1940 Movies

A henpecked husband and his bossy wife are due for a surprise when the wife's former boyfriend unexpectedly turns up.

Ignác Semmelweis is 18 and is in Vienna, training to become a judge-advocate, to comply with the wishes of his family. He is, however, attracted by th...

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

A disillusioned factory worker is charged with the attempted murder of her mother's lover.

A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.

An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later...

Andy invests in a local theatrical production; when the actors flee with the money, Andy and his wife are forced to take their places and put on a sho...

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.

A story about a young boy Timur and his team who are living in a small Moscow suburb during the years before WWII.

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.

Andy's annoying brother-in-law Gus gets him fired from his job, and then tag-a-longs on a vacation with Andy and his wife.

A mouse, imitating W.C. Fields, leads a nighttime tour of a closed drugstore for other mice, that include a very inquisitive little boy.

Popeye and Bluto show up simultaneously to take Olive to the movies. She needs to visit the hairdresser first, and tells the boys to take care of Swee...

Pluto is on the run after stealing a bone from Butch the bulldog and finds refuge in a carnival Hall of Mirrors.

Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

Service with the Colors is a 1940 American short drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason. This drama is "dedicated to the soldiers of the United States...

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 the...