| The Courageous Dr. Christian | Bernard Vorhaus | — | — |
| The Flying Squad | Herbert Brenon | — | — |
| The House of the Seven Gables (film) | Joe May | film drama | Amerika Serikat |
| The Man with Nine Lives | Nick Grinde | — | — |
| The Mortal Storm | Frank Borzage | film drama | Amerika Serikat |
| The Plague | Temet Natsagdorj | Film dokumenter | Republik Rakyat Mongolia |
| The Ranger and the Lady | Joseph Kane | — | — |
| The Son of Monte Cristo | Rowland V. Lee | film drama, film petualangan | Amerika Serikat |
| The Tulsa Kid | George Sherman | — | Amerika Serikat |
| This Thing Called Love (film 1940) | Alexander Hall | — | — |
| Tin Pan Alley | Walter Lang | film percintaan, film drama, film musikal | Amerika Serikat |
| Two Worlds (1940 film) | Gustaf Gründgens | film drama | Jerman |
| Under Texas Skies | George Sherman | — | — |
| Village Barn Dance | Frank McDonald | film komedi | Amerika Serikat |
| Viva Cisco Kid | Norman Foster (sutradara) | — | Amerika Serikat |
| Wagons Westward | Lew Landers | — | Amerika Serikat |
| Waldo's Last Stand | Edward L. Cahn | — | — |
| Young Bill Hickok | Joseph Kane | — | — |
| Young Buffalo Bill | Joseph Kane | — | — |
| Yövartija vain... | Yrjö Norta | — | Finlandia |
| Zindagi | Pramathesh Barua | — | — |
| Zoebaida | Njoo Cheong Seng | film drama | Hindia Belanda |
| 6,000 Enemies | George B. Seitz | — | — |
| Arinka | Nadezhda Kosheverova, Yuri Muzykant | film komedi | Uni Soviet |
| At the Circus | Edward Buzzell | film komedi | Amerika Serikat |
| Avoveteen | Orvo Saarikivi | film drama | Finlandia |
| Bad Lands | Lew Landers | — | — |
| Beauty for the Asking | Glenn Tryon | — | — |
| Behind Prison Gates | Charles Barton | — | — |
| Blackwell's Island | William C. McGann | Film penjara | Amerika Serikat |
| Blind Alley | Charles Vidor | — | — |
| Blue Montana Skies | B. Reeves Eason | — | — |
| Bolshaya zhizn | Leonid Lukov | film drama | Uni Soviet |
| Boy Slaves | P. J. Wolfson | — | — |
| Buck Rogers | Ford Beebe | film laga, film petualangan, Film fiksi ilmiah | Amerika Serikat |
| Captain Spanky's Showboat | Edward L. Cahn | — | — |
| Cheer Boys Cheer | Walter Forde | — | — |
| Cousin Wilbur | George Sidney | — | — |
| Dad for a Day | Edward L. Cahn | — | — |
| Danger Flight | Howard Bretherton | — | — |
| Days of Jesse James | Joseph Kane | — | — |
| Duel Personalities | George Sidney | — | — |
| Eteenpäin - elämään | Toivo Särkkä | — | Finlandia |
| Extenuating Circumstances | Jean Boyer | film komedi | Prancis |
| First Love | Henry Koster | film percintaan, film musikal | Amerika Serikat |
| Four Girls in White | S. Sylvan Simon | — | — |
| Full Confession | John Farrow | — | — |
| I'm from Missouri | Theodore Reed | film drama, film komedi | Amerika Serikat |