1940 Movies

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

A murder in a winter sports hotel jolts Inspector Eyck out of his cozy, relaxed holiday mood. He rushes to the scene, where he encounters crime writer...

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with illegal gambling and bookmaking.

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

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

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. The m...

Randall and his sidekick Manny (Frank Yaconelli) played horse traders battling a greedy and unscrupulous rival (Tom London). When some of his stock di...

The film depicts Confucius's later life, as he traveled across a China divided by war and strife in an ultimately futile effort to teach various warlo...

In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to wri...

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

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

Magda, the butcher's daughter, against the wishes of her father becomes an actress in the theater "Golden Mask". Kicked out of the house she meets Cou...

Fairy tale about heavy bondage of the Belarus people which is under the Polish yoke. Athlete Ivas, the farm laborer of the Polish seigniors, does wond...

After Hou Yao moved to Singapore in 1940, he continued to work for the Shaw Brothers and made a handful of films, including Mutiara, before being murd...

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

He who loves, torments himself: This turn of phrase works for the big farmer Gerd Tapken and his landlady Katrin Geerken. For more than 30 years, th...

Adam Kavalír returns from abroad to take over the family factory from his father. But as a consequence of his father's bohemian lifestyle the business...