The best movies 1940 Pagina 2

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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,...

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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....

Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to...

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

A Galician immigrant loses her passport and cannot disembark in Buenos Aires. But finally he succeeds and triumphs.

"Marquesona" is the central figure of a flamenco picture made by a group of artists who go from town to town with their art. Rosa, "marquesona's"...

A 1940 film directed by Rolando Aguilar.

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

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...

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

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

A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.

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

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

A young orphan girl begins to witness strange phenomena in the house where she lives with her godparents.

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...

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

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

Dolores, a beautiful young woman, works at the inn Daroca and is courted by the local barber Melchor, and Mr. Patricio, the richest farmer in the...

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

Enriqueto, the proud owner of a splendid mustache, feels his heart divided between the kindly Manolita and the feckless Lilí. (A redubbed...

A 1940 film directed by Boris Maicon.