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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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Incendiary Blonde
1945 · Romance
Two Weeks to Live
1943 · Comedy
Shoeshine
1946 · Drama
Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942 · Drama
Confirm or Deny
1941 · Drama
Juke Girl
1942 · Crime
Sitting Pretty
1948 · Comedy
Carnival
1946 · Romance
The Devil and Miss Jones
1941 · Romance
Secret Command
1944 · War
The Canterville Ghost
1944 · Comedy
Last of the Wild Horses
1948 · Western
Cinderella Jones
1946 · Comedy
Junior Miss
1945 · Comedy
The Velvet Touch
1948 · Thriller
Adam Had Four Sons
1941 · Drama
Adventure in Baltimore
1949 · Romance
Jeannie
1941 · Drama
The Strange Woman
1946 · Drama
Little Old New York
1940 · History
Scotland Yard Investigator
1945 · Mystery
This Above All
1942 · War
Heavenly Music
1943 · Fantasy
Step Lively
1944 · Music
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
1945 · Romance
Calling Dr. Death
1943 · Thriller
Loaded Pistols
1948 · Western
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946 · Comedy
Bad Bascomb
1946 · Western
Here Come the Co-Eds
1945 · Comedy
Back-Room Boy
1942 · Comedy
The Town Went Wild
1944 · Comedy
Coney Island
1943 · Comedy
Easy Living
1949 · Drama
We’ve Never Been Licked
1943 · Romance
Where Do We Go from Here?
1945 · Music
Chains
1949 · Drama
Seven Doors to Death
1944 · Romance
Blue Scar
1949 · Drama
The Windblown Hare
1949 · Animation
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