Movies released in 1940

Haunted House

57/100

Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.

Junior G-Men

65/100

A gang of street kids work with the FBI in their attempt to find and rescue their leader's father, a scientist who has been kidnapped by a terrorist group.

Glamour for Sale

64/100

An undercover man (Roger Pryor) recruits an escort-service rookie (Anita Louise) to inform him of scams.

King of the Royal Mounted

74/100

Canadian Tom Merritt has discovered a substance, Compound X, that will cure infantile paralysis, which he extracts from a mine at Caribou, Canada. A country at war with Canada (unnamed ... See full summary »

The Heart of a Queen

64/100

While awaiting her unjust execution at the hands of the treacherous Queen Elizabeth I, the tragic Mary Stuart reflects at the series of cruel political machinations that set up her path to the scaffold.

Eine musikalische Geschichte

73/100

Talented cabbie with aspirations as a singer spends afterhours practicing with an amateur opera company, ignoring his sweetheart, the femme cab dispatcher.

Lucky Cisco Kid

61/100

In between romantic bouts with a widow, the Cisco Kid corrals a gang of bad guys led by a crooked judge; the gang are driving people off their land and blaming it on the Kid.

The Mad Doctor

66/100

A crazed physician marries a wealthy women and, with the help of his demented assistant, murders them for their money.

Trail of the Vigilantes

65/100

A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.

Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride

71/100

Overly shy cowboy Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in.

Saloon Bar

75/100

Against a background of Christmas and the pending arrival of another baby for the landlord, a group...

Wally of the Vultures

62/100

Wally is the daughter and only child to Fender, a rich, widowed mountain farmer in the Ötztal valley in the Tyrolian Alps...

Convicted Woman

65/100

Jobless Betty Andrews, although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and, despite the best efforts of her lawyer and noted social worker Mary Ellis and a reporter, Jim Brent ... See full summary »

The Ranger and the Lady

64/100

While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. The lady owner of a wagon ... See full summary »

One Man's Fate

64/100

Young farmer Paavo's wife dies in childbirth, and their baby soon after. The wife's family claim back the dowry she brought to their marriage, but Paavo has already used most of it for ... See full summary »

Babies for Sale

59/100

A newsman exposes a doctor running an adoption ring from a home for expectant mothers.

Carolina Moon

65/100

After the evil Wheeler robs plantation owners of their land, Gene sets out to right the wrong.

Dreaming Out Loud

67/100

Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.

Mystery in Swing

57/100

In and around some great blues, swing and jazz music, a very unpopular band-leader. Prince Ellis, is killed in a Harlem nightclub, and, in and around some more great music, a detective ... See full summary »

Victory

71/100

A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.

Sportowiec mimo woli

70/100

Funny story about a misunderstanding containing hairdresser and world known hockey player, due to coincidence, switching their jobs.

The Bird Seller

69/100

Ett brott

58/100

A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. The clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons.

Bullet Code

60/100

Rancher Steve Condon, in a fight with rustlers is led to believe he has killed one of his own cowhands, Bud Mathews. Actually it was a bullet from the rustler leader, Cass Clantine, that ... See full summary »

Chasing Trouble

54/100

A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.