The best movies 1940 Pagina 2

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...

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

Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But...

Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove...

The film depicts Confucius's later life, as he traveled across a China divided by war and strife in an ultimately futile effort to teach various...

Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through...

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

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.

Jasper is given an ultimatum by his master: break one more thing and you're out. Rodent Jerry does his best to make sure that his tormentor "gets the...

Donald takes a kayak trip. When he gets to his campsite, he unloads the kayak, fights with his folding chair, and goes to sleep. Meanwhile, the...

Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.

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

Yet another sport is made 'easy' for us by Goofy's demonstration how- never, ever, to try anything for real, least of all with a glider-flying...

Returning from Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On one hand, he plays the...

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.

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

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

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

A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

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

An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.

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

Espionage, intrigue, and passion surround the revolutionary invention of a secret weapon. A film that echoes with the world war, by German exiled...

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 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...

Cantinflas, the boyfriend 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...

A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.

The employee of a ranch and the boss's daughter have an affair and he is accused of stealing cattle.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.