The best movies 1940 Pagina 7

A murder in a winter sports hotel jolts Inspector Eyck out of his cozy, relaxed holiday mood. He rushes to the scene, where he encounters crime...

Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their...

Randall and his sidekick Manny (Frank Yaconelli) played horse traders battling a greedy and unscrupulous rival (Tom London). When some of his stock...

A woman destroys her life, her marriage and her husband due to her obsessive jealousy.

The stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first customers are...

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.

A quarrel at a birthday party ends in a guest’s death, and the son takes the blame to protect his father. Fleeing to the city, he struggles...

The cat-of-the-house is a nuisance to the mice on a cheese-raid in the kitchen. They overturn a box of catnip, cat partakes, and cat goes on a binge...

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are...

A little bank employee wins a plane in the lottery and amazes his companions with his audacity.

Ignác Semmelweis is 18 and is in Vienna, training to become a judge-advocate, to comply with the wishes of his family. He is, however,...

A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.

A nostalgic story about life in and around a classic Vienna coffee house. The film is set in Imperial Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth...

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.

A mouse, imitating W.C. Fields, leads a nighttime tour of a closed drugstore for other mice, that include a very inquisitive little boy.

A cow and her calf are bedding down for the night. The calf is frightened by a shadow, until it's revealed to be a jackrabbit. He follows the rabbit...

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

This short documentary is part of the Canada Carries On series of morale-boosting wartime propaganda films. In Home Front, the various WWII-era...

Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, the Three Mesquiteers, are returning from Mexico and are stopped at the border by Army officials, who are...

Pluto is on the run after stealing a bone from Butch the bulldog and finds refuge in a carnival Hall of Mirrors.

Newsreel from the 1940s about the expansion of the Agricultural College No. 27 of San Juan de Matucana as part of the country's industrialization...

A 1940 film.

A newsreel from the 1940s documenting the inauguration of the First National Silversmithing Exhibition, held in the halls of the Museum of Culture in...

A newsreel from the 1940s documenting government initiatives to modernize the Satipo region into a prosperous industrial community accessible...

Newsreel from the 1940s about the visit of the famous actor Bob Hope to Lima, accompanied by his wife and the manager of Paramount Pictures.

A newsreel from the 1940s documenting a school gymnastics exhibition at the National Stadium, organized by the Directorate of Physical Education and...

A newsreel from the 1940s depicts the inauguration of the Lima Gallery, a permanent exhibition and sales space for works of art, organized by Mr....

A newsreel from the 1940s depicts a gathering at La Atarjea field by members of the university club of Americans residing in Lima. A pachamanca (a...

A newsreel from the 1940s shows the Hawaiian Club practicing a new water sport brought by Carlos Dogny Larco, in the style of Hawaii and Waikiki, on...

A newsreel from the 1940s depicts the Lima festival of San Juan de los Amancaes, a time when Lima revives one of its most vibrant celebrations. The...

A newsreel from the 1940s depicts the inauguration of Melgar Stadium in Arequipa, the capital city of the state. The event features a packed stadium...

A newsreel from the 1940s about the romantic corners of Old Lima: The Alameda de los Descalzos, the marble statues and the Church of Our Lady of...

A newsreel from the 1940s showcases the seaside resort of Miraflores, highlighting its remarkable beauty, from its hidden corners to the elegance of...

Newsreel from the 1940s about the procession of the Lord of Luren of Ica.

Newsreel from the 1940s about the city of Huancayo: avenues, industrial centers, architecture, churches, haciendas among others.

A newsreel from the 1940s depicts the official handover ceremony of the Iquitos airport. It shows the official delegation, comprised of American...

A newsreel from the 1940s about the activities carried out in Ayacucho during Holy Week, such as the procession of the Lord of the Resurrection, the...

Newsreel from the 1940s about the meeting of former students of Colegio Sabogal, now Instituto Sabogal, for the forty-fifth anniversary of its...

A newsreel from the 1940s about the journey through the Peruvian jungle shows the Marañón River with motorboats and the engineers' camp...