1. The Great Dictator (1940)

IMDB Rating: 8.5 ( 177008 Votes ) ;

20 years after the end of WWI, in which the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side, Adenoid Hynkel has risen to power as the ruthless dictator of t...    More Detail »»

2. Pinocchio (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 114109 Votes ) ; Critic Score: 9.9 ; BoxOffice: $84300000 USD

Inventor Gepetto creates a wooden marionette called Pinocchio. His wish that Pinocchio be a real boy is unexpectedly granted by a fairy. The fairy ass...    More Detail »»

3. Rebecca (1940)

IMDB Rating: 8.1 ( 109596 Votes ) ;

A shy ladies' companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and retur...    More Detail »»

4. Fantasia (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.8 ( 81216 Votes ) ; Critic Score: 9.6 ; BoxOffice: $76400000 USD

Disney animators set pictures to Western classical music as Leopold Stokowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" feature...    More Detail »»

5. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

IMDB Rating: 8.1 ( 79996 Votes ) ; Critic Score: 9.5 ;

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked off their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his uncle's...    More Detail »»

6. The Philadelphia Story (1940)

IMDB Rating: 8 ( 57978 Votes ) ; Critic Score: 9.6 ;

Philadelphia socialites Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven married impulsively, with their marriage and subsequent divorce being equally passionate. The...    More Detail »»

7. His Girl Friday (1940)

IMDB Rating: 8 ( 47965 Votes ) ;

Having been away for four months, Hildy Johnson walks into the offices of the New York City based The Morning Post, where she is a star reporter, to t...    More Detail »»

8. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

IMDB Rating: 8.1 ( 24255 Votes ) ;

In Budapest, Hungary, the Matuschek and Company store is owned by Mr. Hugo Matuschek and the bachelor Alfred Kralik is his best and most experienced s...    More Detail »»

9. Foreign Correspondent (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.6 ( 16327 Votes ) ;

Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor appoints him European correspondent because he is fed up with the dry, reports ...    More Detail »»

10. The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 10607 Votes ) ;

In Bagdad, the young and naive Sultan Ahmad is curious about the behavior of his people. The Grand Vizier Jaffar convinces Ahmad to walk through the c...    More Detail »»

11. The Letter (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.7 ( 10250 Votes ) ;

The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense. Her poise, graciousness and stoicism impress nearl...    More Detail »»

12. The Mark of Zorro (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.6 ( 8620 Votes ) ;

Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays t...    More Detail »»

13. My Favorite Wife (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 8290 Votes ) ;

Ellen Arden arrives 7 years after being given up for dead in a shipwreck, to find her husband Nick just remarried to Bianca. The overjoyed Nick awkwar...    More Detail »»

14. The Sea Hawk (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.7 ( 8193 Votes ) ;

Geoffrey Thorpe is an adventurous and dashing pirate, who feels that he should pirate the Spanish ships for the good of England. In one such battle, h...    More Detail »»

15. Waterloo Bridge (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.8 ( 8046 Votes ) ;

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 ...    More Detail »»

16. Pride and Prejudice (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 6799 Votes ) ;

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentle...    More Detail »»

17. They Drive by Night (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.3 ( 6324 Votes ) ;

Brothers Paul and Joe Fabrini run a trucking business in California mainly shipping fruit from farms to the markets in Los Angeles. They struggle to m...    More Detail »»

18. The Bank Dick (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.3 ( 6096 Votes ) ;

Egbert Sousé leads an ordinary life but is about to have an extraordinary day. Henpecked at home home by his demanding wife Agatha and more or less ig...    More Detail »»

19. Go West (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 4722 Votes ) ;

Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and R...    More Detail »»

20. The Westerner (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 4443 Votes ) ; Critic Score: 7.8 ;

Cole Harden just doesn't look like a horse thief, Jane-Ellen Matthews tells Judge Roy Bean as she steps up to the bar. Cole says he can't take it with...    More Detail »»

21. The Mortal Storm (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.9 ( 3990 Votes ) ;

Interesting to note that the film was made in 1940, one year before America's entry into the European war against Hitler. The movie depicts Germany in...    More Detail »»

22. Night Train to Munich (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.3 ( 3951 Votes ) ;

When the Germans march into Prague, armour-plating inventor Dr Bomasch flees to England. His daughter Anna escapes from arrest to join him, but the Ge...    More Detail »»

23. Remember the Night (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.7 ( 3925 Votes ) ;

Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because i...    More Detail »»

24. All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.6 ( 3868 Votes ) ;

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philip...    More Detail »»

25. The Long Voyage Home (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 3373 Votes ) ;

Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. The men smuggle drink and women ab...    More Detail »»

26. Road to Singapore (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 3278 Votes ) ;

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope star in the first of the 'Road to' movies as two playboys trying to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet D...    More Detail »»

27. Gaslight (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 3182 Votes ) ;

Twenty years ago, old Mrs. Barlow was killed in her home at 12, Pimlico Square for her priceless rubies. The murderer searched the whole house without...    More Detail »»

28. Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 3165 Votes ) ;

Rising reporter Michael Ward is a key witness in the murder trial of young Joe Briggs, who is convicted on circumstantial evidence while swearing inno...    More Detail »»

29. The Mummy's Hand (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 3016 Votes ) ;

An ancient mummy is revived to destroy those that would invade the 3,000 year old tomb of an Egyptian princess....    More Detail »»

30. The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 2995 Votes ) ;

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness....    More Detail »»

31. The Great McGinty (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 2981 Votes ) ;

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this br...    More Detail »»

32. 'Northwest Passage' (Book I -- Rogers' Rangers) (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 2939 Votes ) ;

Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force e...    More Detail »»

33. Christmas in July (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 2894 Votes ) ;

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford Ho...    More Detail »»

34. Santa Fe Trail (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 2847 Votes ) ;

The story of Jeb Stuart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer and battles......    More Detail »»

35. Kitty Foyle (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 2820 Votes ) ;

A white collar worker from a blue collar family, Kitty Foyle has spent her so far short adult life in her hometown of Philadelphia or New York City. S...    More Detail »»

36. Jud Süß (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.6 ( 2778 Votes ) ;

In this notorious Nazi propaganda historical costume melodrama, a conniving, ambitious Jewish businessman......    More Detail »»

37. Boom Town (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 2765 Votes ) ;

Buddies Big John McMasters and Square John Sand are fast-talking, wisecracking wildcatters who manage to con enough equipment and capital to develop t...    More Detail »»

38. The Ghost Breakers (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.3 ( 2693 Votes ) ;

Mary Carter inherits her family's ancestral home, located on a small island off Cuba, and, despite warnings and death threats, decides to take possess...    More Detail »»

39. I Love You Again (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 2626 Votes ) ;

While alone on a cruise, the upstanding - and mean - teetotaler, Larry Wilson, receives a blow on the head, causing him to revert to his old, forgotte...    More Detail »»

40. The Return of Frank James (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 2522 Votes ) ;

Frank James, the brother of Jesse James, has been laying low, living as a farmer and taking care of Clem, the son of one of the members of the James g...    More Detail »»

41. My Little Chickadee (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 2349 Votes ) ;

Rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, Flower Belle Lee is run out of Little Bend. On the train she meets con man Cuthbert J. ...    More Detail »»

42. The Devil Bat (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.5 ( 2334 Votes ) ;

A mad scientist develops an aftershave lotion that causes his gigantic bats to kill anyone who wears it....    More Detail »»

43. Saps at Sea (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.2 ( 2204 Votes ) ;

After working in the noisy horn factory, just the sound of one drives Oliver into a violent fit. Dr. Finlayson prescribes a long, restful sea voyage, ...    More Detail »»

