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1940s Romance Movies

Public list by WPS with 32 movies or TV shows/series

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Spellbound(1945)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 51min | Mystery, Thriller, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 376 votes)

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming, Norman Lloyd, ...
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Doña Bárbara(1943)

2h 18min | Drama, Western
3.5/5 (with 15 votes)

A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.

Directed by Fernando de Fuentes, Miguel M. Delgado - With María de los Angeles Felix Güereña, Julián Soler, María Elena Marqués, Andrés Soler, Agustín Isunza, Arturo Soto Rangel, ...

Ringside Maisie(1941)

1h 35min | Comedy, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let down his best friend and manager Skeets Maguire, who has hopes of him becoming the next champion, he is reluctant to bring up the subject with him. Maisie convinces Terry to tell Skeets, whose unexpected reaction induces him to step into the ring again.

Directed by Edwin L. Marin - With Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Robert Sterling

Tomboy(1940)

1h 10min | Drama, Romance / Love

Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.

Directed by Robert F. McGowan - With Marcia Mae Jones, Grant Withers, George Cleveland, Clara Blandick, Charlotte Wynters

The Carson City Kid(1940)

54min | Action, Western
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

The Carson City Kid and partner Laramie are outlaws. When his partner is caught the Kid, his identity being unknown, takes a job in Jessup's saloon. Here he see Jessup cheat Waren out of his money. Warren then robs Jessup posing as the Kid but gets caught. To gain his freedom, Laramie identifies Warren as the Kid. Realizing Jessup is the man that killed his brother, the Kid must find a way to clear Warren and get Jessup.

Directed by Joseph Kane - With Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Bob Steele, Noah Beery Jr., Francis McDonald, Wally Wales, ...

The Light of Western Stars(1940)

1h 4min | Western, Romance / Love
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Easterner Madeline Hammond buys a ranch not knowing Hayworth is using it to smuggle ammunition across the border. When trouble starts, she brings back Gene Stewart ex-foreman who left the country after fighting with the Sheriff.

Directed by Lesley Selander - With Victor Jory

Jungle Siren(1942)

1h 8min | Romance / Love, War

A woman - raised in the jungle - tries to help an American stop a native uprising spurned on by Nazis.

Directed by Sam Newfield - With Ann Corio, Buster Crabbe

Wildvogel(1943)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 27min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The engineer Wolff Benningsen (Volker von Collande), a self-assured and über-obnoxious jingo jerk meets the young art student Vika von Demnitz (Leny Marenbach) while climbing in the Alps. One get's the idea that he would like to knock her over the head with a club and drag her to his cave but since this is out of fashion he decides to stalk her and annoy her heavy-handedly into a full submission. Understandingly, she instantly dislikes the lad and tries to shake him off. She succeeds a few times but then starts to suffer from some kind of Stockholm syndrome and falls for him. But that's not enough for him, being an infantile egoist he wants to tame the "wild bird" fully and break every last bit of her own will. It's all hard to believe if you haven't seen it yourself.

Directed by Johannes Meyer - With Volker von Collande, Käthe Haack, Hertha von Walther

We've Never Been Licked(1943)

1h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love

Young Brad Craig (Langton) enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which Mitchum and other upperclassmen quickly knock off. Once adjusted, Craig falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter, only to find she is in love with his roommate, played by Noah Beery.

Directed by John Rawlins - With Richard Quine, Noah Beery Jr., Anne Gwynne, Martha O'Driscoll, Robert Mitchum

Ala-Arriba!(1942)

1h 24min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

It focuses on maritime tragedy of the town and a forbidden love between Julha and João Moço, from different fisher castes, in a community where mixed-caste marriages were not allowed and dating without parent's assent was seen as a disgrace to the family, not only in respect to women, but also men.

Directed by José Leitão de Barros - With Maria Olguim

The Gay Parisian(1942)

20min | Music, Romance / Love
2.1/5 (with 5 votes)

The Gay Parisian is an American short film produced in 1941 by Warner Bros. featuring the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo and directed by Jean Negulesco. The film is a screen adaptation, in Technicolor, of the 1938 ballet Gaîté Parisienne, choreographed by Léonide Massine to music by Jacques Offenbach. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 14th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).

Directed by Jean Negulesco - With Léonide Massine, Cyd Charisse, Marc Platt, George Zoritch

Jungle Man(1941)

1h 3min | Action, Adventure
1.4/5 (with 5 votes)

An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled City of the Dead, and must battle thick jungle, hostile natives, wild animals and a deadly epidemic.

Directed by Harry L. Fraser
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Gentle Annie(1944)

1h 20min | Western, Romance / Love
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

The Goss family live on a farm they call the dust bowl where the wind blows during the day and the coyotes howl at night. When the train is robbed, everyone thinks that Cotton and Violet were the ones that did the job, but no one has any proof. US Marshal Lloyd Richland comes into town in disguise to find the truth and he finds that the sheriff is corrupt and that the Goss family is gosh darn nice. They take in Richland and a stranded woman named Mary without any questions. Cotton believes that Sheriff Tatum shot their pa in the back, and the sheriff is now trying to plug the boys. Richland is looking for the train robbers, and at the same time is keeping an eye on Tatum and the lovely young Mary.

Directed by Andrew Marton - With James Craig, Donna Reed, Marjorie Main, Harry Morgan, Barton MacLane, Paul Langton, ...

Shair(1949)

2h 18min | Romance / Love

A poet who has spent life in the village with his childhood sweetheart goes to Bombay to meet a fan of his who is also a popular radio singer.

With Dev Anand

Ich werde dich auf Händen tragen(1943)

1h 24min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Kurt Hoffmann - With Heli Finkenzeller, Hans Nielsen, Wolfgang Lukschy, Elisabeth Markus, Hans Leibelt, Ellen Bang, ...

Anokha Pyar(1948)

Romance / Love

Love triangle has a flowerseller and a doctor's daughter both in love with a struggling writer.

Directed by M.I. Dharamsey - With Dilip Kumar, Nargis

Las tandas del principal(1949)

1h 51min
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle. For awhile. And then...

Directed by Juan Bustillo Oro

Seven Doors to Death(1944)

1h 4min | Romance / Love, Mystery
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An architect (Chick Chandler) studies the doors of six shops and an apartment house to solve a gem theft/double murder.

Directed by Elmer Clifton - With June Clyde, George Meeker, Gregory Gaye

Adventure in Blackmail(1942)

1h 19min | Romance / Love

Low-key British comedy starring Clive Brook as a successful playwright who is sued for breach of promise by a mysterious beauty he claims not to know.

Directed by Harold Huth - With Clive Brook

Wanderer of the Wasteland(1945)

1h 7min | Western
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

In this western, a young cowboy rides out to avenge his father's killer. Eventually, he finds the scoundrel, but by this time opts not to kill him for the cowboy has fallen in love with the outlaw's niece. Later, the killer ends up killed and the hero is blamed for the crime.

Directed by Wallace Grissell

Law of the Jungle(1942)

1h 1min | Adventure, Romance / Love
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Nona Brooks, former member of a stranded theatrical troupe, earns a temporary living singing in a café in Duakwa, British Rhodesia, Africa. The café owner is secretly in league with two foreign agents with a goal of making the natives restless. American explorer Larry Mason leaves for the jungle with his servant, Jeff and a safari. Nona escapes the café into the jungle but is followed by the agents as, unknowing to her, she is carrying a report of the agent's activities. She joins the safari just as all hands are captured by a tribe of natives.

Directed by Jean Yarbrough

Clarissa(1941)

1h 19min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Gerhard Lamprecht - With Sybille Schmitz, Gustav Fröhlich, Gustav Diessl, Werner Scharf, Elga Brink, Gerhard Dammann, ...

Six Hours to Lose(1947)

1h 30min | Drama, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. He decides to kill time by taking a stroll. He is not prepared to get confused with somebody else. In fact the citizens are eagerly awaiting the visit of a famous man and the clueless traveller is his doppelgänger. Soon he experiences what that means.

Directed by Alex Joffé - With André Luguet, Albert Michel, Dany Robin, Denise Grey, François Joux, Henri Vilbert, ...

Yes, Ma'am(1942)

1h 22min

Directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli.

Directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli - With María Denis, Leonardo Cortese, Emma Gramatica, Irma Gramatica, Rina Morelli, Evi Maltagliati, ...

That Dangerous Age(1949)

1h 38min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The lonely wife of a workaholic husband on the magical Isle of Capri meets a charming and attractive young man. An exciting affair must end when word gets back to the husband and he becomes ill. In hopes of avoiding a scene, she passes her beau along to her stepdaughter, Monica.

Directed by Gregory Ratoff - With Myrna Loy

Somewhere in the Netherlands(1940)

1h 49min | War, Drama, Romance / Love

Mobilization on the brink of the Second World War divides a husband and wife. When lawyer Frans van Loon is called up to join the mine clearance service he doesn't want to worry his wife and keeps it from her. His secretiveness leads her to believe he doesn't love her anymore. She subsequently falls for the charms of an actor. When Frans finds out, a violent quarrel ensues.

Directed by Ludwig Berger - With Lily Bouwmeester, Fien de la Mar, Matthieu van Eysden, Max Croiset, Aaf Bouber, Jan de Hartog, ...

In Old Cheyenne(1941)

58min | Adventure, Action, Western
1.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.

Directed by Joseph Kane - With Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes

Khulud(1948)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Ezz El Dine Zulficar - With Kamal el-Shennawi, Ezz El Dine Zulficar, Faten Hamama, Esmail Yasin

Königin der Landstraße(1948)

1h 28min | Drama

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Géza von Cziffra - With Angelika Hauff, Rudolf Prack, Hermann Erhardt, Albin Skoda, Karl Skraup, Dagny Servaes, ...

Goodbye, Franziska(1941)

1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The relationship between Franziska and her partner Michael, a globetrotting photojournalist, remains strained due to their constant separation, until tragedy strikes, forcing Michael to come home and to make a decision about their future.

Directed by Helmut Käutner - With Marianne Hoppe, Fritz Odemar, Hans Söhnker, Rudolf Fernau, Hermann Speelmans, Margot Hielscher, ...
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