mr. Dithers invites them to stay in an old mansion with servants and everything else--including ghosts. | 1940 | Frank R. Strayer | Comedy, Family | 6.6 (305 votes) | 70 | 20220423 |
| Blondie on a BudgetDagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat. | 1940 | Frank R. Strayer | Comedy, Family | 6.5 (502 votes) | 72 | 20220423 |
| Blondie Plays CupidThe Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help. | 1940 | Frank R. Strayer | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 6.5 (361 votes) | 68 | 20220423 |
| Blue Bird, TheMytyl and her brother Tyltyl, a woodchopper's children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past, present, and future to locate the Blue Bird of Happiness. | 1940 | Walter Lang | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 6.4 (1.8K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Boobs in ArmsThe stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of their customers. In bootcamp their sergeant turns out to be the same man, whom they constantly vex ... | 1940 | Jules White | Short, Comedy, War | 7.7 (589 votes) | 18 | 20240224 |
| Boom TownTwo buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. | 1940 | Jack Conway | Drama, Western | 7.1 (3.4K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Border Legion, The [West of the Badlands]An Eastern doctor is on the run from authorities in New York. Out west he comes to the aid of friends besieged by an outlaw gang known as the border legion. In the end, he is cleared of any wrong-doing back east. | 1940 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.8 (107 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Bowery BoyDr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, because Sock blames hospitals for his mother's | 1940 | William Morgan | Comedy, Crime | 7.3 (23 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Boys from Syracuse, TheThe action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the story concerns the efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also name | 1940 | A. Edward Sutherland | Comedy, Musical | 6.0 (127 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Boys Of the CityStreet kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house. | 1940 | Joseph H. Lewis (*) | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller | 5.7 (618 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Brigham YoungIn 1844, after the assassination of Mormon leader Joseph Smith by an angry mob in Illinois, the Mormons choose Brigham Young as their new leader and follow him to a new promised land in Utah. | 1940 | Henry Hathaway | Adventure, Biography, History, Romance, Western | 6.4 (1.1K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Britain Can Take ItA tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz. | 1940 | Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt | Documentary, War, Short | 7.0 (650 votes) | 9 | 20211228 |
| Broadway Melody of 1940Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to gives him the name of his partne | 1940 | Norman Taurog | Musical | 7.3 (2.4K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Broken StringsAfter noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing music to classical. | 1940 | Bernard B. Ray | Drama, Music | 5.7 (161 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Brother OrchidWhen retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk. | 1940 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (2.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Brother Rat and a BabyThree comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach. | 1940 | Ray Enright | Comedy | 5.3 (315 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Buck Benny Rides AgainJack Benny (as himself) tries to make good his fictitious boasts about roughing it in Nevada, in a spoof of Western cliches. | 1940 | Mark Sandrich (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Western | 6.8 (329 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Cafe HostessJo (Ann Dvorak), a "percentage girl" at the notorious Club 46, is in despair. She can see no way out of the dreary and sordid routine of entertaining customers - called drinking and dancing in 1940 - and, at a signal from piano playe | 1940 | Sidney Salkow | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (64 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Calling All HusbandsHomer Trippe is very henpecked by his wife, and Mrs. Trippe also dominates the life of her daughter, dismissing her boyfriend Dan as merely a delivery clerk. Mrs. Trippe constantly moans about her poor choice of Homer over one-time s | 1940 | Noel M. Smith | Comedy | 6.2 (107 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Calling Philo VanceDespite an exclusive contract with the U.S. government, designer Archer Coe's design is being bid on by German, Japanese, and Italian agents - until he's murdered. | 1940 | William Clemens | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 5.8 (407 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Captain CautionWhen her father dies, a young woman helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812. | 1940 | Richard Wallace | Action, Adventure, Romance | 5.5 (305 votes) | 86 | 20220822 |
| Captain is a Lady, TheBecause of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only single women are allowed, the Captain has to make other arrangements. However, after witn | 1940 | Robert B. Sinclair | Comedy | 6.4 (125 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Carolina MoonAfter the evil Wheeler robs plantation owners of their land, Gene sets out to right the wrong. | 1940 | Frank McDonald | Western | 6.4 (77 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Carson City Kid, TheRoy is a bandit who is out to get the man who killed his younger brother. He learns as he rides into the town of Sonora that the man is the owner of the local saloon and gambling hall. | 1940 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.2 (294 votes) | 57 | 20211228 |
| Castle on the HudsonAn arrogant mobster, sentenced to a long prison term in Sing Sing, becomes a changed man when given a chance by the fair and progressive warden. | 1940 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.8 (675 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Catacombs, The [Katakomby]Vlasta Burian was a legendary Czech comic actor, who appeared in dozens of Czech language films from 1923 to 1956. His heyday in film was the 1930s, and he is a distinctive and amusing presence, with his great mustache and his penetrating eyes. To date I have only seen two of his films:""Katakomby"" (The Catacombs) and ""Duch?cek to zar?d?,"" (which if I remember correctly, translates as ""Duchacek Will Fix It"").""Catacombs"" is the lesser of these two films. The title refers to the office of records in the basement of a large company... sort of the place where a troublesome employee may be dumped in a dead end job. If fact, the story is a simple romantic comedy, with Burian as the kindly old stick-in-the-mud who helps the young man to sort out his romance with the daughter of the company's owner.There are a few amusing bits with Burian, but the story is strictly by the numbers. I should also note that unless you can read subtitles VERY fast, you may find yourself pausing the DVD in order to catch the fast dialog. | 1940 | Martin Fric | Comedy | 7.1 (122 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Cavalcade of VarietyCheck out IMDb's 2017 Comic-Con Guide for the latest celebrity interviews, event coverage, cosplay photos, and more. | 1940 | Thomas Bentley | Comedy, Music, Musical | 4.7 (24 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Chad HannaCountry boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with Albany the star equestrian rider. Later he falls in love with Caroline another runaway who becomes the Circus' new bareback rider. | 1940 | Henry King | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (300 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Chamber of Horrors [The Door with Seven Locks]A murder is found to be connected to a false heir and a secret underground torture chamber. | 1940 | Norman Lee | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 5.6 (545 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Charley's [Big-Hearted] AuntTaking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college. | 1940 | Walter Forde | Comedy | 5.9 (154 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Charlie Chan at the Wax MuseumAn escaped convicted murderer hides out at a New York wax museum where he hopes to get plastic surgery, which will help him revenge himself on Charlie Chan. | 1940 | Lynn Shores | Mystery | 7.2 (1.6K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Charlie Chan in PanamaInspector Chan investigates a group of travelers, one of whom is a saboteur. | 1940 | Norman Foster | Adventure, Mystery | 7.2 (1.4K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Charlie Chan's Murder CruiseCharlie tries to discover the identity of a strangler who strikes multiple times on a cruise ship bound from Honolulu to California. | 1940 | Eugene Forde | Mystery | 7.2 (1.3K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Child, The [Barnet]The action begins one early summer morning in a hostel, where we see, among others, two young girls, a law student, Ruth, and a small office lady, Ilse. From their conversation, we understand that Ilse has a very bourgeois outlook... | 1940 | Benjamin Christensen | Drama, Family | 6.1 (15 votes) | 85 | 20230619 |
| China Night [Shina no yoru [ato]]Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese merchant marine officer. Part spy thriller and part Shanghai travelogue, it was part of a | 1940 | Osamu Fushimizu | Drama | 6.7 (31 votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Christmas in JulyWhen the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered? | 1940 | Preston Sturges (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.4 (3.8K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| City for ConquestDanny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together. | 1940 | Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco | Drama, Music, Sport | 7.3 (2.3K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| City of ChanceTexas girl (Bari) goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend (Woods) to come home. | 1940 | Ricardo Cortez | Crime, Drama | 6.5 (56 votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
| ColoradoTrouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he | 1940 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.0 (259 votes) | 57 | 20211228 |
| Comrade XAn American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country. | 1940 | King Vidor (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.5 (1.6K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Confucius [Kong Fuzi]The life story of the highly-influential Chinese philosopher, Confucius. | 1940 | Mu Fei | Biography, Drama, History | 6.4 (65 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Congo MaisieBrooklyn showgirl Maisie gets stranded in the African jungle with a romantic doctor. | 1940 | H.C. Potter | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 (433 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| ContrabandEarly in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies. | 1940 | Michael Powell (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War | 6.9 (1.2K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Convicted WomanJobless Betty Andrews, although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and, despite the best efforts of her lawyer and noted social worker Mary Ellis and a reporter, Jim Brent on her behalf, is sentenced to a year in the | 1940 | Nick Grinde | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.8 (145 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| ConvoyA tale of the highs and lows of life protecting the vital convoys between America & England during WWII. | 1940 | Pen Tennyson | Drama, War | 6.2 (301 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Cookoo CavaliersThe stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first customers are some chorus girls from a local night club. After the stooges completely ruin the g... | 1940 | Jules White | Short, Comedy | 7.5 (505 votes) | 18 | 20240224 |
