1940 Movies

Comical tale about how the coward Nazar who, as a joke of fate, appears to preside over the throne.

A comic look at prehistoric life.

A comic look at prehistoric life- about how boy might have gotten girl.

Nothing new under the sun. The famous 'Love Story' is only a faint reminder of the most successful pre-war Hungarian film. The relationship between th...

A simple office worker unexpectedly receives a bus as an inheritance.

Short designed to encourage the use of Technicolor for instructional and advertising films. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1995.

Unreleased Argentine film.

A group of furry South Pole animals build a snow man. They begin to throw snowballs at it. This make him come to life and oh what a vengence he has. S...

A homily on the duty to save, in the guise of one of the "Albert" rhyming monologues, recited by Stanley Holloway.

After Hou Yao moved to Singapore in 1940, he continued to work for the Shaw Brothers and made a handful of films, including Mutiara, before being murd...

Egyptian film of 1940 and directed by Ahmed Badrakhan

Harry's grandfather's spirit inhabits his old policeman's uniform, which is being used in an amateur play.

Four sets of friends spend Halloween weekend at the Beautiful Creekside "Kamp of Antietam". Each attending is promised a "Once In A Lifetime" experien...

Bintara is a pirate captain who sails the Malaka strait. He robs ships and murders their crews. Two children survive one of the attacks. They are Rusn...

Sakuntalai is the story of the mythological queen Shakuntala, whose tale is told in the Mahabharata and dramatised by Kalidasa in the play Abhijñānaśā...

A monkey in a jungle orchestra only has one note to play, but this seemingly easy task will be more complicated than it seems.