Cine de 1940
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1. Cita en la frontera (1940)
90 min | Drama, Music
Two brothers who work in a quarry fall in love with the same woman.
Director: Mario Soffici | Stars: Orestes Caviglia, Floren Delbene, Maria Esther Duckse, Elisa Galvé
Votes: 11
2. Our Town (1940)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 2,974
3. Amore di ussaro (1940)
78 min
On January 1st. 1900 an hussar captain writes three farewell letters to his colonel, his fiancée and to the judge. The letters reach their receivers before he can consummate his plans, and all of them quickly react.
Director: Luis Marquina | Stars: Conchita Montenegro, Luis Sagi Vela, Concha Catalá, Alberto Romea
4. North West Mounted Police (1940)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, Romance, Western
In 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.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster
Votes: 1,830
5. Una famiglia impossibile (1940)
75 min | Comedy
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Stars: Armando Falconi, Pina Renzi, María Mercader, Clely Fiamma
6. Abbandono (1940)
100 min | Drama
In 1830 Pierre Courier, a rich and elderly shipowner, awaits the return of his son Stefano, who has just returned from a long trip to Trinidad in the ship in which he is captain.
Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Corinne Luchaire, Jorge Rigaud, Maria Denis, Camillo Pilotto
7. La florista de la reina (1940)
89 min
Director: Eusebio Fernández Ardavín | Stars: Juan Barajas, María Guerrero López, Carmen López Lagar, Ana Mariscal
8. Band Waggon (1940)
TV-G | 85 min | Comedy, Musical
A plot involving spies in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Arthur Askey, Jack Hylton and His Band, Richard Murdoch, Pat Kirkwood
Votes: 223
9. Battement de coeur (1940)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Claude Dauphin, André Luguet, Junie Astor
Votes: 329
10. Centomila dollari (1940)
83 min | Comedy
On a whim, an American man offers a girl the sum of $100,000 if she will marry him.
Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Assia Noris, Amedeo Nazzari, Lauro Gazzolo, Maurizio D'Ancora
Votes: 28
11. Eran tres hermanas (1940)
116 min
Director: Francisco Gargallo | Stars: Rafael Arcos, María Brú, Juan Catalá, Manuel de Diego
12. Gaslight (1940)
Not Rated | 84 min | Mystery, Thriller
Twenty 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.
Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell
Votes: 5,282
13. Julieta y Romeo (1940)
91 min
Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
Director: José María Castellví | Stars: Juan Barajas, Arturo Cámara, Marta Flores, Marta Grau
14. Two on a Vacation (1940)
78 min | Comedy
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Maria Denis, Umberto Melnati, Paolo Stoppa
Votes: 14
15. Red Roses (1940)
65 min | Comedy
A man poses as a mysterious admirer to find out whether his wife would cheat on him.
Directors: Giuseppe Amato, Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Renée Saint-Cyr, Umberto Melnati, Vivi Gioi
Votes: 125
16. 21 Days Together (1940)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
After Larry accidentally kills his lover Wanda's estranged blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. Larry and Wanda nervously await the verdict: if the innocent suspect is found guilty then Larry will give himself up.
Director: Basil Dean | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Francis L. Sullivan
Votes: 1,276
17. Addio, giovinezza! (1940)
94 min | Comedy
Director: Ferdinando Maria Poggioli | Stars: Maria Denis, Adriano Rimoldi, Clara Calamai, Carlo Campanini
Votes: 35
18. Allá en el Trópico (1940)
110 min | Musical, Comedy, Drama
Director: Fernando de Fuentes | Stars: Tito Guízar, Esther Fernández, Carlos López, Sara García
19. Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Judge 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.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
Votes: 1,017
20. Days of Hope (1940)
78 min | Drama, War
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 ... See full summary »
Directors: André Malraux, Boris Peskine | Stars: Andrés Mejuto, Nicolás Rodríguez, José Santpere, Julio Peña
Votes: 362
21. Don Pasquale (1940)
101 min | Drama
In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, both to save on the expenses of his maintenance and to increase the family heritage.
Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Armando Falconi, Laura Solari, Maurizio D'Ancora, Greta Gonda
22. You're Missing the Point (1940)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy
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... See full summary »
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Cantinflas, Joaquín Pardavé, Sara García, Sofía Álvarez
Votes: 1,509
23. South of Pago Pago (1940)
Approved | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The 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.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer, Olympe Bradna
Votes: 163
24. My Favorite Wife (1940)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
Missing for seven years and presumed dead, a woman returns home on the day of her husband's second marriage.
Director: Garson Kanin | Stars: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick
Votes: 11,520
25. ¿Quién me compra un lío? (1940)
68 min
Director: Ignacio F. Iquino | Stars: Faustino Bretaño, Luis Heredia, Alejandro Nolla, María Tamayo
26. The Fatal Hour (1940)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Mystery
When Captain Street's best friend Dan Grady is murdered, Street receives help from Chinese detective James Lee Wong and local newspaper reporter Bobbie Logan.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers, Charles Trowbridge
Votes: 1,309
27. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Romance
When 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.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey
Votes: 73,890
28. Boom Town (1940)
Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a ten-year period both love the same woman.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr
Votes: 3,782 | Gross: $9.17M
29. One Million B.C. (1940)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Tale 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.
Directors: Hal Roach Jr., Hal Roach | Stars: Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney Jr., Conrad Nagel
Votes: 1,685
30. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Passed | 120 min | Action, Romance, Thriller
On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders
Votes: 23,734 | Gross: $3.48M
31. Melody Ranch (1940)
Passed | 84 min | Western
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, Ann Miller, Barton MacLane
Votes: 258
32. The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Approved | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Family
A young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard
Votes: 10,984 | Gross: $4.36M
33. Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Passed | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War
Myra and Roy meet and fall in love on Waterloo Bridge during an air raid. Their love will be one of the war's unspoken casualties.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field
Votes: 10,937
34. Il ponte dei sospiri (1940)
107 min | Drama
Director: Mario Bonnard | Stars: Paola Barbara, Otello Toso, Mariella Lotti, Giulio Donadio
Votes: 19
35. El huésped del sevillano (1940)
99 min | Drama
Director: Enrique del Campo | Stars: María Anaya, Joaquín Bergía, Júlio Castro 'Castrito', Delfín Jerez
36. Young Tom Edison (1940)
Approved | 86 min | Biography, Drama, Family
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up with disastrous results. As a consequence, the ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft, Virginia Weidler
Votes: 1,266
37. L'uomo della legione (1940)
87 min | Drama, War
Director: Romolo Marcellini | Stars: Roberto Rey, Pastora Peña, Mario Ferrari, Juan de Landa
38. The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Director: Joe May | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton
Votes: 5,298
39. The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, Romance
General Gurko Lanen is the dictator of Lichtenburg, a country set in the Balkans. With the help of Napoleon II, the rightful ruler Grand Duchess Zona aims to overthrow the general. She is also helped by the visiting Count of Monte Cristo.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, Florence Bates
Votes: 880
40. The House Across the Bay (1940)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An aircraft designer falls for the wife of an imprisoned gangster. All goes well until the gangster gets out of prison...
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: George Raft, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Pidgeon
Votes: 661
41. The Westerner (1940)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, Western
Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone
Votes: 6,806
42. All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Approved | 141 min | Drama, Romance
A duchess' irrational behavior toward her children's governess triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O'Neil
Votes: 5,388
43. Edison, the Man (1940)
Passed | 107 min | Biography, Drama
82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn
Votes: 1,777
44. Casanova heiratet (1940)
After successfully starring as Casanova on stage Gregor escapes to his country estate but repeats his stage affairs in real life with actress Steffie, feisty matron Johanna and farm girl Gertrud who is the first to really touch his heart.
