The best movies 1940 Pagina 45

Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.

The life and works of Michelangelo are presented by German actor Mathias Wieman, in the the historical context of the High Renaissance era. A much...

A high-school student in a small town becomes smitten with the sophisticated new girl who's just arrived from Chicago. Based on Booth Tarkington's...

When Popeye tells Olive Oyl that he will propose to her the next morning, she has a dream that their four boys will run roughshod over their house.

“A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blues singer to split them up.” - BFI.

The stooges are singing comedic waiters, enlisted by two doctors to try and cheer up a depressed little girl, whose banker-father has gone missing...

A woman in love with a doctor is harassed by another man and she ends up taking care of orphans.

A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.

A prince, fresh from his foreign education, returns to find his kingdom plagued by intrigues and rigid traditions. Disillusioned, he decides to...

Scrappy visits an aquarium, where a uniformed docent tells him about the cartoon fish.

The 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...

Siege is a 1940 documentary short about the Siege of Warsaw by the Wehrmacht at the start of World War II. It was shot by Julien Bryan, a...

A notorious swindler who returns from abroad and decides to reform his life for the sake of his estranged family.

Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the...

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

In the late 1930s, Yuldashev, a journalist, came to one of the sanatoriums in Uzbekistan. He wants to write an article about a warrior hero. But...

Roekihati is a peasant girl who is married to Mansur, despite his father’s objection. Later, under the influence of his peers, Mansur is drawn...

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

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

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.