The best movies 1940

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died...

When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named...

Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and...

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his...

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his...

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young...

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous...

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

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an...

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place,...

In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his...

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

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...

A con man heading west to search for gold teams up with a pair of scheming brothers along the way. The trio soon find themselves in the middle of a...

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

Mickey is performing routine maintenance on his tugboat (with interference from a pelican) when a call comes on the radio that there's a sinking ship...

The story focuses on a middle-class family. It introduces us to two characters: Corina, secretary of Don Emilio Condal, and his brother...

Two fishermen and pelotaris, Josechu and Mikel, compete for Mirentxu's love.

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

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 Manuel R. Ojeda,

A mute stagehand dreams that he succeeds in the theater after having recovered his voice.

A single man and womanizer who enjoys the nightlife learns that he has a son who is already an adult. In order to gain his affection he decides to...

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

"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"...

On the hacienda of El Soto lives Doña Raimunda and her daughter Acacia as well. After being widowed, Raimunda married Esteban, who is secretly...

In order to seduce a humble man, a rich girl pretends to be a maid.

Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.

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

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

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...

A Galician immigrant loses her passport and cannot disembark in Buenos Aires. But finally he succeeds and triumphs.