Drama Movies
Smashing the Money Ring (1939)
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
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.
Sabotage (1939)
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at…
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of…
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting…
Eternally Yours (1939)
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she’s his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour….
Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter’s talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall…
The Real Glory (1939)
Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his…
Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman’s daughter leads to…
Blackmail (1939)
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
Golden Boy (1939)
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He’s successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try…
The Women (1939)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local…
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter’s criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
In Name Only (1939)
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.
Island of Lost Men (1939)
A Chinese general’s daughter tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant’s jungle empire.
The Old Maid (1939)
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
A famous concert pianist unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness falls in love with a waitress.
Lady of the Tropics (1939)
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
Beau Geste (1939)
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the…
Hell’s Kitchen (1939)
A paroled convict’s efforts to improve conditions at a boys’ reform school alarm the school’s corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to…
On Borrowed Time (1939)
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud’s future and wary of a…
On Borrowed Time (1939)
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud’s future and wary of a…
Poison Pen (1939)
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
The Saint in London (1939)
Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who’ve murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland…
Five Came Back (1939)
Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline’s flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to…
Maisie (1939)
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles “Slim” Martin when he accuses her…
Susannah of the Mounties (1939)
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who’s befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and…
Juarez (1939)
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
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 love, Ann Rutledge,…
Department Store (1939)
Code of the Secret Service (1939)
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Man of Conquest (1939)
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
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 major contract.