Star Dust (1940)
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she’s too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
The Proud Valley (1940)
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
June Night (1940)
Return to Yesterday (1940)
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit…
Strange Cargo (1940)
Convicts escaping from Devil’s Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
Black Friday (1940)
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley’s friend Dr. Sovac attends to…
Castle on the Hudson (1940)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Little Old New York (1940)
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
Vigil in the Night (1940)
A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister’s careless mistake.
I Take This Woman (1940)
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker’s suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
The Fighting 69th (1940)
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he’ll prove himself in the end.
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other’s anonymous pen pal.
21 Days Together (1940)
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover’s blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before…
Invisible Stripes (1939)
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
Swanee River (1939)
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing…
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo’s protege and bell-ringer of…
Four Wives (1939)
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her…
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Son of the Midnight Sun (1939)
Tower of London (1939)
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King…
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds…
Disputed Passage (1939)
A doctor’s medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a…
Sabotage (1939)
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at…
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of…
Eternally Yours (1939)
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she’s his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour….
Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter’s talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall…
The Real Glory (1939)
Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his…
Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman’s daughter leads to…
Blackmail (1939)
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
Golden Boy (1939)
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He’s successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try…
Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local…
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter’s criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Island of Lost Men (1939)
A Chinese general’s daughter tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant’s jungle empire.
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
A famous concert pianist unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness falls in love with a waitress.
Lady of the Tropics (1939)
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
Hell’s Kitchen (1939)
A paroled convict’s efforts to improve conditions at a boys’ reform school alarm the school’s corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to…