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| 1 |  | Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) |  3.6805 43 reviews | PG | Drama |
$6.34
| Based on the John Steinbeck novel, Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) is a man just released from prison, but ...more about Grapes of Wrath starring Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell |
| 2 |  | Rebecca (1940) | 3.6061 32 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Romance |
$294.95
| A young woman is haunted by her new husband's dead wife, Rebecca. After a quick courtship and world ...more about Rebecca starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine |
| 3 |  | Shop Around the Corner, The (1940) | 3.3081 22 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$9.76
| "Matuschek's" is the gift shop around the corner. Among the staff is Alfred Kralik, a likeable ...more about Shop Around the Corner starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart |
| 4 |  | Pride and Prejudice (1940) |  3.2362 17 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy |
$12.71
| Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find ...more about Pride and Prejudice starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier |
| 5 |  | Northwest Passage (1940) | 3.1637 12 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, History, Western, Romance | N/A | Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They ...more about Northwest Passage starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Young |
| 6 |  | Foreign Correspondent (1940) | 3.1351 31 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller |
$12.71
| Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor appoints him European ...more about Foreign Correspondent starring Robert Benchley and Laraine Day |
| 7 |  | Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) | 3.0288 13 reviews | NA | Drama, Film-Noir | N/A | Rising reporter Michael Ward is a key witness in the murder trial of young Joe Briggs, who is ...more about Stranger on the Third Floor starring Peter Lorre and Margaret Tallichet |
| 8 |  | Boom Town (1940) | 2.9575 8 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Romance |
$12.71
| McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsey comes West intending to marry Sand but ...more about Boom Town starring Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy |
| 9 |  | They Drive by Night (1940) | 2.8575 15 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir |
$12.71
| Brothers Paul and Joe Fabrini run a trucking business in California mainly shipping fruit from ...more about They Drive by Night starring George Raft and Ann Sheridan |
| 10 |  | Great Dictator, The (1940) | 2.8507 27 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy |
$15.26
| During the last days of the First World War, a clumsy soldier saves the life of devoted military ...more about Great Dictator starring Charles Chaplin and Eddie Gribbon |
| 11 |  | Invisible Man Returns, The (1940) | 2.8409 11 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery |
$19.60
| Framed for the murder of his brother, Geoffrey Radcliffe is scheduled to hang. After a visit from ...more about Invisible Man Returns starring Cedric Hardwicke and Vincent Price |
| 12 |  | Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman (1940) | 2.8218 10 reviews | NA | Drama |
$4.70
| Ginger Rogers, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class ...more about Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman starring Ginger Rogers and James Craig |
| 13 |  | City for Conquest (1940) | 2.7944 10 reviews | NA | Drama, Film-Noir |
$11.75
| Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters "the fight game" and Sheridan his former ...more about City for Conquest starring James Cagney and Ann Sheridan |
| 14 |  | Letter, The (1940) | 2.7709 17 reviews | NA | Drama, Film-Noir |
$8.68
| While her husband inspects his rubber planatation, Leslie Crosbie murders Geoffrey Hammond. His ...more about Letter starring Bette Davis and James Stephenson |
| 15 |  | Long Voyage Home, The (1940) |  2.7457 11 reviews | NA | Drama, War |
$19.99
| Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion ...more about Long Voyage Home starring John Wayne and Ian Hunter |
| 16 |  | Our Town (1940) | 2.7359 18 reviews | NA | Drama |
$6.49
| Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get ...more about Our Town starring William Holden and Martha Scott |
| 17 |  | Mortal Storm, The (1940) | 2.6745 11 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | The Roth family lead a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930's. ...more about Mortal Storm starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart |
| 18 |  | Susan and God (1940) | 2.6391 3 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy | N/A | Susan Trexel is a wealthy socialite, who while vacationing in Europe undergoes a religious ...more about Susan and God starring Joan Crawford and Fredric March |
| 19 |  | All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | 2.6049 4 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance | N/A | Henriette Deluzy Desportes becomes governess to the children of the Duc de Praslin. The jealous ...more about All This starring Walter Hampden and Bette Davis |
| 20 |  | Angels Over Broadway (1940) | 2.5943 15 reviews | NA | Drama |
$4.50
| Charles Engle has been caught embezzling. He writes a suicide note, and goes out wandering on the ...more about Angels Over Broadway starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Rita Hayworth |
| 21 |  | Young Tom Edison (1940) | 2.5935 4 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography | N/A | Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and ...more about Young Tom Edison starring Mickey Rooney and Fay Bainter |
| 22 |  | Earl of Chicago, The (1940) | 2.5661 1 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | Silky has always moved booze. In prohibition, he smuggled it from Canada, but now that it is legal, ...more about Earl of Chicago starring Edward Arnold and Reginald Owen |
| 23 |  | Waterloo Bridge (1940) | 2.5661 4 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Romance | N/A | On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he ...more about Waterloo Bridge starring Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor |
| 24 |  | Strange Cargo (1940) | 2.5524 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance | N/A | Verne wants nothing more than to escape from a penal colony located off the northern coast of South ...more about Strange Cargo starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable |
| 25 |  | Virginia City (1940) | 2.5417 5 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, History, Western, Romance | N/A | Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City in Nevada. ...more about Virginia City starring Errol Flynn and Miriam Hopkins |
| 26 | | My Love Came Back (1940) | 2.5204 1 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy | N/A | Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius ...more about My Love Came Back starring Olivia de Havilland and Jeffrey Lynn |
| 27 |  | Knute Rockne All American (1940) | 2.5150 5 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography, Sports |
$12.71
| ...more about Knute Rockne All American starring Gale Page and Ronald Reagan |
| 28 |  | Primrose Path (1940) | 2.4885 2 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, ...more about Primrose Path starring Ginger Rogers and Marjorie Rambeau |
| 29 |  | Brother Orchid (1940) | 2.4869 3 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Comedy | N/A | Gang boss Little John Sarto returns from Europe where he was looking for "class" to find his old ...more about Brother Orchid starring Edward G. Robinson and Ann Sothern |
| 30 |  | Lady in Question, The (1940) | 2.4748 1 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy | N/A | ...more about Lady in Question starring Brian Aherne and Rita Hayworth |
| 31 |  | Lady with Red Hair (1940) | 2.4565 1 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography | N/A | A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and ...more about Lady with Red Hair starring Miriam Hopkins and Claude Rains |
| 32 |  | Seven Sinners (1940) | 2.4529 5 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Romance, Comedy |
$16.37
| Bijou, a saloon singer with a reputation for insighting brouhahas, is one of several deportees from ...more about Seven Sinners starring Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne |
| 33 |  | No Time for Comedy (1940) | 2.4519 2 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy | N/A | Playwright Gaylord Esterbrook scores a hit with his first Broadway play, both with the critics and ...more about No Time for Comedy starring James Stewart and Rosalind Russell |
| 34 | | Vigil in the Night (1940) | 2.4382 1 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | Nurse Anne Lee blames herself for a fatal mistake of her sister Lucy, who also is a nurse. Anne ...more about Vigil in the Night starring Carole Lombard and Brian Aherne |
| 35 |  | Comrade X (1940) | 2.4154 6 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy | N/A | McKinley B. "Mac" Thompson, American reporter in Moscow, smuggles out uncensored news under the ...more about Comrade X starring Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr |
| 36 |  | North West Mounted Police (1940) | 2.4078 3 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Western | N/A | Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) ...more about North West Mounted Police starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll |
| 37 |  | It All Came True (1940) | 2.3652 1 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Comedy | N/A | Nightclub entertainer Sarah Ryan and songwriter Tommy Taylor move in to the boardinghouse run by ...more about It All Came True starring Ann Sheridan and Jeffrey Lynn |
| 38 |  | Down Argentine Way (1940) | 2.3538 6 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$9.99
| American girl (Grable) on vacation in Argentina falls for wealthy racehorse owner (Ameche). Lots of ...more about Down Argentine Way starring Don Ameche and Betty Grable |
| 39 |  | Dark Eyes of London, The (1940) | 2.3488 5 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror, Crime, Mystery |
$3.88
| A series of strange deaths takes place in London. All are accidents but the victims are single men ...more about Dark Eyes of London starring Bela Lugosi and Hugh Williams |
| 40 |  | I Love You Again (1940) | 2.3469 5 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy | N/A | While alone on a cruise, upstanding, teetotal - and mean - Larry Wilson receives a blow on the ...more about I Love You Again starring William Powell and Myrna Loy |
| 41 |  | Black Friday (1940) | 2.3309 7 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Crime |
$21.22
| When his friend Professor Kingsely (Ridges) is at deaths door, brain surgeon Dr. Sovac (Karloff) ...more about Black Friday starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi |
| 42 | | Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) | 2.3250 6 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy | N/A | Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash ...more about Dance starring Maureen O'Hara and Louis Hayward |
| 43 | | Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) | 2.3241 8 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography | N/A | Covers the period from Lincoln's early years as a Kentucky woodsman until his election to the ...more about Abe Lincoln in Illinois starring Gene Lockhart and Ruth Gordon |
| 44 | | Case of the Frightened Lady, The (1940) | 2.2556 1 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Mystery | N/A | "Mark's Priory". the family seat of the Lebanons, is a house of terror to Ilsa Crane (Penelope ...more about Case of the Frightened Lady starring Marius Goring and Helen Haye |
| 45 |  | Fighting 69th, The (1940) | 2.2520 7 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Biography |
$12.71
| "The Fighting 69th" is a First World War regiment of mostly New York-Irish soldiers. Amongst a ...more about Fighting 69th starring James Cagney and John Litel |
| 46 |  | Edison, the Man (1940) |  2.2465 7 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography | N/A | In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story ...more about Edison starring Spencer Tracy and Rita Johnson |
| 47 |  | Three Faces West (1940) | 2.2373 4 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Romance |
$9.99
| Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees ...more about Three Faces West starring John Wayne and Sigrid Gurie |
| 48 |  | Santa Fe Trail (1940) | 2.2252 3 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama, Western, Biography, Romance |
$5.99
| The story of Jeb Stewart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer and ...more about Santa Fe Trail starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland |
| 49 |  | Ape, The (1940) | 2.1716 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$1.99
| Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs ...more about Ape starring Boris Karloff and Maris Wrixon |
| 50 | | Door with Seven Locks, The (1940) | 2.1150 5 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror, Mystery |
$6.06
| ...more about Door with Seven Locks starring Leslie Banks and Lilli Palmer |
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