1939 Movies

A re-telling of the classic nursery rhyme "The House That Jack Built".

Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely...

Weed with Flowers

Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin’s activities in the first years after the Great October Revolution in Russia.

A waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees this and transforms him into "Kid Nightingale," mar...

The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly...

A spirited contribution to the Independence movement, deploying Gandhian themes.

The "gentleman" is played by John King, but the star of the show is J. Farrell McDonald, cast as a chronic gambler named Coburn. When the old man lose...

Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she sugg...

The film gives a strong view of the everyday life of Icelanders when the film is shot, but that year was a record year for the export of herring produ...

A love tragedy featuring a policeman, Moti (Modak) and a prostitute, Kesar (Hublikar).

An animated short made for the Swiss National Exhibition 1939 in Zurich.

Nora, the wife of the architect Heinz Ottendorf, feels neglected by her husband. He is getting more and more engrossed in his work, but Nora, apparen...

A Nazi documentary extolling Germany’s Siegfried Line (“West Wall”) just before WWII, compiled from newsreel units under Fritz Hippler to showcase the...

Jimmy Hanley learns that his former dancing partner has been killed, leaving a baby boy Sandy, so he takes the baby to live with him and his roommate...

Four key incidents in the public life of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845),seventh President of the United States.

Modeste is a timid watchman at an automobile factory which is run with an iron hand by its owner, Roger Drapeau. One evening, Modeste leaves his post...

A goldfish dreams of living in the ocean, and ends up getting there after being accidentally washed down the drain, then finds that it’s too scary.

A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885...