44. Brother Orchid (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 2125 Votes ) ;

Gang boss Little John Sarto returns from Europe where he was looking for "class" to find the new gang leader Jack Burns unwilling to relinquish his co...    More Detail »»

45. Dark Command (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 2090 Votes ) ;

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local ba...    More Detail »»

46. Our Town (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 2057 Votes ) ;

Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get de...    More Detail »»

47. Dr. Cyclops (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 2016 Votes ) ;

A mad scientist working in the South American jungle miniaturizes his colleagues when he feels his megalomania is threatened....    More Detail »»

48. Virginia City (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 1952 Votes ) ;

During the American Civil War, Captain Kerry Bradford escapes from a notorious confederate prison. He and two of his men are sent to Virginia City whe...    More Detail »»

49. Strange Cargo (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 1919 Votes ) ;

Verne wants nothing more than to escape from a penal colony located off the northern coast of South America. He tries to involve Julie, a saloon girl,...    More Detail »»

50. City for Conquest (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.3 ( 1874 Votes ) ;

Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters "the fight game" and Sheridan plays his girlfriend, Peggy. Danny realizes success in the ring and use...    More Detail »»

51. Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 1867 Votes ) ;

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brent as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who...    More Detail »»

52. The Invisible Woman (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 1823 Votes ) ;

An attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine....    More Detail »»

53. Black Friday (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 1770 Votes ) ;

Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous sp...    More Detail »»

54. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 1690 Votes ) ;

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap......    More Detail »»

55. The Fighting 69th (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 1614 Votes ) ;

"The Fighting 69th" is a First World War regiment of mostly New York-Irish soldiers. Amongst a cocky crew, perhaps the cockiest is Jerry Plunkett, a s...    More Detail »»

56. Knute Rockne All American (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 1594 Votes ) ;

Lars Rockne and his family, including his four year old son Knute, emigrate to Chicago in 1892 from their native Norway. By his mid-twenties Knute sav...    More Detail »»

57. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 1530 Votes ) ;

Biopic of Abe Lincoln, 16th President of he United States, from his early days in backwoods Kentucky to his election as President. After a time runnin...    More Detail »»

58. The Ape (1940)

IMDB Rating: 4.6 ( 1460 Votes ) ;

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal......    More Detail »»

59. One Night in the Tropics (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 1425 Votes ) ;

Jim "Lucky" Moore (Allan Jones), an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve (Robert Cummings): a 'love insurance policy...    More Detail »»

60. The Blue Bird (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 1395 Votes ) ;

Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, a woodchopper's children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past, present, and future to locat...    More Detail »»

61. Die Rothschilds (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 1377 Votes ) ;

Anti-semitic Nazi propaganda "biography" of the Rothschilds, a German Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community du...    More Detail »»

62. Edison, the Man (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 1371 Votes ) ;

Hoored at a banquet for his sixty year career as an inventor, scientist, and businessman, 89 year old Thomas Alva Edison reflects back on his long car...    More Detail »»

63. Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.6 ( 1325 Votes ) ;

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the d...    More Detail »»

64. North West Mounted Police (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 1322 Votes ) ;

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels......    More Detail »»

65. Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 1270 Votes ) ;

Dr. Paul Ehrlich was the German physician who developed the first synthetic antimicrobial drug, 606 or Salvarsan. The film describes how Ehrlich first...    More Detail »»

66. Beyond Tomorrow (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 1240 Votes ) ;

The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought toge...    More Detail »»

67. Strike Up the Band (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 1221 Votes ) ;

Jimmy Connors and his girl-friend want to take part in Paul Whiteman's highschool's band contest, but they cannot afford the fare. But per chance the ...    More Detail »»

68. Comrade X (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 1198 Votes ) ;

An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country....    More Detail »»

69. Too Many Husbands (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 1181 Votes ) ;

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky re-married... and in no hurry to settle for just one husband....    More Detail »»

70. Second Chorus (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 1179 Votes ) ;

When perennial college students Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are forced to make it on their own, the competitive pair get jobs with Artie Shaw's band...    More Detail »»

71. Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 1145 Votes ) ;

A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmos...    More Detail »»

72. One Million B.C. (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 1142 Votes ) ;

Tumak, member of the prehistoric Rock tribe, is exiled and makes his way to the more peaceful Shell tribe......    More Detail »»

73. Charlie Chan in Panama (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.6 ( 1132 Votes ) ;

Charlie impersonates a shop owner to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Paci...    More Detail »»

74. Primrose Path (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 1114 Votes ) ;

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. ...    More Detail »»

75. Torrid Zone (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 1081 Votes ) ;

Banana Company executive Steve Case on a Caribean plantation group tries to convince his former co-worker Nick Butler to take over the plantation No 7...    More Detail »»

76. Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.6 ( 1079 Votes ) ;

On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a ...    More Detail »»

77. Murder Over New York (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 1055 Votes ) ;

Coincidence like ancient egg, leave unpleasant odour. Canary unlike faithful dog, do not die from sympathy. Number 2 son very promising detective, pro...    More Detail »»

78. Seven Sinners (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 1054 Votes ) ;

Bijou, a saloon singer with a reputation for inciting brouhahas, is one of several deportees from a south Pacific island to arrive at another U.S. pro...    More Detail »»

79. Arizona (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 1032 Votes ) ;

Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But P...    More Detail »»

80. Johnny Apollo (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 1016 Votes ) ;

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's releas...    More Detail »»

81. Susan and God (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 991 Votes ) ;

Susan Trexel is a wealthy socialite, who while vacationing in Europe undergoes a religious transformation......    More Detail »»

82. You'll Find Out (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 969 Votes ) ;

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....    More Detail »»

83. Young Tom Edison (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 968 Votes ) ;

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastr...    More Detail »»

84. The Howards of Virginia (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 963 Votes ) ;

Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbrining when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard......    More Detail »»

85. Contraband (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 934 Votes ) ;

This is the tale of life in a British port in the first year of World War II. Spies and smugglers abound in the blackout and unreal shore life of the ...    More Detail »»

86. Ahí está el detalle (1940)

IMDB Rating: 8.3 ( 927 Votes ) ;

The boyfriend (Cantinflas) 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 s...    More Detail »»

87. It All Came True (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 911 Votes ) ;

After crooked nightclub owner Chips Maguire murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's ...    More Detail »»

88. The Fatal Hour (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.5 ( 910 Votes ) ;

When Captain Street's best friend Dan O'Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong......    More Detail »»

89. Brigham Young (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 895 Votes ) ;

In 1844,after the assassination of Mormon leader Joseph Smith by an angry mob in Illinois, the Mormons choose Brigham Young as their new leader and fo...    More Detail »»

90. Doomed to Die (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.6 ( 891 Votes ) ;

Mr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate's murder....    More Detail »»

91. Down Argentine Way (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 869 Votes ) ;

An American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner....    More Detail »»

92. Before I Hang (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 864 Votes ) ;

A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a...    More Detail »»

93. The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 840 Votes ) ;

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Cliffo...    More Detail »»

94. Angels Over Broadway (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 815 Votes ) ;

A cuckolded embezzler on the verge of suicide is helped by a tout, an alcoholic playwright, and a pick-up girl to reimburse the money with a gambling ...    More Detail »»

95. No Time for Comedy (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 813 Votes ) ;

Playwright Gaylord Esterbrook scores a hit with his first Broadway play, both with the critics and with leading lady Linda Paige......    More Detail »»

96. The Stars Look Down (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 810 Votes ) ;

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls ...    More Detail »»

97. 21 Days (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 794 Votes ) ;

After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime......    More Detail »»