Director: Viktor de Kowa | Stars: Karl Schönböck, Lizzi Waldmüller, Fita Benkhoff, Irene von Meyendorff
Votes: 9
45. Seven Sinners (1940)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Banished 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.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker, Broderick Crawford
Votes: 1,660
46. I Shall Live Again (1940)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Roberto Rodríguez | Stars: Adriana Lamar, Joaquín Pardavé, Alicia de Phillips, David Silva
Votes: 12
47. The Chinese Den (1940)
72 min | Drama
An affluent Chinese financier marries a lively British singer; however, an unforeseen but dangerous liaison with a plantation owner threatens to transform their once-peaceful retreat into a horrible prison. Is revenge the only solution?
Director: George King | Stars: Paul Lukas, Kay Walsh, Jane Baxter, Robert Douglas
Votes: 63
48. Scatterbrain (1940)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy
Eddie MacIntyre is a press agent, talent scout and right-hand man to J.R.Russell, Producer/Director of Perfection Pictures, is planning a scheme in which he will "plant" his girl friend, ... See full summary »
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Judy Canova, Alan Mowbray, Ruth Donnelly, Eddie Foy Jr.
Votes: 54
49. The Girl in the News (1940)
Not Rated | 78 min | Crime, Thriller
Nurse Anne is acquitted of murder after her patient has died under suspicious circumstances. Changing her name, she gets a position nursing Edward Bentley who soon dies of what appears to be a copycat murder. Again Anne is arrested.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Barry K. Barnes, Emlyn Williams, Roger Livesey
Votes: 351
50. Two Women (1940)
97 min | Drama
Director: Léonide Moguy | Stars: Pierre Blanchar, Annie Ducaux, Blanchette Brunoy, Jacques Dumesnil
Votes: 12
51. Su mayor aventura (1940)
Director: Julio de Fleischner | Stars: Ugo Ceseri, Tony D'Algy, Maria Dominiani, Fortunato García
52. Santa Rogelia (1940)
73 min | Drama
Rogelia, the orphan of an Asturian miner who died in a work-related accident, marries Máximo, a man as robust as jealous, drunk and violent. But when her husband is jailed, the woman will ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto de Ribón | Stars: Germaine Montero, Rafael Rivelles, Juan de Landa, Pastora Peña
Votes: 16
53. L'assedio dell'Alcazar (1940)
112 min | Drama, War
Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.
Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Fosco Giachetti, Mireille Balin, Maria Denis, Rafael Calvo
Votes: 233
54. Bound for Cairo (1935)
Comedy
Director: Benito Perojo | Stars: Miguel Ligero, Ricardo Núñez, María del Carmen Merino, Carlos Díaz de Mendoza
55. Rebecca (1940)
Approved | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A 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.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson
Votes: 146,844 | Gross: $4.36M
56. Spring Parade (1940)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Hungarian woman whose fortune predicts that she will marry may find it coming true when she meets an army drummer.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, Mischa Auer, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 383
57. Ein Mann auf Abwegen (1940)
88 min | Adventure, Comedy
Director: Herbert Selpin | Stars: Hans Albers, Charlotte Thiele, Hilde Weissner, Gustav Waldau
Votes: 55
58. The Flying Squad (1940)
64 min | Crime, Drama
Dedicated 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Phyllis Brooks, Sebastian Shaw, Jack Hawkins, Manning Whiley
Votes: 121
59. Night in December (1939)
82 min
In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a young woman who shares his tender feelings. But, quite inexplicably, after an unforgettable... See full summary »
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Pierre Blanchar, Renée Saint-Cyr, Jean Tissier, Marcel André
Votes: 35
60. One Night in the Tropics (1940)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Jim "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 ... See full summary »
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Robert Cummings, Bud Abbott
Votes: 1,858
61. L'émigrante (1940)
109 min | Comedy, Drama
Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.
