1938 Movies

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Alexander Nevsky(1938)

3.6/5 (with 82 votes)

When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev - With Andrei Abrikosov, Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolay Okhlopkov, Dmitry Orlov, Vasily Novikov, Sergei Blinnikov, ...

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A Christmas Carol(1938)

| 1h 9min | Drama, Fantasy, Kids & Family

3.6/5 (with 53 votes)

Classic Charles Dickens holiday tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser's miser who has a huge change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present, and future.

Directed by Edwin L. Marin - With Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Terry Kilburn, Barry MacKay

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The Adventures of Robin Hood(1938)

1h 42min | Adventure, Romance / Love, History

3.8/5 (with 306 votes)

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.

Directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley - With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Basil Rathbone, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, ...

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Jezebel(1938)

| 1h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 75 votes)

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

Directed by William Wyler - With Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Fay Bainter, ...

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Ferdinand the Bull(1938)

| 8min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.3/5 (with 69 votes)

This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveals Ferdinand's ferocious side via pained howls and wild stomping. This lands him in the bull-fighting arena amidst characters based on Walt's animators with a matador reportedly modeled after Walt himself.

Directed by Dick Rickard

The Lady Vanishes(1938)

| 1h 36min | Mystery, Thriller, Comedy

3.8/5 (with 373 votes)

On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers, ...

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Bringing Up Baby(1938)

| 1h 42min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 442 votes)

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

Directed by Howard Hawks - With Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, May Robson, Fritz Feld, ...

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Norakuro(1970-1971)

25min per episode | Animation

Norakuro is a black dog enlisted in the "Mokenrentai" (Fierce Dog Brigade), an Imperial army of dogs fighting in a war against the enemy Monkey Army. Norakuro is a stray black-and-white dog in an army of white dogs who blundered his way while being a Private Second-Class. This series was relatively faithful to the comics. One big change, however, was the addition of the army nurse Miko, whom Norakuro had a crush on. For this series, Norakuro was voiced by Nobuyo Ooyama, who would later become noted for voicing Doraemon. (Source: Cartoon Research)

Block-Heads(1938)

| 57min | Comedy, War

3.6/5 (with 49 votes)

It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.

Directed by John G. Blystone - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert, Jimmy Finlayson, Sam Lufkin, Patricia Ellis, ...

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Test Pilot(1938)

| 1h 58min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 30 votes)

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

Directed by Victor Fleming - With Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, Lionel Barrymore, Samuel S. Hinds, Marjorie Main, ...

You Can't Take It with You(1938)

| 2h 6min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 163 votes)

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

Directed by Frank Capra - With Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller, ...

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Marie Antoinette(1938)

| 2h 29min | Drama, History, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.

Directed by W. S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier, Jacques Tourneur - With Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut, ...

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Pygmalion(1939)

1h 36min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 54 votes)

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

Directed by Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard - With Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Leueen MacGrath, Leslie Howard, David Tree, Helen Westley, ...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(1938)

| 1h 31min | Kids & Family, Adventure

3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

Directed by Norman Taurog, H. C. Potter, George Cukor, William A. Wellman - With Jackie Moran, May Robson, Ann Gillis, Walter Brennan, Victor Jory, Donald Meek, ...

La Bête Humaine(1938)

1h 40min | Drama, Crime

3.6/5 (with 80 votes)

On board a train bound for the port city of Le Havre, France, railroad stationmaster Roubard murders Grandmorin, who seduced his beautiful young wife, Severine. Engineer Jacques Lantier, stuck in Le Havre while the train is being repaired, also begins a passionate affair with Severine, who tries to entice the handsome stranger to murder her controlling husband. However, Lantier has a secret urge of his own that changes everything.

Directed by Jean Renoir - With Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Jean Renoir, Fernand Ledoux, Julien Carette, Blanchette Brunoy, ...

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Holiday(1938)

| 1h 37min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 97 votes)

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!

Directed by George Cukor - With Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, Binnie Barnes, Henry Daniell, ...

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Port of Shadows(1938)

1h 33min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 105 votes)

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.

Directed by Marcel Carné - With Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Brasseur, Édouard Delmont, Gaby Wagner, ...

Algiers(1938)

1h 36min | Drama, Action, Mystery, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko became a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspector Slimane, who are biding their time. Meanwhile, Pepe meets the beautiful Gaby , which arouses the jealousy of Ines.

Directed by John Cromwell, Walter Wanger, James M. Cain - With Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Calleia, Alan Hale, Gene Lockhart, ...

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Angels with Dirty Faces(1938)

| 1h 37min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.9/5 (with 125 votes)

In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where he begins his criminal career. Jerry escapes and later becomes a priest. After three years in prison, Rocky is released and demands the return of $100,000 deposited with his solicitor - prior to his jail term.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft, Dead End Kids, ...

Boys Town(1938)

| 1h 36min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 34 votes)

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.

Directed by Norman Taurog - With Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Gene Reynolds, Edward Norris, ...

