1940 Drama Movies

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Waterloo Bridge(1940)

3.8/5 (with 63 votes)

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Robert Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field, Maria Ouspenskaya, C. Aubrey Smith, ...

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The Grapes of Wrath(1940)

| 2h 9min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 400 votes)

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

Directed by John Ford - With Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Shirley Mills, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, ...

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Remember the Night(1940)

| 1h 34min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 38 votes)

When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blossoms.

Directed by Mitchell Leisen - With Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Charles Arnt, Charles Waldron, Elizabeth Patterson, ...

Boom Town(1940)

| 1h 59min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love, Western

3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.

Directed by Jack Conway, John Waters - With Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, ...

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Virginia City(1940)

| 2h 1min | Action, Drama, History, Romance / Love, Western

2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale, ...

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The Long Voyage Home(1940)

| 1h 45min | Drama, War

3.3/5 (with 30 votes)

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.

Directed by John Ford - With John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, ...

Kitty Foyle(1940)

| 1h 48min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 17 votes)

Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.

Directed by Sam Wood - With Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli, Gladys Cooper, Nella Walker, ...

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The Mortal Storm(1940)

1h 40min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 31 votes)

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.

Directed by Frank Borzage - With Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan, Robert Stack, Bonita Granville, ...

Lillian Russell(1940)

| 2h 7min | Drama, Music

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Directed by Irving Cummings - With Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Claud Allister, Dorothy Peterson, ...

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Down Argentine Way(1940)

| 1h 29min | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shooting and parade of extravagant musical numbers, which include the larger-than-life Carmen Miranda singing the hit “South American Way” and a showstopping dance routine by the always amazing Nicholas Brothers.

Directed by Irving Cummings - With Betty Grable, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda, J. Carrol Naish, Henry Stephenson, Fortunio Bonanova, ...

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The Stars Look Down(1940)

| 1h 50min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

The Stars Look Down is based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel of the same name, about injustices in a mining community in North East England. While the novel follows the development of three young men in the small mining town, the film focuses on just one of them; the smart David Fenwick who gets a scholarship to university, meets a girl who only marries him because her former boyfriend has abandoned her, and eventually returns to the mine town as a teacher and takes part in a futile rescue effort when the mine is flooded, trapping both his father and his younger brother.

Directed by Carol Reed - With Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams, Nancy Price, Linden Travers, Cecil Parker, ...

Escape(1940)

1h 38min | Drama, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 5 votes)

An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt, Alla Nazimova

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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk(1940)

1h 14min | Crime, Drama

1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.

Directed by David Burton - With Lloyd Nolan

Angels Over Broadway(1940)

| 1h 19min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one last night on the town. He is pulled into a poker game by conman Bill O'Brien and singer Nina Barone, but when they discover the dropped note, they resolve to turn the tables, get Engle his $3,000 and save his life.

Directed by Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes - With Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Edward Earle

I Was an Adventuress(1940)

1h 21min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...

Directed by Gregory Ratoff - With Vera Zorina, Richard Greene, Erich von Stroheim, Peter Lorre

Young Tom Edison(1940)

| 1h 26min | Drama

2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.

Directed by Norman Taurog - With Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft, Virginia Weidler, Eugene Pallette, Victor Kilian, ...

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Young People(1940)

1h 19min | Drama

2.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.

Directed by Allan Dwan - With Shirley Temple, Jack Oakie, George Montgomery, Minor Watson, Mae Marsh, Arleen Whelan, ...

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Military Academy(1940)

1h 6min | Drama

Tommy Lewis, the son of a big time racketeer, is enrolled in military school under an assumed name as protection from the notoriety of his father. Tommy is assigned to share a room with Dick Hill, an egotistical school athlete, and Sandy Blake, a pampered rich boy. Even though all three boys are potentially good lads, each has a handicap that he must overcome.

Directed by D. Ross Lederman - With Tommy Kelly

The Earl of Chicago(1940)

1h 27min | Drama

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.