| Courageous Dr. Christian, TheA doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out. | 1940 | Bernard Vorhaus | Drama | 6.1 (89 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Crimes at the Dark HouseA madman kills a man who has just inherited a large estate, then impersonates his victim to gain entrance to the estate so he can murder his enemies. | 1940 | George King | Drama | 6.2 (487 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Crooked Road, TheJohn Vincent, a respected member of the business community, is about to marry his sweetheart Louise when his past comes back to haunt him. Unknown to his fiance or friends, years earlier Vincent escaped from Dartmoor, an English pris | 1940 | Phil Rosen (*) | Drama | 6.6 (41 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Crooks TourCharters and Caldicott, touring in the Near East, are mistaken for German agents and handed in error a gramophone record which contains vital information for Britain's enemies. | 1940 | John Baxter | Comedy, Mystery | 5.7 (359 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Cross-Country RomanceChase across the country romance. | 1940 | Frank Woodruff | Comedy, Romance | 5.7 (223 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Curse of the Swastika, TheOn IMDb TV, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free! | 1940 | Unknown | Documentary | 6.3 (6 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Curtain CallA naive playwright sells her awful play, "The End of Everything," to two Broadway producers who want to get even with an ungrateful star. | 1940 | Frank Woodruff | Comedy, Romance | 5.9 (182 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Dad Rudd M PThe story of local man Dad Rudd (played by Bert Bailey) who see the need to increase the capacity of the dam, but faces opposition. | 1940 | Ken G. Hall | Comedy | 7.3 (29 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Dance, Girl, DanceWhen a troupe of danseuses becomes unemployed, one of them takes up burlesque dancing while another dreams of performing ballet. | 1940 | Dorothy Arzner, Roy Del Ruth | Comedy, Drama, Music | 6.8 (2.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Dancing on a DimeFrom Wikipedia Dancing on a Dime is a 1940 Paramount Pictures movie directed by Joseph Santley about five actors and dancers putting on a show while living in a theatre. It is adapted from a novel of the same name written by Dorothy | 1940 | Joseph Santley | Comedy, Drama, Music | 6.1 (35 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Danger on WheelsDuring a test a race car using an experimental oil-fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is initially blamed for the accident, but is later cleared. He thinks the engine design has a real chance to | 1940 | Christy Cabanne | Sport, Thriller | 5.3 (60 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Dark CommandIn Kansas, during the Civil War opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders. | 1940 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Western | 6.8 (2.6K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Dark Streets of CairoJewel smugglers in Cairo try to pin their crimes on a kidnapped baron. | 1940 | László Kardos | Adventure, Mystery | 5.7 (56 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Days of Hope [L'espoir]1937, during the spanish civil war, at Teruel. The fight of the Republicans (with very poor means but high commitment) against fascist army of General Franco. Can be seen as romanticized witness of director and writer Andre Malraux, | 1940 | André Malraux, Boris Peskine | Drama, War | 6.5 (329 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Deadwood DickDeadwood Dick, a masked and mysterious hero, is in reality Dick Stanley, editor of the Dakota Pioneer Press and a leading member of Statehood For Dakota. He is on the trail of a masked villain known as the Skull, who leads a viole... | 1940 | James W. Horne | Western | 7.2 (66 votes) | 285 | 20240530 |
| Devil Bat, TheA mad scientist develops an aftershave lotion that causes his gigantic bats to kill anyone who wears it. | 1940 | Jean Yarbrough | Horror, Sci-Fi | 5.5 (3K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Diamond FrontierStory of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa. | 1940 | Harold D. Schuster | Adventure, Crime, Romance | 5.4 (33 votes) | 73 | 20240826 |
| Die mißbrauchten LiebesbriefeWhile on a longer business trip, a wannabe poet urges his beautiful but more simple wife to answer his overly swollen love letters. With no idea how to respond she forwards the letters to a new young school teacher to use his answers | 1940 | Leopold Lindtberg | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (79 votes) | 95 | 20220419 |
| Dispatch from Reuters, AStarting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns his small company into Europe's most respected news wire service. | 1940 | William Dieterle (*) | Biography, Drama | 6.9 (607 votes) | 90 | 20220414 |
| Dispatch from Reuter's, AStarting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns his small company into Europe's most respected news wire service. | 1940 | William Dieterle (*) | Biography, Drama | 6.9 (607 votes) | 90 | 20220414 |
| Doctor Takes a Wife, TheA best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married. | 1940 | Alexander Hall | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 (908 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Doomed to DieMr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate's murder. | 1940 | William Nigh | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 5.6 (1.2K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Double AlibiA man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect. | 1940 | Phil Rosen (*) | Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.1 (51 votes) | 60 | 20220414 |
| Down Argentine WayAn American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner. | 1940 | Irving Cummings | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Sport | 6.5 (1.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Christian Meets the WomenA "professor" hits Dr. Christian's town, promising the local women dramatic weight loss in a very short time if they follow his regimen of strict diet and a particular type of diet pill. | 1940 | William C. McGann | Drama | 5.9 (105 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Dr. CyclopsA mad scientist working in the South American jungle miniaturizes his colleagues when he feels his megalomania is threatened. | 1940 | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.5 (2.5K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Ehrlich's Magic BulletTrue story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis. | 1940 | William Dieterle (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.4 (1.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Kildare Goes HomeDr. James Kildare has just completed his internship at Blair General Hospital and is assigned to work with his mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. But fearing for the health of his father, Dr. Stephen Kildare, he returns to his parents ho | 1940 | Harold S. Bucquet | Drama | 6.5 (373 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Kildare's CrisisNurse Mary Lamont is excited about her brother's impending visit. The young man's strange behavior puzzles Dr. Kildare who believes he may be hiding a serious illness. | 1940 | Harold S. Bucquet | Drama | 6.2 (361 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Kildare's Strange CaseYoung Dr. Kildare tries to help an unlucky brain surgeon and his seemingly insane patient. | 1940 | Harold S. Bucquet | Crime, Drama | 6.1 (506 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Dreaming Out LoudLum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals. | 1940 | Harold Young | Comedy | 6.6 (110 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Drei Codonas, DieBiography of the life of the circus performer Alfredo Codona. | 1940 | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Crime, Drama | 5.6 (14 votes) | 109 | 20230328 |
| Drums Of Fu ManchuThe nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesis, Dr. Nayland Smith, and his associates fight to keep the evil doc... | 1940 | John English, William Witney | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama | 6.9 (325 votes) | 269 | 20231001 |
| Drums Of The DesertOn his way to a post as special adviser of the new parachute troops of the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Paul Dumont meets the beautiful Helene on the ship. A romance ensues, but the two decide to part when Paul learns that Helen | 1940 | George Waggner | Adventure | 5.6 (96 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| DulcyA dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens. | 1940 | S. Sylvan Simon | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 6.1 (318 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Earl of Chicago, TheSilky has always moved booze. In prohibition, he smuggled it from Canada, but now that it is legal, he produces his own brand. Seven years before, he sent Doc to prison because Doc was an honest man. Now that he is getting out, Silky | 1940 | Richard Thorpe, Victor Saville | Drama | 6.3 (387 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| EarthboundA murdered man (Baxter) helps his widow (Leeds) bring his killer (Bari) to justice. | 1940 | Irving Pichel | Mystery, Fantasy | 6.1 (119 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| East of the RiverTwo troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl. | 1940 | Alfred E. Green | Crime, Drama | 6.2 (389 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| East Side KidsAfter being falsely accused of a murder, a group of kids have to find the real killer in order to clear their name. | 1940 | Robert F. Hill | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.6 (247 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Edison, The Man82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement. | 1940 | Clarence Brown | Biography, Drama | 7.1 (1.6K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Ellery Queen, Master DetectiveFamed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate. | 1940 | Kurt Neumann | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.2 (180 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Emergency SquadBetty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade W... | 1940 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Drama | 5.8 (46 votes) | 58 | 20231109 |
| Enemy AgentA man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are. | 1940 | Lew Landers | Adventure, Mystery | 6.2 (56 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| EscapeIn 1936, a young man arrives in Hitler's Germany, frantically seeking information about his missing German mother, and finds she is pending execution at a concentration camp. | 1940 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Drama | 7.0 (986 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Escape to GloryA British ship is attacked by a German U-boat at the onset of World War II. The reactions of the frightened passengers-from a German doctor to a drunken Irishman-are chronicled in this good story. | 1940 | John Brahm | Drama, War | 6.6 (47 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Eternal Jew, The [Der Ewige Jude]Under the guise of a brutally honest documentary, this malevolent propaganda film aims to be an "indispensable tool in the hands of the Aryan race", designed to depict the "true" Jew when the masks of western civilisation fall off. | 1940 | Fritz Hippler | Documentary, History | 4.8 (3.7K votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Eternal Melodies [Melodie eterne]Biopic on classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. | 1940 | Carmine Gallone | Drama | 5.4 (17 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| FalschmünzerA quartet of cosmopolitan forgers working out of Switzerland is thwarted by the Nazi SD before Germany's financial system would be weakened. | 1940 | Hermann Pfeiffer | Unknown | 7.4 (12 votes) | 86 | 20230619 |
| FantasiaA collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music, ranging from the abstract to depictions of mythology and fantasy, and settings including the prehistoric, supernatural and sacred. | 1940 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical | 7.7 (93.5K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Farmers Daughter, TheBroadway producer Nickie North, and his press agent Scoop Trimble, land a backer for a new show, but their "angel" requires that they rehearse the show out-of-town and star Clarice Sheldon, an ex-flame whose flickerings have become u | 1940 | James P. Hogan | Comedy, Music | 6.9 (64 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Fatal Hour, TheWhen Captain Street's best friend Dan Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong. Mr. Wong uncovers a smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco and unmasks the killer, though not until seve | 1940 | William Nigh | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 5.5 (1.1K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Father Is a PrinceCarpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners. He's a bit of a skinflint, too. His family thinks he works too hard. He feels inferior for not having gone to college, so now he d | 1940 | Noel M. Smith | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 (139 votes) | 57 | 20211228 |
| Fighting 69th, TheAlthough loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end. | 1940 | William Keighley | Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War | 6.7 (1.9K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Five Little Peppers at HomeEver since the poor Pepper family - widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five children Polly, Ben, Joey, Davie and Phronsie - warmed the once cold heart of wealthy businessman J.H. King, they have lived with him and his grandson Jasper in his | 1940 | Charles Barton | Drama | 6.2 (150 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Five Little Peppers in TroubleThe Peppers--widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five children Ben, Polly, Joey, Davie, and Phronsie--have returned to live in their small house in Gusty Corners with J.H. "Grandpa" King, his grandson Jasper, and their faithful butler Martin | 1940 | Charles Barton | Comedy, Drama | 5.9 (147 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Flash Gordon Conquers the UniverseA ravaging plague has struck the Earth threatening no less than global extinction. This alien disease is believed to be the evil spawn of Ming, the merciless Emperor of Planet Mongo. The world's only hope now rests with Flash Gordon. | 1940 | Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor | Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi | 6.6 (1.5K votes) | 195 | 20240524 |
| Flight CommandA rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at | 1940 | Frank Borzage (*) | Drama, War | 6.2 (767 votes) | 116 | 20220414 |
