The best movies 1940 Pagina 2

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York...

A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.

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...

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,...

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

Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone...

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...

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

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.

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 family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for...

A con man heading west to search for gold teams up with a pair of scheming brothers along the way. The trio soon find themselves in the middle of a...

Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the...

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

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

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's...

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing...

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...

After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding...

Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel,...

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

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

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

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 man pretends to be a doctor to kidnap a miser's wife.

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

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

A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.

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

To impress a millionaire uncle well, his niece poses as a house maid. When the real maid arrives, she poses as the wife.

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

Abslan and Hamed, two cousins of very different character and lives, whose families have put an end to old quarrels, become rivals for the love of...

A woman destroys her life, her marriage and her husband due to her obsessive jealousy.

A vagabond saves the child of a rich family. They adopt him and try to impose to him their values and protocols.

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

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

A 1940 film.

A millionaire appoints an administrator to control his daughter's overspending.

Marianela 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...

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