1939 Movies

Director Edgar G. Ulmer executed the low-budget COSSACKS IN EXILE (1939),for Ukrainian-Canadian producer Vasile Avramenko, with a stylish flair; this...

BBC adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play

Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari...

A nun leaves the monastery and experiences the pain of loving a man.

Venezuela was one of the first countries in South America to break away from its Spanish colonial rule, and in spite of it remains one of the most dev...

A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.

Lucky to Me is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Stanley Lupino, Phyllis Brooks and Barbara Blair. It was bas...

Three Spaniards emigrate to Mexico and become prosperous landowners.

When Lajos Molnár loses his job and his love his friends tell him that a recently deceased Argentinian relative left millions to him.

This short film focuses on the sights and sounds of the island of Curacao

A visit to one of India's oldest cities.

Four former actresses decide to restart their careers by opening up a nightclub.

Professor Leônidas Jau is an enemy of football, and in conferences and articles he throws all his hatred against the sport. Friendenreich, his son, ho...

Gandy reads a book about detectives and decides he should become one. He wears a Sherlock Holmes-style cap and uses a magnifying glass, but he encount...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings. 'Cargoes' follows the S.S. Ionian as she delivers her cargo around the Mediterranean - her final peacetime jou...