Director: Léo Joannon | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Jean Chevrier, Georges Lannes, Foun-Sen
Votes: 15
62. Women in War (1940)
Approved | 71 min | Drama, War
A "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 ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Elsie Janis, Wendy Barrie, Patric Knowles, Mae Clarke
Votes: 94
63. Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Approved | 118 min | Drama, Romance
The 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.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver
Votes: 9,227
64. Marianela (1940)
87 min | Drama
Marianela (Nela) is an orphan young girl living in a small village where she guides the blind young son of a rich country man. She is secretly in love with him, knowing that he loves her ... See full summary »
Director: Benito Perojo | Stars: Mary Carrillo, Julio Peña, Rafael Calvo, Jesús Tordesillas
Votes: 63
65. Saps at Sea (1940)
G | 56 min | Comedy
Oliver 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.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Ben Turpin
Votes: 3,085
66. His Girl Friday (1940)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 63,201 | Gross: $0.30M
67. Moon Over Burma (1940)
Approved | 76 min | Adventure, Romance
The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Preston Foster, Doris Nolan
Votes: 90
68. La última falla (1940)
83 min | Comedy
Director: Benito Perojo | Stars: Miguel Ligero, Matilde Vázquez, Julio Peña, Maruchi Fresno
69. Fortuna (1940)
78 min
Director: Max Neufeld | Stars: Maria Denis, Tony D'Algy, Ugo Ceseri, Irene Caba Alba
70. The Invisible Woman (1940)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
An attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles
Votes: 3,358
71. La gitanilla (1940)
85 min | Drama
A gypsy asks a nobleman to live as one of them for two years. When based on falsehood he is accused and kills a soldier, the gypsy will plea for his life. Based on a novel by Cervantes.
Director: Fernando Delgado | Stars: Estrellita Castro, Juan de Orduña, Antonio Vico, Rafaela Satorrés
72. La malquerida (1940)
94 min | Drama
On the hacienda of El Soto lives Doña Raimunda and her daughter Acacia as well. After being widowed, Raimunda married Esteban, who is secretly in love with Acacia and her, in turn, feels a ... See full summary »
Director: José López Rubio | Stars: Társila Criado, Luchy Soto, Julio Peña, Jesús Tordesillas
Votes: 20
73. Stern von Rio (1940)
95 min | Comedy
Concha flies from his natal Rio to Germany to help his loved one, who has been caught after finding some diamonds in a mine already registered by a company. Amongst them is the impressive ... See full summary »
Director: Karl Anton | Stars: La Jana, Gustav Diessl, Werner Scharf, Max Gülstorff
Votes: 32
74. Kit Carson (1940)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, Western
Indian 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.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Jon Hall, Lynn Bari, Dana Andrews, Harold Huber
Votes: 624
75. La Dolores (1940)
102 min | Drama, Musical
Dolores works at an Aragonese tavern and flirts with the village barber. After a quarrel she leaves, meets Lázaro and a new job. A rich farmer goes after her but she falls for Lázaro.The rejected barber runs a scornful song to dishonor her.
Director: Florián Rey | Stars: Concha Piquer, Manuel Luna, Ricardo Merino, Ana Adamuz
Votes: 47
76. Missing Ten Days (1940)
82 min | Drama
Bob Stevens (Sir Rex Harrison) awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Rex Harrison, Karen Verne, C.V. France, Leo Genn
Votes: 67
77. El astronauta (1970)
86 min | Comedy
Several Spanish friends with no knowledge about space science decide to send one of them to the moon with almost no money and much effort.
Director: Javier Aguirre | Stars: Tony Leblanc, José Luis López Vázquez, Paquito Cano, Puri Villa
Votes: 242
78. Drums of Fu Manchu (1940)
Passed | 269 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The 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 ... See full summary »
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Henry Brandon, William Royle, Robert Kellard, Gloria Franklin
Votes: 334
79. Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple they initially brought together.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger, Alex Melesh
Votes: 2,334
80. Der Postmeister (1940)
92 min | Drama
A troubled father, working as a postmaster in province, worries about his daughter taken to the capital by a rich officer.
