1939 Movies

A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate...

Modern meteorology and a hard-working government weather team put their science and organization to work as a cold front moves from Alaska toward the...

A pre-war film described as "soul-stirring drama" starring Leopoldo Salcedo.

A man in charge of a publicity campaign for bananas decides to kidnap the Queen of 'Bananaland', a tropical island paradise, and take her to Rio, wher...

The last Yiddish feature made in Poland before WWII, this 1939 film is based on a 1907 play by the prolific playwright Jacob Gordin.

An all-black cast feature comedy film written, directed by, and starring Eddie Green. Co-star Babe Matthews was married to Green and she was a very po...

A group of travelers find themselves stranded for the night at a deserted train station, which according to the old stationmaster, has been haunted fo...

Directed by Grigori Roshal.

Unreleased 1939 film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen. It was the director's debut essay, filmed in 16 mm. It is currently unknown if any copies ar...

Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare," aka Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, in which Yaji and Kita...

A blind songwriter struggles to get his work published, and meanwhile a girl he's sweet on disappears from his life when her employer puts the moves o...

Hong Kong horror movie from 1939.

Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title role of Chip Bennett, foreman of the Flying U ranch....

A group of Japanese soldiers land in Chinese territory. They advance on a village ; one soldier, Norimoto, is killed in the attack, but the village is...

A confidence man pretending to be a mentalist swindles a family.

A documentary about the threat of war breaking out in Europe, focusing on Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini.

A man who is a director of a reformatory is slowly gaining everyone's trust.

This Technicolor portrait of Jakarta was filmed when it was called Batavia and formed part of the Dutch East Indies colonial empire. The film portrays...

After a shady collector of paintings has been murdered, adept Dr. Sebastian Ott discovers a big organised fraud with fake paintings. His twin brother...