Romance Movies

Rebecca (1940)

Rebecca (1940)

Rebecca (1940)
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130

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several…

Virginia City (1940)

Virginia City (1940)

Virginia City (1940)
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121

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with…

Road to Singapore (1940)

Road to Singapore (1940)

Road to Singapore (1940)
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85

Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Primrose Path (1940)

Primrose Path (1940)

Primrose Path (1940)
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93

Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Three Cheers for the Irish (1940)

Three Cheers for the Irish (1940)

Three Cheers for the Irish (1940)
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99

Peter Casey has been with the New York City police department for 25 years. He’s totally surprised when he’s asked to retire on his 25th anniversary with the force. He’s…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Return to Yesterday (1940)

Return to Yesterday (1940)

Return to Yesterday (1940)
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69

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Strange Cargo (1940)

Strange Cargo (1940)

Strange Cargo (1940)
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113

Convicts escaping from Devil’s Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
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107

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well…

Little Old New York (1940)

Little Old New York (1940)

Little Old New York (1940)
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100

Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

I Take This Woman (1940)

I Take This Woman (1940)

I Take This Woman (1940)
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98

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.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Remember the Night (1940)

Remember the Night (1940)

Remember the Night (1940)
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94

Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn’t have to spend Christmas alone in jail.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
His Girl Friday (1940)

His Girl Friday (1940)

His Girl Friday (1940)
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92

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
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99

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.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
21 Days Together (1940)

21 Days Together (1940)

21 Days Together (1940)
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72

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…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Music in My Heart (1940)

Music in My Heart (1940)

Music in My Heart (1940)
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70

A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
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117

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…

Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Four Wives (1939)

Four Wives (1939)

Four Wives (1939)
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99

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…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Gone with the Wind (1939)

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Gone with the Wind (1939)
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233

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Balalaika (1939)

Balalaika (1939)

Balalaika (1939)
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102

A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.

Genre: Music, Romance
Day-time Wife (1939)

Day-time Wife (1939)

Day-time Wife (1939)
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72

When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Ninotchka (1939)

Ninotchka (1939)

Ninotchka (1939)
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110

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
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106

This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.

First Love (1939)

First Love (1939)

First Love (1939)
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84

In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She’s hardly received with open arms, especially…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Four Flights to Love (1939)

Four Flights to Love (1939)

Four Flights to Love (1939)
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91

In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker’s assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and…

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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Eternally Yours (1939)

Eternally Yours (1939)

Eternally Yours (1939)
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95

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….

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)

Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)

Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
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70

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…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Rio (1939)

Rio (1939)

Rio (1939)
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77

Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a…

Genre: Crime, Romance
Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)

Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)

Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
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83

A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Dust Be My Destiny (1939)

Dust Be My Destiny (1939)

Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
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88

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…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Golden Boy (1939)

Golden Boy (1939)

Golden Boy (1939)
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99

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…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)

Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)

Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
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86

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…

Genre: Drama, Romance
In Name Only (1939)

In Name Only (1939)

In Name Only (1939)
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94

A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.

Genre: Drama, Romance
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)

When Tomorrow Comes (1939)

When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
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92

A famous concert pianist unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness falls in love with a waitress.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Lady of the Tropics (1939)

Lady of the Tropics (1939)

Lady of the Tropics (1939)
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92

Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)

Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)

Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)
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114

A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.

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Genre: Drama, Romance
The Rules of the Game (1939)

The Rules of the Game (1939)

The Rules of the Game (1939)
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106

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Bachelor Mother (1939)

Bachelor Mother (1939)

Bachelor Mother (1939)
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82

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin’s Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly’s unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Juarez (1939)

Juarez (1939)

Juarez (1939)
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125

The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.

The Girl from Mexico (1939)

The Girl from Mexico (1939)

The Girl from Mexico (1939)
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71

Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay’s shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and…

Some Like It Hot (1939)

Some Like It Hot (1939)

Some Like It Hot (1939)
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65

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City’s boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance