The best movies 1940 Pagina 2

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

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

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

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

One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave...

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

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

The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and...

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

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

Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it...

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local...

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

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

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

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

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

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

Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and...

Jasper is given an ultimatum by his master: break one more thing and you're out. Rodent Jerry does his best to make sure that his tormentor "gets the...

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

A play by Noël Coward recorded for radio starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.

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

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

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

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

A man returns to the town where he abandoned his wife and daughter for ten years.

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

Some youngsters from the city, visiting the countryside, have fun tricking naive local boys.

The consequences of having accepted a thief as a guest in the house.

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

A young man who travels from the country to he city to study law has economic hardship until he receives help from a neighbor.

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

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

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

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

An old woman remembers when her daughter fell in love with a young neighbor, and she and her husband did everything to break that relationship.

In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is...