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Alles Schwindel (1940)

Summary: Peter asks Baron Vermehren, a renowned astrologer, for the hand of his daughter Julia. The baron claims that the stars allow the match only after Peter steals a large sum of money. Honest Peter desperately sets out to commit the c...

Release Date: April 10, 1940

Director: Bernd Hofmann

Writer: Bernd Hofmann

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

Production: Bavaria-Filmkunst

Country: Germany

Language: German

8.7 - ZR Rating
389474 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

8.6 - ZR Rating
133848 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: Approved

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

8.2 - ZR Rating
53986 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: 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

8.1 - ZR Rating
305097 votes

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Summary: Myra and Roy meet and fall in love on Waterloo Bridge during an air raid. Their love will be one of the war's unspoken casualties.

Release Date: May 17, 1940

Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Writers: S.N. Behrman

, Hans Rameau

, George Froeschel

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

8.1 - ZR Rating
250559 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

8.1 - ZR Rating
230874 votes

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: June 07, 2024

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

8.1 - ZR Rating
133963 votes

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), Loew's

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: $ 9,130

8.1 - ZR Rating
98786 votes

His Girl Friday (1940)

Summary: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from quitting and remarrying, using an exclusive interview with a death row convict as an enticement to buy himself some time to win her back.

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: Approved

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 296,000

8 - ZR Rating
14830 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

, 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

8 - ZR Rating
6924 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. 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

7.9 - ZR Rating
5102 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

7.8 - ZR Rating
33121 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: Approved

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

7.8 - ZR Rating
15186 votes

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

7.8 - ZR Rating
6674 votes

All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

Summary: A duchess' irrational behavior toward her children's governess triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever.

Release Date: July 13, 1940

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Anatole Litvak

Writers: Rachel Field

, Casey Robinson

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,370,000

7.7 - ZR Rating
5581 votes

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

7.6 - ZR Rating
223829 votes

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: Approved

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

7.5 - ZR Rating
25603 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: 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

7.5 - ZR Rating
21342 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 23, 1940

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Directors: Ludwig Berger