98. British Intelligence (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 774 Votes ) ;

Although the home of cabinet minister Arthur Bennett is a hotbed of spies, moles, and double agents, no one knows the true identity of notorious Germa...    More Detail »»

99. Escape (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 746 Votes ) ;

An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of a German countess he engineers her escape. ...    More Detail »»

100. The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 728 Votes ) ;

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married....    More Detail »»

101. Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 726 Votes ) ;

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues......    More Detail »»

102. Lucky Partners (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 720 Votes ) ;

Ronald Colman shares a sweepstakes ticket with Ginger Rogers and they then embark on an "imaginary" honeymoon with their "winnings."...    More Detail »»

103. Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 706 Votes ) ;

Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and ev...    More Detail »»

104. Too Many Girls (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 663 Votes ) ;

Mr Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge he sends four football players as her bodyguards......    More Detail »»

105. Vigil in the Night (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 662 Votes ) ;

Nurse Anne Lee blames herself for a fatal mistake of her sister Lucy, who also is a nurse. Anne loses her job......    More Detail »»

106. The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 656 Votes ) ;

An enigmatic gang leader known as "The Boss," who is a dead-ringer for Simon, puts "The Saint" under suspicion of murder....    More Detail »»

107. Three Faces West (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 647 Votes ) ;

Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler......    More Detail »»

108. Arise, My Love (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 645 Votes ) ;

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins....    More Detail »»

109. Turnabout (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 608 Votes ) ;

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life....    More Detail »»

110. The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 603 Votes ) ;

In 1865, General Gurko Lanen is dictator of "Lichtenburg" in the Balkans. Rightful ruler Zona hopes to get aid from Napoleon III of France......    More Detail »»

111. Podkidysh (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.7 ( 578 Votes ) ;

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112. The Saint Takes Over (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 577 Votes ) ;

Inspector Fernack is framed by a cartel of five gangsters and Simon does his best to prove it before all the conspirators are murdered by a mysterious...    More Detail »»

113. Flight Command (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 574 Votes ) ;

A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola......    More Detail »»

114. The Lady in Question (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 566 Votes ) ;

A juror in a murder trial takes pity on the recently acquitted dependent and invites her to move into his family's home and his son soon falls in love...    More Detail »»

115. When the Daltons Rode (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 537 Votes ) ;

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons......    More Detail »»

116. I Take This Woman (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 530 Votes ) ;

Georgi has attempted suicide in reaction to an earlier love affair. Now that Dr. Decker has married her he sets out to get her to love him......    More Detail »»

117. The Man with Nine Lives (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 525 Votes ) ;

A medical researcher visits the deserted home of a pioneer in cryogenic science who disappeared 10 years earlier and finds him frozen in ice but still...    More Detail »»

118. Busman's Honeymoon (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 523 Votes ) ;

Lord Peter Wimsey is an amateur detective. He is to be married to Harriet Vane, who writes crime novels......    More Detail »»

119. Boys of the City (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 522 Votes ) ;

Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house....    More Detail »»

120. Pride of the Bowery (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 510 Votes ) ;

New York City street principles get an East Side Kid in trouble at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp....    More Detail »»

121. 'Til We Meet Again (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 503 Votes ) ;

Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. J...    More Detail »»

122. Castle on the Hudson (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 494 Votes ) ;

Mobster Tommy Gordon isn't worried about being sentenced to Sing Sing prison because his political pals have promised him a quick parole......    More Detail »»

123. A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 494 Votes ) ;

Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns......    More Detail »»

124. Irene (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 487 Votes ) ;

Sent by her employers on an errand to the home of the wealthy Mrs. Vincent, Irene O'Dare meets Don, a friend of Bob......    More Detail »»

125. New Moon (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 474 Votes ) ;

Marianne de Beaumaniour is on her way to New Orleans from Paris to inspect the plantation she inherited from her uncle......    More Detail »»

126. That Gang of Mine (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 471 Votes ) ;

A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse......    More Detail »»

127. Little Nellie Kelly (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 466 Votes ) ;

Irish colleen Nellie is in love with handsome Jerry Kelly, even though her father objects. Nellie and......    More Detail »»

128. The Green Hornet (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 453 Votes ) ;

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

129. It's a Date (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 433 Votes ) ;

An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situ...    More Detail »»

130. Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 430 Votes ) ;

Detective James Lee Wong is on the scene as archaeologist Dr. John Benton, recently returned from an expedition in China where a valuable ancient scro...    More Detail »»

131. Bitter Sweet (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 402 Votes ) ;

In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher......    More Detail »»

132. La fille du puisatier (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 401 Votes ) ;

A rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant....    More Detail »»

133. Tin Pan Alley (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 392 Votes ) ;

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England......    More Detail »»

134. Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 382 Votes ) ;

Young Dr. Kildare tries to help an unlucky brain surgeon and his seemingly insane patient....    More Detail »»

135. Kit Carson (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 373 Votes ) ;

Trapper Kit Carson and his band of men join John C. Fremont on his way to California. Enroute they are......    More Detail »»

136. Music in My Heart (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 369 Votes ) ;

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137. Crimes at the Dark House (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 367 Votes ) ;

A madman kills a man who has just inherited a large estate, then impersonates his victim to gain entrance to the estate so he can murder his enemies....    More Detail »»

138. My Love Came Back (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 361 Votes ) ;

Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges......    More Detail »»

139. Lillian Russell (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 360 Votes ) ;

Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexand...    More Detail »»

140. The Man I Married (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 360 Votes ) ;

Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi......    More Detail »»

141. Vasilisa prekrasnaya (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 359 Votes ) ;

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142. Congo Maisie (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 358 Votes ) ;

In this reworking of "Red Dust," showgirl Maisie Ravier is left stranded in an African village. She's given refuge by Michael Shane......    More Detail »»

143. Li'l Abner (1940)

IMDB Rating: 4.9 ( 357 Votes ) ;

The goings-on in the rural Southern community of Dogpatch, USA....    More Detail »»

144. The Door with Seven Locks (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.7 ( 357 Votes ) ;

A murder is found to be connected to a false heir and a secret underground torture chamber....    More Detail »»

145. Juninatten (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 356 Votes ) ;

Young Kerstin Norbäck lives in a small town. She has a relationship with a sailor, but when she tries to leave him......    More Detail »»

146. Tom Brown's School Days (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 354 Votes ) ;

A young boy starts at Rugby boarding school. He is tormented by Flashman, the school bully....    More Detail »»

147. Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 345 Votes ) ;

After gumshoe Mike Shayne is hired by a millionaire to keep his daughter away from gambling and gamblers, he becomes involved in the murder of a racet...    More Detail »»

148. Saturday's Children (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 340 Votes ) ;

Pretty Bobby Halevy loves Rims Rosson, a dreamer and inventor without much going for him. Rims has a......    More Detail »»

149. Island of Doomed Men (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.9 ( 339 Votes ) ;

Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel....    More Detail »»

150. The House Across the Bay (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 338 Votes ) ;

An aircraft designer falls for the wife of an imprisoned gangster. All goes well until the gangster gets out of prison......    More Detail »»

151. Blondie on a Budget (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 337 Votes ) ;

Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters w...    More Detail »»

152. The Proud Valley (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 332 Votes ) ;

In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens....    More Detail »»

153. They Knew What They Wanted (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 331 Votes ) ;

Tony (Charles Laughton), a successful but illiterate middle-aged grape farmer, sends the photograph of his handsome young foreman......    More Detail »»

154. Sky Murder (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 330 Votes ) ;

A body is found in a locked airplane compartment and a German female refugee is a suspect. Passenger detective Nick Carter is convinced she didn't do ...    More Detail »»

