Movies released in 1939

Cafe Society

69/100

$1000 a Touchdown

60/100

A show-biz couple inherit a college on the brink of bankruptcy. In a bid to increase funding they attempt to build up the college football team by offering $1,000 for every touchdown scored.

The Fighting Gringo

61/100

Ben Wallace is after Don Aliso's rancho. After falsifying his land survey, he frames him for murder. But Wallace has a dull-witted accomplice in Rance Potter and this is who Wade Barton ... See full summary »

Sky Patrol

52/100

"Tailspin Tommy" Tompkins and "Skeeter" Milligan are training young U. S. Army fliers for the newly-formed 'Sky Patrol,'a branch of the Army Reserves which operates along the borders and ... See full summary »

Girl from Rio

50/100

A girl who is a famous singer in Brazil comes to New York to help clear her brother, who has been charged with arson and murder.

Entente cordiale

58/100

Shipyard Sally

67/100

A music hall performer manages the saloon her father bought. The clientèle includes unemployed shipyard workers who she entertains and helps.

Taming of the West

63/100

Bill Saunders arriving in a lawless town is quickly made Marshal. But when he arrests the gang members, the victims refuse to testify. However one rancher is willing to testify and when the... See full summary »

St. Louis Blues

65/100

A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans to put together a musical revue... See full summary »

Island of Lost Men

67/100

An altered remake of 1933's "White Woman," finds cabaret-singer Kim Ling, daughter of a Chinese general who has been accused of absconding with government funds, arriving in the Straits ... See full summary »

Boys' Reformatory

52/100

A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.

Anthony the Last

72/100

Wlóczegi

77/100

Aktivistit

53/100

In 1916, Finland is still a part of Russian Empire. Eugen Schauman murders the governor of Finland, and his fellow activists take on smaller tasks in the fight for freedom.

Mystery of the White Room

61/100

In the middle of an eye-surgery operation in a large hospital, the lights in the operating room go out and the chief surgeon is murdered. It is the job of Police-Detective Spencer to figure... See full summary »

The Fighting Renegade

52/100

El Puma, a Mexican desert guide, escorts an archaeological expedition headed by Professor Lucious Lloyd (Forrest Taylor through the Indian badlands of Mexico. Marian (Joyce Bryant (I)'), ... See full summary »

Wilton's Zoo

66/100

Twelve year old Jan Grovers spends more time in the alleys of Rotterdam than with his family (though he occasionally looks after his tree younger sisters, all of whom are called Mientje). ... See full summary »

Nightclub Hostess

68/100

The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she...

Das große Leben

73/100

Star Reporter

57/100

John Randolph (Warren Hull), an idealistic young newspaper owner who uses his paper as an instrument for the public good...