| FlorianThis film is (very) loosely based on the book by Austrian author Felix Salten. It follows the life of the Lippizaner stallion Florian. Of special notice is the time when he pulled Emperor Franz Joseph's carriage. | 1940 | Edwin L. Marin | Drama | 7.3 (87 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Flowing GoldIn the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck. | 1940 | Alfred E. Green | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (394 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Flying Squad, TheDedicated young Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of Mark McGill, murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London. Hindering his investigation is pretty Ann Perryman who has been convinced by McGill that B | 1940 | Herbert Brenon | Crime, Drama | 6.0 (100 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Foreign CorrespondentOn the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London. | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Action, Romance, Thriller, War | 7.5 (20.2K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Forty Little MothersAn out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against te | 1940 | Busby Berkeley (*) | Drama | 6.6 (295 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Four SonsWhen the Germans invade Czechoslovakia the four sons of a Czecho-German family follow different paths: Czech patriot, Nazi supporter, artist in America, and heroic German soldier. | 1940 | Archie Mayo | Drama, History, War | 6.2 (113 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| FramedA young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder. | 1940 | Harold D. Schuster | Drama | 5.8 (14 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Free, Blond and 21Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail. | 1940 | Ricardo Cortez | Drama, Romance | 6.1 (49 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Free, Blonde and 21Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail. | 1940 | Ricardo Cortez | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (50 votes) | 67 | 20220315 |
| French Way, The [Fausse alerte]Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud. | 1940 | Jacques de Baroncelli | Comedy, Romance | 6.4 (85 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| French Without TearsThe love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Diana, the sister of one of the boys, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates. | 1940 | Anthony Asquith | Comedy | 7.0 (93 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Frightened Lady, The [The Case of the Frightened Lady]"Mark's Priory," the Lebanons' family seat, is a house of terror to Ilsa Crane, Lady Lebanon's niece and secretary. The strange behavior of two sinister footmen, Gilder and Brooks, adds greatly to her fear, and her sole consolation l | 1940 | George King | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.4 (288 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| From Nurse To WorseThe stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately... | 1940 | Jules White | Short, Comedy | 7.6 (537 votes) | 17 | 20240224 |
| Fugitive from Justice, AFugitive Lee Leslie is wanted by three groups; the police, the gangsters who fear his testimony in court and the insurance company that carries a $1,000,000 policy on him and is anxious to protect its interests by seeing that Leslie | 1940 | Terry O. Morse | Crime, Drama | 5.1 (124 votes) | 53 | 20211228 |
| Gallant SonsTwo childhood friends have a falling out because of their fathers' occupations, which lands one father in jail. | 1940 | George B. Seitz | Mystery | 6.4 (253 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Gambling on the High SeasGambling boss Greg Morella runs a crooked ship-- all the gaming tables on his floating casino are rigged. Because the ship operates outside of the three-mile state limit, the authorities can't get the evidence they need to convict Mo | 1940 | George Amy | Drama | 6.0 (299 votes) | 55 | 20211228 |
| Gang War [Crime Street]Two mobs fight for control of the jukebox racket. | 1940 | Leo C. Popkin | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 5.0 (141 votes) | 63 | 20240501 |
| Gangs of ChicagoA criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way. | 1940 | Arthur Lubin | Crime, Drama | 6.0 (80 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| GaslightTwenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. However, the husband from the couple who have moved in has a secret which he will do anything to keep hidden. | 1940 | Thorold Dickinson | Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (4.4K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Gay Caballero, TheThe Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death, he is believed to have attempted to steal Susan Wetherby's land. | 1940 | Otto Brower | Western | 6.1 (64 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Ghost Breakers, TheA radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the mystery of a haunted castle in Cuba. | 1940 | George Marshall (*) | Comedy, Horror, Mystery | 7.2 (3.4K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Ghost Comes Home, TheA missing man returns and learns his wife collected on his life insurance. | 1940 | Wilhelm Thiele | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.0 (270 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Girl From Avenue AAt the turn of the century a theatrically talented waif (Withers) is adopted by a wealthy family to encourage their playwright son (Taylor). | 1940 | Otto Brower | Comedy | 7.4 (9 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Girl from God's CountryJim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous nurses have been driven home within a few weeks by the rigors of the Alaskan winter, the primitive con... | 1940 | Sidney Salkow | Drama | 6.2 (16 votes) | 75 | 20240625 |
| Girl from HavanaWoody Davis and are Tex Moore ambitious and enterprising friends who decide to become South American oil drillers in hope of becoming wealthy. Woody and Tex set up a site, but unfortunately, must spend their time fending off attacks | 1940 | Lew Landers | Drama | 5.9 (26 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Girl in 313A police agent infiltrates a gang of jewel thieves and on the way to finding who the evildoers are, falls in love with a thief. | 1940 | Ricardo Cortez | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.9 (80 votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
| Girl in the NewsNurse Anne Graham (Margaret Lockwood) is controversially, but rightly, acquitted of murder after her elderly patient dies under suspicious circumstances. Changing her name, she gets a position nursing wheelchair-bound Edward Bentley | 1940 | Carol Reed (*) | Crime, Thriller | 6.7 (283 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Girls of the RoadA story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men a | 1940 | Nick Grinde | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.0 (161 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Give Us WingsDead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps. | 1940 | Charles Lamont | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 5.5 (49 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Glamour For SaleAn undercover man (Roger Pryor) recruits an escort-service rookie (Anita Louise) to inform him of scams. | 1940 | D. Ross Lederman | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 6.2 (97 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Go WestThe Marx Brothers come to the rescue in the Wild West when a young man, trying to settle an old family feud so he can marry the girl he loves, runs afoul of crooks. | 1940 | Edward Buzzell | Comedy, Musical, Western | 6.9 (5.4K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Gold Rush MaisieMaisie Ravier finds herself stranded in an Arizona ghost town with a family of migrant dust bowl refugees. The ghost town, it turns out, may have a gold mine. | 1940 | Edwin L. Marin, J. Walter Ruben, Norman Taurog | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 (376 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Golden Fleecing, TheAfter unwittingly selling a life insurance policy to a gangster who receives death threats, a naïve insurance salesman must keep him alive to avoid paying-up the benefits. | 1940 | Leslie Fenton | Comedy, Crime | 6.1 (224 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Golden GlovesBill Crane, an up and coming honest boxer, runs afoul of Taggerty and his fellow racketeers by fighting fair. They set out to ruin Crane but with the support of his girl Mary and newspaperman Matson the pugilist stands up to the mob. | 1940 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Crime, Drama, Sport | 6.5 (66 votes) | 66 | 20240609 |
| Gorky 3 - My Universities [Moi universitety]The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's Maxim Gorky trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in Detstvo Gorkogo (1938) and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Maxim Gorky reaches maturity | 1940 | Mark Donskoy | Biography, Drama | 6.5 (202 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Grand Ole OpryAbner Weaver, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks, through the music of performers from 'The Grand Ole Opry," and the antics and help of his family and the local citizens, manages to pass a legislative bill to help the farmers, and also | 1940 | Frank McDonald | Comedy, Music | 6.8 (61 votes) | 67 | 20220423 |
| Grandmother, The [Babicka]"Grandmother" is a highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. It's a classical, compulsory reading in Czech schools, about a wise, working-class woman, happier in her simplicity and goo | 1940 | Frantisek Cáp | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (118 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Grapes of Wrath, TheAn Oklahoma family driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. | 1940 | John Ford (*) | Drama | 8.1 (90.3K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Great Dictator, TheDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime. | 1940 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Drama, War | 8.4 (217.2K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Great McGinty, TheDan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty. | 1940 | Preston Sturges (*) | Comedy | 7.3 (3.9K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Great Plane Robbery, TheWhen heavily-insured gangster Frankie Toller is released from prison, Mike Henderson is assigned by the insurance company to make sure Toller's policy expires before he does. This, concise. | 1940 | Lewis D. Collins | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 4.3 (33 votes) | 61 | 20240826 |
| Great Profile, TheBarrymore lampoons himself. A famous actor, given to drink, nearly destroys the show, but his leading lady returns to save it. Meanwhile a young girl tries to reform him. | 1940 | Walter Lang | Comedy | 6.1 (243 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Green Archer, TheThe struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans. | 1940 | James W. Horne | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama | 6.5 (199 votes) | 285 | 20240530 |
| Green HellIn the jungles of the Amazon, a group of Western adventures and two local native guides try to locate a lost treasure buried beneath an ancient Incan city. | 1940 | James Whale (*) | Adventure, Romance | 5.8 (351 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Green Hornet Strikes Again!, TheA wealthy publisher uses a disguise and calls himself the Green Hornet to fight crime in his city. | 1940 | Ford Beebe, John Rawlins | Action, Adventure, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi | 6.6 (429 votes) | 293 | 20240530 |
| Green Hornet, TheA newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide. | 1940 | Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor | Adventure, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.5 (670 votes) | 258 | 20230728 |
| Half a SinnerAlthough young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspir | 1940 | Al Christie | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery | 6.3 (350 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Haunted HoneymoonA dead body is discovered in the newly purchased home of a gentleman sleuth and his mystery-novelist bride. | 1940 | Arthur B. Woods, Richard Thorpe | Comedy, Drama, Mystery | 6.3 (746 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| He Married His WifeRace horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off. | 1940 | Roy Del Ruth | Comedy | 6.1 (222 votes) | 83 | 20220414 |
| He Stayed For BreakfastIn Paris, the estranged wife of a wealthy banker hides a fiery communist fugitive in her apartment. | 1940 | Alexander Hall | Comedy | 6.3 (174 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Heart of the Queen, The [Das Herz der Königin]While awaiting her unjust execution at the hands of the treacherous Queen Elizabeth I, the tragic Mary Stuart reflects at the series of cruel political machinations that set up her path to the scaffold. | 1940 | Carl Froelich | Biography, Drama | 6.4 (96 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Heckler, TheAn obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody. | 1940 | Del Lord | Comedy, Short | 7.1 (61 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| Henry Aldrich Life With HenryHenry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska. | 1940 | Theodore Reed | Comedy, Family | 6.2 (48 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Her First RomanceA rather plain coed Fellows and her beautiful sister Wells compete for the same man Evans. When Ladd thinks Evans is moving in on Linden he knocks him down, but things get straightened out. | 1940 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Drama, Musical | 6.3 (57 votes) | 77 | 20220414 |