155. Phantom Raiders (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 325 Votes ) ;

An insurance company tasks Carter and Beeswax to Panama as cargo ships are mysteriously exploding and sending their valuable cargoes to the bottom wit...    More Detail »»

156. Hired Wife (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 313 Votes ) ;

Cement company CEO Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a wife in name only, an......    More Detail »»

157. Young People (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 312 Votes ) ;

Shirley's last film on her 20th Century Fox contract (aged 12). Her parents (Oakie, Greenwood) decide......    More Detail »»

158. Two Girls on Broadway (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 307 Votes ) ;

Eddie sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for......    More Detail »»

159. Tante Pose (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 304 Votes ) ;

Under julefeiringen hos sorenskriver Bals blir det hemmelig forlovelse mellom to av hans vakre døtre og to studenter pÃ¥ julebesøk......    More Detail »»

160. The Earl of Chicago (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 298 Votes ) ;

Silky has always moved booze. In prohibition, he smuggled it from Canada, but now that it is legal, he produces his own brand......    More Detail »»

161. The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 296 Votes ) ;

A wealthy publisher uses a disguise and calls himself the Green Hornet to fight crime in his city....    More Detail »»

162. Rhythm on the River (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 294 Votes ) ;

Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics......    More Detail »»

163. Gold Rush Maisie (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 293 Votes ) ;

Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds......    More Detail »»

164. Calling Philo Vance (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.9 ( 285 Votes ) ;

Despite an exclusive contract with the U.S. government, designer Archer Coe's design is being bid on by German, Japanese, and Italian agents - until h...    More Detail »»

165. Mexican Spitfire (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 281 Votes ) ;

Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper......    More Detail »»

166. The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 279 Votes ) ;

Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires Michael Lanyard (aka The Lone Wolf)......    More Detail »»

167. Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 273 Votes ) ;

Dr. James Kildare has just completed his internship at Blair General Hospital and is assigned to work with his mentor......    More Detail »»

168. The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 271 Votes ) ;

A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit. Lanyard, the Lone Wolf, a...    More Detail »»

169. Lady with Red Hair (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 270 Votes ) ;

A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son......    More Detail »»

170. Little Men (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 269 Votes ) ;

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid......    More Detail »»

171. Flowing Gold (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 269 Votes ) ;

Johnny Blake, dodging the law on a false murder charge, gets work in the oil fields. His boss and friend......    More Detail »»

172. Green Hell (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 260 Votes ) ;

A group of adventurers head deep into a South American jungle in search of ancient Incan treasure. A beautiful woman......    More Detail »»

173. Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 260 Votes ) ;

Nurse Mary Lamont is excited about her brother's impending visit. The young man's strange behavior puzzles Dr. Kildare who believes he may be hiding a...    More Detail »»

174. L'espoir (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 258 Votes ) ; BoxOffice: $9144820 USD

1937, during the spanish civil war, at Teruel. The fight of the Republicans (with very poor means but......    More Detail »»

175. Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 257 Votes ) ;

Jack Benny (as himself) tries to make good his fictitious boasts about roughing it in Nevada, in a spoof of Western cliches....    More Detail »»

176. Half a Sinner (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 256 Votes ) ;

Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side......    More Detail »»

177. Spring Parade (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 255 Votes ) ;

In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman(Deanna Durbin) attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller......    More Detail »»

178. Drums of Fu Manchu (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.2 ( 247 Votes ) ;

The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a......    More Detail »»

179. The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 247 Votes ) ;

Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping......    More Detail »»

180. The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 246 Votes ) ;

Assistant District Attorney Stephen Forbes, an impressive orator with a long list of convictions, resigns......    More Detail »»

181. Maddalena... zero in condotta (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 245 Votes ) ;

La signorina Elisa insegna scrittura commerciale in una scuola femminile, dove tutte le lettere, per convenzione......    More Detail »»

182. 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 242 Votes ) ;

Peter Casey has been with the New York City police department for 25 years. He's totally surprised when......    More Detail »»

183. Crook's Tour (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.9 ( 238 Votes ) ;

Charters and Caldicott, touring in the Near East, are mistaken for German agents and handed in error a gramophone record which contains vital informat...    More Detail »»

184. East of the River (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 235 Votes ) ;

Troubled youths Joe and Nick Lorenzo grow into very different men: Joe a small-time hoodlum and Nick an honored college graduate......    More Detail »»

185. Tear Gas Squad (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 231 Votes ) ;

Nightclub singer becomes police cadet to impress blond female from police family, ends up with her current dating partner as his cadet trainer....    More Detail »»

186. We Who Are Young (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 230 Votes ) ;

Two young office workers working at the same large firm secretly marry and defy their employer's policy against coworker fraternization......    More Detail »»

187. Let George Do It! (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 227 Votes ) ;

Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway......    More Detail »»

188. Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 226 Votes ) ;

Mr. Dithers has a house he can't unload because it is rumored to be haunted. When he lets the Bumsteads move into it......    More Detail »»

189. Up in the Air (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.9 ( 224 Votes ) ;

A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio......    More Detail »»

190. Chad Hanna (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 223 Votes ) ;

Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway....    More Detail »»

191. Swiss Family Robinson (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 223 Votes ) ;

A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members......    More Detail »»

192. The Carson City Kid (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 223 Votes ) ;

Roy is a bandit who is out to get the man who killed his younger brother. He learns as he rides into the town of Sonora that the man is the owner of t...    More Detail »»

193. Kleider machen Leute (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 220 Votes ) ;

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194. Star Dust (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 218 Votes ) ;

Carolyn Sayres gets a Hollywood contract from talent scout Brooke but is later rejected because she's too young......    More Detail »»

195. Captain Caution (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.6 ( 216 Votes ) ;

When her father dies, a young woman helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812....    More Detail »»

196. The Shadow (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 216 Votes ) ;

The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death...    More Detail »»

197. Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.4 ( 216 Votes ) ;

Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach....    More Detail »»

198. Forty Little Mothers (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 215 Votes ) ;

An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school......    More Detail »»

199. Dulcy (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 215 Votes ) ;

A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's f...    More Detail »»

200. The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.6 ( 210 Votes ) ;

The widow Wilson and her daughter Mary have just learned that old Mr. Middleton, who held the mortgage on their home......    More Detail »»

201. Blondie Plays Cupid (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 210 Votes ) ;

The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help....    More Detail »»

202. De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 209 Votes ) ; BoxOffice: $5247 USD

In the late 1800's, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess......    More Detail »»

203. The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 204 Votes ) ;

"Mark's Priory". the family seat of the Lebanons, is a house of terror to Ilsa Crane, secretary and niece of Lady Lebanon......    More Detail »»

204. You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.6 ( 203 Votes ) ;

Andrew and Clara are school sweethearts whose marriage goes stale after five years. Andrew is a hard worker at the firm......    More Detail »»

205. Wyoming (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 201 Votes ) ;

With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave......    More Detail »»

206. Murder in the Air (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.6 ( 200 Votes ) ;

The corpse of a hobo with a $50,000 money belt helps Brass and Gabby crack a cell of fifth columnists bent on sabotage....    More Detail »»

207. Flight Angels (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 199 Votes ) ;

Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing......    More Detail »»

208. Colorado (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 198 Votes ) ;

Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate......    More Detail »»

209. An Angel from Texas (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.6 ( 198 Votes ) ;

Stage struck Lydia Weston leaves her small Texas town for Broadway. Left behind is her steady beau Peter......    More Detail »»

210. Girl in the News (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 194 Votes ) ;

Nurse Anne Graham is controversially - but rightly - acquitted of murder after her elderly patient dies in suspicious circumstances......    More Detail »»

211. East Side Kids (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 193 Votes ) ;

A young street kid grows up and becomes a cop when he realizes that crime doesn't pay. One of his childhood......    More Detail »»

212. 20 Mule Team (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 191 Votes ) ;

It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition......    More Detail »»

213. Wagon Train (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 190 Votes ) ;

Pecos businessman Matt Gardner is buying up freighters, or wagon trains of food supplies, at cheap prices through intimidation......    More Detail »»

214. "Swing it" magistern (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 188 Votes ) ;

At school, a music teacher is testing the pupil's ability to sing. The 16-year old Inga Danell starts......    More Detail »»

215. The Ghost Comes Home (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 184 Votes ) ;

Mild mannered Vern runs a pet store that seems to gather more pets than he sells. One day he receives......    More Detail »»

216. Mysterious Doctor Satan (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 184 Votes ) ;

A mad scientist plots the domination of America and only the masked hero, The Copperhead, can stop him....    More Detail »»

217. Cross-Country Romance (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.7 ( 184 Votes ) ;

Chase across the country romance....    More Detail »»

218. And One Was Beautiful (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 184 Votes ) ;

A woman lets a family friend take the blame after she accidentally runs over a man with a car....    More Detail »»

219. Battement de coeur (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 183 Votes ) ;

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220. The Biscuit Eater (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 182 Votes ) ;

Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs......    More Detail »»

221. Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 182 Votes ) ;

With husband Dennis preoccupied with a business deal, Carmelita decides to teach him a lesson by running off to Reno and filing for divorce....    More Detail »»

222. Ski Patrol (1940)

IMDB Rating: 4.3 ( 177 Votes ) ;

1939: Finnish reserve unit defends border, home-town in valley below, from Russian invaders who are excavating an explosives-laden tunnel under their ...    More Detail »»

223. Melody Ranch (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 176 Votes ) ;

His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration....    More Detail »»

224. I Was an Adventuress (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 174 Votes ) ;

A pair of crooks (von Stroheim and Lorre) use a phony countess (Zorina) who winds up falling in love with one of their victims (Greene)....    More Detail »»

225. Son of Ingagi (1940)

IMDB Rating: 4 ( 172 Votes ) ;

A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father....    More Detail »»

226. Young Bill Hickok (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 170 Votes ) ;

Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the...    More Detail »»

227. Convoy (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 166 Votes ) ;

A tale of the highs and lows of life protecting the vital convoys between America & England during WWII....    More Detail »»

228. Gallant Sons (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 166 Votes ) ;

Two childhood friends have a falling out because of their fathers' occupations, which lands one father in jail....    More Detail »»

229. My Son, My Son! (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 162 Votes ) ;

A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten...    More Detail »»

230. The Great Profile (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 162 Votes ) ;

Barrymore lampoons himself. A famous actor, given to drink, nearly destroys the show, but his leading lady returns to save it......    More Detail »»

231. The Golden Fleecing (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 159 Votes ) ;

A $50,000 life-insurance sale puts mild-mannered Henry Twinkle on the fast track at Ajax Insurance Company......    More Detail »»

232. L'assedio dell'Alcazar (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 157 Votes ) ;

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233. Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.6 ( 157 Votes ) ;

Now-widowed Tugboat Annie, tugboat queen of the Northwest, struggles to save her job against the competition of rival Captain Bullwinkle....    More Detail »»

234. Gambling on the High Seas (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 157 Votes ) ;

Gambling boss Greg Morella runs a crooked ship-- all the gaming tables on his floating casino are rigged......    More Detail »»

235. San Giovanni decollato (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 154 Votes ) ;

Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find......    More Detail »»

236. Little Old New York (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 150 Votes ) ;

Steamboat inventor Robert Fulton shows up in New York in 1807. Tavern keeper believes in him, but her boyfriend doesn't. All seems lost when sailors a...    More Detail »»

237. Granny Get Your Gun (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 150 Votes ) ;

Minerva Hatton is back in Nevada, where she grubstaked her fortune years ago. Her granddaughter Julie Westcott is visiting while getting a divorce......    More Detail »»

238. A Window in London (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 147 Votes ) ;

A passerby witnesses a murder through the windows of a passing train. He then tries to track down the killer....    More Detail »»

239. Hullabaloo (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 147 Votes ) ;

A movie musical centered on merrily befogged Merriweather's attempt to restore his career - all while reuniting with his three children (from his thre...    More Detail »»

240. He Married His Wife (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 146 Votes ) ;

Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to ...    More Detail »»

241. Moi universitety (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 145 Votes ) ;

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242. Bismarck (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 145 Votes ) ;

A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germ...    More Detail »»

243. Millionaires in Prison (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 143 Votes ) ;

A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside....    More Detail »»

244. Curtain Call (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 143 Votes ) ;

A naive playwright sells her awful play, "The End of Everything," to two Broadway producers who want to get even with an ungrateful star....    More Detail »»

245. Tabi yakusha (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 142 Votes ) ;

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246. Three Men from Texas (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 141 Votes ) ;

Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins....    More Detail »»

247. Der Postmeister (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 140 Votes ) ;

When two russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago......    More Detail »»

248. One Crowded Night (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 140 Votes ) ;

Crucial events in the lives of many people occur on the same night in the same place....    More Detail »»

249. Paradis perdu (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 138 Votes ) ;

In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant......    More Detail »»

250. Kora Terry (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.1 ( 137 Votes ) ;

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251. Dívka v modrém (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.2 ( 136 Votes ) ;

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252. Saloon Bar (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 133 Votes ) ;

Against a background of Christmas and the pending arrival of another baby for the landlord, a group......    More Detail »»

253. No, No, Nanette (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.4 ( 132 Votes ) ;

Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations......    More Detail »»

254. Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 131 Votes ) ;

With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the g...    More Detail »»

255. Band Waggon (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.6 ( 130 Votes ) ;

A plot involving spies in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs....    More Detail »»

256. Always a Bride (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.4 ( 130 Votes ) ;

Alice Bond is under a lot of pressure from her parents to marry Marshall Winkler, an arrogant blowhard whose only positive quality is his money......    More Detail »»

257. The Last Alarm (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 128 Votes ) ;

A veteran firefighter is forced to retire at age 65 by the Fire Department. However, when one of his friends dies in a blaze set by a serial arsonist....    More Detail »»

258. If I Had My Way (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 127 Votes ) ;

When a fellow bridge builder is killed in an accident, two of his co-workers bring his now orphaned daughter to New York to be adopted by relatives....    More Detail »»

259. Baron Prásil (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.2 ( 126 Votes ) ;

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260. 40,000 Horsemen (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 126 Votes ) ;

Three young Australians join the army at the beginning of World War I and are assigned to the Australian Light Horse cavalry......    More Detail »»

261. Girls of the Road (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 126 Votes ) ;

A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running......    More Detail »»

262. Wildcat Bus (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.1 ( 125 Votes ) ;

A small bus company run by a father/daughter team comes under attack by a group of "wildcatters" who want to put the company out of business so they c...    More Detail »»

263. Hidden Gold (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 125 Votes ) ;

Hoppy and Lucky confront a gang of outlaws which has been ravaging stagecoaches and gold mines. The final gunfight is at Ed Colby's mine....    More Detail »»

264. Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 124 Votes ) ;

Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from bei...    More Detail »»

265. Keeping Company (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 124 Votes ) ;

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266. The Green Archer (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 123 Votes ) ;

Columbia's 12th serial of 57 total (following 1940's "Deadwood Dick" and ahead of 1941's "White Eagle")......    More Detail »»

267. Midnight Limited (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.2 ( 120 Votes ) ;

The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train......    More Detail »»

268. Anne of Windy Poplars (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 119 Votes ) ;

Anne Shirley, having recently wed her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe, takes a teaching position......    More Detail »»

269. Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 118 Votes ) ;

The Peppers - widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five children Polly, Ben, Joey, Davie and Phronsie - have......    More Detail »»

270. Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 118 Votes ) ;

Ever since the poor Pepper family - widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five children Polly, Ben, Joey, Davie and Phronsie......    More Detail »»

271. Men with Steel Faces (1940)

IMDB Rating: 4.4 ( 117 Votes ) ;

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

272. Spare a Copper (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 116 Votes ) ;

A brave wartime copper (policeman) becomes a hero when he thwarts a plot to destroy a battleship. But......    More Detail »»

273. South of Pago Pago (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 113 Votes ) ;

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274. Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 111 Votes ) ;

The mysteriously ill John Braun makes a new will, leaving out his daughter Barbara, over the protests of his wife......    More Detail »»

275. Out West with the Peppers (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.7 ( 111 Votes ) ;

The Peppers - widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five children Polly, Ben, Joey, Davie and Phronsie - and the Kings - mining businessman J.H......    More Detail »»

276. SF-paraati (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 110 Votes ) ;

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277. She Couldn't Say No (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 107 Votes ) ;

Wally is a lawyer with no clients so when he gets a job to buy a lake and the surrounding 1000 acres for Trans Atlantic Airlines......    More Detail »»

278. Menaces... (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 106 Votes ) ;

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279. River's End (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 106 Votes ) ;

Convicted murderer John Keith (Dennis Morgan), escapes from his guards, and is pursued by Sergeant Conniston (    More Detail »»

280. Young Buffalo Bill (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 106 Votes ) ;

Buffalo Bill, who bears virtually no relation to the real one, gets in a fight over mining lands in New Mexico. Indians besiege a Spanish rancho and t...    More Detail »»

281. Svetlyy put (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 105 Votes ) ;

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282. Marked Men (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.5 ( 105 Votes ) ;

Bill Carver is a young medical-school graduate wrongly confined in prison. He escapes and finds a haven and romance in an Arizona small town......    More Detail »»

283. Unelma karjamajalla (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 104 Votes ) ;

Drama about a young woman in rural Finland in the 1930s. The small village provides a scene for intrigues, fights, love, jealousy, accusations, and re...    More Detail »»

284. The Captain Is a Lady (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 104 Votes ) ;

Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home......    More Detail »»

285. Stagecoach War (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 104 Votes ) ;

Hoppy is busy chasing stagecoach bandits who sing as they rob....    More Detail »»

286. Pop Always Pays (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 104 Votes ) ;

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287. Kampf um Norwegen - Feldzug 1940 (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 103 Votes ) ;

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288. A Bill of Divorcement (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.9 ( 102 Votes ) ;

Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family....    More Detail »»

289. The Durango Kid (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 101 Votes ) ;

The first film in which Charles Starrett played an alter-ego character known as "The Durango Kid" but this entry......    More Detail »»

290. Misbehaving Husbands (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.6 ( 101 Votes ) ;

The owner of a department store is threatened with divorce by his wife, who has gotten reports that he's been seen in the arms of a beautiful blonde o...    More Detail »»

291. Timur i yego komanda (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 99 Votes ) ;

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292. Katakomby (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 99 Votes ) ;

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293. Adventures of Red Ryder (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.2 ( 99 Votes ) ;

Mesquite banker Calvin Drake plans to profit from the Santa Fe Railroad's acquisition of right-of-way by gaining control of the land in the territory....    More Detail »»

294. The Showdown (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 98 Votes ) ;

European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find a...    More Detail »»

295. This Thing Called Love (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 97 Votes ) ;

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months......    More Detail »»

296. South of Suez (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 97 Votes ) ;

Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly......    More Detail »»

297. Babicka (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 96 Votes ) ;

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298. Aatamin puvussa - ja vähän Eevankin... (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.1 ( 96 Votes ) ;

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299. The Light of Western Stars (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.7 ( 95 Votes ) ;

Cowhand Ladd dances with cantina girl Estrella and has a part in shooting Sheriff Tyler....    More Detail »»

300. Santa Fe Marshal (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 95 Votes ) ;

U.S. Marshal Hopalong Cassidy is called when a town becomes overrun with bad guys. Disguised as a member of a medicine show, Hoppy discovers that the ...    More Detail »»

301. The Man from Tumbleweeds (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.9 ( 94 Votes ) ;

Powder Kilgore (Ray Bennett as Raphael Bennett) kills freighter Jeff Cameron (Edward LeSaint...    More Detail »»

302. King of the Lumberjacks (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.6 ( 94 Votes ) ;

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303. Wunschkonzert (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 93 Votes ) ;

At the Olympic games in Berlin 1936 Inge Wagner falls in love with Luftwaffenleutnant (Airforce Lieutenant) Herbert Koch......    More Detail »»

304. Hold That Woman! (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 93 Votes ) ;

A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or......    More Detail »»

305. Typhoon (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 91 Votes ) ;

Two men searching for black pearls are marooned on an island when their crew mutinies. There they run......    More Detail »»

306. The Fargo Kid (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 91 Votes ) ;

In this light comedy, the Fargo Kid rides into town on an outlaw's horse and when mistaken for him, is hired to kill a man......    More Detail »»

307. Phantom Rancher (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 91 Votes ) ;

Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks....    More Detail »»

308. Men Against the Sky (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 91 Votes ) ;

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309. Gaucho Serenade (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 91 Votes ) ;

A bunch of businessmen are out to kidnap a former partner's son so he won't squeal on them. Guess who must stop them....    More Detail »»

310. The Boys from Syracuse (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 90 Votes ) ;

The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the story concerns the efforts of two boys from Syracuse......    More Detail »»

311. Calling All Husbands (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 90 Votes ) ;

Homer Trippe is very henpecked by his wife, and Mrs. Trippe also dominates the life of her daughter......    More Detail »»

312. Father Is a Prince (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 88 Votes ) ;

Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners......    More Detail »»

313. Gang War (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.3 ( 86 Votes ) ;

Two mobs fight for control of the jukebox racket....    More Detail »»

314. Love Thy Neighbor (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.2 ( 85 Votes ) ;

Jack Benny is preparing his New Year's Eve radio broadcast but takes time out to take his valet Rochester......    More Detail »»

315. Shooting High (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 84 Votes ) ;

A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead. The grandson's friend scares the actor out of town...    More Detail »»

316. The Marines Fly High (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.7 ( 83 Votes ) ;

Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant....    More Detail »»

317. Sporting Blood (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 83 Votes ) ;

Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda......    More Detail »»

318. Glamour for Sale (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 82 Votes ) ;

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319. Four Sons (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 81 Votes ) ;

When the Germans invade Czechoslovakia the four sons of a Czecho-German family follow different paths: Czech patriot, Nazi supporter, artist in Americ...    More Detail »»

320. Earthbound (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 81 Votes ) ;

A murdered man (Baxter) helps his widow (Leeds) bring his killer (Bari) to justice....    More Detail »»

321. A Fugitive from Justice (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.2 ( 81 Votes ) ;

Fugitive Lee Leslie is wanted by three groups; the police, the gangsters who fear his testimony in court......    More Detail »»

322. Die Geierwally (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 79 Votes ) ;

Wally is the daughter and only child to Fender, a rich, widowed mountain farmer in the Ötztal valley in the Tyrolian Alps......    More Detail »»

323. Bullet Code (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.6 ( 79 Votes ) ;

Rancher Steve Condon, in a fight with rustlers is led to believe he has killed one of his own cowhands......    More Detail »»

324. Junior G-Men (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 79 Votes ) ;

A gang of street kids work with the FBI in their attempt to find and rescue their leader's father, a scientist who has been kidnapped by a terrorist g...    More Detail »»

