The best movies 1939

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...

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

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The...

Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for...

After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new...

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...

The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and...

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

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a...

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is...

A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending...

In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

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

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first...

A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a...

Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he...

Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis,...

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...

A young woman protects and falls in love with a fugitive accused of murder.

A young couple, Margarita and Armando, reenact the story of The Lady of the Camellias, as they fall in love, Armando's flamboyant father disapproves...

A single mother who is denied work to support the son she had with the aristocrat who had seduced her, is helped by a singer, a director of orchestra...

Sergio has always been successful with women thanks to his easy words and an effective reference to their eyes that never fails him. When he meets...

Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human...

Driven by the passion of his girlfriend, a humble young man gets a place as a singer achieving resounding success. When he gets it, he marries a...

During a conversation between a grandfather and his grandson, the latter tells him the story of the liberator General José de San...

In a small city, talented María was trained as a singer by blind composer Joaquín. They both dream of making it big in the capital but,...

Semi-documentary film in which a fictional plot is narrated linked to events that really occurred in the history of Argentine aviation between 1908...

Argentina, 1915. Accompanied by a doctor and his beautiful daughter, Köhner, a ruthless foreman who rules a yerba mate plantation with an iron...

Three of Villa's soldiers 'adopt' the orphaned daughter of a friend who was killed in battle.

The needy Pedro Céspedes finds a coat that implies for those who wear it a mysterious prodigality of money and jewelry.

Forced by her alcoholic aunt, an orphan practices street vending and begging, until she finally runs away from home.

A famous painter returns to Spain under a false name as he once had to run away, to meet his half gypsy daughter, who has become a flamenco dancer....

The jockey and owner of a horse is seduced by a woman while criminals dope the animal, turning it into a crack.

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

Unreleased 1939 film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen. It was the director's debut essay, filmed in 16 mm. It is currently unknown if any copies...

A white man seduces a local girl in an isolated Mayan village, which makes gods unhappy.