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Movies and series from 1940

Movie World lists 264 titles released in 1940: 264 movies. The most common genres that year are Drama (94), Comedy (76) and Western (55). Every title below links to a page with its cast, TMDB rating, official trailer and where to watch it.

1940 in numbers

1940 accounts for 0% of the Movie World catalogue, and 142 of its titles were added in the last 30 days. The table breaks the year down by genre, counting movies and TV series separately; a title with several genres is counted once in each of them.

Top genres of 1940 on Movie World
Genre Movies Series
Drama 94 0
Comedy 76 0
Western 55 0
Romance 49 0
Documentary 36 0
Crime 31 0
Adventure 21 0
Mystery 18 0
Music 17 0
Action 17 0

These 3 titles from 1940 rank highest in TMDB's popular, trending and top-rated lists, which Movie World re-reads every 12 hours. They are ordered by that ranking, not by score. Each one links to its own page with the trailer, full cast, TMDB rating and where to watch it.

  1. The Great Dictator 1940 · TMDB score 8.3/10 from 3,860 votes Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
  2. The Shop Around the Corner 1940 · TMDB score 8.1/10 from 883 votes Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
  3. Rebecca 1940 · TMDB score 7.9/10 from 2,076 votes Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier.

3 of these 3 titles (100%) have a TMDB score of 7.0 or higher, based on 6,819 votes in total.

Nearby years

Browse the years around 1940: each page lists every movie and series released that year, with the same breakdown by genre and the titles currently most popular on TMDB. The number next to each year is how many titles Movie World holds for it.

All titles from 1940, A–Z