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Heinrich George, Hilde Krahl, Siegfried Breuer, Hans Holt
Votes: 216
81. Hennes melodi (1940)
98 min | Comedy
Sonja meet Curt in a taxi cab. By mistake, each believes that the other is a rich member of the upper class. They meet on a date, but since neither wants to reveal the truth about ... See full summary »
Director: Thor L. Brooks | Stars: Sonja Wigert, Sture Lagerwall, Margit Manstad, Håkan Westergren
Votes: 26
82. De México llegó el amor (1940)
85 min | Comedy
Director: Richard Harlan | Stars: Amanda Ledesma, Tito Guízar, Carlos Bertoldi, Dick
83. Le Danube bleu (1940)
84 min | Drama, Musical
Anika is the most beautiful girl of her clan and has for pretenders the gypsy Sandor and the rich Féry. When Féry is assassinated, Sandor is accused of the murder. Anika, with the help of a... See full summary »
Directors: Emil E. Reinert, Alfred Rode | Stars: Madeleine Sologne, José Noguéro, Marguerite Moreno, Jean Galland
84. De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940)
89 min | Drama
In the late 1800's, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess. He's already a problem to the Crown because of his political ideas; this... See full summary »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, John Lodge, Aimé Clariond, Jean Worms
Votes: 301 | Gross: $0.01M
85. Trenck, der Pandur (1940)
80 min
Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of empress Maria Theresia of Austria garnished with espionage and twisted love affairs.
Director: Herbert Selpin | Stars: Hans Albers, Käthe Dorsch, Sybille Schmitz, Hilde Weissner
Votes: 39
86. Dama de compañía (1940)
88 min
Director: Alberto de Zavalía | Stars: Olinda Bozán, Delia Garcés, Elsa O'Connor, Esteban Serrador
Votes: 9
87. French Without Tears (1940)
86 min | Comedy
The 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.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Ray Milland, Ellen Drew, Janine Darcey, David Tree
Votes: 120
88. If I Had My Way (1940)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When a fellow bridge builder is killed in an accident, two of his co-workers take his now-orphaned daughter to New York to be adopted by relatives.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, Charles Winninger, El Brendel
Votes: 211
89. He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy
In Paris, the estranged wife of a wealthy banker hides a fiery communist fugitive in her apartment.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Loretta Young, Melvyn Douglas, Alan Marshal, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 214
90. City for Conquest (1940)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Sport
Danny 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.
Directors: Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco | Stars: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp
Votes: 2,710
91. Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, War, Western
In 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.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan
Votes: 4,159
92. A Little Bit of Heaven (1940)
Passed | 87 min | Musical
A 12-year-old singing sensation loses her voice when her parents refuse to give in to her harebrained schemes.
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Gloria Jean, Robert Stack, Hugh Herbert, C. Aubrey Smith
Votes: 44
93. Comrade X (1940)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka, Felix Bressart
Votes: 1,833
94. Boy (1940)
98 min | Adventure, History
Director: Antonio Calvache | Stars: Antonio Vico, Manuel González, Luis Peña, Mariemma Bardi
Votes: 8
95. Maxwell Archer, Detective (1940)
Approved | 73 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Private detective Maxwell Archer sets out to help a young RAF pilot accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: John Loder, Leueen MacGrath, Athole Stewart, Marta Labarr
96. Musicians of Heaven (1940)
98 min | Drama
A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.
Director: Georges Lacombe | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Michel Simon, René Lefèvre, René Alexandre
Votes: 36
97. Strike Up the Band (1940)
Passed | 120 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A 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.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Paul Whiteman, June Preisser
Votes: 1,940
98. Sérénade (1940)
90 min | Drama
Somewhat freewheeling romantic story of a British dancer in love with Schubert, who is jealous of the rival composer Beethoven, but is inspired by his love to write several of his greatest works.
Director: Jean Boyer | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Louis Jouvet, Bernard Lancret, Félix Oudart
Votes: 16
99. Girl from God's Country (1940)
Approved | 75 min | Drama
Jim 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... See full synopsis »
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Chester Morris, Jane Wyatt, Charles Bickford, Mala
Votes: 15
100. Gangs of Chicago (1940)
66 min | Crime, Drama
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Barton MacLane, Lola Lane, Ray Middleton
Votes: 101
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