| Here Is the Point [Ahi esta el detalle]The boyfriend (Cantinflas) of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been los | 1940 | Juan Bustillo Oro | Comedy | 8.0 (1.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Hidden GoldHoppy and Lucky confront a gang of outlaws which has been ravaging stagecoaches and gold mines. The final gunfight is at Ed Colby's mine. | 1940 | Lesley Selander | Western | 6.5 (194 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| High SchoolTexas ranch teenager (Withers) is sent to school in San Antonio where she learns to get along with others. | 1940 | George Nichols Jr., Norman Foster | Comedy | 6.6 (72 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Hired WifeCement company CEO Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a wife in name only, an arrangement made to protect his finances from an attempt at a hostile business takeover. Once the threat to his company is neutraliz | 1940 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy | 6.6 (406 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| His Bridal FrightCharley writes to girls all over the world in order to get foreign postage stamps for his collection--but winds up with a passel of girls who think he's their fiance. | 1940 | Del Lord | Comedy, Short | 6.5 (30 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| His Ex Marks The SpotBuster's home life is disrupted when his ex-wife and her boyfriend move in. | 1940 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 5.2 (139 votes) | 18 | 20211228 |
| His Girl FridayA newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. | 1940 | Howard Hawks (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (57.2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Hit Parade of 1941A small radio station is saved of getting bankrupt by a backer, who invests money for a TV equipment, if the owner allows, that his dancing daughter Annabelle can dance and sing on the screen, but due to her voice, her singing had to | 1940 | John H. Auer | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.0 (77 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Home MoviesBlunderer Robert Benchley is going to show some house guests the film he and his wife took on a vacation trip. He sets up the projector and the reel begins...and nothing good happens for Benchley from this point. | 1940 | Basil Wrangell | Comedy, Short | 6.4 (115 votes) | 8 | 20211228 |
| Honeymoon DeferredDetective Adam Farradene postpones his honeymoon with wife Janet to investigate a murder. Janet puts aside her frustration to lend a hand, despite Adam's insistence on working alone. | 1940 | Lew Landers | Mystery | 6.2 (41 votes) | 59 | 20220414 |
| Hot SteelMatt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues. | 1940 | Christy Cabanne | Comedy, Drama, Mystery | 5.0 (31 votes) | 64 | 20240826 |
| House Across The Bay, TheAn aircraft designer falls for the wife of an imprisoned gangster. All goes well until the gangster gets out of prison... | 1940 | Archie Mayo | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (538 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| House of the Seven Gables, TheBased on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this classic film follows a family feud between two brothers and an ancient curse that haunts them. | 1940 | Joe May | Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (1.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| How High Is UpThe stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're caught in the act, they escape an... | 1940 | Del Lord | Comedy, Short | 7.8 (550 votes) | 17 | 20240224 |
| Howards of Virginia, TheJust prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war. | 1940 | Frank Lloyd | Drama, History, War | 6.1 (1.2K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Hudson's BayHighly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest. | 1940 | Irving Pichel | Adventure, History | 6.4 (422 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| HullabalooA movie musical centered on merrily befogged Merriweather's attempt to restore his career - all while reuniting with his three children (from his three alimony-seeking ex-wives!). | 1940 | Edwin L. Marin | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.0 (212 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| I Can't Give You Anything But Love, BabyWhen Public Enemy No. 3 Sonny McGann meets composer Bob Gunther, he gets the idea of having Bob write music to a poem he has written about his long-lost sweetheart Sadie McGlonsky. Somewhere between kidnapping and gentle persuasion, | 1940 | Albert S. Rogell | Comedy, Music | 6.6 (25 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| I Love You AgainBoring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife. | 1940 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.5 (3.3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| I Take This WomanA doctor (Spencer Tracy) marries a suicidal woman (Hedy Lamarr) but begins to doubt her fidelity. | 1940 | W.S. Van Dyke, Frank Borzage, Josef von Sternberg | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (655 votes) | 98 | 20220414 |
| I Want a DivorceComedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake. | 1940 | Ralph Murphy | Comedy, Drama | 6.0 (82 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| I Was an AdventuressA pair of crooks (von Stroheim and Lorre) use a phony countess (Zorina) who winds up falling in love with one of their victims (Greene). | 1940 | Gregory Ratoff | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.8 (233 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| If I Had My WayWhen a fellow bridge builder is killed in an accident, two of his co-workers bring his now orphaned daughter to New York to be adopted by relatives. | 1940 | David Butler | Comedy, Musical | 6.1 (170 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| I'm Nobody's Sweetheart NowTod Lowell (Dennis O'Keefe)),the quarterback of the Southern State football team has been dating Betty Gilbert (Constance Moore), a nightclub singer. But his mother, Mrs. Henry Lowell objects to her because his father, Senator Henry | 1940 | Arthur Lubin | Adventure, Comedy, Music, Romance | 6.4 (24 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| I'm Still AliveSteve Bennett is a daring flier who crashes airplanes for the movies, and Laura Marley is an arrogant movie star who is transformed into a very likable woman when she marries Steve. But she, fearing for his life, at her insistence St | 1940 | Irving Reis | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 5.8 (82 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| In Old MissouriThe Weavers play sharecroppers. They confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs the Weavers to trade places w... | 1940 | Frank McDonald | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | 5.7 (36 votes) | 68 | 20230728 |
| In the Fields of Dreams [Unelma karjamajalla]Drama about a young woman in rural Finland in the 1930s. The small village provides a scene for intrigues, fights, love, jealousy, accusations, and revenge. | 1940 | Teuvo Tulio | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (121 votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Invisible Man Returns, TheThe owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness. | 1940 | Joe May | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.5 (4.3K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Invisible Woman, TheAn attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine. | 1940 | A. Edward Sutherland | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi | 6.0 (2.8K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| IreneSent by her employers on an errand to the home of the wealthy Mrs. Vincent, Irene O'Dare meets Don, a friend of Bob, Mrs. Vincent's son. Attracted to Irene, Don decides to invest some money in Bob's latest venture, the "Madame Lucy" | 1940 | Herbert Wilcox | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.4 (698 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Island of Doomed MenUndercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel. | 1940 | Charles Barton | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.9 (455 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Isle of DestinySociety glamor girl/aviatrix Virginia Allerton decides to alter her around-the-world flight by stopping off on the Pacific isle of Palo Pango where her brother, Lieutenant Allerton is stationed with a detachment of U.S. Marines, i... | 1940 | Elmer Clifton | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 4.7 (110 votes) | 95 | 20240609 |
| It All Came TrueAfter crooked nightclub owner Chips Maguire murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house. | 1940 | Lewis Seiler | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (1.2K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| It's a DateAn aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man. | 1940 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.5 (616 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Johnny ApolloThe son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father's release. | 1940 | Henry Hathaway | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.0 (1.3K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Jud Su¨ssInfamous anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer. | 1940 | Veit Harlan | Drama | 5.2 (3.1K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| June Night [Juninatten]When Kerstin Norback is shot and gravely wounded by her lover, the trial causes a public scandal, forcing her to move to Stockholm under an assumed name. There she befriends a group of women and attempts to rebuild her life. | 1940 | Per Lindberg | Drama | 6.0 (563 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Keeping CompanyA real estate agent and his wife try to advise their eldest daughter about marriage. | 1940 | S. Sylvan Simon | Drama | 5.9 (178 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| King of the LumberjacksTwo men and one woman in logging country and their changing love triangle. | 1940 | William Clemens | Action, Drama, Romance, Western | 5.5 (179 votes) | 58 | 20221116 |
| King of the Royal MountedCanadian Tom Merritt has discovered a substance, Compound X, that will cure infantile paralysis, which he extracts from a mine at Caribou, Canada. A country at war with Canada (unnamed because while Canada and the British Empire w... | 1940 | John English, William Witney | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.6 (115 votes) | 211 | 20240530 |
| Kinuyo no hatsukoinan | 1940 | Hiromasa Nomura | Unknown | 5.7 (8 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Kit CarsonIndian fighter, trapper and frontier scout Kit Carson leads a wagon train of settlers from Fort Bridger, along the Oregon Trail through Shoshone territory, to California which plans to secede from Mexico. | 1940 | George B. Seitz | Biography, Romance, Western | 6.3 (478 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Kitty FoyleA hard-working, white-collar girl from a middle-class family meets and falls in love with a young socialite, but she soon clashes with his family. | 1940 | Sam Wood (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (3.6K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Knute Rockne - All AmericanThe story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne. | 1940 | Lloyd Bacon, William K. Howard | Biography, Drama, Family, Sport | 6.8 (1.9K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| LaddieHandsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England. | 1940 | Jack Hively | Drama | 6.4 (108 votes) | 70 | 20240622 |
| Ladies Must LiveWhen actress Pat Halliday gets out of a jam with the help of farmer Corey Lake, she invites him to come see her sometime in the big city. Corey, who is actually a millionaire who dabbles in farming, shows up, much to Pat's surprise. | 1940 | Noel M. Smith | Comedy, Romance | 5.7 (89 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Lady in Question, TheA juror in a murder trial takes pity on the recently acquitted defendant and invites her to move into his family's home and his son soon falls in love with her. | 1940 | Charles Vidor (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (774 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Lady with Red HairA messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. She's determined to return to her hometown in a few years as a success and with enough money t | 1940 | Curtis Bernhardt | Biography, Drama | 6.3 (391 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Last Alarm, TheA veteran firefighter is forced to retire at age 65 by the Fire Department. | 1940 | William Beaudine | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama | 5.7 (223 votes) | 61 | 20240110 |
| Law and DisorderOn the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed by a satisfactory cast. | 1940 | David MacDonald | Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.1 (43 votes) | 74 | 20231101 |
| Leather Pushers, TheA shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest cha... | 1940 | John Rawlins | Comedy | 5.9 (33 votes) | 64 | 20240826 |
| Legion of the LawlessIn the 13th film of the 17 B-westerns made by George O'Brien in 1937-1940 for RKO, (who would remake "Legion of the Lawless" two years later as "Pirates of the Prairie" with Tim Holt), O'Brien, as lawyer Jeff Toland hangs out his shi | 1940 | David Howard | Western | 6.5 (62 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Letter, TheThe wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing. | 1940 | William Wyler (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 7.6 (12.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Light of Western Stars [Border Renegade], TheCowhand Ladd dances with cantina girl Estrella and has a part in shooting Sheriff Tyler. | 1940 | Lesley Selander | Western | 5.5 (153 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Lillian RussellLife story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore. | 1940 | Irving Cummings | Biography, Drama, History, Music | 6.6 (503 votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Little MenJo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's f | 1940 | Norman Z. McLeod (*) | Comedy, Drama | 5.7 (368 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Little Nelly KellyIrish colleen Nellie is in love with handsome Jerry Kelly, even though her father objects. Nellie and Jerry soon marry and announce plans to move to New York, which again angers Nellie's father. Still, fear of never seeing his daught | 1940 | Norman Taurog | Comedy, Family, Musical | 6.4 (605 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Little Old New YorkSteamboat inventor Robert Fulton shows up in New York in 1807. Tavern keeper believes in him, but her boyfriend doesn't. All seems lost when sailors afraid of losing their jobs burn his boat. | 1940 | Henry King | Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance | 6.6 (222 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Little OrvieLittle Orvie is told he cannot have a dog, but finds a stray and keeps it for a day. | 1940 | Ray McCarey | Comedy, Drama | 5.7 (71 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| London Can Take ItA tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz. | 1940 | Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt | Documentary, War, Short | 7.0 (650 votes) | 9 | 20211228 |
