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Movie Summaries & Endings Explained from the 1940s
1,556 movies from the 1940s, each with a full plot summary, timeline, character guide and the ending explained. Combine filters to narrow it down.
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A Thousand and One Nights
1945 · Comedy
Daisy Kenyon
1947 · Drama
That Uncertain Feeling
1941 · Comedy
Against the Wind
1948 · Action
The Root of All Evil
1947 · Drama
Night Boat to Dublin
1946 · Thriller
The Rats of Tobruk
1944 · War
Mr. Lucky
1943 · Romance
Clancy Street Boys
1943 · Comedy
Lady on a Train
1945 · Romance
Whispering Smith
1948 · Western
Pardon My Past
1945 · Comedy
Flame of Barbary Coast
1945 · Romance
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
1940 · Mystery
Docks of New York
1945 · Adventure
The Walking Hills
1949 · Western
They Made Me a Fugitive
1947 · Thriller
Bellboy Donald
1942 · Comedy
Seven Days’ Leave
1942 · Comedy
Angels Over Broadway
1940 · Drama
The Three Troubledoers
1946 · Comedy
Higher Than a Kite
1943 · Comedy
Admiral Nakhimov
1947 · Drama
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
1948 · Thriller
Catch as Cats Can
1947 · Animation
Tea for Two Hundred
1948 · Comedy
After Midnight with Boston Blackie
1943 · Crime
Elizabeth of Ladymead
1948 · Drama
The Captive Heart
1946 · Drama
Can’t Help Singing
1944 · Western
A Gem of a Jam
1943 · Comedy
Larceny, Inc.
1942 · Crime
Copacabana
1947 · Comedy
Lady with Red Hair
1940 · Drama
The Sea Hawk
1940 · Romance
I’ll Never Heil Again
1941 · Comedy
If I’m Lucky
1946 · Music
The Man I Married
1940 · Drama
We Were Strangers
1949 · Romance
Donald Duck and the Gorilla
1944 · Animation
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