The best movies 1940 Pagina 3

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...

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

Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con...

Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.

A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving...

After having spent 22 months in prison, Viktor Pálos returns to his homeland, where he is going to be involved in the robbery committed by his...

Broadway producer Nicksie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend,...

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning...

An MGM short promoting the studio's impact on fashion through film through their chief of costume design, Adrian; in rural America, a mother and...

Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.

Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time...

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

A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.

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...

The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...

Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother....

Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.

Early in the war, a group of women decide to help the soldiers in the war front. They enlist the help of the wealthy Madame Marion.

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

A 1940 film directed by Boris Maicon.

It takes place in 1827, in Carmen de Patagones, in the context of the confrontation between the militias of the United Provinces of the Río de...

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 directed by Robert Quigley.

The misadventures and mishaps of a tailor.

A young man who travels from the country to he city to study law has economic hardship until he receives help from a neighbor.

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

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

In Murcia, a southern province of Spain rich in fruits and vegetables parcels, a girl and a boy are in love but he is so shy that she accepts a rich...

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

Social film that explores journalism's fight against fraud, intimidation, extortion and political crimes during the 30s in Argentina.

Well-to-do idler loses his fortune, ends up going to night-school and working as butler for a wealthy family. Still posing as a rich toff, he courts...