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Pinocchio (1940)

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

Release Date: February 23, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Family, Animation

Directors: Norman Ferguson

, T. Hee

, Wilfred Jackson

Writers: Carlo Collodi

, Ted Sears

, Otto Englander

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: G

Production: Walt Disney Animation Studios

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, Buena Vista Distribution Company, Walt Disney Home Video, Walt Disney Telecommunications and Non-Theatrical Company, Disney Channel, Buena Vista Pictures, Buena Vista Home Video, Image Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), ABC Family, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,600,000

Domestic: $ 84,254,167

International: $ 37,637,878

8 - ZR Critics

Rebecca (1940)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: April 12, 1940

Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Daphne Du Maurier

, Robert E. Sherwood

, Joan Harrison

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Selznick International Pictures

Distributor: United Artists, Eagle-Lion Films, Twentieth Century Fox, CBS/Fox, The Criterion Collection, ABC Video Enterprises, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,288,000

6 - ZR Critics

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

6 - ZR Critics

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: March 07, 1941

Genres: Comedy, Drama, War

Director: Charles Chaplin

Writer: Charles Chaplin

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: G

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

6 - ZR Critics

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

5 - ZR Critics

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

4 - ZR Critics

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Summary: The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.

Release Date: July 26, 1940

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Robert Z. Leonard

Writers: Aldous Huxley

, Jane Murfin

, Jane Austen

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Loew's

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

3 - ZR Critics

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Summary: After 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: $ 9,053

3 - ZR Critics

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 civilisation 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

3 - ZR Critics

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

3 - ZR Critics

Knute Rockne All American (1940)

Summary: The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

Release Date: October 05, 1940

Genres: Drama, Sport, Biography

Directors: Lloyd Bacon

, William K. Howard

Writers: Robert Buckner

, Mrs. Knute Rockne

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: G

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Dominant Pictures Corporation, Associated Artists Productions (AAP), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Stream Go Media

Country: United States

Language: English

3 - ZR Critics

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: February 16, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Writers: Samson Raphaelson

, Miklós László

, Ben Hecht

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

2 - ZR Critics

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: December 05, 1940

Genres: Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: William Wyler

Writers: W. Somerset Maugham

, Howard Koch

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: G

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

2 - ZR Critics

The Biography of a Bum (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

2 - ZR Critics

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: February 17, 1941

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime

Director: Raoul Walsh

Writers: John Huston

, W.R. Burnett

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG

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

2 - ZR Critics

Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Summary: In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

Release Date: December 28, 1940

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Biography

Director: Michael Curtiz

Writer: Robert Buckner

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Warner Home Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Reel Media International, Penteo Films S.L.

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

2 - ZR Critics

Comrade X (1940)

Summary: An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.

Release Date: December 13, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: King Vidor

Writers: Ben Hecht

, Charles Lederer

, Walter Reisch

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: Approved

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MGM Television

Country: United States

Language: English

1 - ZR Critics

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