Search results for "1939"
The Phantom Creeps

The Phantom Creeps

The Phantom Creeps
IMDb: 4.7
265

A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.

Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers
IMDb: 6.8
237

Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to…

Scouts to the Rescue

Scouts to the Rescue

Scouts to the Rescue
IMDb: 5.7
231

Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal’s 40th sound-era serial. Eagle Scout Bruce Scott, leader of Martinsville Troop Number One, and his pack…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Dick Tracy’s G-Men

Dick Tracy’s G-Men

Dick Tracy’s G-Men
IMDb: 6.4
302

A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can…

Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery
The Hockey Champ

The Hockey Champ

The Hockey Champ
IMDb: 7
7

Donald shows his nephews the moves that won him his hockey trophy. But the boys have a few moves of their own.

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Golden Boy

Golden Boy

Golden Boy
IMDb: 6.8
99

Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He’s successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Eternally Yours

Eternally Yours

Eternally Yours
IMDb: 5.7
95

Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she’s his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour….

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Never Say Die

Never Say Die

Never Say Die
IMDb: 6.8
82

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her…

Genre: Comedy
Rio

Rio

Rio
IMDb: 6.1
77

Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a…

Genre: Crime, Romance
Young Man’s Fancy

Young Man’s Fancy

Young Man’s Fancy
IMDb: 5.9
77

An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball

Two Girls on the Street

Two Girls on the Street

Two Girls on the Street
IMDb: 6.5
84

Two girls run away from a small village. Gyöngyi comes from an aristocratic family and her father throws her out of the house when he discovers she has gotten pregnant…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Three Sappy People

Three Sappy People

Three Sappy People
IMDb: 7.8
18

The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires them to treat his impetuous young wife who is…

Genre: Comedy
Prisoners of the Land

Prisoners of the Land

Prisoners of the Land
IMDb: 7.1
87

Argentina, 1915. Accompanied by a doctor and his beautiful daughter, Köhner, a ruthless foreman who rules a yerba mate plantation with an iron fist, arrives in the city of Posadas…

Genre: Drama
The Girl from Mexico

The Girl from Mexico

The Girl from Mexico
IMDb: 6.5
71

Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay’s shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and…

When Tomorrow Comes

When Tomorrow Comes

When Tomorrow Comes
IMDb: 6.8
90

Romance and heartbreak walk hand-in-hand when Philip Chagal accidentally meets Helen Lawrence in a restaurant where she is a waitress. Unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness,…

Genre: Drama, Romance
City in Darkness

City in Darkness

City in Darkness
IMDb: 6.5
75

Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even…

Charlie Chan in Reno

Charlie Chan in Reno

Charlie Chan in Reno
IMDb: 7
70

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
The Body Vanished

The Body Vanished

The Body Vanished
IMDb: 5.7
46

A Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a murder but the body…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Racketeers of the Range

Racketeers of the Range

Racketeers of the Range
IMDb: 6.3
62

A large packing company is trying to obtain a monopoly by taking over the last small independent meat packer. Barney O’Dell, owner of the largest ranch, is trying to stop…

Genre: Western
Ride ’em, Cowgirl

Ride ’em, Cowgirl

Ride ’em, Cowgirl
IMDb: 5.7
53

Sandy Doyle, gambler and political chief of a small border town, seeks to gain control of the Bar-X Ranch, owned by Rufe Rickson, to further some undercover activities of his…

Genre: Music, Western
Dust Be My Destiny

Dust Be My Destiny

Dust Be My Destiny
IMDb: 6.8
88

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman’s daughter leads to…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The 400 Million

The 400 Million

The 400 Million
IMDb: 6.7
54

The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest. But they are under attack from the Japanese. Civilian refugees…

Genre: Documentary
King of Chinatown

King of Chinatown

King of Chinatown
IMDb: 6.2
57

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city’s Chinatown.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Shipyard Sally

Shipyard Sally

Shipyard Sally
IMDb: 6.5
77

A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them reopened.

One Third of a Nation

One Third of a Nation

One Third of a Nation
IMDb: 6.1
79

The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building’s residents. Future film director Sidney Lumet plays a key supporting role in this social-consciousness drama…

Genre: Drama
Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot
IMDb: 6.6
65

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City’s boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Desperate Trails

Desperate Trails

Desperate Trails
IMDb: 5.9
60

A young boy helps a marshal in his battle against outlaws.

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Three Smart Girls Grow Up
IMDb: 6.8
90

Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another’s fiancé, and the youngest sister…

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
IMDb: 6.2
84

During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan’s new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares…

Genre: Crime
The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary
IMDb: 7.1
72

Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman’s lawyer,…

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
IMDb: 7.8
144

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Little Princess

The Little Princess

The Little Princess
IMDb: 7.1
93

The classic Shirley Temple film in which a little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask
IMDb: 7
112

Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised from birth by his late father’s trusted friend D’Artagnan and his faithful musketeers, Porthos,…

Fric-Frac

Fric-Frac

Fric-Frac
IMDb: 6.9
105

An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
IMDb: 8.1
129

Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Gulliver’s Travels

Gulliver’s Travels

Gulliver’s Travels
IMDb: 6.6
76

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the…

The Old Maid

The Old Maid

The Old Maid
IMDb: 7.5
95

The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.

Genre: Drama
Stagecoach

Stagecoach

Stagecoach
IMDb: 7.8
96

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

The Spy in Black

The Spy in Black

The Spy in Black
IMDb: 6.9
82

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

Genre: Thriller, War
Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln
IMDb: 7.5
100

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge,…