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The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: January 17, 1941

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: George Cukor

Writers: Donald Ogden Stewart

, Philip Barry

, Waldo Salt

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, HBO Max, The Criterion Collection, Warner Bros.

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 944,000

Domestic: $ 404,524

International: $ 7,139

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
48 votes

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Summary: An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

Release Date: March 15, 1940

Genres: Drama, History

Director: John Ford

Writers: Nunnally Johnson

, John Steinbeck

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Magnetic Video, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, Key Video, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Disney Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 800,000

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
39 votes

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: January 12, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Writers: Samson Raphaelson

, Miklós László

, Ben Hecht

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
29 votes

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

Summary: After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.

Release Date: December 25, 1940

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Directors: Ludwig Berger

, Michael Powell

, Tim Whelan

Writers: Miles Malleson

, Lajos Biró

, Miklós Rózsa

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Alexander Korda Films, London Film Productions

Distributor: United Artists, Alexander Korda Films, Embassy Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), MGM Home Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment, Pioneer Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection, The Samuel Goldwyn Company

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,180,000

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
25 votes

The Great McGinty (1940)

Summary: Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.

Release Date: August 23, 1940

Genre: Comedy

Director: Preston Sturges

Writer: Preston Sturges

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: MCA/Universal Pictures, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 350,000

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
15 votes

The Letter (1940)

Summary: The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter written in her own hand may prove her undoing.

Release Date: November 23, 1940

Genres: Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: William Wyler

Writers: W. Somerset Maugham

, Howard Koch

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Key Video, CBS/Fox, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
13 votes

The Mortal Storm (1940)

Summary: The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.

Release Date: June 14, 1940

Genre: Drama

Director: Frank Borzage

Writers: Claudine West

, Hans Rameau

, George Froeschel

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Archive Collection, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
11 votes

The Long Voyage Home (1940)

Summary: A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war.

Release Date: November 22, 1940

Genres: Drama, War

Director: John Ford

Writers: Eugene O'Neill

, Dudley Nichols

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Argosy Pictures, Walter Wanger Productions

Distributor: Warner Home Video, Castle Hill Productions, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 682,495

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
9 votes

Road to Singapore (1940)

Summary: Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet a beautiful dancer.

Release Date: March 22, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance

Director: Victor Schertzinger

Writers: Don Hartman

, Frank Butler

, Harry Hervey

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: MCA/Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
7 votes

The Westerner (1940)

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

Release Date: September 20, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: William Wyler

Writers: Jo Swerling

, Niven Busch

, Stuart N. Lake

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: The Samuel Goldwyn Company

Distributor: United Artists, Film Classics, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, Embassy Home Entertainment, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Pioneer Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

99 - Rotten Tomatoes
101 votes

His Girl Friday (1940)

Summary: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

Release Date: January 18, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Howard Hawks

Writers: Charles Lederer

, Ben Hecht

, Charles MacArthur

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Passed

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 296,000

95 - Rotten Tomatoes
58 votes

Fantasia (1940)

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

Release Date: September 19, 1941

Genres: Family, Fantasy, Animation

Directors: James Algar

, Samuel Armstrong

, Ford Beebe Jr.

Writers: Joe Grant

, Dick Huemer

, Lee Blair

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: G

Production: Walt Disney Animation Studios

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Miracle Productions Company, Image Entertainment, Walt Disney Home Video, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,280,000

Domestic: $ 76,408,097

International: $ 3,722

95 - Rotten Tomatoes
43 votes

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

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

Release Date: August 16, 1940

Genres: Action, Romance, Thriller

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Charles Bennett

, Joan Harrison

, James Hilton

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Walter Wanger Productions

Distributor: Masterpiece Productions, Time Life Films, Time-Life Video, Lightning Video, Vestron Video, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection, Films sans Frontières, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

92 - Rotten Tomatoes
49 votes

The Great Dictator (1940)

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

Release Date: June 01, 2020

Genres: Comedy, Drama, War

Director: Charles Chaplin

Writer: Charles Chaplin

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Charles Chaplin Productions

Distributor: Key Video, Columbia Pictures, CBS/Fox, Image Entertainment, MK2 Diffusion, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

92 - Rotten Tomatoes
24 votes

High Sierra (1940)

Summary: After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.

Release Date: January 25, 1941

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime

Director: Raoul Walsh

Writers: John Huston

, W.R. Burnett

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Dominant Pictures Corporation, Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Key Video, CBS/Fox, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 455,000

92 - Rotten Tomatoes
24 votes

They Drive by Night (1940)

Summary: When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.

Release Date: August 03, 1940

Genres: Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Raoul Walsh

Writers: Jerry Wald

, Richard Macaulay

, A.I. Bezzerides

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: CBS/Fox, Key Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 400,000

89 - Rotten Tomatoes
18 votes

Night Train to Munich (1940)

Summary: After Germany invades Czechoslovakia, the German and the British intelligence services try to capture Czech scientist Dr. Axel Bomasch (James Harcourt), inventor of a new type of armor-plating.

Release Date: December 29, 1940

Genres: Thriller, War

Director: Carol Reed