The best movies 1940 Pagina 3

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

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.

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

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a...

A diligent office worker and a cheeky sales representative are tasked by their boss with reserving a first-class hotel room with a bathroom for a...

Ludwig Gruber, the director of a spa café, is a good man. Now and again, he makes little adventure-trips to Berlin to find business for his...

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

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

Two mobs fight for control of the jukebox racket.

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the...

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing...

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland...

Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners. He's a bit of a skinflint, too. His family...

In a palace in Nice, a modest valet is confused with his master, a viscount chased by a man-eater.

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...

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,...

A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.

A young woman works for two different men, both of whom fall in love with her. In the mornings she is secretary for a popular author and in the...

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

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

Charley, over his wife's objections, has invited his boss over for dinner. Mrs. Chase walks out, and Charley hires a waitress to pose as his wife....

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

The misadventures and mishaps of a tailor.

The murder of an 8-year-old boy by a young soldier in Tijuana, Mexico, leads to riots on the streets. Based on a true story.

A 1940 film.

Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down...

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

A wealthy woman pressures her son-in-law to give her a grandson until her daughter finally gets pregnant.

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...

During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of...

A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.

In 1840, a caravan of carts headed from Buenos Aires to Córdoba carrying merchandise, ammunition and prisoners, against the background of the...

A broken high society man tries to keep his family expensive lifestyle by tricking a rich man from out of the town to marry his well intended...

A young woman criticized by her family for her dissipated life embarks on a new path.

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

A mute stagehand dreams that he succeeds in the theater after having recovered his voice.

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

"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"...

Cantinflas appears flirting with a lady until her lover arrives. Angry, Cantinflas call the husband causing a number of situations.