The best movies 1940 Pagina 6

A shy man invents in front of his friends a love affair with a singer but circumstances will lead him to conquer her.

In this version of "The Courtship of Miles Standish", Elmer Fudd is messanger John Alden, sent to give Miles' love letter to Priscilla. While...

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

A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous...

A wartime documentary following Canadian convoy operations and naval escort duties in the North Atlantic during the early years of World War II.

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA...

Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.

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

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...

The Bontemps family, like all the inhabitants of the village of Coussy la Chapelle, are passionate about radio. Coco, the fiancé of Jacqueline...

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 series of blackout gags parodying aviation and aviation films. Gags include a parchutist whose parachute reads "Good to the last drop", jokes about...

A man's clumsy attempts to marry his young naive ward. Ophuls' idea was: show the Louis Jouvet theater troupe, which had decamped to Geneva, playing...

Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone...

The tale of two fish in love, threatened by an octopus and saved by an eel.

Titi loses her mind after her beloved child passed away. His husband, Suria is in love with Kartinah, the nurse. But he does not want to have two...

Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend....

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York...

The young opera singer Carla is in love with the talented young composer Michele, who wants to make it big with classical music and writes his first...

The misadventures and mishaps of a tailor.

When her boyfriends are tempted by attractive women who are only interested in their money, two friends decide to join forces to make them give up...

We see a young Mario Moreno making us laugh while he trying to fight against an opponent on a ring.

An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask him to impersonate her long-lost father and give...

A 1940 film directed by Antonio Helú.

In 1868, while the Cuban War of Independence develops, Gaston de Montero, a noble Spanish knight, rescues a young girl named Siboney and he helps her...

Religious melodrama about the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Cantinflas Ruletero is one of his most famous short films, where the great comedian acts as a taxi driver, making his passengers work without taking...

A 1940 film directed by Alejandro Galindo.

A 1940 film.

An English lady decides to buy a gypsy boy but she is deceived and receives a stolen child with dyed skin. The lady searches his real parents and...

This film by Jorge Bedoya Forga (Arequipa, 1902 - New York, 1968), a pioneer of amateur 8mm filmmaking in Peru, contains footage from approximately...