Here is the list of Bollywood films produced during 1940:
| Title | Director | Cast | Cast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aaj Ka Hindustan | Jayant Desai | Rose | Social |
| Prithviraj Kapoor | |||
| SitaraDevi | |||
| Aaj Ki Duniya | G.P. Pawar | Trilok Kapoor | Social |
| Ashalata | |||
| Jeevan | |||
| Aandhi | Dinesh Ranjan Das | Pankaj Mullick | Social |
| Khursheed | |||
| Molina Devi | |||
| Abla Ki Shakti | Munshi Dil Lucknowi | Jehanara Kajjan | Social |
| Khalil | |||
| Premlata | |||
| Achhut | Chandulal Shah | Gohar Mamajiwala | Social |
| Motilal | |||
| Vasanti | |||
| Aflatoon Aurat | Kikubhai Desai | Moti | Action |
| Mallika Pukhraj | |||
| Sardar Mansur | |||
| Alakh Niranjan | Bhalji Pendharkar | Nandrekar | Devotional |
| Leela | |||
| Raja Paranjpe | |||
| Ali Baba | Mehboob Khan | Surendra | Fantasy |
| Sardar Akhtar | |||
| Ghulam Mohamm | |||
| Anarbala | A. M. Khan | Benjamin | Horror |
| Jani Babu | |||
| Shanta Kashmiri | |||
| Anjaam | Kanjibhai Rathod | Anil Kumar | Costume |
| Mehar Sultana | |||
| Rajkumari | |||
| Anuradha | Mohan Sinha | Maya Banerjee | Social |
| Trilok Kapoor | |||
| Jeevan | |||
| Apni Nagariya | Gunjal | Shobhana Samarth | Social |
| Nazir | |||
| Jayant | |||
| Aurat | Mehboob Khan | Sardar Akhtar | Social |
| Surendra | |||
| Yakub | |||
| Azad | N.R. Acharya | Leela Chitnis | Social |
| Ashok Kumar | |||
| Hansa Wadkar | |||
| Azadi-e-Watan | Dinshaw Billimoria | Mallika Pukhraj | Social |
| D. Billimoria | |||
| W. M. Khan | |||
| Bahurani | R.S. Junnarkar | Kishore Sahu | Family |
| Mubarak | Rose | ||
| Anuradha | |||
| Bandhan | N. R. Acharya | Ashok Kumar | Romantic |
| Leela Chitnis | |||
| Arun Kumar | |||
| Bharosa | Sohrab Modi | Chandra Mohan | Social |
| Sardar Akhtar | |||
| Mazhar Khan | |||
| Bholi Lutaran | A. M. Khan | Zohra Sehgal | Costume |
| Umakant | |||
| Ameena | |||
| Captain Kishori | K. Amarnath | Nazir | Action |
| Lalita Pawar | |||
| Yasmin | |||
| Chalti Duniya | Gunjal | Padma Devi | Action |
| B. Marzban | Rafiq Ghaznavi | ||
| Lakshmi | |||
| Chingari | Sarvottam Badami | Prithviraj Kapoor | Social |
| Sabita Devi | |||
| Keshavrao Date | |||
| Civil Marriage | Ramchandra Thakur | Snehprabha Pradhan | Social |
| Harish | |||
| Arun Kumar | |||
| Deepak | Dwarka Khosla | Prithviraj Kapoor | Social |
| Ashalata | |||
| Jeevan | |||
| Deepak Mahal | Nanubhai Vakil | Anil Kumar | Fantasy |
| Sarojini | |||
| Bibijan | |||
| Desh Bhakta | A. H. Essa | Wazir Mohammed Khan | Social |
| Harishchandra | |||
| Ashalata | |||
| Dharma Bandhan | Jagatrai Pesumal Advani | Khursheed | Social |
| Yusuf Effendi | |||