| Lone Wolf Keeps a Date, TheComplicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit. | 1940 | Sidney Salkow | Comedy, Drama, Crime, Thriller | 6.2 (288 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Lone Wolf Meets a Lady, TheA hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit. Lanyard, the Lone Wolf, and Jamison set out to find the real killer. | 1940 | Sidney Salkow | Comedy, Drama, Mystery | 6.4 (332 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Lone Wolf Strikes, TheDelia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires Michael Lanyard (aka The Lone Wolf), a retired-and-reformed jewel thief to find the killer and the jewels. He is more than glad to do so, as it is jus | 1940 | Sidney Salkow | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.6 (337 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Long Voyage Home, TheA merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war. | 1940 | John Ford (*) | Drama, War | 7.0 (4.2K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Love Thy NeighborJack Benny is preparing his New Year's Eve radio broadcast but takes time out to take his valet Rochester to meet his girlfriend Josephine arriving on a steamer. Fred Allen and his sister Barbara are also en route to the dock to meet | 1940 | Mark Sandrich (*) | Comedy, Musical | 6.5 (144 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Love, Honor and Oh BabyIn despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in love with another woman--but he can't stop the man trying to kill him because he doesn' | 1940 | Charles Lamont | Comedy, Mystery, Romance | 6.3 (36 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Lucky PartnersTwo strangers share a sweepstakes ticket and then embark on an "imaginary" honeymoon with their "winnings". | 1940 | Lewis Milestone | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (909 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Ma! He's Making Eyes at MeWoodbury's fashionable gown-salon on Fifth Avenue is about to take bankruptcy. An unemployed showgirl, Connie Curtiss, tell's the store's press agent, Tommy Shaw, that more girls would buy and wear Woodbury's styles if the prices wer | 1940 | Harold D. Schuster | Comedy, Music, Romance | 6.7 (20 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Mad Doctor, TheA crazed physician marries a wealthy women and, with the help of his demented assistant, murders them for their money. | 1940 | Tim Whelan | Crime, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 6.5 (313 votes) | 90 | 20240727 |
| Maddalena... zero in condottaA teacher writes sample letters to a fictional Mr. Hartman with her students, but the recipient really exists. | 1940 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Comedy | 6.3 (353 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Man from Dakota, TheDuring the Civil War a beautiful woman helps two Union spies cross into the Confederacy and gather information. | 1940 | Leslie Fenton | Drama, History, War, Western | 5.6 (129 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Man I Married, TheAnti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America. | 1940 | Irving Pichel | Drama | 6.9 (533 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Talked Too Much, TheAssistant District Attorney Stephen Forbes, an impressive orator with a long list of convictions, resigns when an innocent boy is convicted and the real murderer confesses too late. He opens a cheap law office and his secretary Joan | 1940 | Vincent Sherman | Drama | 6.4 (279 votes) | 76 | 20220414 |
| Man Who Wouldn't Talk, TheA man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however. | 1940 | David Burton | Crime, Drama | 6.5 (78 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Man With Nine LivesA medical researcher visits the deserted home of a pioneer in cryogenic science who disappeared 10 years earlier and finds him frozen in ice but still alive. | 1940 | Nick Grinde | Mystery, Sci-Fi | 6.5 (925 votes) | 74 | 20220414 |
| Man with Nine Lives, TheA medical researcher visits the deserted home of a pioneer in cryogenic science who disappeared 10 years earlier and finds him frozen in ice but still alive. | 1940 | Nick Grinde | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 6.5 (1.1K votes) | 74 | 20240916 |
| Marines Fly High, TheMarine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant. | 1940 | George Nicholls Jr., Benjamin Stoloff | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 5.4 (202 votes) | 68 | 20240605 |
| Mark of Zorro, TheA young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California. | 1940 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Action, Adventure, Family, Romance, Western | 7.6 (10K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Married and in LoveDoris Wilding (Helen Vinson), a selfish, pleasure-seeking woman, decides to elope with her former college sweetheart, Leslie Yates (Alan Marshal), but there are two problems...she is married to Paul Wilding (Patric Knowles) and he is | 1940 | John Farrow | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (87 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| MarylandA woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt. | 1940 | Henry King | Drama | 6.0 (143 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Masked Ball [Bal paré]At the turn of the century in Munich, a ballerina accepts the sponsorship of an older industrialist but also spends time with his son. | 1940 | Karl Ritter | Comedy, Music, Romance | 8.2 (19 votes) | 100 | 20221228 |
| Meet the WildcatMagazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod Williams steal a painting from its frame. Convinced that Brod is the notorious art thief known as "The Wildcat," Ann follows him into | 1940 | Arthur Lubin | Mystery | 6.2 (54 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Melody RanchHis Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration. | 1940 | Joseph Santley | Western | 6.2 (243 votes) | 84 | 20231002 |
| Men with Steel Faces [Radio Ranch]Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth. | 1940 | Otto Brower, B. Reeves Eason | Sci-Fi, Western | 4.4 (151 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Mexican SpitfireNewlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage. | 1940 | Leslie Goodwins | Comedy | 6.2 (362 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Mexican Spitfire Out WestWith husband Dennis preoccupied with a business deal, Carmelita decides to teach him a lesson by running off to Reno and filing for divorce. | 1940 | Leslie Goodwins | Comedy | 6.1 (235 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Michael Shayne - Private DetectiveAfter gumshoe Mike Shayne is hired by a millionaire to keep his daughter away from gambling and gamblers, he becomes involved in the murder of a racetrack tout. | 1940 | Eugene Forde | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.7 (469 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Military AcademyTommy Lewis, the son of a big time racketeer, is enrolled in military school under an assumed name as protection from the notoriety of his father. Tommy is assigned to share a room with Dick Hill, an egotistical school athlete, an... | 1940 | D. Ross Lederman | Drama | 6.0 (24 votes) | 66 | 20240622 |
| Millionaires in PrisonA crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside. | 1940 | Ray McCarey | Crime, Drama | 5.7 (190 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Misbehaving HusbandsThe owner of a department store is threatened with divorce by his wife, who has gotten reports that he's been seen in the arms of a beautiful blonde on the night of their 20th wedding anniversary. He has to find a way to convince her | 1940 | William Beaudine | Comedy, Romance | 5.3 (149 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Money and the WomanThe City Trust and Savings Bank sends Vice President Dave Bennett to a branch office to check on a Charles Patterson. Charlie has greatly increased the amount of money in savings and is very involved with all of his customers. When o | 1940 | William K. Howard | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (86 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Moon Over BurmaThe managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon. | 1940 | Louis King | Adventure | 6.7 (71 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Mortal Storm, TheThe Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil. | 1940 | Frank Borzage (*) | Drama | 7.8 (5.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Mummy's Hand, TheArchaeologists defile the tomb of mummified Kharis, who was buried alive for falling in love with an Egyptian princess. | 1940 | Christy Cabanne | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror | 6.1 (4K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Murder in the AirThe corpse of a hobo with a $50,000 money belt helps Brass and Gabby crack a cell of fifth columnists bent on sabotage. | 1940 | Lewis Seiler | Action, Thriller, Drama | 5.6 (309 votes) | 55 | 20211228 |
| Murder Over New YorkWhen Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on. | 1940 | Harry Lachman | Mystery | 7.0 (1.2K votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Music in My HeartRita Hayworth co-stars with famed recording artist Tony Martin in this musical comedy featuring the music of Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra. Following various comic misunderstandings, the two meet and fall for each other, but wi | 1940 | Joseph Santley | Musical, Romance | 6.0 (537 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| My Crimes After Mein Kampf [Apres Mein Kampf mes crimes]A French filmmaker responds to German militarism, calling Nazism to account via newsreel footage and re-created scenes. | 1940 | Alexandre Ryder | Drama, War | 5.5 (35 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| My Crimes After Mein Kampf [Après Mein Kampf mes crimes]A French filmmaker responds to German militarism, calling Nazism to account via newsreel footage and re-created scenes. | 1940 | Alexandre Ryder | Drama, War | 5.5 (35 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| My Favorite WifeMissing for seven years and presumed dead, a woman returns home on the day of her husband's second marriage. | 1940 | Garson Kanin | Comedy, Romance | 7.3 (10.3K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| My Little ChickadeeAfter a scandal runs a gold-digger out of town, she meets a con artist and becomes embroiled in a string of petty deceits. | 1940 | Edward F. Cline | Comedy, Western | 6.9 (2.8K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| My Love Came BackAmelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so that Julius can escort Amelia to every musical event in the city. | 1940 | Curtis Bernhardt | Comedy, Drama, Music | 6.3 (484 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| My Son, My Son!A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him. | 1940 | Charles Vidor (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (204 votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Mysterious Doctor SatanA mad scientist plots the domination of America and only the masked hero, The Copperhead, can stop him. | 1940 | John English, William Witney | Action, Adventure, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi | 7.3 (279 votes) | 267 | 20240530 |
| Mystery in SwingIn and around some great blues, swing and jazz music, a very unpopular band-leader. Prince Ellis, is killed in a Harlem nightclub, and, in and around some more great music, a detective finds the lists of suspects is very long, as Pri | 1940 | Arthur Dreifuss | Action, Adventure, Music, Mystery, Romance | 5.5 (103 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Mystery Sea RaiderAt the outset of World War II, June McCarthy meets Carl Cutler aboard the S.S.Aleria, a British vessel en route to New York from London, where she has been dancing. The ship is sunk in mid-voyage by an unidentified submarine, and Cut | 1940 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Drama, War | 6.7 (65 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| New MoonOn a Louisiana-bound ship, a nobleman planning a campaign for liberty encounters an heiress. | 1940 | Robert Z. Leonard, W.S. Van Dyke | Musical, Romance, Adventure | 6.7 (592 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Night at Earl Carroll's, ANewly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnap... | 1940 | Kurt Neumann | Musical | 6.0 (77 votes) | 62 | 20220531 |
| Night Train to MunichAfter Germany invades Czechoslovakia, the German and the British intelligence services try to capture Czech scientist Dr. Axel Bomasch (James Harcourt), inventor of a new type of armor-plating. | 1940 | Carol Reed (*) | Drama, Thriller, War | 7.2 (4.9K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| No Census No FeelingThe stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a fancy mansion looking for people to survey. Moe and Larry are recruited to join a bridge game, while Curly adds Alum to the lemonade. The resulting concoction is consumed by e... | 1940 | Del Lord | Comedy, Short | 7.9 (634 votes) | 17 | 20240224 |
