Movies 1940 Page 6

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

When Bartos, the director of the Odeon variety theater, cancels an artist at short notice, he hires the Terrys out of necessity, whose parents were...

After graduation, Nadia Kulagina comes to work in a school where she once studied. After her appearance, the most hopeless student Dimka Lopatin, who...

Sakuntalai is the story of the mythological queen Shakuntala, whose tale is told in the Mahabharata and dramatised by Kalidasa in the play...

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

Two young girls go to the big city to work in a food store. The owner's wife believes she's sick, and the owner is more than interested in the two...

"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"...

The modest Sandro does not dare to reveal his love to Maro, who, in turn, is very jealous of Sandro’s friendship with a female football instructor....

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach...

During the "Winter War" between Finland and the USSR, Galya's father goes to the front and she's left behind to take care of grandma and the house....

A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.

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

A 1940 Columbia Picture feature film, "I Married Adventure" stars Osa Johnson and closely follows her 1940 best-selling book of the same name. Osa...

When Shura's sister dies, Shura starts taking care of her newly orphaned niece. Her fiancee, Grisha thinks the child may be Shura's own, and his...

Two devoted sisters find themselves in love with the same man, and in an act of sacrifice, one lets the other marry him. Life seems settled until a...

The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is...

Aviatrix disappears when her plane crashes onto a remote island inhabited by fugitives from the law.

The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and...

A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.

Donald and Goofy are putting up advertising posters in a farm. Goofy prepares to post on a windmill, but his tools keep disappearing and reappearing...

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents...

A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.

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

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

A happy girl marries into the family of a stern shoemaker and leads a mutiny.

A mother puts her baby boy in an outdoor playpen, but he's more mature than she realizes, and quickly breaks out, and with the help of a raccoon and...

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

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

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

Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid....

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

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

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

A 10-minute short edited from 1937's Sing as You Swing.

Behind the scenes at a local model school.

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided...