The best movies 1939 Pagina 5

A female warden takes over at a state reform school and attempts to bring about needed changes. Restored in 2020 by the Academy Film Archive with...

An investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation.

A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the...

A "Pete Smith Specialty" - a fairly serious look at radio hams in the usual jokey format. Shows aircraft using morse code.

An outcast duckling's search for a family to accept him leads to constant rejection before learning his true identity as a swan.

Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are...

Two children are born in a rich family's manor house - one of them, Gogo, is a son of a countess and the second one, Maciek, a son of the servant....

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie...

Follows the life of a foal who enters the Grand National.

The residents of the villages Strasslach and Rott are anything but friends. The residents of the “enemy” town are ridiculed at every...

A love affair and two feuding families who play out a Romeo and Juliet type drama in 17th century India, under the Emperor Jehangir.

The first Hong Kong produced film to feature an all-female cast of 36 actresses. The ambitious project follows its 36 female characters, all of whom...

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

The life story of Franciszek Murka, a municipal official. He is dismissed from his job as a result of unfounded slander about his alleged left-wing...

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

The subject of this film is Dr. Ivan Egry, a young man, who becomes infatuated with Edit Ralben, the beautiful, but flirtatious, daughter of a...

Follows a young writer, James Selworthy, who is trying to establish himself as a writer. Supported by his wife Molly, he sends off manuscripts to...

Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father...

The residents of the villages Strasslach and Rott are anything but friends. The residents of the “enemy” town are ridiculed at every...

The perverse owner of a cabaret gets redemption by sacrificing himself for the happiness of others.

Cantinflas will face a thief who enters his house while he sleeps.

An English lady decides to buy a gypsy boy but she is deceived and receives a stolen child with dyed skin. The lady searches his real parents and...

A misogynistic teacher marries one of his students and then accidentally kills her.

All through the school-year with a teacher and his fifth-grade boys.

Three Spaniards emigrate to Mexico and become prosperous landowners.

The film follows a group of young girls in a boarding school.

Alberto is born in wartime, where his father dies a hero. He grows up effeminate. His mother sends him to military college where Fernando bullies...

Short film.

A capricious rich woman has fun while humiliating a poor musician, who becomes famous thanks to his compositions, and in an accusation of plagiarism...

Romance - with its ruptures and reunions - between a girl and a boy who want to succeed with the tango.

Spanish war propaganda documentary.

A country boy loves the daughter of his boss and godfather. An engineer who comes from the city is interested in the young woman who corresponds to...

The film explores the challenges faced by the inhabitants of the Mezquital Valley in the state of Hidalgo. It is considered a seminal work in the...

Based on the Spanish play "El caudal de los hijos" by José López Pinillos. Francisca, the daughter of a provincial gentleman in...

A village healer accuses a plastic surgeon who comes to the mountains to rest of being diabolical.