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Top Movies of 1940
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1. Rebecca
1940
2h 10m
Approved
8.1
(147K)
Rate
86
Metascore
A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Stars
Laurence Olivier
Joan Fontaine
George Sanders
2. The Great Dictator
1940
2h 5m
G
8.4
(238K)
Rate
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Director
Charles Chaplin
Stars
Charles Chaplin
Paulette Goddard
Jack Oakie
3. The Philadelphia Story
1940
1h 52m
Approved
7.9
(74K)
Rate
96
Metascore
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Director
George Cukor
Stars
Cary Grant
Katharine Hepburn
James Stewart
4. His Girl Friday
1940
1h 32m
Approved
7.8
(63K)
Rate
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Director
Howard Hawks
Stars
Cary Grant
Rosalind Russell
Ralph Bellamy
5. The Thief of Bagdad
1940
1h 46m
Approved
7.4
(15K)
Rate
After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.
Director
Ludwig Berger
Michael Powell
Tim Whelan
Stars
Conrad Veidt
Sabu
June Duprez
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