1940 Movies

Arne Sucksdorff’s debut—made when he was 23— is a lyrical short about Sweden’s late-summer crayfish fishery: night-time trapping on water, daybreak on...

A flamboyant film producer Ramesh dotes on his glamorous star, Kishori, while avoiding a return to his village — and the wife he married in childhood,...

A 1940 film directed by Antonio Helú.

Ravana, the king of Lanka attains " Athma Linga " from Shiva and later he gets tricked by various people on his way back to home. Telugu adaptation o...

Prem Nagar is a small, happy and contented village somewhere in India. A tiny spark of anger flared up a misunderstanding, a quarrel, jealousy, and gr...

An amateur adaptation of Frankenstein.

Titi loses her mind after her beloved child passed away. His husband, Suria is in love with Kartinah, the nurse. But he does not want to have two wive...

Produced by the Soviet Union to justify its 1939-40 Winter War campaign in Finland, this outstanding documentary---more than any other such cinematic...

The collapse of the bridge was recorded on film by Barney Elliott, owner of a local camera shop. The film shows Leonard Coatsworth leaving the bridge...

With great optimism Britain re-constructed after World War I but ignored the threat from the Gathering Storm of Nazi aggression.

New Year's greeting card 1940, featuring drawings of sailors.

George Pal's cel-animated commercial commissioned by the Dutch Cinema Association on behalf of the Bio Vacation Resort in Bergen aan Zee, Netherlands.

Well-to-do idler loses his fortune, ends up going to night-school and working as butler for a wealthy family. Still posing as a rich toff, he courts a...

A 1940 film directed by Alejandro Galindo.

David Bradley creates a faithfully suspenseful adaptation of a story by Saki which boasts an inadvertent post-modern attitude.

A lonely girl faces several odds in society after her mother's death. Later, she gets attracted to a witty man, who decides to marry her.