Directed by Richard Thorpe, Victor Saville - With Billy Bevan, E. E. Clive, Edmund Gwenn, Edward Arnold, Frederick Worlock, Halliwell Hobbes, ...

Danger On Wheels(1940)

1h 1min | Thriller

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

During a test, a race car using an experimental oil fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is initially blamed for the accident, but is later cleared. He thinks the engine design has a real chance to win races, but the racing association has banned it since the accident. He devises a scheme to have a car equipped with the engine entered into a race, without race officials-- or the engine designer's sassy daughter -- finding out about it.

Directed by Christy Cabanne

Dr. Christian Meets the Women(1940)

| 1h 8min | Drama

2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr. Christian to expose this fake and save a fragile young girl's life.

Directed by William C. McGann

Maryland(1940)

| 1h 32min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.

Directed by Henry King - With Walter Brennan, Brenda Joyce, Charles Ruggles, Clarence Muse, Dick Jones, Ernest Whitman, ...

From Mayerling to Sarajevo(1940)

1h 35min | Romance / Love, History, Drama

3.5/5 (with 6 votes)

An Austrian prince's doomed love affair with a Czech countess sparks turmoil across Europe.

Directed by Max Ophüls - With Edwige Feuillère, John Davis Lodge, Aimé Clariond, Jean Worms, Jean Debucourt, Gabrielle Dorziat, ...

21 Days(1940)

| 1h 12min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.

Directed by Basil Dean - With Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks, Francis L. Sullivan, Robert Newton, Arthur Young, ...

Gold Rush Maisie(1940)

| 1h 22min | Comedy, Drama

3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.

Directed by Edwin L. Marin, J. Walter Ruben, Norman Taurog - With Ann Sothern, Lee Bowman, Slim Summerville, Virginia Weidler, John F. Hamilton, Scotty Beckett, ...

Knute Rockne All American(1940)

1h 38min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

Directed by Lloyd Bacon, William K. Howard - With Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan, Gale Page, Donald Crisp, Albert Bassermann, Henry O'Neill, ...

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Convoy(1940)

1h 30min | Drama, War

2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

Directed by Pen Tennyson - With Clive Brook, John Clements, Edward Chapman, Judy Campbell

Pastor Hall(1940)

1h 35min | Drama

4.0/5 (with 3 votes)

This film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf in the 1930's has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers (preceded by a flock of sheep). The Stormtrooper go about teaching and enforcing 'The New Order' but Pastor Hall is a kind and gentle man who won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.

Directed by Roy Boulting - With Wilfrid Lawson

The Man I Married(1940)

| 1h 17min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.

Directed by Irving Pichel - With Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Anna Sten, Ernst Deutsch, Frank Reicher, Glen Cavender, ...

Dr. Kildare Goes Home(1940)

| 1h 19min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.

Directed by Harold S. Bucquet - With Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Samuel S. Hinds, Gene Lockhart, Nat Pendleton, ...

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1940 Drama Movies

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Waterloo Bridge(1940)

The Grapes of Wrath(1940)

Remember the Night(1940)

Boom Town(1940)

Virginia City(1940)

The Long Voyage Home(1940)

Kitty Foyle(1940)

The Mortal Storm(1940)

Lillian Russell(1940)

Down Argentine Way(1940)

The Stars Look Down(1940)

Escape(1940)

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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk(1940)

Angels Over Broadway(1940)

I Was an Adventuress(1940)

Young Tom Edison(1940)

Young People(1940)

Military Academy(1940)

The Earl of Chicago(1940)

Danger On Wheels(1940)

Dr. Christian Meets the Women(1940)

Maryland(1940)

From Mayerling to Sarajevo(1940)

21 Days(1940)

Gold Rush Maisie(1940)

Knute Rockne All American(1940)

Convoy(1940)

Pastor Hall(1940)

The Man I Married(1940)

Dr. Kildare Goes Home(1940)

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