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2. Zwei Welten (1940)

89 min | Comedy

A member of the Hitler Youth falls for a girl outside his social class.

Director: Gustaf Gründgens | Stars: Marianne Simson, Antje Weisgerber, Max Eckard, Joachim Brennecke

Votes: 9

6. Der ewige Quell (1940)

87 min

A Nazi era propaganda drama in which there is a rush for gold in Bavaria.The resulting anarchy is blamed on the Jews there.

Director: Fritz Kirchhoff | Stars: Eugen Klöpfer, Bernhard Minetti, Lina Carstens, Käte Merk

7. Nanette (1940)

97 min | Musical, Romance

Successful playwright goes undercover to get new material and finds romance.

Director: Erich Engel | Stars: Jenny Jugo, Hans Söhnker, Albrecht Schoenhals, Olga Limburg

Votes: 31

12. Campaign in Poland (1940)

60 min | Documentary, Animation, History

The first blitzkrieg, Hitler's invasion of Poland, is traced in this original Nazi propaganda film from 1940.

Directors: Fritz Hippler, Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Édouard Daladier, Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Halifax Edward Wood, Adolf Hitler

Votes: 100

14. Lauter Liebe (1940)

89 min | Comedy

Marlies Nathusius and Hans Haeberling have known each other since childhood and have been close friends who share everything with each other ever since. But alarm bells suddenly start ... See full summary »

Director: Heinz Rühmann | Stars: Hertha Feiler, Rolf Weih, Ilse Stobrawa, Helmut Weiss

Votes: 18

15. Leidenschaft (1940)

81 min | Drama

The wife of a stingy, old fashioned count is accused by villagers of his murder.She has been spending time with a young forester.But there are at least three other suspects.

Director: Walter Janssen | Stars: Olga Tschechowa, Hans Stüwe, Paul Otto, Hilde Körber

18. Angelika (1940)

97 min

Once a celebrated opera singer, who sacrificed her career for her husband. Now she strives to become a successful painter. One day, the husband suffers a fatal accident while out horse ... See full summary »

Director: Jürgen von Alten | Stars: Olga Tschechowa, Albrecht Schoenhals, Friedrich Kayßler, Otto Graf

Votes: 14

19. Weißer Flieder (1940)

92 min | Comedy, Romance

The playboy owner of a sock manufacturing business bestows a bouquet of white lilies on each lady who catches his eye.One of them offers an interesting possibility: she owns her own sock business.Will they merge, in more ways than one?

Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Stars: Hannelore Schroth, Hans Holt, Elga Brink, Mady Rahl

Votes: 13

20. Casanova heiratet (1940)

After successfully starring as Casanova on stage Gregor escapes to his country estate but repeats his stage affairs in real life with actress Steffie, feisty matron Johanna and farm girl Gertrud who is the first to really touch his heart.

Director: Viktor de Kowa | Stars: Karl Schönböck, Lizzi Waldmüller, Fita Benkhoff, Irene von Meyendorff

Votes: 9

21. Der Marsch zum Führer (1940)

60 min | Documentary

During the colorful ceremonies of the Nuremberg rallies, Hitler Youth parade before their Fuehrer and are addressed by Nazi youth leader Baldur von Schirach, Rudolf Hess, and Hitler himself.

Stars: Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler, Baldur von Schirach, Elsa Wagner

Votes: 61

23. Der Feuerteufel (1940)

94 min | Action, War

An Austrian farmhand raises an army of rebels against the French invaders in the early 19th century and even tries to assassinate Napoleon himself, in Vienna.

Director: Luis Trenker | Stars: Luis Trenker, Judith Holzmeister, Bertl Schultes, I. Inni

Votes: 18

24. Stern von Rio (1940)

95 min | Comedy

Concha flies from his natal Rio to Germany to help his loved one, who has been caught after finding some diamonds in a mine already registered by a company. Amongst them is the impressive ... See full summary »

Director: Karl Anton | Stars: La Jana, Gustav Diessl, Werner Scharf, Max Gülstorff

Votes: 32

25. Polterabend (1940)

Comedy

Rudi's philandering days are over. To demonstrate that he spends the night before his wedding alone. But how does he explain that a strange woman is found in his bedroom and that his bride Hilde is arrested for stealing jewels in a hotel?

