Movie List for "1940"

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Comedy Drama Romance Movie

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other’s anonymous pen pal. Year 1940.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writer: Samson Raphaelson, Miklós László, Ben Hecht
Actors: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan

The Great Dictator (1940) Comedy Drama War Movie

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel’s regime. Year 1940.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, War
Director: Charles Chaplin
Writer: Charles Chaplin
Actors: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie

Der Postmeister (1940) Drama Movie

A troubled father, working as a postmaster in province, worries about his daughter taken to the capital by a rich officer. Year 1940.

Generes: Drama
Director: Gustav Ucicky
Writer: Alexander Pushkin, Gerhard Menzel
Actors: Heinrich George, Hilde Krahl, Siegfried Breuer

Jud Süß (1940) Drama Movie

Infamous anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer. Year 1940.

Generes: Drama
Director: Veit Harlan
Writer: Veit Harlan, Wolfgang Eberhard Möller, Ludwig Metzger
Actors: Ferdinand Marian, Kristina Söderbaum, Heinrich George

Rebecca (1940) Drama Film-Noir Mystery Movie

A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat’s wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife’s spectral presence. Year 1940.

Generes: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Daphne Du Maurier, Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison
Actors: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders

The Ghost Breakers (1940) Comedy Horror Mystery Movie

A radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the mystery of a haunted castle in Cuba. Year 1940.

Generes: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Director: George Marshall
Writer: Walter DeLeon, Paul Dickey, Charles W. Goddard
Actors: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson

The Stationmaster (1940) Drama Movie

When two russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago. He begins to tell the story: Ten years ago a comrade of them made a … Year 1940.

Generes: Drama
Director: Gustav Ucicky
Writer: Alexander Pushkin (short story “Statsionnyy smotritel” from volume “Povest Belkina”), Gerhard Menzel
Actors: Heinrich George, Hilde Krahl, Siegfried Breuer, Hans Holt

Rebecca (1940) Drama Mystery Romance Thriller Movie

A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat’s wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife’s spectral presence. Year 1940.

Generes: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Daphne Du Maurier (celebrated novel), Robert E. Sherwood (screen play), Joan Harrison (screen play), Philip MacDonald (adaptation), Michael Hogan (adaptation)
Actors: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson

Operette (1940)

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with Maria, the aristocratic opera manager, end in abrupt firing in spite of a mutual attraction. He is … Year 1940.

Generes: Musical
Director: Willi Forst
Writer: Axel Eggebrecht, Willi Forst
Actors: Willi Forst, Maria Holst, Dora Komar, Paul Hörbiger

Touch and Go (1971) Comedy Movie

North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat. Year 1971.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Philippe de Broca
Writer: Philippe de Broca, Jean-Loup Dabadie
Actors: Marlène Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Michael York

Ponthan Mada (1994) Drama Movie

Set in 1940s, the low-caste Ponthan Mada bonds with his colonial landlord Sheema Thampuran, who was expelled to British India from England during his youth for supporting the Irish Republican Army. Year 1994.

Generes: Drama
Director: T.V. Chandran
Writer: T.V. Chandran, C.V. Sriraman
Actors: Janardanan, Salu Koottanad, Lakshmi Krishnamurthy

Johar in Kashmir (1966) Action Drama Thriller Movie

Tensions run high in Kashmir after the Partition of the late 1940s. On the Indian side, two warring hoodlums, Ahmed, and Aslam, have something else to fight over: beautiful Salma, the daughter of Hakim Mohammad Hussein. Salma is a… Year 1966.

Generes: Action, Drama, Thriller
Director: I.S. Johar
Writer: I.S. Johar
Actors: Harbans Darshan M. Arora, Mumtaz Begum, Rajan Haksar

Darmiyaan: In Between (1997) Drama Movie

This is a 1997 Indian film starring Arif Zakaria, Tabu and Kiron Kher. The film is set in Bollywood of the 1940s and tells the story of an actress who discovers that her son is a eunuch. Watch this iconic movie only here. Year 1997.

Generes: Drama
Director: Kalpana Lajmi
Writer: Saagar Gupta, Urmi Juvekar
Actors: Kirron Kher, Arif Zakaria, Tabu

1942: A Love Story (1994) Action Drama History Movie

A young Indian couple, both from wealthy backgrounds, find themselves caught up in the 1940’s Indian revolutionary movement against their families whom are under the thumb a sadistic British general. Year 1994.

Generes: Action, Drama, History
Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Writer: Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Kamna Chandra, Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Actors: Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Manisha Koirala

White Tiger (2012) Action Adventure Fantasy Movie

Great Patriotic War, early 1940s. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction. Year 2012.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Writer: Aleksandr Borodyanskiy, Ilya Boyashov, Karen Shakhnazarov
Actors: Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Valeriy Grishko

Darkest Hour (2017) Biography Drama War Movie

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire. Year 2017.

Generes: Biography, Drama, War
Director: Joe Wright
Writer: Anthony McCarten
Actors: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas