1940 Movies

A comic look at prehistoric life.

Copperhead is caught in the crushing grip of The Robot.

Norma is a girl who sacrifices her personal happiness out of respect to her parents. Her lover, a poor young man named Idrus must let go of Norma when...

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

Luís immigrated to the USA and intends to become an American. But after his father invites him on a journey to the Portuguese territories in Africa, h...

An amateur adaptation of Frankenstein.

This medium-length documentary film, which is also slightly advertise-driven, goes through the process of selection and training of young talents at t...

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

Johnny is a troubled 15-year-old who falls in with a bad crowd, steals a car and gets caught by the police. However, instead of sending Johnny to refo...

A young woman tries to repay her adoptive parents' kindness by shielding their biological child, who has gotten involved with an embezzler, from the p...

A young black doctor sets out to establish a free clinic in Harlem.

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

On the outbreak of the Second World War an idler is forced to join the army by his domineering wife.

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

Reverend Jesse Hampton has a bone to pick with the management of Club Harlem, a wildly popular nightspot where drinking and dancing are the rule. No o...