1940 Movies

Herzensfreud-Herzensleid (literally translates to "Heartfelt Joy - Heartbreak"),the 1940 Hubert Marischka German family relationship romantic comedy...

Bahbah, Shiha, and Sanqur are three colleagues working in a newspaper whose editor-in-chief, Amer, stipulates that he should not be married to work th...

Andy Clyde and Shemp Howard are station agents for the railroad. Their job is to defend against robberies but neither seems capable of doing anything...

This is the war and everybody in Germany should beware : the enemy is listening. One family in particular had better be even more careful than the ave...

During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to se...

Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to Fr...

An owl seeking to add some meat to his dinner adopts several disguises to get into a party being held by some musical bats. They are not fooled for lo...

In this 1940 entry from Columbia Pictures' "Color Rhapsodies" series, three television pioneers demonstrate how TV works. Featured is singer Madame Di...

A wagon train of settlers is approaching Prairieville and rancher Allen is out to stop them by having some of his men join the train and poison the ho...

The birds in question are a group of young ladies who, for different reasons, leave the convent where they grew up in order to face "the struggle of l...

Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.

The film deals with the Winter War of 1939-40 between Finland and the USSR. It begins with military exercises in the Autumn of 1939 and moves on to th...

Three kittens are cruel and mean to an orphan kitty. Their mother adopts the little orphan.

The story is based on the historical events of Gongor, a national hero who successfully performed his duty as a border guard. The fact that he played...

In the late 1800's, the old Karolina Koger dictates his will: all her money shall form a family fund.

Jane Frazee made her starring film debut in the Republic B-plus musical Melody and Moonlight. The plot is motivated by the show-biz aspirations of bel...

On an island in the Stockholm archipelago lives a man named Albin who has fallen in love with the new school teacher named Eva. Because of the Winter...

Edgar is a census taker, but is primarily interested in finding a rich widow for his father-in-law (Billy Franey),so he won't have to continue to sup...