| No Time for ComedyPlaywright Gaylord Esterbrook scores a hit with his first Broadway play, both with the critics and with leading lady Linda Paige. He and Linda are happily married until a patroness of the arts convinces Esterbrook to forget about com | 1940 | William Keighley | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (1.1K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| No, No, NanettePerky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bi | 1940 | Herbert Wilcox | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 5.4 (200 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| NobukoA spirited young teacher challenges a conservative school with her liberal thinking and teaching methods. | 1940 | Hiroshi Shimizu | Drama | 7.0 (107 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| North West Mounted PoliceIn 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government. | 1940 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Western | 6.5 (1.6K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Northwest Passage [Northwest Passage Book I -- Rogers' Rangers]Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected. | 1940 | King Vidor, Jack Conway, W.S. Van Dyke | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western | 7.0 (3.9K votes) | 126 | 20240419 |
| Nothing But PleasureTo save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home. | 1940 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 6.1 (142 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| Nutty But NiceThree bumbling waiters try to help a clinically depressed little girl by locating her kidnapped father. | 1940 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 7.3 (504 votes) | 18 | 20240224 |
| Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!Johnny Sandham (Tom Brown), a traveling salesman for a department store, agrees, under duress after his truck forced her roadster of the road, to take ""Kelly"" Archer (Peggy Moran), a runaway heiress, to New York City, where she in... | 1940 | Charles Lamont | Comedy, Music, Romance | 6.1 (27 votes) | 63 | 20231001 |
| Old Mother Riley in SocietyOld mother Riley's daughter kitty marries an aristocrat. Old mother Riley then becomes a servant in the aristocrats household. | 1940 | John Baxter | Comedy | 4.7 (27 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| On the SpotFrankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into national prominence. Frankie and his pal, Jefferson, become involved when a wounded gang | 1940 | Howard Bretherton | Mystery | 5.6 (77 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| On Their OwnThe Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue. | 1940 | Otto Brower | Comedy | 6.8 (24 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| One Crowded NightCrucial events in the lives of many people occur on the same night in the same place. | 1940 | Irving Reis | Drama | 6.0 (171 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| One Man's Fate [Miehen tie]Young farmer Paavo's wife dies in childbirth, and their baby soon follows. The wife's family claims back the dowry she brought to their marriage, but Paavo has already used most of it for farm improvements. Paavo resorts to drinking | 1940 | Hugo Hytönen, Nyrki Tapiovaara | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (84 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| One Million B.CTale of Prehistoric survival and love between a male and a female belonging to opposing tribes that happened to be at slightly different stages of evolution. | 1940 | Hal Roach Jr., Hal Roach | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi | 5.7 (1.5K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| One Night In The TropicsJim "Lucky" Moore (Allan Jones), an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve (Robert Cummings): a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancee, Cynthia (Nancy | 1940 | A. Edward Sutherland | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.4 (1.7K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Opened by MistakeA wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside. | 1940 | George Archainbaud | Comedy, Mystery | 5.9 (16 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| OperetteA musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with Maria, the aristocratic opera manager, end in abrupt firing in spite of a mutual attraction. He is quickly engaged by another theatre and will become | 1940 | Willi Forst, Karl Hartl | Musical | 8.1 (57 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Our Miss Doctor [Unser Fräulein Doktor]At an all male school where it is assumed that women are inferior, a lady substitute takes over for a math and chemistry teacher who has had an accident. Will she be able to change minds as to the equality of the sexes? | 1940 | Erich Engel | Comedy | 7.5 (48 votes) | 94 | 20221228 |
| Our TownChange comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. | 1940 | Sam Wood (*) | Drama, Family, Romance | 6.6 (2.6K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Out West with the PeppersThe Peppers - widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five children Polly, Ben, Joey, Davie and Phronsie - and the Kings - mining businessman J.H. King and his grandson Jasper King - are still living in the Pepper's small house in Gusty Corners | 1940 | Charles Barton | Comedy, Drama, Western | 5.4 (142 votes) | 62 | 20220423 |
| Pardon My Berth MarksBuster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife. | 1940 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 6.0 (140 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| Parole FixerThis expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made | 1940 | Robert Florey | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.7 (37 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Pastor HallThis film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf in the 1930's has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler | 1940 | Roy Boulting | Drama | 7.6 (67 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Phantom of ChinatownDetective James Lee Wong is on the scene as archaeologist Dr. John Benton, recently returned from an expedition in China where a valuable ancient scroll was recovered, is murdered while giving a lecture on the expedition. | 1940 | Phil Rosen (*) | Mystery | 6.0 (675 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Phantom RaidersAn insurance company tasks Carter and Beeswax to Panama as cargo ships are mysteriously exploding and sending their valuable cargoes to the bottom with all hands. | 1940 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (449 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Philadelphia Story, TheWhen a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself. | 1940 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.9 (67.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Pier 13Policeman (Nolan) flirts with waitress (Bari) and finds out her sister (Valerie) is involved with the robber (Fowley) he is trailing. | 1940 | Eugene Forde | Crime, Mystery | 5.9 (64 votes) | 64 | 20230424 |
| PinocchioA living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. | 1940 | Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 7.4 (139.9K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| A Plumbing We Will GoTo escape the police, the Stooges pose as plumbers contracted to fix a mansion's plumbing, which inevitably causes destructive chaos. | 1940 | Del Lord | Comedy, Short | 8.2 (1.2K votes) | 18 | 20240224 |
| Pohádka májenan | 1940 | Otakar Vávra | Romance | 6.0 (29 votes) | 88 | 20221228 |
| Postmaster, The [Der Postmeister] A troubled father, working as a postmaster in province, worries about his daughter taken to the capital by a rich officer. | 1940 | Gustav Ucicky | Drama | 7.0 (181 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Pride and PrejudiceThe arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters. | 1940 | Robert Z. Leonard | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (8.1K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Pride of the BoweryNew York City street principles get an East Side Kid in trouble at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. | 1940 | Joseph H. Lewis (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.0 (588 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Primrose PathA young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but when he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized. | 1940 | Gregory La Cava (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (1.5K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Private AffairsAmos Bullerton, son of an old Boston family, has chosen for twenty years to remain a "black sheep" rather than submit to the dictation of his staid family. Jane Bullerton, his daughter, finds herself in the same quandary, ordered by | 1940 | Albert S. Rogell | Romance, Comedy | 5.6 (49 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Proud Valley, TheIn a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens. | 1940 | Pen Tennyson | Drama, Music | 6.6 (509 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Public Deb No. 1When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company. | 1940 | Gregory Ratoff | Comedy | 6.2 (42 votes) | 79 | 20220205 |
| Queen of the MobMobster Ma Webster rules her clan with an iron hand, taking charge of all their robberies despite the protests of George Frost, the only member of her gang who is not her son. On Christmas Eve, Ma, George and her sons Eddie, Charlie | 1940 | James P. Hogan | Crime, Drama | 6.7 (56 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Ranger and the Lady, TheWhile Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. The lady owner of a wagon train is using the trail, and a Texas Ranger | 1940 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.5 (104 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Rangers of FortuneTwo cowboys come to the aid of a town under the control of a crooked boss. | 1940 | Sam Wood (*) | Western | 6.3 (67 votes) | 80 | 20240609 |
| RebeccaA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence. | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 8.1 (133.3K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Red Roses [Rose scarlatte]A man poses as a mysterious admirer to find out whether his wife would cheat on him. | 1940 | Giuseppe Amato, Vittorio De Sica | Comedy | 6.2 (117 votes) | 65 | 20230619 |
| Remedy for RichesA college friend of the local soda-jerk comes to town and lets it be known that he's looking for property on which to build a resort. When he buys some land and suddenly "discovers" there's oil underneath it--and generously offers to | 1940 | Erle C. Kenton | Comedy | 6.0 (81 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Remember the NightLove blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday. | 1940 | Mitchell Leisen | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (5.7K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Return of Frank James, TheFrank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse. | 1940 | Fritz Lang (*) | Western | 6.6 (3.2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Return to YesterdayRobert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England. When she falls in love with Maine, Carol has the same dilemma. | 1940 | Robert Stevenson (*) | Drama | 6.1 (117 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Rhythm on the RiverPopular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own na | 1940 | Victor Schertzinger | Comedy, Musical | 6.8 (369 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Road to SingaporeTwo playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet a beautiful dancer. | 1940 | Victor Schertzinger | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.8 (3.7K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Rockin' Thru the RockiesThe Stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses off they are stranded. They must contend with a snow storm and a marauding bear as well the Indians. After almost killing each other... | 1940 | Jules White | Comedy, Western, Short | 7.1 (454 votes) | 17 | 20240224 |
| Rothschilds, The [Die Rothschilds]Anti-semitic Nazi propaganda "biography" of the Rothschilds, a German Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era. | 1940 | Erich Waschneck | Biography, Drama | 6.3 (1.6K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| SafariMillionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned adventure in her sudden love for Jim, ultimately forsaking her future with the Baron | 1940 | Edward H. Griffith | Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.1 (73 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Sailor's LadySailor (Hall) is going to marry his girlfriend (Kelly) when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship. | 1940 | Allan Dwan | Comedy | 5.3 (97 votes) | 67 | 20230424 |