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Mickey's Trailer(1938)

| 7min | Animation, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 66 votes)

Goofy's in the driver's seat, Mickey's in the kitchen, and Donald's in bed in Mickey's high-tech house trailer. When Goofy comes back to eat breakfast, leaving the car on autopilot, it takes them onto a dangerous closed mountain road. When Goofy realizes this, he accidentally unhooks the trailer, sending it on a perilous route. They come very close to disaster several times, while the oblivious Goofy drives on and hooks back up to them.

Directed by Ben Sharpsteen

Listen, Darling(1938)

1h 15min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love, Kids & Family

3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family travel trailer to live a carefree life on the open road. They then get the idea to find Dottie a financially secure husband whom both she and Pinkie would like.

Directed by Edwin L. Marin - With Judy Garland, Freddie Bartholomew, Mary Astor, Walter Pidgeon, Alan Hale, Gene Lockhart, ...

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The Drum(1938)

1h 44min | Adventure, War

2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans to wipe out the British troops as they enjoy the hospitality of Guhl's spacious palace. It's up to the loyal young Prince Azim (Sabu) to warn the troops of Guhl's treachery by tapping out a message on his drum.

Directed by Zoltan Korda - With Sabu Dastagir, Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey, Valerie Hobson, David Tree, Francis L. Sullivan, ...

Donald's Nephews(1938)

| 8min | Animation

3.1/5 (with 23 votes)

Donald's sister Dumbella sends her three sons Huey, Dewey, and Louie to visit their uncle Donald. They prove to be quite a handful for Donald, even with help from his book on child rearing.

Directed by Jack King

Booloo(1938)

1h 1min | Adventure

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

White hunters in a Malayan jungle stalk a white tiger and bait their trap with a native girl. Captain Rogers to the rescue but falls for the Colonel's daughter.

Directed by Clyde E. Elliott

Child Bride(1938)

1h 2min | Drama

2.2/5 (with 12 votes)

Jennie is a twelve-year-old girl living with her parents in extremely rural mountain country. Her schoolteacher, Miss Carol, though a mountain girl herself, has gone off to be educated and returned in hopes of stopping the tradition of child marriage which permeates the culture. Jennie's father Ira is a good man who tries to protect Miss Carol from the men who threaten her if she doesn't call off her crusade. One of these men, Jake Bolby, has his eye on little Jennie and plots to make her his bride. NOTE: the actress playing Jennie was 14 years old when she made this film, and appears topless in a couple of shots.

Directed by Harry Revier - With Shirley Mills, Angelo Rossitto, Warner Richmond

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Brave Little Tailor(1938)

| 9min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy

3.5/5 (with 42 votes)

When a giant threatens the land, the cityfolk mistake Mickey's boast of killing seven flies with one blow to be giants. He is then forced to fight the giant for real.

Directed by Bill Roberts

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations(1938)

2h 6min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 41 votes)

The First part of Olympia, a documentary about the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin by German Director Leni Riefenstahl. The film played in theaters in 1938 and again in 1952 after the fall of the Nazi Regime.

Directed by Leni Riefenstahl - With Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens, Luz Long, Spyridon Louis, Rie Mastenbroek, Leni Riefenstahl, ...

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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife(1938)

1h 25min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 36 votes)

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch - With Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven, Elizabeth Patterson, Herman Bing, ...

Have You Got Any Castles?(1938)

| 7min | Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy, Music

3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

Another entry in the "books come alive" subgenre, with possibly more books coming alive than any other. We begin with some musical numbers, notably the various pages of Green Pastures all joining in on a song, The Thin Man entering The White House Cookbook and exiting much fatter, and The House of Seven (Clark) Gables singing backup to Old King Cole. The Three Musketeers break loose, become Three Men on a Horse, grab the Seven Keys to Baldpate, and set the Prisoner of Zenda free. They are soon chased by horsemen from The Charge of the Light Brigade and Under Two Flags and beset by the cannons of All Quiet on the Western Front. All this disturbs the sleep of Rip Van Winkle, who opens Hurricane so that everyone is (all together now) Gone with the Wind.

Directed by Frank Tashlin

1938 Movies

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Alexander Nevsky(1938)

A Christmas Carol(1938)

The Adventures of Robin Hood(1938)

Jezebel(1938)

Ferdinand the Bull(1938)

The Lady Vanishes(1938)

Bringing Up Baby(1938)

Norakuro(1970-1971)

Block-Heads(1938)

Test Pilot(1938)

You Can't Take It with You(1938)

Marie Antoinette(1938)

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Pygmalion(1939)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(1938)

La Bête Humaine(1938)

Holiday(1938)

Port of Shadows(1938)

Algiers(1938)

Angels with Dirty Faces(1938)

Boys Town(1938)

Mickey's Trailer(1938)

Listen, Darling(1938)

The Drum(1938)

Donald's Nephews(1938)

Booloo(1938)

Child Bride(1938)

Brave Little Tailor(1938)

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations(1938)

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife(1938)

Have You Got Any Castles?(1938)

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