Director: Carl Boese | Stars: Rudi Godden, Camilla Horn, Grethe Weiser, Maria Andergast

Votes: 10

27. Deutsche Waffenschmieden (1940)

12 min | Documentary, Short

Wehrmacht propaganda documentary about the might of the German armament factories and their inexhaustible reserves of war material made ready for use.

Director: Walter Ruttmann

Votes: 9

28. Frau nach Maß (1940)

94 min | Comedy

An actress breaks her engagement to a theater director who wants her to give up her career.But, still attracted to him, she masquerades as her twin sister to win him that way.

Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Hans Söhnker, Leny Marenbach, Dorit Kreysler, Fritz Odemar

Votes: 25

30. Baptism of Fire (1940)

90 min | Documentary

Poland was the first victim of Hitler's infamous blitzkrieg. Combat cameramen filmed the aerial campaign, showing preparations for flight, massive air strikes, and the appalling devastation... See full summary »

Director: Hans Bertram | Stars: Herbert Gernot, Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler

Votes: 79

31. Alles Schwindel (1940)

86 min

Peter asks Baron Vermehren, a renowned astrologer, for the hand of his daughter Julia. The baron claims that the stars allow the match only after Peter steals a large sum of money. Honest Peter desperately sets out to commit the crime.

Director: Bernd Hofmann | Stars: Gustav Fröhlich, Ruth Hellberg, Grethe Weiser, Hans Brausewetter

Votes: 11

34. Der Fuchs von Glenarvon (1940)

91 min | Drama

An English peace judge in an Irish district is married to an Irishwoman. She is a caring patriot. He is heavily indebted by a life of luxury, and doesn't shy away from dark deeds to maintain his lifestyle.

Director: Max W. Kimmich | Stars: Olga Tschechowa, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Ferdinand Marian, Elisabeth Flickenschildt

Votes: 20

35. Ein Robinson (1940)

81 min | Adventure, Drama

Disgusted with conditions in Germany after WWII, a sailor returns to the coast of Chile where he had been serving and lives a solitary existence.Until he hears promising news of a different kind of government in his homeland.

Director: Arnold Fanck | Stars: Herbert A.E. Böhme, Marieluise Claudius, Claus Clausen, Oscar Marion

Votes: 16

38. Liebesschule (1940)

90 min

A young woman works for two different men, both of whom fall in love with her.In the mornings she is secretary for a popular author and in the afternoons for a singer.Which of them will she settle for?

Director: Karl Georg Külb | Stars: Luise Ullrich, Viktor Staal, Johannes Heesters, Hans Brausewetter

Votes: 28

42. Bal paré (1940)

100 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

At the turn of the century in Munich, a ballerina accepts the sponsorship of an older industrialist but also spends time with his son.

Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Ilse Werner, Paul Hartmann, Hannes Stelzer, Fritz Kampers

Votes: 19

47. The German Weekly Review (1940–1945)

Documentary, News

"Die Deutsche Wochenschau" was a unified newsreel series released in the cinemas of Nazi Germany. The coordinated newsreel production was set up as a vital instrument for the mass distribution of Nazi propaganda at war.

Stars: Harry Giese, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Göring

Votes: 61

50. Die Rothschilds (1940)

97 min | Biography, Drama

Anti-semitic Nazi propaganda "biography" of the Rothschilds, a German Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.

Director: Erich Waschneck | Stars: Erich Ponto, Carl Kuhlmann, Albert Lippert, Ludwig Linkmann

Votes: 1,668

52. Aus erster Ehe (1940)

89 min

Barbara rejects womanizer Dr. Deinert and marries Prof. Walter Helmerding who has two children from a first marriage. When Deinert flirts with Walter's teenage daughter Barbara tries to thwart what she perceives as his revenge mission.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Franziska Kinz, Ferdinand Marian, Maria Landrock, Klaus Detlef Sierck

Votes: 12

54. Die drei Codonas (1940)

109 min | Crime, Drama

Biography of the life of the circus performer Alfredo Codona.

Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Stars: René Deltgen, Ernst von Klipstein, Josef Sieber, Annelies Reinhold

Votes: 13

55. Wiener G'schichten (1940)

100 min | Comedy

A nostalgic story about life in and around a classic Vienna's coffee house.

Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Hans Moser, Marte Harell, Paul Hörbiger, Olly Holzmann

Votes: 89

56. Die Geierwally (1940)

104 min | Drama, Romance

Wally is the daughter and only child to Fender, a rich, widowed mountain farmer in the Ötztal valley in the Tyrolian Alps. She is young, beautiful, intrepid and, most of all, strong-minded.... See full summary »

Director: Hans Steinhoff | Stars: Heidemarie Hatheyer, Sepp Rist, Eduard Köck, Winnie Markus

Votes: 120

59. Trenck, der Pandur (1940)

80 min

Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of empress Maria Theresia of Austria garnished with espionage and twisted love affairs.

Director: Herbert Selpin | Stars: Hans Albers, Käthe Dorsch, Sybille Schmitz, Hilde Weissner

Votes: 39

62. Achtung! Feind hört mit! (1940)

102 min | Drama, History, Romance

Spies Karl and Lilly target the German Kettwig company, trying to secure data about an innovative tearproof wire. Bernd Kettwig is wooed by Lilly while his assistant Inge falls for Karl, and two other employees are coerced into treason.

Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Stars: René Deltgen, Kirsten Heiberg, Lotte Koch, Michael Bohnen

Votes: 44

63. Jud Süß (1940)

98 min | Drama

Infamous anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.

Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Ferdinand Marian, Kristina Söderbaum, Heinrich George, Werner Krauss

Votes: 3,370

64. Links der Isar - rechts der Spree (1940)

80 min

When Anni (from Munich) and Alfred (from Berlin) decide to marry her father, true to the latent animosities between the north and south of Germany, blatantly refuses his consent. It's a tough task for both families to make him reconsider.

Director: Paul May | Stars: Fritz Kampers, Leo Peukert, Charlotte Schellhorn, Fritz Genschow

67. Kleider machen Leute (1940)

91 min | Comedy, Drama

The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is allowed, however, to take the frock, ... See full summary »

Director: Helmut Käutner | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Hertha Feiler, Hilde Sessak, Hans Sternberg

Votes: 270

68. Das sündige Dorf (1940)

91 min | Comedy

Thomas tries to prevent the wedding of his son Toni and Vevi, his secret daughter from a one-night stand. When he finds another bride, Afra, for Toni suddenly Thomas' wife strictly forbids the match because Afra is her illicit daughter.

Director: Joe Stöckel | Stars: Joe Stöckel, Elise Aulinger, Georg Bauer, Albert Janschek

Votes: 15

70. Falstaff in Vienna (1940)

92 min | Music, Romance

The life of composer and conductor Otto Nicholai. He was one of the founders of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. He is best remembered his composition of the opera The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Director: Leopold Hainisch | Stars: Wolf Albach-Retty, Ernst Benzinger, Erna Berger, Helmut Berndsen

72. Deutsche Panzer (1940)

13 min | Documentary, Short

Documentary about the process of building tanks in Germany during the early days of World War II.

Director: Walter Ruttmann

Votes: 51

78. Der dunkle Punkt (1940)

92 min

Eduard Winkelmann, the owner of an apartment building in Munich, never tires of making life difficult for his renters. One day, a young woman, Erika, shows up at his door. She is the illegitimate daughter of a long-past love affair.

Director: Georg Zoch | Stars: Jupp Hussels, Ludwig Schmitz, Mady Rahl, Lina Carstens

Votes: 11

79. Herz - modern möbliert (1940)

94 min | Comedy

Interior decorator Lore works on Hans' apartment for his bride, starlet Daisy. But Daisy's other boyfriend Thomas pays for another apartment that she asks Lore to furnish. Lore complies even though Thomas is now heavily flirting with her.

Director: Theo Lingen | Stars: Hilde Krahl, Gusti Huber, Gustav Fröhlich, Theo Lingen

Votes: 13

80. Enemies (1940)

91 min | Drama, Romance, War

Nazi propaganda film about a German laborer named Keith who works in a sawmill in Poland near the German border in 1939. When local anti-German sentiment leads to lynchings, lovely Anna hides Keith in her tavern.

Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Brigitte Horney, Willy Birgel, Reinhold Lütjohann, Karl-Heinz Peters

Votes: 18

81. Goebbels-Geburtstagsfilm - 29.10.1940 (1940)

15 min | Short

Clips of the children playing around are first shown, along with a few shots of their residence in Schwanenwerder, the children then gather up together and greet their father for his ... See full summary »

Director: Heinz Rühmann | Stars: Hedda Goebbels, Helga Goebbels, Helmut Goebbels, Hilde Goebbels

82. The Heart of a Queen (1940)

103 min | Biography, Drama

While awaiting her unjust execution at the hands of the treacherous Queen Elizabeth I, the tragic Mary Stuart reflects at the series of cruel political machinations that set up her path to the scaffold.

Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Zarah Leander, Willy Birgel, Maria Koppenhöfer, Lotte Koch

Votes: 105

83. Friedrich Schiller - Der Triumph eines Genies (1940)

102 min | Drama

Friedrich Schiller - The triumph of a genius.

Director: Herbert Maisch | Stars: Heinrich George, Lil Dagover, Horst Caspar, Friedrich Kayßler

Votes: 88

85. Das leichte Mädchen (1940)

89 min | Comedy

1830: Dietz wants to marry actress Henriette. His family are aghast when forced to travel with Henriette and the coach is held up by bandits. The bandit chief agrees to let them go, if Henriette will no longer resist his amorous advances.

Director: Fritz Peter Buch | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Friedl Czepa, René Deltgen, Paul Kemp

Votes: 8

86. Falschmünzer (1940)

86 min

A quartet of cosmopolitan forgers working out of Switzerland is thwarted by the Nazi SD before Germany's financial system would be weakened.

Director: Hermann Pfeiffer | Stars: Kirsten Heiberg, Rudolf Fernau, Karin Himboldt, Hermann Brix

Votes: 13

87. Die letzte Runde (1940)

86 min | Drama, Sport

In New York, the boxer Eddie Steele has a steep career ahead of him. But that makes him reckless, and he's more into night clubs than training. His demanding way of life finally becomes his undoing.

Director: Werner Klingler | Stars: Attila Hörbiger, Camilla Horn, Charlott Daudert, Ludwig Schmitz

Votes: 8

88. Kora Terry (1940)

110 min | Drama, Musical

The story of two unequal performing twin sisters.

Director: Georg Jacoby | Stars: Marika Rökk, Will Quadflieg, Josef Sieber, Will Dohm

Votes: 195

89. Der ewige Jude (1940)

62 min | Documentary, History

Under the guise of a brutally honest documentary, this malevolent propaganda film aims to be an "indispensable tool in the hands of the Aryan race", designed to depict the "true" Jew when the masks of western civilisation fall off.

Director: Fritz Hippler | Stars: Curt Bois, Charles Chaplin, Albert Einstein, Adolf Hitler

Votes: 3,931

91. Zwischen Hamburg und Haiti (1940)

91 min | Drama, Romance, Adventure

A German plantation owner in Latin America falls in love with a woman who has had an illegitimate child with an unscrupulous villain.

Director: Erich Waschneck | Stars: Gustav Knuth, Gisela Uhlen, Albert Florath, Walter Franck

Votes: 16

92. Herz geht vor Anker (1940)

91 min

Sailor Fritz corresponds with several women so he won't have to look for girls when on shore leave. All are keen to marry him, and he is busy fending them off while determining that it is Lotte whom he truly loves.

Director: Joe Stöckel | Stars: Gustav Fröhlich, Viktoria von Ballasko, Winnie Markus, Gusti Wolf

Votes: 8

93. Rosen in Tirol (1940)

100 min | Comedy, History

Princess Rosemarie learns about the philandering of her husband and plans to catch him in the act. But the Prince is elsewhere, and a substitute has been recruited, dashing Count Herbert who falls in love with Rosemarie, and she with him.

Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Hans Moser, Marte Harell, Johannes Heesters, Hans Holt

Votes: 85

94. Bismarck (1940)

118 min | Biography, Drama

A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.

Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Paul Hartmann, Friedrich Kayßler, Lil Dagover, Käthe Haack

Votes: 241

99. 7 Jahre Pech (1940)

90 min | Comedy, Romance

After breaking a mirror, a writer is convinced he will have seven years' bad luck. This complicates his romantic aspirations.

Director: Ernst Marischka | Stars: Hans Moser, Wolf Albach-Retty, Theo Lingen, Oskar Sima

Votes: 84



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