325. Tørres Snørtevold (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 78 Votes ) ;

Fiskergutten Tørres vil bli rik, sÃ¥ han kan fÃ¥ hevn over konsul Krøger, som har tatt hjemmet fra hans familie......    More Detail »»

326. Med dej i mina armar (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 78 Votes ) ;

Millionaire Christer Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again...    More Detail »»

327. Nobuko (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 77 Votes ) ;

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328. King of the Royal Mounted (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.3 ( 77 Votes ) ;

Canadian Tom Merritt has discovered a substance, Compound X, that will cure infantile paralysis, which he extracts from a mine at Caribou......    More Detail »»

329. The Border Legion (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 76 Votes ) ;

An Eastern doctor is on the run from authorities in New York. Out west he comes to the aid of friends besieged by an outlaw gang known as the border l...    More Detail »»

330. Dreaming Out Loud (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 73 Votes ) ;

Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals....    More Detail »»

331. Babies for Sale (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.9 ( 73 Votes ) ;

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332. Victory (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 72 Votes ) ;

A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats....    More Detail »»

333. Haunted House (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.7 ( 72 Votes ) ;

Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder....    More Detail »»

334. Das Herz der Königin (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 70 Votes ) ;

While awaiting her unjust execution at the hands of the treacherous Queen Elizabeth I, the tragic Mary Stuart reflects at the series of cruel politica...    More Detail »»

335. The Ranger and the Lady (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 70 Votes ) ;

While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying......    More Detail »»

336. Stage to Chino (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 70 Votes ) ;

To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible....    More Detail »»

337. Miehen tie (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 70 Votes ) ;

Young farmer Paavo's wife dies in childbirth, and their baby soon after. The wife's family claim back the dowry she brought to their marriage......    More Detail »»

338. Married and in Love (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 70 Votes ) ;

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339. Convicted Woman (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 70 Votes ) ;

Jobless Betty Andrews, although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and, despite the......    More Detail »»

340. Dr. Christian Meets the Women (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 69 Votes ) ;

A "professor" hits Dr. Christian's town, promising the local women dramatic weight loss in a very short......    More Detail »»

341. He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 69 Votes ) ;

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342. Maryland (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 69 Votes ) ;

A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his fa...    More Detail »»

343. Ett brott (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.7 ( 68 Votes ) ;

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344. I Take This Oath (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.3 ( 68 Votes ) ;

The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers....    More Detail »»

345. Son of the Navy (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 68 Votes ) ;

Actually, the sailor wants nothing to do with the boy, who we eventually find out is an orphan who ran away from the orphanage......    More Detail »»

346. Muzykalnaya istoriya (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 67 Votes ) ;

Talented cabbie with aspirations as a singer spends afterhours practicing with an amateur opera company, ignoring his sweetheart, the femme cab dispat...    More Detail »»

347. Lucky Cisco Kid (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 67 Votes ) ;

In between romantic bouts with a widow, the Cisco Kid corrals a gang of bad guys led by a crooked judge; the gang are driving people off their land an...    More Detail »»

348. Mrs. Pym of Scotland Yard (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.6 ( 66 Votes ) ;

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349. Americaner Shadchen (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 66 Votes ) ;

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

350. Mystery in Swing (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.4 ( 65 Votes ) ;

In and around some great blues, swing and jazz music, a very unpopular band-leader. Prince Ellis, is killed in a Harlem nightclub......    More Detail »»

351. French Without Tears (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 64 Votes ) ;

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352. Trail of the Vigilantes (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 63 Votes ) ;

A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang....    More Detail »»

353. Sportowiec mimo woli (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 63 Votes ) ;

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354. Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 63 Votes ) ;

Overly shy cowboy Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in....    More Detail »»

355. Prítelkyne pana ministra (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.2 ( 62 Votes ) ;

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356. Money and the Woman (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 61 Votes ) ;

The City Trust and Savings Bank sends Vice President Dave Bennett to a branch office to check on a Charles Patterson......    More Detail »»

357. Wiener G'schichten (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 61 Votes ) ;

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358. Rosen in Tirol (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 59 Votes ) ;

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359. Der Herr im Haus (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 59 Votes ) ;

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360. Sailors Three (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 58 Votes ) ;

Three British sailors find they've accidentally strayed on board a Nazi ship during WWII. They then......    More Detail »»

361. Terry and the Pirates (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 58 Votes ) ;

Dr. Herbert Lee (John Paul Jones), an archaeologist seeking to decipher ancient Mara inscriptions, is aided by his son....    More Detail »»

362. Carolina Moon (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 58 Votes ) ;

After the evil Wheeler robs plantation owners of their land, Gene sets out to right the wrong....    More Detail »»

363. Chasing Trouble (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.5 ( 58 Votes ) ;

A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring....    More Detail »»

364. Those Were the Days! (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 57 Votes ) ;

A middle-aged couple think back to their college days and courtship....    More Detail »»

365. The Courageous Dr. Christian (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 57 Votes ) ;

A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out....    More Detail »»

366. Take Me Back to Oklahoma (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.7 ( 57 Votes ) ;

Storm is out to wreck Ace's stage line. When Tex arrives to help Ace, Storm brings in hired killer Mule Bates. But Tex and Bates know each other and t...    More Detail »»

367. Millionaire Playboy (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.2 ( 57 Votes ) ;

Joe Zany has been bashful around girls since he was a baby, and has violent spells of hiccuping when he is kissed by one......    More Detail »»

368. Billy the Kid's Gun Justice (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.9 ( 57 Votes ) ;

The third in the series of six PRC westerns starring Bob Steele as Billy the Kid (Bob Steele, finds Billy and his pals....    More Detail »»

369. Friedrich Schiller - Der Triumph eines Genies (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.3 ( 56 Votes ) ;

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370. The Way of All Flesh (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.8 ( 56 Votes ) ;

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children......    More Detail »»

371. Friedrich Schiller - Der Triumph eines Genies (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.3 ( 56 Votes ) ;

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372. Sieben Jahre Pech (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.3 ( 56 Votes ) ;

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373. Drums of the Desert (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 56 Votes ) ;

On his way to a post as special adviser of the new parachute troops of the French Foreign Legion in Morocco......    More Detail »»

374. Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 56 Votes ) ;

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375. Triple Justice (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 55 Votes ) ;

Rancher Brad Henderson (George O'Brien) rides to Star City to be the best man at the wedding of his boyhood friend......    More Detail »»

376. The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 55 Votes ) ;

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family......    More Detail »»

377. Beredskapspojkar (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.5 ( 55 Votes ) ;

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378. Paris New-York (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.9 ( 54 Votes ) ;

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379. Laddie (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 53 Votes ) ;

Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England....    More Detail »»

380. The Flying Squad (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 53 Votes ) ;

Dedicated young Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of Mark McGill, murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London......    More Detail »»

381. Isle of Destiny (1940)

IMDB Rating: 4.8 ( 53 Votes ) ;

Society glamor girl/aviatrix Virginia Allerton decides to alter her around-the-world flight by stopping......    More Detail »»

382. Hay que educar a Niní (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 53 Votes ) ;

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383. Florian (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 53 Votes ) ;

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384. Safari (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.4 ( 52 Votes ) ;

Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle......    More Detail »»

385. Billy the Kid in Texas (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 52 Votes ) ;

Arriving in a lawless Texas town, Billy finds his old friend Fuzzy. When Billy stands up to Flash and his gang......    More Detail »»

386. Rancho Grande (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 52 Votes ) ;

Kay and her eastern clan go out West to run the ranch left her by her grandfather. Badguys are out to ruin the ranch's irrigation system, so Autry len...    More Detail »»

