The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz 1939

7.59

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

1939

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind 1939

7.93

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

1939

Stagecoach

Stagecoach 1939

7.62

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

1939

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939

7.31

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.

1939

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939

7.86

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.

1939

The Rules of the Game

The Rules of the Game 1939

7.49

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

1939

The Women

The Women 1939

7.13

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

1939

Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn 1939

6.10

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.

1939

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights 1939

7.20

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.

1939

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

The Secret of Dr. Kildare 1939

5.60

Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.

1939

Ninotchka

Ninotchka 1939

7.50

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

1939

The Foundling

The Foundling 1939

6.70

A little girl is lost in Moscow and hits the road making fun (not intentionally) of everybody she meets. She'll be back home soon but she will change the life of at least one man forever...

1939

Art Gallery

Art Gallery 1939

6.00

An art museum, on a dark and stormy night. The statue of Nero comes to life and tries to burn the nearby painting of Rome but his matches go out. He tries to get a set of "hear no evil" monkeys to take the matches from a still life, but they refuse and he teases them. The other artworks come to their defense. Nero plays hurt, and gets the monkeys to help; after they stumble around in the still life for a while, they get drunk on lighter fluid and start breathing flames, which they combine with the fluid to act as a flamethrower. Soon, the museum is ablaze and all the paintings are either sounding the alarm or coming to fight the fire.

1939

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police 1939

6.10

Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is complicating the situation involving a series of deaths and an elusive murderer.

1939

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties 1939

7.48

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

1939

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1939

6.50

Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.

1939

The Mystery of Mr. Wong

The Mystery of Mr. Wong 1939

5.90

Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.

1939

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939

7.10

On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that Sherlock Holmes is there to investigate the local belief that his uncle was killed by a monster hound that has roamed the moors since 1650, and is likely to strike again at Sir Henry.

1939

The Little Princess

The Little Princess 1939

6.70

A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

1939