1940 Movies

Shows how important luck can be in a person's life.

New Year's greeting card 1940, featuring drawings of sailors.

Poe's raven, not feeling well, goes in search of a doctor, and in a nearby book finds Dr. Jekyll. The doctor offers to transfer the bookworm's brain t...

The wealthy Ottó Dárday is angry with his heirless relatives and marries his maid Julcsa. Only six months after his death does she discover that he ha...

A love story between a taxi driver and a travel guide in the form of a musical.

Len Lye’s camera-less film animates “swing” versions of the popular Lambeth Walk—featuring Django Reinhardt on guitar and Stéphane Grappelli on violin...

A young working woman lives to shop, particularly for hats. She decides on a unique one.

An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors. Comedy with songs.

53rd episode of RKO's "Mr. Average Man" Series starring Edgar Kennedy.

A psychiatrist spirals into madness after being tricked into marrying the wrong sister. When his obsession with her sibling grows, he uses his medical...

An engineer with a factory is on the brink of ruin. A greedy director offers to buy his mill. Instead, the engineer opens a hotel. With little success...

A dog thinks he is being chased by small pink elephants, and goes to the hospital. While Porky is working on medication, the pink elephants find him a...

Agya Betal, the demonic ruler of Maldweep, kidnaps Anarbala (Shanta Kashmiri),the daughter of Maharaja Madan Singh, and keeps her hidden away in a ma...

A story of sacrifice, in which organised labour voluntarily relinquishes hard-won workplace rights after being asked "to give up by choice what Hitler...

Sequel to the hugely popular folk comedy Janssens versus Peeters.

Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.

To become a great wrestler, the strongest of the village's young men leaves his fiancée to join a sumo stable in Edo.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 November 1939.