| Shyam Sunder | |||
| Diamond Queen | Homi Wadia | Fearless Nadia | Adventure |
| John Cawas | |||
| Radha Rani | |||
| Divali | Jayant Desai | Motilal | Social |
| Madhuri | |||
| Ishwarlal | |||
| Dorangia Daku | Harnam Singh Rawail | Pushpa Rani | Action |
| Sunder | |||
| Ghulam Mohammed | |||
| Ek Hi Bhool | Vijay Bhatt | Mehtab | Social |
| P. Jairaj | |||
| Umakant | |||
| Geeta | Parshwanath Yeshwant Altekar | Chandra Mohan | Social |
| Durga Khote | |||
| Anant Marathe | |||
| Ghar Ki Rani | Master Vinayak | Master Vinayak | Family |
| Meenakshi | |||
| Leela Chitnis | |||
| Golibar | Nanubhai Vakil | Moti | Action |
| Navinchandra | |||
| Kanta Kumari | |||
| Haar Jeet | Amar Mullick | Kanan Devi | Social |
| Pahari Sanyal | |||
| Meera Dutta | |||
| Haiwan | A. M. Khan | Sitara Devi | Action |
| Alaknanda | |||
| Bachchu | |||
| Hatimtai Ki Beti | Nanubhai Vakil | Sarojini | Action |
| Anil Kumar | |||
| Indurani | |||
| Hind Ka Lal | Homi Wadia | Radharani | Action |
| Ramji Arya | Sardar Mansur | ||
| Boman Shroff | |||
| Hindustan Hamara | Ram Daryani | Jamuna | Social |
| Padmadevi | |||
| Nandrekar | |||
| Holi | Abdul Rashid Kardar | Motilal | Social |
| Khursheed | |||
| Ishwarlal | |||
| Jadui Kangan | Nanubhai Vakil | Master Vithal | Fantasy |
| Kokila | |||
| Rajkumari | |||
| Jadu Nagri | B. Apte | Rajkumari | Fantasy |
| Yashwant Dave | |||
| Shamim | |||
| Jagat Mohini | Chunilal Parikh | Master Vithal | Drama |
| Kokila | |||
| Sunita Devi | |||
| Jai Swadesh | Aspi Irani | Radharani | Action |
| Benjamin | |||
| Sayani Atish | |||
| Jhuthi Sharm | Mohan Dayaram Bhavnani | Trilok Kapoor | Social |
| Bimla Kumari | |||
| Navin Yagnik | |||
| Kalyani | Premankur Atorthy | Rattanbai | Social |
| W. M. Khan | |||
| Ghulam Mohammed | |||
| Kumkum the Dancer | Modhu Bose | Sadhona Bose | Costume |
| Dhiraj Bhattacharya | |||
| Preeti Majumdar | |||
| Kanyadan | V. M. Vyas | Kalyani Ds | Social |
| Ashiq Hussain | |||
| Shamim | |||
| Laxmi | Mohan Sinha | Kumar | Social |
| Ishrat Sultana | |||
| Maya | |||
| Main Hari | Gajanan Jagirdar | Navin Yagnik | Social |
| Naseem | |||
| Maya Devi | |||
| Madari Mohan | Babu Rao Pokal | Satyarani | Fantasy |
| R. Varde | Devaskar | ||
| Sunita Devi | |||
| Matwali Mira | Prafulla Roy | Husn Banu | Devotional |
| Nissar | |||
| Sultana Banu | |||
| Mohini | Madhukar Bavdekar | Master Vithal | Drama |
| Annasaheb Rajopadhye | |||
| Musafir | Chaturbhuj Doshi | Ishwarlal | Social |
| Khursheed | |||
| Yakub | |||
| Narsi Bhagat | Vijay Bhatt | Vishnupant Pagnis | Biopic |
| Durga Khote | |||
| Pande | |||
| Nartaki | Debaki Bose | Leela Desai | Period |