| Saint Takes Over, TheInspector Fernack is framed by a cartel of five gangsters and Simon does his best to prove it before all the conspirators are murdered by a mysterious killer. | 1940 | Jack Hively | Crime, Mystery | 6.6 (667 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Saint's Double Trouble, TheAn enigmatic gang leader known as "The Boss," who is a dead-ringer for Simon, puts "The Saint" under suspicion of murder. | 1940 | Jack Hively | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.0 (756 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Saloon BarAgainst a background of Christmas and the pending arrival of another baby for the landlord, a group of pub locals lead by bookie Joe Harris set out to prove that former customer Eddie Graves is not guilty of the murder for which he i | 1940 | Walter Forde | Thriller | 6.9 (214 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| San Francisco DocksBarmaid in seedy docks does better detective work than the police to get her beau off a murder accusation, helped by a good priest who proves to be a good fighter for the truth. | 1940 | Arthur Lubin | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (25 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Sandy Gets Her ManFireman Bill Carey and police officer Tom Gerrity are rivals for the hand of Nan Clark. Each hopes to marry Nan so that her father, Councilman Clark, the city finance commissioner, will award their respective departments huge appropr | 1940 | Otis Garrett, Paul Gerard Smith | Comedy | 5.6 (47 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Sandy Is a LadyIt is important to Joe and Mary Phillips and their baby Sandy that Joe's employer, the P. J. Barnett Company, get the contract to build Maylor bridge, because it means a pay raise for Joe. Joe's raise hinges upon Davis, the man in ch | 1940 | Charles Lamont | Comedy | 5.0 (10 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Santa Fe MarshalU.S. Marshal Hopalong Cassidy is called when a town becomes overrun with bad guys. Disguised as a member of a medicine show, Hoppy discovers that the ringleader is none other than sweet li'l ol' Ma Burton. | 1940 | Lesley Selander | Western | 6.7 (189 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Santa Fe TrailIn 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume. | 1940 | Michael Curtiz (*) | War, Western | 6.3 (3.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Saps at SeaOliver suffers a nervous breakdown as a result of working in a horn factory, but when he follows doctor's orders about sea air, he finds an ex-con is aboard. | 1940 | Gordon Douglas | Comedy | 7.2 (2.8K votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
| Saturday's ChildrenAfter meeting each other as fellow employees at J.B. Martin Co., forthright twenty-two year old Bobby Halevy and twenty-five year old Rims Rosson, who has his head in the clouds in coming up with one useless invention after another, | 1940 | Vincent Sherman | Drama, Romance | 6.5 (494 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Sea Hawk, TheGeoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for the attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills on the sword. | 1940 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Action, Adventure, History, Romance | 7.7 (9.7K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Second ChorusWhen perennial college students Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are forced to make it on their own, the competitive pair get jobs with Artie Shaw's band and reunite with ex-manager Ellen Miller. | 1940 | H.C. Potter | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 5.8 (1.5K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Secret Seven, TheScientists, assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation, try to solve a series of murders. | 1940 | James Moore | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (21 votes) | 62 | 20240826 |
| Seven SinnersBanished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims. | 1940 | Tay Garnett | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (1.4K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| SeventeenWilly Baxter is now 17, which is practically 18, so he prefers "William". William is supposed to be studying for college entrance exams, but a sophisticated Chicago girl arrives in town. She's the cat's meow with her singing, dancing | 1940 | Louis King | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 (22 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| SF-paraatiTaxi driver Tanu Paalu and tourist guide Ansa Koskeli fall in love. Both are unemployed, but the success of a song by Tanu and Ansa leads to them being hired. Their love becomes contentious when a tune in the song causes a disagreeme | 1940 | Yrjö Norta | Comedy, Musical | 5.6 (138 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Shadow, TheThe Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray. | 1940 | James W. Horne | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Family, Mystery | 6.8 (377 votes) | 285 | 20240524 |
| Shooting HighA movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead. The grandson's friend scares the actor out of town so he can get the role. | 1940 | Alfred E. Green | Western | 5.8 (122 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Shop Around The Corner, TheTwo employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal. | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.1 (32K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Showdown, TheEuropean bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves. | 1940 | Howard Bretherton | Western | 6.7 (169 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Siege of the Alcazar, The [L'assedio dell'Alcazar]Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco. | 1940 | Augusto Genina | Drama, War | 6.2 (207 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Ski Patrol1939: Finnish reserve unit defends border, home-town in valley below, from Russian invaders who are excavating an explosives-laden tunnel under their mountaintop encampment. | 1940 | Lew Landers | Adventure, Drama, War | 4.3 (203 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Sky MurderA body is found in a locked airplane compartment and a German female refugee is a suspect. Passenger detective Nick Carter is convinced she didn't do it and works to solve the mysterious murder. | 1940 | George B. Seitz | Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.0 (425 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| So You Won't Talk"Whiskers," the timid book reviewer on a metropolitan daily newspaper is fired, along with the switchboard-operator, Lucy Walters, his girlfriend. They agree to meet for dinner to discuss a book "Whiskers" is writing. Deciding to cha | 1940 | Edward Sedgwick | Comedy, Crime | 6.7 (25 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Son of IngagiA newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father. | 1940 | Richard C. Kahn | Horror | 4.3 (334 votes) | 70 | 20240727 |
| Son of Monte Cristo, TheIn 1865, General Gurko Lanen is dictator of "Lichtenburg" in the Balkans. Rightful ruler Zona hopes to get aid from Napoleon III of France. The visiting Count of Monte Cristo falls for Zona and undertakes to help her, masquerading as | 1940 | Rowland V. Lee | Drama | 6.2 (787 votes) | 102 | 20220414 |
| South of Pago PagoThe son of an island chieftain, young Kehane defiantly opposes the efforts by crooked pearl hunter Bucko Larson to invade his domain. Larson and his minions hope to dissuade our hero by introducing him to seductive Ruby. | 1940 | Alfred E. Green | Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance | 6.4 (145 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| South of SuezGreedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to strike it rich, kills Smythe and blames it on | 1940 | Lewis Seiler | Mystery, Drama | 6.4 (191 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| South Of the BoudoirCharley, over his wife's objections, has invited his boss over for dinner. Mrs. Chase walks out, and Charley hires a waitress to pose as his wife. Meanwhile, the boss picks up Mrs. Chase and brings her as his dinner guest. | 1940 | Del Lord | Comedy, Short | 7.4 (32 votes) | 19 | 20211228 |
| South to KarangaHearing of a native uprising at the African Copper Mines at Karanga, manager Edmund Daniels and American counsel Jeff Worthing catch an arms-and-ammunition bearing train. Other passengers include Paul Stacco, a sort of native whit... | 1940 | Harold D. Schuster | Action, Drama | 5.3 (26 votes) | 59 | 20240826 |
| Spare a CopperA brave wartime copper (policeman) becomes a hero when he thwarts a plot to destroy a battleship. But then the rest of the police get the idea that he is one of the enemy agents. | 1940 | John Paddy Carstairs | Comedy, Musical | 6.1 (191 votes) | 77 | 20220414 |
| Spook Speaks, TheA magician hires Buster as a housekeeper while he's away. | 1940 | Jules White | Short, Comedy | 5.5 (117 votes) | 18 | 20211228 |
| Spook SportIt's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks appear, then two ghosts. They move to the music's rhythm. Against the black night, they | 1940 | Mary Ellen Bute, Norman McLaren, Ted Nemeth | Animation, Short, Horror | 6.7 (367 votes) | 8 | 20211228 |
| Spring OffensiveEnglish farmers plant crops on formerly disused land to assist the war effort. | 1940 | Humphrey Jennings (*) | Documentary, Short | 6.5 (45 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| Spring on Leper's Island [Kojima no haru]nan | 1940 | Shirô Toyoda | Drama | 7.0 (26 votes) | 88 | 20220414 |
| Spring ParadeA Hungarian woman whose fortune predicts that she will marry may find it coming true when she meets an army drummer. | 1940 | Henry Koster (*) | Comedy, Musical | 6.7 (332 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| St. John the Baptist Beheaded [San Giovanni decollato]Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio, caretaker and shoemaker devoted to Saint John Beheaded, is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boyfriend and | 1940 | Amleto Palermi, Giorgio Bianchi | Comedy | 6.6 (201 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Stagecoach WarHoppy is busy chasing stagecoach bandits who sing as they rob. | 1940 | Lesley Selander | Western | 6.4 (178 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Star DustCarolyn Sayres gets a Hollywood contract from talent scout Brooke but is later rejected because she's too young. She falls in love with Bud Borden, another contractee who helps her to become a star. Based partly on Darnells' early ex | 1940 | Walter Lang | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 (275 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Stars Look Down, TheDavey Fenwick (Sir Michael Redgrave) leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny (Margaret Lockwood) who gets him to marry | 1940 | Carol Reed (*) | Drama | 7.0 (1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Stolen ParadiseRobert Gordon (Leon Janney), a sheltered 18-year-old youth reared in a Catholic school, believes he has a vocation for the priesthood. He is taken to live with his father in his palatial Florida home. There he falls in love with his | 1940 | Louis J. Gasnier | Drama | 4.0 (27 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Strange CargoConvicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure. | 1940 | Frank Borzage (*) | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (2.6K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Stranger On The Third FloorAn aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a café owner's throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himself. | 1940 | Boris Ingster | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.8 (3.9K votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Strike Up the BandA high school boy wants to become a professional musician, and his gal pal wants to become his best girl. They work together staging big band shows with fellow classmates in the hopes of hitting it big. | 1940 | Busby Berkeley (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.9 (1.7K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Susan and GodSusan Trexel is a wealthy socialite, who while vacationing in Europe undergoes a religious transformation. On her return to America, Susan takes on the task of spreading her new found religious experience with her closest friends - o | 1940 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Drama | 5.8 (1.3K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Swiss Family RobinsonA family of Swiss origin living in London during the onslaught against Europe by Napolean seeks to leave and emigrate to Australia to nurture their values and raise their sons. | 1940 | Edward Ludwig | Adventure, Family | 6.4 (634 votes) | 93 | 20220414 |
| Taistelun tieThe film presented the background of the war, the war itself and the reconstruction work begun right after the war. | 1940 | Risto Orko | Documentary, War | 7.0 (25 votes) | 62 | 20220414 |
| Tale About the Silly Mousy [Skazka O Glupom Myshonke]Based on the poem of the same name by Samuil Marshak. | 1940 | Mikhail Tsekhanovskiy | Animation, Short | 6.9 (41 votes) | 15 | 20240214 |
| Taming of the Snood, TheA jewel thief uses Buster as an unsuspecting dupe. | 1940 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 5.8 (127 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| TarantellaAbstract animation illustrates Edwin Gerschefski's modernist composition. Two dots - one blue and one orange - appear most often, sometimes large, sometimes small, sometimes overlapping. When the sounds become more staccato, so do th | 1940 | Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth | Animation, Short | 5.7 (475 votes) | 4 | 20211228 |
| Tear Gas SquadNightclub singer becomes police cadet to impress blond female from police family, ends up with her current dating partner as his cadet trainer. | 1940 | Terry O. Morse | Drama, Music | 5.6 (306 votes) | 55 | 20211228 |
| Texas Rangers Ride AgainWith thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam. | 1940 | James P. Hogan | Western | 6.0 (204 votes) | 68 | 20220723 |
| That Gang of MineGang member, Muggs, aspires to be a jockey and tries to cheat his way to the top. | 1940 | Joseph H. Lewis (*) | Comedy, Drama, Sport | 5.9 (533 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| That Inferior FeelingJoe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined). | 1940 | Basil Wrangell | Comedy, Short | 6.3 (185 votes) | 9 | 20211228 |
