1939 Movies

A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pa...

Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde's play on moral values, is adapted for a setting in Shanghai. Young wife Meilin mistakenly believes her husband is...

Silo is a bum; but he's a bum whose beloved by all and one day, he is found wounded on the banks of the Theiss. Fishermen take him back to the village...

A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed beca...

This short film portrays the story of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873),an American Naval officer who developed the first maps that charted the ocea...

This short focuses on the story of Dr. Edward Jenner, who developed vaccination.

The well-behaved Prosper De Leeuw from Lier is a grocer and, in his spare time, a member of a choir called "Het Ruisende riet" (The Rustling Reeds). B...

After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dan...

When his ranch falls on hard times, Cowboy Roy Roger has trouble making his mortgage payment and he takes his song and dance to Wall Street to try to...

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

An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to r...

A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay...

British television adaptation of W.W. Jacobs‘ short story from 1939.

Pictures from Helsinki Railway Station, locomotive maintenance and use.

A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.

Based on Lyon Feuchtwanger's novel about the tragedy of society, through a look at the tragedy of one single family.

Living only with her elderly father, Krystyna runs the household and works as a modest clerk. However, her fate takes a turn. The girl gets a job at a...