387. Under Texas Skies (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.3 ( 52 Votes ) ;

Stony Brooke returns to his home town only the learn that his father, Sheriff Brooke, has been murdered and that his boyhood friend......    More Detail »»

388. Remedy for Riches (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 51 Votes ) ;

A college friend of the local soda-jerk comes to town and lets it be known that he's looking for property on which to build a resort......    More Detail »»

389. The Man from Dakota (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.2 ( 51 Votes ) ;

During the Civil War a beautiful woman helps two Union spies cross into the Confederacy and gather information....    More Detail »»

390. Yukon Flight (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.1 ( 51 Votes ) ;

When the plane owned by the "Yukon and Columbia Mail Service" crashes, RCMP Sergeant Renfrew (James......    More Detail »»

391. Chlen pravitelstva (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 50 Votes ) ;

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392. Kong Fuzi (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 50 Votes ) ;

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393. Rocky Mountain Rangers (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 50 Votes ) ;

This entry in Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" series has a misnomer for a title since the action takes place in Texas and pre-statehood Oklahoma......    More Detail »»

394. Under Your Hat (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.4 ( 49 Votes ) ;

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395. The Range Busters (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 49 Votes ) ;

In the first of the Range Buster series, a mysterious phantom is murdering the hands at the Circle T......    More Detail »»

396. Legion of the Lawless (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 49 Votes ) ;

In the 13th film of the 17 B-westerns made by George O'Brien in 1937-1940 for RKO, (who would remake......    More Detail »»

397. João Ratão (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 49 Votes ) ;

João Ratão is a Portuguese soldier in the Flandres battle-front,...    More Detail »»

398. Ergens in Nederland (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 49 Votes ) ;

A mobilization on the brink of the Second World War divides a husband and wife....    More Detail »»

399. Viva Cisco Kid (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 48 Votes ) ;

Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to ...    More Detail »»

400. Girl in 313 (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 48 Votes ) ;

A police agent infiltrates a gang of jewel thieves and on the way to finding who the evildoers are, falls in love with a thief....    More Detail »»

401. The Gay Caballero (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 48 Votes ) ;

The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death......    More Detail »»

402. Meine Tochter lebt in Wien (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.1 ( 47 Votes ) ;

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403. En tiempos de Don Porfirio (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 47 Votes ) ;

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404. A szerelem nem szégyen (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 47 Votes ) ;

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405. Hi-Yo Silver (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 47 Votes ) ;

Edited version of the 1938 Republic serial "The Lone Ranger."...    More Detail »»

406. On the Spot (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.6 ( 46 Votes ) ;

Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted......    More Detail »»

407. Just William (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 46 Votes ) ;

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408. Moon Over Burma (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 45 Votes ) ;

The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon....    More Detail »»

409. Bad Man from Red Butte (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.3 ( 45 Votes ) ;

A cowboy arrives in a town, and is immediately mistaken for his twin brother who is wanted for murder...    More Detail »»

410. Deadwood Dick (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ( 45 Votes ) ;

Columbia's 11th serial (between "Terry and the Pirates" and "The Green Archer") and the first western serial that James W......    More Detail »»

411. Pastor Hall (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.8 ( 44 Votes ) ;

This film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party......    More Detail »»

412. Lightning Strikes West (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 44 Votes ) ;

When Butch Taggart escapes prison, the Marshal sends Lightning Morgan to find him and his hidden gold......    More Detail »»

413. The Farmer's Daughter (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 43 Votes ) ;

Broadway producer Nickie North, and his press agent Scoop Trimble, land a backer for a new show, but......    More Detail »»

414. Wolf of New York (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 43 Votes ) ;

A district attorney tackles the "Wolf of New York" who is the mastermind behind a multitude of murders and robberies plaguing the city....    More Detail »»

415. Queen of the Yukon (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6 ( 43 Votes ) ;

Sadie owns a riverboat that gold-miners are using to travel to their claims, while gambling and drinking on the way......    More Detail »»

416. La comédie du bonheur (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 43 Votes ) ;

Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible......    More Detail »»

417. Return to Yesterday (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.5 ( 42 Votes ) ;

Wartime dilema: Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England......    More Detail »»

418. Sky Bandits (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.5 ( 42 Votes ) ;

Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company......    More Detail »»

419. Three Silent Men (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.2 ( 41 Votes ) ;

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420. Sørensen og Rasmussen (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.5 ( 41 Votes ) ;

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421. Prairie Law (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 41 Votes ) ;

Judge Curry is selling Austin's land to nesters and his men are rustling his cattle to provide beef......    More Detail »»

422. Nobody's Children (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.6 ( 41 Votes ) ;

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423. Cherokee Strip (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.3 ( 41 Votes ) ;

Texans Dave Lovell and Coy Barrett sign a truce to stop the feuding between their families. The Barretts migrate from Texas to Goliath......    More Detail »»

424. Hjältar i gult och blått (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.1 ( 41 Votes ) ;

The tailor Tosse is ordered to return to his old regiment to rehearse what he learned many years ago......    More Detail »»

425. Winners of the West (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 41 Votes ) ;

One of the writers of this serial, George H. Plympton, dusted the story off and re-sold it to Sam Katzman......    More Detail »»

426. Tottisalmen perillinen (1940)

IMDB Rating: 4.4 ( 40 Votes ) ;

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427. The Fight for Life (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.3 ( 39 Votes ) ;

An interne witnesses the death of a young mother in a maternity hospital delivery room. Disturbed that......    More Detail »»

428. Wagons Westward (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.9 ( 39 Votes ) ;

Republic, in pre-production trade announcements, had John Wayne slated as the star of this film but cooler heads......    More Detail »»

429. Tavaratalo Lapatossu & Vinski (1940)

IMDB Rating: 4.4 ( 39 Votes ) ;

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430. Suotorpan tyttö (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.2 ( 39 Votes ) ;

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431. Operette (1940)

IMDB Rating: 8.2 ( 39 Votes ) ;

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432. Mystery Sea Raider (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.8 ( 39 Votes ) ;

At the outset of World War II, June McCarthy meets Carl Cutler aboard the S.S.Aleria, a British vessel en route to New York from London......    More Detail »»

433. Romance of the Rio Grande (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.2 ( 39 Votes ) ;

When an old rancher (Cordoba)'s grandson is murdered, the Cisco Kid takes his place to find who's trying to take over the ranch....    More Detail »»

434. I'm Still Alive (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 38 Votes ) ;

Steve Bennett is a daring flier who crashes airplanes for the movies, and Laura Marley is an arrogant......    More Detail »»

435. Dark Streets of Cairo (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.8 ( 38 Votes ) ;

Jewel smugglers in Cairo try to pin their crimes on a kidnapped baron....    More Detail »»

436. Cafe Hostess (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.6 ( 38 Votes ) ;

Jo (Ann Dvorak), a "percentage girl" at the notorious Club 46, is in despair. She can see no way out......    More Detail »»

437. Argila (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7 ( 38 Votes ) ;

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438. Argentine Nights (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.1 ( 38 Votes ) ;

An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors....    More Detail »»

439. Texas Terrors (1940)

IMDB Rating: 6.7 ( 38 Votes ) ;

A lawyer is after the person that murdered his parents when he was a boy....    More Detail »»

440. Yövartija vain... (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.4 ( 37 Votes ) ;

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441. Untamed (1940)

IMDB Rating: 5.2 ( 37 Votes ) ;

Dr. Bill Crawford, on a hunting trip to Canada, is attacked by a bear and his guide, Joe Easter, saves......    More Detail »»

442. Sant Dnyaneshwar (1940)

IMDB Rating: 7.8 ( 37 Votes ) ;