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Hebihimesama (1940)

Summary: An aristocratic family's daughter is a strong princess. The lord is ill and bedridden. The daughter's younger brother is unhealthy and weak as well. The family's steward is aware that the family is weak heading towards financial r...

Release Date: April 03, 1940

Genre: Drama

Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa

Writers: Matsutarô Kawaguchi

, Teinosuke Kinugasa

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

Production: Daiei, Toho Eiga (Tokyo)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Marianela (1940)

Summary: Marianela (Nela) is an orphan young girl living in a small village where she guides the blind young son of a rich country man. She is secretly in love with him, knowing that he loves her only because he can't see her ugly face. Bu...

Release Date: August 05, 1942

Genre: Drama

Director: Benito Perojo

Writers: Benito Perojo

, Benito Pérez Galdós

, Joaquín Álvarez Quintero

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

Production: Ulargui Films

Country: Spain

Language: Spanish

Herencia macabra (1940)

Summary:

Release Date: January 12, 1945

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: José Bohr

Writers: José Bohr

, Xavier Davila

, Eva Limiñana

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

Production: Productora de Películas

Distributor: Cinexport Distributing

Country: Mexico

Language: Spanish

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

, Andrée Levy

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

Doomed to Die (1940)

Summary: Mr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate's murder.

Release Date: August 12, 1940

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: William Nigh

Writers: Michael Jacoby

, Ralph Gilbert Bettison

, Hugh Wiley

Runtime: 1 h 08 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Monogram Pictures

Distributor: Monogram Pictures, Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Motion Pictures for Television (MPTV)

Country: United States

Language: English

The Ghost Breakers (1940)

Summary: A radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the mystery of a haunted castle in Cuba.

Release Date: June 21, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Director: George Marshall

Writers: Walter DeLeon

, Paul Dickey

, Charles W. Goddard

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paramount Pictures

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Der ewige Jude (1940)

Summary: Under the guise of a brutally honest documentary, this malevolent propaganda film aims to be an "indispensable tool in the hands of the Aryan race," designed to depict the "true" Jew when the masks of Western civilization fall off.

Release Date: November 28, 1940

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Fritz Hippler

Writer: Eberhard Taubert

Runtime: 1 h 02 min

Production: Deutsche Filmherstellungs- und -Verwertungs- GmbH, Berlin (DFG)

Distributor: BuyIndies.com Inc., Loving the Classics

Country: Germany

Language: German

Addio, giovinezza! (1940)

Summary:

Release Date: December 24, 1940

Genre: Comedy

Director: Ferdinando Maria Poggioli

Writers: Sandro Camasio

, Giacomo Debenedetti

, Salvatore Gotta

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

Production: Industrie Cinematografiche Italiane (ICI), Società Anonima Finanziamento Industrie Cinematografiche (SAFIC)

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Emergency Squad (1940)

Summary: Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade W...

Release Date: January 05, 1940

Genre: Drama

Director: Edward Dmytryk

Writers: Robert Musil

, Michael Raymond

, Garnett Weston

Runtime: 0 h 58 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: MCA/Universal Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)

Summary: True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.

Release Date: March 02, 1940

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: William Dieterle

Writers: John Huston

, Heinz Herald

, Norman Burnstine

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Associated Artists Productions (AAP), MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

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

The Mortal Storm (1940)

Summary: The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After 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: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Loew's

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Behind the News (1940)

Summary: It's Jeff Flavin's first day on the job as a cub reporter for the Enquirer. The boss, Archer, places him with lazy reporter Stu Woodrow. Stu detests cubs and treats Jeff badly. Jeff saves a drunken Stu's job by covering convicted ...

Release Date: December 20, 1940

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Joseph Santley

Writers: Isabel Dawn

, Boyce DeGaw

, Dore Schary

Runtime: 1 h 15 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Republic Pictures (I)

Country: United States

Language: English

Bismarck (1940)

Summary: A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.

Release Date: December 06, 1940

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Writers: Rolf Lauckner

, Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

Production: Tobis Filmkunst

Country: Germany

Language: German

Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

Summary: After a troupe of danseuses becomes unemployed, one of them takes up burlesque dancing while another dreams of performing ballet.

Release Date: August 30, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Directors: Dorothy Arzner

, Roy Del Ruth

Writers: Tess Slesinger

, Frank Davis

, Vicki Baum

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, C&C Television Corporation, Turner Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Jud Süß (1940)

Summary: Infamous anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.

Release Date: January 23, 1941

Genre: Drama

Director: Veit Harlan

Writers: Veit Harlan

, Wolfgang Eberhard Möller

, Ludwig Metzger

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

Production: Terra-Filmkunst

Distributor: International Historic Films (IHF)

Country: Germany

Language: German

L'assedio dell'Alcazar (1940)

Summary: Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.

Release Date: August 20, 1940

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Augusto Genina

Writers: Augusto Genina

, Alessandro De Stefani

, Pietro Caporilli

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

Production: Film Bassoli, Ulargui Films

Countries: Italy, Spain

Language: Italian

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

He Married His Wife (1940)

Summary: Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.

Release Date: January 19, 1940

Genre: Comedy

Director: Roy Del Ruth

Writers: Sam Hellman

, Darrell Ware

, Lynn Starling

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 50,600

21 Days Together (1940)

Summary: After Larry accidentally kills his lover Wanda's estranged blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. Larry and Wanda nervously await the verdict: if the innocent suspect is found guilty then Larry will give him...

Release Date: April 29, 1940

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Basil Dean

Writers: John Galsworthy

, Basil Dean

, Graham Greene

Runtime: 1 h 12 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: London Film Productions

Country: United Kingdom

Language: Italian

Hebihimesama (1940)

Marianela (1940)

Herencia macabra (1940)

The Letter (1940)

Doomed to Die (1940)

The Ghost Breakers (1940)

Der ewige Jude (1940)

Addio, giovinezza! (1940)

Emergency Squad (1940)

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)

The Great Dictator (1940)

The Mortal Storm (1940)

Behind the News (1940)

Bismarck (1940)

Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

Jud Süß (1940)

L'assedio dell'Alcazar (1940)

The Great McGinty (1940)

He Married His Wife (1940)

21 Days Together (1940)

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