Here’s a list of 200 or so movies released in 1940 across various genres:
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Rebecca
- The Philadelphia Story
- Fantasia
- Pinocchio
- The Great Dictator
- The Thief of Bagdad
- Foreign Correspondent
- His Girl Friday
- Pride and Prejudice
- Waterloo Bridge
- The Sea Hawk
- Boom Town
- The Westerner
- The Mark of Zorro
- Northwest Passage
- Santa Fe Trail
- Virginia City
- My Favorite Wife
- The Shop Around the Corner
- The Letter
- Kitty Foyle
- Christmas in July
- Strike Up the Band
- One Night in the Tropics
- They Drive by Night
- Go West
- Second Chorus
- Remember the Night
- The Return of Frank James
- Before I Hang
- I Love You Again
- No Time for Comedy
- Comrade X
- The Bank Dick
- Dark Command
- Knute Rockne, All American
- Lillian Russell
- Our Town
- Little Nellie Kelly
- Too Many Husbands
- The Long Voyage Home
- Edison, the Man
- Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet
- The Green Hornet
- Brigham Young
- A Dispatch from Reuter’s
- Angels Over Broadway
- Boom Town
- Brother Orchid
- Down Argentine Way
- Dr. Cyclops
- Escape
- Flowing Gold
- Four Sons
- Gaslight (British version)
- Girl in the News
- Green Hell
- The House of the Seven Gables
- I Married an Angel
- It’s a Date
- Johnny Apollo
- Margie
- Maryland
- Meet the Wildcat
- My Little Chickadee
- My Love Came Back
- Night Train to Munich
- No, No, Nanette
- One Million B.C.
- Out West with the Peppers
- The Philadelphia Story
- Primrose Path
- The Proud Valley
- The Quack Doctor
- The Ramparts We Watch
- Rebecca
- Remember the Night
- Road to Singapore
- Santa Fe Trail
- The Sea Hawk
- Second Chorus
- The Shop Around the Corner
- Saps at Sea
- The Secret Seven
- Seven Sinners
- The Son of Monte Cristo
- Spring Parade
- Strike Up the Band
- Swiss Family Robinson
- They Drive by Night
- Third Finger, Left Hand
- Three Cheers for the Irish
- Tin Pan Alley
- Tom Brown’s School Days
- Too Many Girls
- Torrid Zone
- Virginia City
- Waterloo Bridge
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- The Invisible Man Returns
- The Blue Bird
- The Ghost Breakers
- Beyond Tomorrow
- Dance, Girl, Dance
- Buck Benny Rides Again
- You’ll Find Out
- The Mummy’s Hand
- Contraband
- The Fatal Hour
- Black Friday
- Stranger on the Third Floor
- Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
- The Green Archer
- The Son of Monte Cristo
- The Stars Look Down
- Night Train to Munich
- The Proud Valley
- The Long Voyage Home
- City for Conquest
- And Then There Were None
- The Mortal Storm
- No, No, Nanette
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- The Mad Doctor
- The Devil Bat
- I Take This Woman
- Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman
- The Letter
- The Sea Hawk
- The Thief of Bagdad
- The Mark of Zorro
- The Westerner
- Go West
- North West Mounted Police
- Santa Fe Trail
- They Knew What They Wanted
- Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
- Arizona
- Before I Hang
- Black Diamonds
- Blondie on a Budget
- Boom Town
- Brigham Young
- Broadway Melody of 1940
- Brother Orchid
- Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
- Cheers for Miss Bishop
- Comrade X
- Convicted Woman
- The Crooked Road
- Dark Command
- Doomed to Die
- Dr. Kildare’s Strange Case
- Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet
- East of the River
- Escape to Glory
- The Face Behind the Mask
- The Family Next Door
- Fantasia
- Flight Command
- Flowing Gold
- The Forgotten Woman
- Four Sons
- Girl from God’s Country
- Girl in the News
- Golden Gloves
- The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
- Green Hell
- The House of the Seven Gables
- Hullabaloo
- I Married Adventure
- I Want a Divorce
- Invisible Stripes
- It All Came True
- Johnny Apollo
- Judge Hardy and Son
- Jungle Book
- Keeping Company
- Knute Rockne All American
- Ladies Must Live
- The Lady in Question
- Lady with Red Hair
- Land of Liberty
- The Last Alarm
- The Last of the Mohicans
- The Letter
- Li’l Abner
- Little Men
- The Little Princess
- A Little Bit of Heaven
- Llano Kid
- The Lone Wolf Strikes
- The Long Voyage Home
- Look Who’s Laughing
- Love Thy Neighbor
- Lucky Partners
- Mad Men of Europe
- If I Had My Way