1940 Movies

An educational film about how a backward impoverished village was able to prosper thanks to the initiative of the village youth who began to grow toba...

Wehrmacht propaganda documentary about the might of the German armament factories and their inexhaustible reserves of war material made ready for use.

A parodic trial, in which one sees a merry luron, tried for trifles, rallying the whole court to him as soon as one learns that he inherits a large fo...

Diagnostic Procedures in Tuberculosis documents how to perform particular tests for tuberculosis.

Two six-graders are trying to find the Stalin's pipe and return it to the owner.

A man pretends to be a doctor to kidnap a miser's wife.

Directed by Jirí Weiss

Jane Frazee made her starring film debut in the Republic B-plus musical Melody and Moonlight. The plot is motivated by the show-biz aspirations of bel...

Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant worker, who lets sli...

Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.

An amateur adaptation of Frankenstein.

Three displaced children hitchhike to Buenos Aires, where they get involved in street-crime and heavier stuff. Positive-role-model adults offer a bala...

A expressive documentary and one of the earliest works of José Luis Sáenz de Heredia.

Documentary on lobster fishing.

Winata’s preoccupation with his business causes a lot of conflict with his wife, Dasima. Eventually they end their marriage. Then Dasima becomes Samiu...