| Najmul Hussain | |||
| Wasti | |||
| Nirali Duniya | V.M. Vyas | Lalita Pawar | Costume |
| E. Billimoria | |||
| Shamim | |||
| Pagal | Abdul Rashid Kardar | Madhuri | Social |
| Prithviraj Kapoor | |||
| Yakub | |||
| Pak Daman | Rustom Modi | Firoz Dastur | Costume |
| Ghulam Mohamme | |||
| Menaka | |||
| Pooja | Abdul Rashid Kardar | Sardar Akhtar | Social |
| Sitara Devi | |||
| Zahur Raja | |||
| Prem Nagar | Mohan Dayaram Bhavnani | Husn Banu | Social |
| Nagendra | |||
| Bimla Kumari | |||
| Punar Milan | Najam Naqvi | Kishore Sahu | Social |
| Snehprabha Pradhan | |||
| Anjali Devi | |||
| Pyaar | Dhirubhai Desai | Mehar Sultana | Costume |
| Samson | |||
| Rajkumari | |||
| Qaidi | S.F. Hasnain | Madhuri | Social |
| Ramola | |||
| Nandrekar | |||
| Rangila Jawan | S.M. Yusuf | Agha | Social |
| Mehar Sultana | |||
| Harishchandra Rao | |||
| Rani Sahiba | Dhirubhai Desai | Rajkumari | Action |
| Chunilal Parekh | Prakash | ||
| Samson | |||
| Reshmi Sari | G.P. Pawar | Moti | Social |
| Vasant | |||
| Sofia | |||
| Sant Dnyaneshwar | Vishnupant Govind Damle | Shahu Modak | Biopic |
| Sheikh Fattelal | Sumati Gupte | ||
| Datta Dharmadhikari | |||
| Sajani | Sarvottam Badami | Noor Jehan | Romantic |
| Prithviraj Kapoor | |||
| Sabita Devi | |||
| Sandesha | Nazir | Yasmin | Romantic |
| Nazir | |||
| Ashiq Hussain | |||
| Sanskar | V. C. Desai | Rose | Social |
| Harish | |||
| Jyoti | |||
| Sardar | Dwarka Khosla | Jayant | Costume |
| Pramila | |||
| M. Nazir | |||
| Saubhagya | Chimanlal Luhar | Prem Adib | Social |
| Shobhana Samarth | |||
| #rowsp#rowspan#an# | Snehprabha Pradhan | ||
| Shamsherbaaz | Balwant Bhatt | E. Bilimoria | Action |
| Ashalata | |||
| Gope | |||
| Sneh Bandhan | Jagatrai Pesumal Advani | E. Bilimoria | Romance |
| Pratima Devi | |||
| Bibbo | |||
| Suhag | Balwant Bhatt | Mazhar Khan | Social |
| Kumar | |||
| Bibbo | |||
| Tatar Ka Chor | K. Amarnath | Yakub | Action |
| Indurani | |||
| Vatsala Kumteka | |||
| Toofan | Chaturbhai Patel | Bhim | Action |
| Indira | |||
| Maruti Rao | |||
| Usha Haran | Varma | Mubarak | Mythology |
| Ulhas | |||
| Gauhar Jr | |||
| Vasiyat | K. M. Multani | E. Tarapore | Social |
| Sheela | |||
| Gajanan Jagirdar | |||
| Vijay Kumar | Aspi Irani | Sardar Mansur | Action |
| Raja Yagnik | Sarita Devi | ||
| Violet Cooper | |||
| Virginia | K. M. Multani | Manjula | Action |
| W. M. Khan | |||
| Rajkumari | |||
| Wayda | Rafiq Rizvi | Violet Cooper | Social |
| Satish | |||
| Kokila | |||
| Yaad Rahe | N. Bulchandani | Sushila | Social |
| Akhtar Nawaz | |||
| Shyam Sunder | |||
| Zindagi | P. C. Barua | K. L. Saigal | |
| Jamuna | |||
| Pahari Sanyal |