The best movies 1940

When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named...

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

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...

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...

A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.

On the hacienda of El Soto lives Doña Raimunda and her daughter Acacia as well. After being widowed, Raimunda married Esteban, who is secretly...

Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.

A expressive documentary and one of the earliest works of José Luis Sáenz de Heredia.

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil...

Manager Blom and his family stop at a mountain hotel. Once there, all family members are insolent and even cruel to both guests and staff. When the...

A diligent office worker and a cheeky sales representative are tasked by their boss with reserving a first-class hotel room with a bathroom for a...

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

Dolores, a beautiful young woman, works at the inn Daroca and is courted by the local barber Melchor, and Mr. Patricio, the richest farmer in the...

Harry wins a turkey at a raffle.

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his...

Ludwig Gruber, the director of a spa café, is a good man. Now and again, he makes little adventure-trips to Berlin to find business for his...

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

A young woman works for two different men, both of whom fall in love with her. In the mornings she is secretary for a popular author and in the...

A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.

On the hacienda of El Soto lives Doña Raimunda and her daughter Acacia as well. After being widowed, Raimunda married Esteban, who is secretly...

Dolores, a beautiful young woman, works at the inn Daroca and is courted by the local barber Melchor, and Mr. Patricio, the richest farmer in the...

Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.

A 1940 film directed by Boris Maicon.

In 1840, a caravan of carts headed from Buenos Aires to Córdoba carrying merchandise, ammunition and prisoners, against the background of the...

A woman destroys her life, her marriage and her husband due to her obsessive jealousy.

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

Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.

Two fishermen and pelotaris, Josechu and Mikel, compete for Mirentxu's love.

A country girl falls in love with an English professor who's in the country studying fossils, but must return to his land.

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

Abslan and Hamed, two cousins of very different character and lives, whose families have put an end to old quarrels, become rivals for the love of...

A single man and womanizer who enjoys the nightlife learns that he has a son who is already an adult. In order to gain his affection he decides to...

"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"...

Evocation of the Carnival of 1912 and of 1940 through 4 characters: an entrepreneur and three singers.

A 1940 film directed by Manuel R. Ojeda,

The murder of an 8-year-old boy by a young soldier in Tijuana, Mexico, leads to riots on the streets. Based on a true story.

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