1940

Foreign Correspondent 1940

On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.

Category: Action, romance, Romantic, Thriller

Stars: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall

7.4 IMDB Rating 54 Views
Rebecca 1940

A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.

Category: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders

8.1 IMDB Rating 258 Views
Pinocchio 1940

A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.

Category: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Stars: Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Mel Blanc

7.5 IMDB Rating 849 Views
The Shop Around the Corner 1940

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

Category: Comedy, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan

8.0 IMDB Rating 2,895 Views
The Westerner 1940

Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders.

Category: Drama, Romantic, Western

Stars: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport

7.3 IMDB Rating 3,971 Views
Fantasia 1940

A series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.

Category: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Kids

Stars: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, The Philadelphia Orchestra

7.7 IMDB Rating 5,783 Views
Kyss henne! 1940

Lisa Larsson, dancer at a theater, witnesses a traffic accident and banker Brenner's private driver asks her to be a witness. When her friends see her talk to the driver, they start to ...

Category: Comedy

Stars: Annalisa Ericson,Thor Modéen,Åke Söderblom,Eric Abrahamsson

6.4 IMDB Rating 2,446 Views
‘Swing it’ Magistern 1940

At school, a music teacher is testing the pupil's ability to sing. The 16-year old Inga Danell starts to sing a song so catchy that everybody in the classroom starts to sing. The singing is interrupted by the principal, who thinks that jazz and swing dancing is awful. Inga then starts performing at a nightclub, where her music teacher happens to be the pianist.

Category: Comedy

Stars: Adolf Jahr,Alice Babs,Solveig Hedengran,Carl Hagman

6.3 IMDB Rating 2,413 Views
Skandal i Oxford 1940

With Stan in drag, the boys get jobs as a butler and maid for a dinner party at the Vandevere's. After that ends in disaster, they're reduced to sweeping streets, and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford for a proper education. There they become victims of student pranks, getting lost in the Maze and taking over the Dean's quarters as their own. But then a knock on the head gets Stan to believing he's the famed Lord Paddington, scholar and athlete extraordinaire. Suddenly erudite and supercilious, he retains Oliver as his valet, "Fatty."

Category: Comedy

Stars: Stan Laurel,Oliver Hardy,Forrester Harvey,Wilfred Lucas

7.4 IMDB Rating 2,809 Views
Snurriga familjen 1940

The family Blom is considered by most as a total whirlwind. They have lots of money and can live pretty much as they want. But grim times, and both parents and children can prove that they can support themselves on honest work.

Category: Comedy

Stars: Thor Modéen,Elsa Carlsson,Åke Söderblom,Eivor Landström,Allan Bohlin,Annalisa Ericson,Eric Abrahamsson,Carl Barcklind,Åke Engfeldt,Viveca Lindfors,Carin Swensson,Anna-Lisa Baude,Viran Rydkvist,Elsa Ebbesen,Ingrid Foght

6.2 IMDB Rating 2,644 Views
Waterloo Bridge 1940

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 ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.

Category: Drama, Romantic, War

Stars: Vivien Leigh,Robert Taylor,Lucile Watson,Virginia Field,Maria Ouspenskaya,C. Aubrey Smith,Janet Shaw,Janet Waldo,Steffi Duna,Virginia Carroll,Leda Nicova,Florence Baker,Margery Manning,Frances MacInerney,Eleanor Stewart

7.8 IMDB Rating 2,766 Views
Rebecca 1940

A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.

Category: Drama, Mystery, romance, Romantic

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders

8.1 IMDB Rating 3,305 Views
The Great Dictator 1940

Twenty 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 the country. He believes in a pure Aryan state, and the decimation of the Jews. This situation is unknown to a simple Jewish-Tomainian barber who has since been hospitalized the result of a WWI battle. Upon his release, the barber, who had been suffering from memory loss about the war, is shown the new persecuted life of the Jews by many living in the Jewish ghetto, including a washerwoman named Hannah, with whom he begins a relationship. The barber is ultimately spared such persecution by Commander Schultz, who he saved in that WWI battle. The lives of all Jews in Tomainia are eventually spared with a policy shift by Hynkel himself, who is doing so for ulterior motives. But those motives include a want for world domination, starting with the invasion of neighboring Osterlich, which may be threatened by Benzino Napaloni, the dictator of neighboring Bacteria. Ultimately Schultz, who has turned traitor against Hynkel's regime, and the barber, may be able to join forces to take control of the situation, they using Schultz's inside knowledge of the workings of the regime and the barber's uncanny resemblance to one of those in power.

Category: Comedy, Drama, War

Stars: Charles Chaplin,Jack Oakie,Reginald Gardiner,Henry Daniell,Billy Gilbert,Grace Hayle,Carter DeHaven,Paulette Goddard,Maurice Moscovitch,Emma Dunn,Bernard Gorcey,Paul Weigel,Chester Conklin,Esther Michelson,Hank Mann

8.5 IMDB Rating 3,830 Views