Search results for "1940"
The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath
IMDb: 8.1
129 min

John Steinbeck’s classic novel introduced the Joad family to the world. They are looking for better lives in California. The bank seizes their drought-ridden farm and the entire family, led…

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Genre: Drama
Rebecca

Rebecca

Rebecca
IMDb: 8.1
130 min

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several…

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The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator
IMDb: 8.4
125 min

Twenty years after WWI ended, the nation of Tomainia lost. Adenoid Hynkel, the brutal dictator of the country, has come to power. Adenoid Hynkel believes in the destruction of Jews…

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Genre: Comedy, War
Pinocchio

Pinocchio

Pinocchio
IMDb: 7.4
88 min

Lonely toymaker Geppetto has his wishes answered when the Blue Fairy arrives to bring his wooden puppet Pinocchio to life. Before becoming a real boy, however, Pinocchio must prove he’s…

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Genre: Animation, Family
Fantasia

Fantasia

Fantasia
IMDb: 7.7
125 min

Walt Disney’s timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia…

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Genre: Animation, Family
His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday
IMDb: 7.9
92 min

Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she’s engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can’t let…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice
IMDb: 7.4
118 min

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
IMDb: 7.5
106 min

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well…

The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns
IMDb: 6.5
81 min

Geoffrey Radcliffe, who was convicted of the murder his brother, is set to be hanged. He vanishes from prison mysteriously after Dr. Frank Griffin visits him. Sampson, a police inspector,…

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The Mark of Zorro

The Mark of Zorro

The Mark of Zorro
IMDb: 7.5
94 min

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 the useless fop,…

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Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent
IMDb: 7.5
120 min

The European war was only beginning to erupt across national borders. Johnny Jones, an American crime reporter dispatched by his New York publisher to put a fresh spin on the…

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Donald’s Dog Laundry

Donald’s Dog Laundry

Donald’s Dog Laundry
IMDb: 6.8
8 min

With a rubber bone as a lure, Donald Duck tries to entice Pluto to try his mechanical dog washer. When the bone gives Pluto trouble, Donald tries a toy cat…

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Genre: Animation
The Mummy’s Hand

The Mummy’s Hand

The Mummy’s Hand
IMDb: 6.1
67 min

A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful…

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Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip

Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip

Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip
IMDb: 7.1
8 min

Mickey is heading out on vacation from Burbank to Pomona, taking the train. The conductor, Pete, won't let him on with Pluto, so he hides Pluto in his suitcase, and…

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The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk
IMDb: 7.7
127 min

Geoffrey Thorpe (Errol Flynn) is an adventurous and dashing pirate, who feels that he should pirate the Spanish ships for the good of England. In one such battle, he overtakes…

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Mr. Duck Steps Out

Mr. Duck Steps Out

Mr. Duck Steps Out
IMDb: 7.4
8 min

Donald is heading out for a night on the town with Daisy, but first he needs to ditch his resourceful nephews. Easier said than done. They get to Daisy's house…

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Genre: Animation
Remember the Night

Remember the Night

Remember the Night
IMDb: 7.6
94 min

Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because it is hard to get a…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Gaslight (1940)

Gaslight (1940)

Gaslight (1940)
IMDb: 7.4
84 min

In Victorian London, all the talk in one specific neighborhood is that someone has finally moved into 12 Pimlico Square, the house having sat empty for years as the previous…

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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Convoy

Convoy

Convoy
IMDb: 6.1
78 min

Lt. Cranford lives the life of a playboy sportsman until the outbreak of war when he joins the Royal Navy and is assigned to convoy protection duties. The convoy is…

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Genre: Drama, War
The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop Around the Corner
IMDb: 8.1
99 min

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 salesman. When Klara Novak seeks…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
You’re Missing the Point

You’re Missing the Point

You’re Missing the Point
IMDb: 8.0
112 min

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 servant tells…

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Genre: Comedy
The Return of Frank James

The Return of Frank James

The Return of Frank James
IMDb: 6.6
92 min

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…

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Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Dark Command

Dark Command

Dark Command
IMDb: 6.8
94 min

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air…

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Bad Man from Red Butte

Bad Man from Red Butte

Bad Man from Red Butte
IMDb: 5.2
58 min

Buck arrives in the town where his outlaw twin brother Gil Brady is also located. Benson is after the Todhunter ranch and he has his henchman kill Todhunter. Then he…

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Genre: Western
The Invisible Woman

The Invisible Woman

The Invisible Woman
IMDb: 6.0
72 min

Eccentric Professor Gibbs, brilliant but impractical, invents an invisibility machine and advertises for a guinea pig. What he gets is Kitty Carroll, an attractive, adventurous model, who thinks being invisible…

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The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story
IMDb: 7.9
112 min

Philadelphia socialites Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven married impulsively, with their marriage and subsequent divorce being equally passionate. They broke up when Dexter's drinking became excessive, it a mechanism…

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Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Long Voyage Home

The Long Voyage Home

The Long Voyage Home
IMDb: 7.0
105 min

Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. The men smuggle drink and women aboard, fight with each other, spy…

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Genre: Drama, War
The Letter (1940)

The Letter (1940)

The Letter (1940)
IMDb: 7.6
95 min

The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense. Her poise, graciousness and stoicism impress nearly everyone who meets her. Her husband…

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My Little Chickadee

My Little Chickadee

My Little Chickadee
IMDb: 6.9
83 min

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. Twillie and pretends…

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Genre: Comedy, Western
When the Daltons Rode

When the Daltons Rode

When the Daltons Rode
IMDb: 6.5
81 min

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked…

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Genre: Western
North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police
IMDb: 6.5
126 min

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder….

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The Bank Dick

The Bank Dick

The Bank Dick
IMDb: 7.2
72 min

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 ignored by his…

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Genre: Comedy
Black Friday

Black Friday

Black Friday
IMDb: 6.3
70 min

When his friend Professor Kingsley is at deaths door, brain surgeon Dr. Sovac saves his life by means of an illegal operation that transplants part of injured gangster Red Cannon's…

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Down Argentine Way

Down Argentine Way

Down Argentine Way
IMDb: 6.5
89 min

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

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The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty
IMDb: 7.3
82 min

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 brings rapid promotion from "the boss,"…

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Genre: Comedy
My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife
IMDb: 7.3
88 min

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 awkwardly tries to break…

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Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Door with Seven Locks (1940)

The Door with Seven Locks (1940)

The Door with Seven Locks (1940)
IMDb: 5.6
79 min

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

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Christmas in July

Christmas in July

Christmas in July
IMDb: 7.4
67 min

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 House Coffee Slogan Contest….

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Genre: Comedy
One Million B.C.

One Million B.C.

One Million B.C.
IMDb: 5.7
80 min

Tumak, member of the prehistoric Rock tribe, is exiled and makes his way to the more peaceful Shell tribe, where he is taken in and taught manners by the lovely…

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The Westerner

The Westerner

The Westerner
IMDb: 7.3
100 min

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 him…

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Genre: Romance, Western