Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1940

21 Days – Basil Dean

Abe Lincoln in Illinois – John Cromwell

Ahi esta el detalle – Juam Bustillo Oro

All This and Heaven Too – Anatole Litvak

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante – George B. Seitz

Angels Over Broadway – Ben Hecht

Arise, My Love – Mitchell Leisen

Arizona – Wessley Ruggles

Band Waggon – Marcel Varnel

The Big Blockade – Charles Frend

Bisarck – Wolfgange Liebeneiner

A Bill of Divorcement – Geogre Cukor

Black Friday – Arthur Lbin

The Blue Bird – Walter Lang

Boom Town – Jack Conway

Boys of the City – Joseph H. Lewis

Brigham Young – Henry Hathaway

Broadway Melody of 1940 – Norman Taurog

Brother Orchid – Lloyd Bacon

Busman’s Honeymoon – Arthur. B. Woods

Castle on the Hudson – Anatole Litvak

Channel Incident – Anthony Asquith

Charlie Chan in Panama – Norman Foster

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum – Lynn Shores

A Chump at Pxford – Alfred J. Goulding

City for Conquest – Anatole Kitvak

Comrade X – King Vidor

Contraband – Powell / Pressburger

Crimes at the Dark House – George King

Dead Nan’s Shoes – Thomas Bentley

Divka v modrem – Otakar Vavra

Doomed to Die – William Nigh

Down Argentine Way – Irving Cummings

Dr. Cyclops – Ernest B. Schoedsack

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet - William Dieterle

Edison, the man – Clarence Brown

Ergens in Nederland – Ludwig Berger

Escape – Mervyn LeRoy

The Fatal Hour – William Nigh

Flowing Gold – Alfred E. Green

The Four Sons – Archie Mayo 

French Without Tears – Anthony Asquith

Fighting 69th – William Keighley

The Ghost Breakers – George Marshall

Girl in the News – Carol Reed

Go West – Edward Buzzell

Green Hell – James Whale

The House of the Seven Gables – Joe May

The Howards of Virginia – Frank Llyod

I Love You Again – W.S. Van Dyke

The Invisible Man Returns – Joe May

It All Came True – Lewis Seiler

June Nights (Juninatten) – Per Lindberg

King of the White Elephant – Sunh Vasudhara

Kitty Foyle – Sam Wood

Lady with Red Hair – Curtis Bernhardt

Maddalena, zero in condotta – Vittorio De Sica

The Middle Watch – Thomas Bentley

The Mortal Storm – Frank Borzage

The Mummy’s Hand – Christy Cabanne

New Moon – Robert Z. Leonard / W.S. Van Dyke

North West Mounted Police – Cecil B. DeMille

Northwest Passage – King Vidor

One Million B.C. – D.W. Griffith

One Night in the Tropics – A. Edward Sutherland

Our Town – Sam Wood

The Proud Valley – Pen Tennyson

Queen of the Yukon – Phil Rosen

Rhythm on the River – Victor Schertzinger

The Return of Frank James – Fritz Lang 

Road to Singapore – Victor Schertzinger

The Siege of the Alcazar – Augusto Genina

The Son of Monte Cristo – Rowland V. Lee

The Saint Takes Over – Jack Hively

The Saint’s Double Trouble – Jack Hively

The Santa Fe Trail – Michael Curtiz

Son of Ingagi – Richard Kahn

The Stars Look Down – Carol Reed

The Stationmaster (Der Postmeister) – Gustav Ucicky

Stranger on the Third Floor – Boris Ingster

Strike Up the Band – Busby Berkeley

They Knew What They Wanted – Garson Kanin

The Thief of Bagdad - Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell & Tim Whelan

‘Til We Meet Again – Edmund Goulding / Anatole Litvak

Torres Snortevold – Tancred Ibsen

Torrid Zone – William Keighley

Vigil in the Night - George Stevens

Virginia City – Michael Curtiz

Waterloo Bridge - Mervyn LeRoy

The Well-Digger’s Daughter (La Fille du puisatier) – Marcel Pagnol

The Westerner - William Wyler

Younge People – Allan Dwan

Where’s That Fire? – Marcel Varnel