Movies released in 1939

Tell No Tales

66/100

Michael Cassidy is the editor of a failing newspaper. A scoop would be welcome to boost the sales and to avoid closure. To this end, he decides to personally track down a gang of kidnappers.

Bad Little Angel

69/100

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

That's Right - You're Wrong

62/100

Radio sensation Kay Kyser and his band are lured to Hollywood to make a movie, but the screenwriters assigned to the project have difficulty tailoring a script to Kyser's persona.

Secret Service of the Air

57/100

Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.

Nurse Edith Cavell

65/100

English nurse Edith Cavell is matron in a small private hospital in German-occupied Brussels during WWI. When the son of a recently deceased patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war ... See full summary »

The Housekeeper's Daughter

60/100

Movie opens with a murder involving gangster. Gangster's girl goes to stay with mother. Mother is the housekeeper for upper class family with an attractive son. Family returns early from ... See full summary »

Hell's Kitchen

66/100

A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden...

Espionage Agent

59/100

When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy ... See full summary »

Land of Liberty

80/100

This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.

Blondie Brings Up Baby

70/100

A salesman convinces Blondie that Baby Dumpling is a budding genius, so the Bumsteads enroll him in a special school from which he disappears.

Captain Fury

61/100

An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.

Four Girls in White

60/100

Four student nurses cope with life and career problems while interning at a major hospital.

There's No Tomorrow

74/100

After an unhappy marriage, a woman of the world is forced to become a dancer in a cabaret in order to raise her young son.

Le dernier tournant

69/100

Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its naive owner, is a good man married to Cora, a young and sexy bitch, half his age. Frank, although ... See full summary »

Halálos tavasz

73/100

Mail for translation. A Halalos tavasz egy szerelmi haromszog dramajat vetiti...

Code of the Secret Service

49/100

Brass is assigned to uncovering a counterfeiting ring that has stolen bona fide treasury plates and is converting $1 bills to $100 bills through a Mexican casino.

Society Lawyer

63/100

Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and ... See full summary »

Tosun pasa

74/100

The Phantom Wagon

71/100

A nun suffering from TB is desperately trying to save an alcoholic tramp and to bring him back to his wife and kids.He has a friend who died last year and became the coachman of the "Ghost Wagon" .

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

65/100

The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. Allen's uncle fixes her up with Bill at a company picnic. When the two go out to a ... See full summary »

The Lady and the Mob

65/100

Society-woman Hattie Leonard organizes her own band of 'gang-busters' when she discovers a garment she sent to the dry-cleaners had been taxed twenty-five-cents to pay for gang 'protection.... See full summary »

On Your Toes

57/100

A young hoofer quits vaudeville to become a composer and hooks up with a Russian ballet troupe.

On His Own

70/100

For the family really no money, Alexei began to make a living. Everything was limited to dirty chores, but while reading could end his depression. After hard working experience, he was ... See full summary »

Way Down South

55/100

In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt ... See full summary »

Daredevils of the Red Circle

71/100

Using a diabolical disguise, Harry Crowel embarks on a vengeful career of destruction...opposed by three heroic daredevils.