| They Came by NightJeweler James Fothergill helps Scotland Yard recover a valuable ruby by worming his way into the gang which stole it and setting them up for the police. | 1940 | Harry Lachman | Crime, Drama | 5.9 (34 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| They Drive By NightWhen one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner. | 1940 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.3 (7.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| They Knew What They WantedWhile courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal. | 1940 | Garson Kanin | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (424 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Thief of Bagdad, TheAfter being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves. | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Alexander Korda, Zoltan Korda | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance | 7.5 (12.9K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Third Finger, Left HandA single magazine editor pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues, but complications ensue when she meets a potential suitor. | 1940 | Robert Z. Leonard | Comedy | 6.9 (953 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| This Thing Called LoveA woman insists to her new husband that they must remain celibate for the first three months of their marriage, which he tries desperately to get around. | 1940 | Alexander Hall | Comedy | 6.3 (168 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Those Were the DaysA middle-aged couple think back to their college days and courtship. | 1940 | Theodore Reed | Comedy, Romance | 6.5 (95 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Threats [Menaces...]The months before World War II. The fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris. | 1940 | Edmond T. Gréville | Drama | 6.5 (135 votes) | 95 | 20240210 |
| Three Cockeyed Sailors [Sailors Three]Three British sailors find they've accidentally strayed on board a Nazi ship during WWII. They then proceed to take it over and requisition it for the Royal Navy. | 1940 | Walter Forde | Comedy, War | 5.8 (105 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Three Faces WestViennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oreg | 1940 | Bernard Vorhaus | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (825 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Three Men From TexasHoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins. | 1940 | Lesley Selander | Western | 6.9 (212 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Three Silent MenForeign scientist is selling a secret weapon to the British. He is badly injured in a car accident and is operated on by a surgeon, after the operation he dies mysteriously. An investigation follows. | 1940 | Thomas Bentley | Crime, Drama | 5.2 (67 votes) | 72 | 20220315 |
| Thunder Over Paris [Tempête]nan | 1940 | Dominique Bernard-Deschamps | Drama | 6.4 (53 votes) | 97 | 20240210 |
| Til We Meet AgainDying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another. | 1940 | Edmund Goulding | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (637 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Tin Pan AlleySongwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in Engl | 1940 | Walter Lang | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.5 (495 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| To Hell with Hitler [Let George Do It]Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukulele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved ... | 1940 | Marcel Varnel | Comedy, Musical, War | 6.4 (347 votes) | 82 | 20230424 |
| Tom Brown's School DaysA young boy starts at Rugby boarding school. He is tormented by Flashman, the school bully. | 1940 | Robert Stevenson (*) | Drama | 6.6 (527 votes) | 86 | 20240319 |
| Too Many GirlsA young lady goes to College and, without her knowledge, her father sends four football players as her bodyguards, who eventually join the college team and turn it into one of the best, while one of the players falls in love with her | 1940 | George Abbott | Comedy, Music, Sport | 6.0 (907 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Too Many HusbandsLong-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband. | 1940 | Wesley Ruggles | Comedy, Romance | 6.5 (1.5K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Torrid Zone Plagued by revolutionaries that harass his plantation in a banana republic, fruit company exec Steve Case rehires former nemesis Nick Butler to restore order and profits. | 1940 | William Keighley | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Trail of the VigilantesA reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang. | 1940 | Allan Dwan | Comedy, Western | 6.4 (91 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Travelling Actors [Tabi yakusha]Story about a group of actors mostly based on the guys playing the horse. | 1940 | Mikio Naruse (*) | Comedy | 6.9 (183 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Triple JusticeRancher Brad Henderson (George O'Brien) rides to Star City to be the best man at the wedding of his boyhood friend, Sheriff Bill Gregory (LeRoy Mason) Encountering Fred Cleary (Paul Fix), Tommy Payson (Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart) and Fr | 1940 | David Howard | Western | 6.2 (79 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Trouble With Husbands, TheLecturer Robert Benchley outlines some of the pet peeves that wives have with their husbands. | 1940 | Leslie M. Roush | Comedy, Short | 6.6 (67 votes) | 11 | 20211228 |
| Tugboat Annie Sails AgainNow-widowed Tugboat Annie, tugboat queen of the Northwest, struggles to save her job against the competition of rival Captain Bullwinkle. | 1940 | Lewis Seiler | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.7 (251 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| TurnaboutBickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life. | 1940 | Hal Roach | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 6.3 (712 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Two Girls on BroadwayEddie sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the | 1940 | S. Sylvan Simon | Musical, Romance | 6.0 (479 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| TyphoonHaving been marooned on an isolated island as a child, Dea grows to adulthood without human contact, her only companion being the chimp ""Koko."" Years later, on a South Sea island, Skipper Joe, a former bookie who has traded chasin... | 1940 | Louis King | Adventure, Romance | 5.8 (145 votes) | 70 | 20240609 |
| Under Your HatInept Secret Agent on a job in the South of France is followed by his suspicious wife. She masquerades as a maid and chaos ensues. | 1940 | Maurice Elvey | Adventure, Comedy | 5.6 (101 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Up in the AirA none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery for the none-too-sharp police. | 1940 | Howard Bretherton | Mystery | 5.8 (306 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Vasilisa the Beautiful [Vasilisa prekrasnaya]The younger brother from the common people intends to fight for a salvation of the exiled princess, suffering from a dark magic curse. | 1940 | Aleksandr Rou | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 7.3 (465 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| VictoryA hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats. | 1940 | John Cromwell | Adventure, Drama | 6.8 (105 votes) | 79 | 20220414 |
| Vigil in the NightA nurse loses her job after selflessly taking the blame for a fatal mistake her sister and co-worker made; she is subsequently employed at a poorly-equipped hospital, where she finds romance and tragedy. | 1940 | George Stevens (*) | Drama | 6.7 (877 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Villain Still Pursued Her, TheThe widow Wilson and her daughter Mary have just learned that old Mr. Middleton, who held the mortgage on their home, has passed away. They are now visited by Middleton's lawyer, Cribbs, who informs them that Middleton's son and heir | 1940 | Edward F. Cline | Comedy | 5.4 (298 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Virginia CityUnion officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City, Nevada, where he finds out that the former commander of his prison, Vance Irby, is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confederacy. | 1940 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Western | 6.8 (2.6K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Wagons WestwardTwo brothers, one a sheriff, the other a bandit. The sheriff has to arrest his brother. | 1940 | Lew Landers | Drama, Western | 6.7 (67 votes) | 69 | 20230619 |
| Waterloo BridgeMyra and Roy meet and fall in love on Waterloo Bridge during an air raid. Their love will be one of the wars unspoken casualties. | 1940 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.8 (9.7K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Way of All Flesh, ThePaul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang | 1940 | Louis King | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (94 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| We Who Are YoungTwo young office workers working at the same large firm secretly marry and defy their employer's policy against coworker fraternization. When the marriage is discovered, Margy (Turner) is fired. This causes the newlyweds to face seri | 1940 | Harold S. Bucquet | Drama | 6.0 (329 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Welfare of the WorkersA story of sacrifice, in which organised labour voluntarily relinquishes hard-won workplace rights after being asked "to give up by choice what Hitler takes by force." | 1940 | Pat Jackson, Humphrey Jennings | Documentary, Short | 5.9 (47 votes) | 9 | 20211228 |
| Well-Digger's Daughter, The [La fille du puisatier]A rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant. | 1940 | Marcel Pagnol (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (686 votes) | 142 | 20240412 |
| Westerner, TheJudge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders. | 1940 | William Wyler (*) | Western | 7.3 (5.7K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| When the Daltons RodeFictionalized story of how the Dalton brothers were wronged by a crooked development company and became outlaws when the corrupt local courts offered them no justice. | 1940 | George Marshall (*) | Western | 6.4 (766 votes) | 81 | 20220414 |
| Who Killed Aunt MaggieRadio mystery script writer Sally Ambler is about to be married, then gets into a quarrel with her intended Kirk Pierce after he finds the story she wrote too contrived. The wedding is put off when a telegram from her Aunt Maggie arr | 1940 | Arthur Lubin | Crime, Mystery | 6.9 (54 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Wildcat BusA small bus company run by a father/daughter team comes under attack by a group of "wildcatters" who want to put the company out of business so they can take over the profitable Los Angeles-to-San Francisco route. | 1940 | Frank Woodruff | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.2 (192 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Women in WarA ""good-time girl"", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out of it is to volunteer--albeit reluctantly--to be a nurse in the war effort. She ... | 1940 | John H. Auer | Drama, War | 5.8 (95 votes) | 71 | 20240530 |
| Women Without NamesA newly married couple is framed for the murder of a police officer. She is sent to prison, while he is sentenced to die in the electric chair. She sets out to prove their innocence. | 1940 | Robert Florey | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (30 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| WyomingAfter the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier is murdered by cattle-rustlers when he returns home to Wyoming but a fugitive train-robber steps-in to avenge his death and aid his family in their fight against a local land-grabber. | 1940 | Richard Thorpe | Action, Adventure, Drama, Western | 6.5 (240 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| You Can't Fool Your WifeAndrew and Clara are school sweethearts whose marriage goes stale after five years. Andrew is a hard worker at the firm, but it seems that all he does is work. When Mr. Battincourt from London must be entertained, Andrew gets stuck e | 1940 | Ray McCarey | Comedy | 5.7 (342 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| You Nazty SpyIn a country, munitions manufacturers maneuver a wallpaper hanger to become dictator with his compatriots as his personal staff. | 1940 | Jules White | Short, Comedy, War | 7.8 (1.1K votes) | 18 | 20240224 |
| You'll Find OutThe manager of Kay Kyser's band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her. | 1940 | David Butler | Comedy, Horror, Musical, Mystery, Romance | 6.2 (1.3K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Young Bill HickokBill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close. | 1940 | Joseph Kane | Western | 5.8 (236 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Young Buffalo BillBuffalo Bill, who bears virtually no relation to the real one, gets in a fight over mining lands in New Mexico. Indians besiege a Spanish rancho and the U.S. Cavalry rides to the rescue. | 1940 | Joseph Kane | Western | 5.7 (161 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Young PeopleA show-business family leaves the Great White Way and heads for a farm in New England. What results is the difficulties they have before they are accepted by the community. | 1940 | Allan Dwan | Drama, Musical | 6.4 (425 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Young Tom EdisonInventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a str | 1940 | Norman Taurog | Biography, Drama, Family | 6.8 (1.1K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| You're Missing the Point [Ahí está el detalle]The boyfriend (Cantinflas) of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been los | 1940 | Juan Bustillo Oro | Comedy | 8.0 (1.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| You're Not So ToughThe Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to | 1940 | Joe May | Drama | 6.5 (49 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Youth Will Be ServedA southern girl (Withers) goes to a National Youth Association camp after her father goes to jail for bootlegging. When a mean tycoon tries to buy the campground for himself she stages a show which endears her to him. Then her father | 1940 | Otto Brower | Musical | 7.4 (15 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| ZanzibarA beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals. | 1940 | Harold D. Schuster | Adventure | 5.7 (40 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |