Movies by Year - 1942 (456)| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| Across the PacificIn December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone. | 1942 | John Huston, Vincent Sherman | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War | 6.8 (4.8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Adventures of Martin Eden, TheAuthor writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published. | 1942 | Sidney Salkow | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.7 (141 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Affairs of Jimmy Valentine, The [Unforgotten Crime]To boost listener ratings, radio personality Mike Jason (Dennis O'Keefe) encourages sponsors, of his murder mystery radio show, to offer a reward to anyone who can locate safe cracker Jimmy Valentine, who is reportedly retired. Jason | 1942 | Bernard Vorhaus | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.2 (112 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Affairs of Martha, TheMembers of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé. | 1942 | Jules Dassin | Comedy, Romance | 6.5 (436 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| A-Haunting We Will GoStan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results. | 1942 | Alfred L. Werker | Adventure, Comedy | 6.4 (1.2K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Ala-Arriba!In a village of poor fishermen in the North of Portugal, João Moço and Julha fall in love. Unfortunately they belong to two different fisher castes and the community as well as their respective families condemn their love... | 1942 | José Leitão de Barros | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (97 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Alias Boston BlackieBlackie tracks down a wrongly convicted prisoner who escapes during a Christmas magic show. | 1942 | Lew Landers | Drama, Mystery | 6.4 (561 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| AlibiA bar hostess (Lockwood) is used by a killer to obtain an alibi. | 1942 | Brian Desmond Hurst | Crime, Mystery | 6.9 (49 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| All Through the NightRunyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs. | 1942 | Vincent Sherman | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller, War | 7.1 (4.2K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Almost MarriedTo avoid a costly breach of contract suit, a rich young man marries a nightclub singer. | 1942 | Charles Lamont | Comedy, Music, Romance | 5.3 (28 votes) | 65 | 20240826 |
| Always in My HeartAfter many years, MacKenzie Scott is pardoned from prison, but his wife is already involved with another man. Nevertheless, he travels incognito to his family's town. There he befriends his daughter Victoria, who doesn't recognize hi | 1942 | Jo Graham | Drama | 6.3 (480 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Andy Hardy's Double LifeCollege-bound Andy blurts marriage proposals to his sweetheart Polly and her pert swimmer friend Sheila. | 1942 | George B. Seitz | Comedy, Family, Romance | 6.6 (547 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Aniki BóbóThe story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has "played it tough" by stealing a doll in a shop. Carlitos soo | 1942 | Manoel de Oliveira (*) | Drama, Family | 7.6 (1.7K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Arabian NightsThe caliph of Baghdad must go into hiding with a group of traveling performers when his brother usurps the throne. Both brothers desire a beautiful dancing girl, who is torn between power and true love. | 1942 | John Rawlins | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 6.1 (1.4K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Army SurgeonDuring World War 1, an aviator competes against an army doctor for the love of a nurse. | 1942 | A. Edward Sutherland | Drama, Romance, War | 5.7 (116 votes) | 63 | 20240427 |
| Atlantic ConvoyAmerican naval forces are using a port in Iceland as a base for anti-submarine patrols to protect North Atlantic convoys from German subs. The Germans send undercover agents into the port in a scheme to blow up the entrance to the ha | 1942 | Lew Landers | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War | 6.0 (86 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Avengers, The [The Day Will Dawn]On the eve of WWII, a British journalist is sent to neutral Norway to report on the possible Nazi intentions there; later he's tasked with a secret combat mission after Germany invades that country. | 1942 | Harold French | Drama, War | 6.1 (492 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Back Room BoyA lowly BBC employee pulls a prank at the studio and finds himself transferred to an isolated island where he is to set up a weather station at a lighthouse. As if in a fantasy, a ship carrying a bevy of beautiful models is shipwreck | 1942 | Herbert Mason | Comedy | 6.3 (262 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Balloon Goes Up, TheBalloon unit WAAFs catch German spies. | 1942 | Redd Davis | Comedy, Musical, War | 5.7 (73 votes) | 58 | 20220414 |
| BambiThe story of a young deer growing up in the forest. | 1942 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts | Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family | 7.3 (138.6K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Banana RidgeWhen Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father. | 1942 | Walter C. Mycroft | Comedy | 6.0 (37 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Bandit RangerRancher Clay Travers finds and brings in the body of ranger Frank Mattison, murdered on the road to Trail City, where he had been sent to deal with an outbreak of cattle rustling. Businessman Art Kenyon, who has hired gunman Ed Ma... | 1942 | Lesley Selander | Drama, Music, Western | 6.3 (118 votes) | 56 | 20240214 |
| Bashful Bachelor, TheLum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine, so he involves Abner in a | 1942 | Malcolm St. Clair | Comedy | 5.4 (154 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Behind the Eight BallThe members of a summer theater group get mixed up with spies and murder. | 1942 | Edward F. Cline | Comedy, Musical, Mystery, Romance | 5.7 (57 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Benefactor, The [Le bienfaiteur]A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities. | 1942 | Henri Decoin | Crime, Drama | 6.5 (121 votes) | 88 | 20240727 |
| BengasiThe fate of several men in a Libyan city briefly captured from Italy by the invading British in 1941, includes a focus on the role of women during these hard times. | 1942 | Augusto Genina | Drama, War | 6.9 (92 votes) | 90 | 20230328 |
| Berlin CorrespondentIn 1941, a U.S. radio correspondent (Dana Andrews as Bill Roberts) in Berlin broadcasts sensitive information about the Nazis, prompting the Gestapo to investigate these leaks and how they pass the censors. | 1942 | Eugene Forde | Drama, Thriller, War | 6.2 (513 votes) | 70 | 20240515 |
| Between Us GirlsA young actress tries to help her mother's romance by deception, and winds up in some hilarious escapades before learning her lesson. | 1942 | Henry Koster (*) | Comedy | 6.4 (89 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Beyond the Blue HorizonA circus lion tamer, his girlfriend, a publicist, and a Professor travel to the Malayan jungle to find proof to the claim that a beautiful woman raised there might be the rightful heiress to an American family's fortune. | 1942 | Alfred Santell | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 6.5 (112 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Big Blockade, TheWartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war. | 1942 | Charles Frend | Drama, War | 5.5 (211 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Big Shot, TheFearing life in prison for a fourth offense, convict Duke Berne pulls out of an armored car robbery, planned by his crooked lawyer, but he is framed for the robbery anyway. | 1942 | Lewis Seiler | Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (899 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Big Street, TheA busboy in unrequited love with a nightclub performer grows closer to her after she is paralyzed in an attack by her gangster boyfriend. | 1942 | Irving Reis | Drama, Music, Romance | 6.5 (1.5K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Bismarck's Dismissal [Die Entlassung]A sequel to 1940's "Bismarck", Bismarck is dismissed by an under-pressure Wilhelm II. Then the treaty with Russia is in peril as the leader is left with the dilemma of who could complete Bismarck's work. | 1942 | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Drama, History | 7.3 (78 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Black DragonsA cabal of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb. It is only until detective Dick Martin is assigned to the case that everyone's | 1942 | William Nigh | Thriller, War | 4.3 (1.1K votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Black Sheep of Whitehall, TheProfessor Davis, who teaches at a correspondence school, discovers that a Nazi Agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America. The agent is posing as an economics expert seconded to the trade | 1942 | Basil Dearden, Will Hay | Comedy | 6.8 (333 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Black Swan, TheAn ex-pirate contends with rowdy buccaneers and a love-hate relationship with an aristocratic woman who's tougher than she seems. | 1942 | Henry King | Adventure, Drama | 6.8 (4.4K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Blondie For VictoryBlondie organizes Housewives of America to perform homefront wartime duties, including guarding the local dam. Dagwood and the other husbands don't care to be left home doing the cooking and taking care of the kids, so Dagwood preten | 1942 | Frank R. Strayer | Comedy, Family, War | 6.0 (187 votes) | 71 | 20220423 |
| Blondie Goes to CollegeA man and his wife attend college together, only to find out that married couples are not allowed. Pretending not to be a couple, starts a dilemma as they become the object of other students' flirtations and romantic interest. | 1942 | Frank R. Strayer | Comedy, Family | 6.1 (328 votes) | 74 | 20220423 |
| Blondies Blessed EventCynical writer George Wickley arrives as the Bumstead household experiences the birth of daughter Cookie. | 1942 | Frank R. Strayer | Comedy, Family | 6.5 (262 votes) | 69 | 20220423 |
| Blue, White and PerfectDetective Michael Shayne boards a Hawaii-bound ocean liner on the trail of stolen industrial diamonds and a Nazi smuggling ring. | 1942 | Herbert I. Leeds | Mystery | 6.7 (405 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Bob's Busy DayBob, his girlfriend and her mother are driving through South America. Bob wants to get married at the next town, Los Poach-os Egg-os, where they are currently holding a festival called Dontdoit Day. The road to wedded bliss for Bob a | 1942 | Al Christie | Short, Comedy | 5.2 (21 votes) | 11 | 20211228 |
| Boogie Man Will Get You, TheA young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar. | 1942 | Lew Landers | Comedy, Horror | 5.9 (985 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Born to SingShow promoter Cartwright has stolen the songs that Frank wrote while he was in the big house. The boys go to Cartwright to get Frank credit for his work, and Cartwright has them arrested for extortion, of which they are innocent. Luc | 1942 | Edward Ludwig | Action, Crime, Musical | 6.0 (191 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Boss of Big Town, TheA criminal plot to control produce and dairy products during the wartime emergency is foiled by a courageous undercover city market official. | 1942 | Arthur Dreifuss | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, War | 4.9 (117 votes) | 62 | 20240515 |
| Boston Blackie Goes HollywoodBoston Blackie and his pal, The Runt, are ready to board a train for Florida when Blackie gets a telegram from his friend Arthur Manleder asking Blackie to go to Manleder's New York apartment, get $60,000 from a wall safe and fly to | 1942 | Michael Gordon | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.3 (422 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Bowery at MidnightKindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Bela Lugosi uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders. | 1942 | Wallace Fox | Crime, Thriller | 5.3 (1.1K votes) | 61 | 20220723 |
| BroadwayGeorge Raft, playing himself, recalls his days on Broadway, where he acquired a reputation as a great dancer--and also one as a brawler, a ladies man and an associate of some of the city's most notorious gangsters. | 1942 | William A. Seiter (*) | Crime, Drama, Music | 6.2 (116 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Brooklyn OrchidTaxicab company owners Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett rescue Lucy Gibbs from a suicide attempt and she insists on placing her life and destiny in the hands of her two rescuers. | 1942 | Kurt Neumann | Comedy, Romance | 5.7 (133 votes) | 50 | 20240427 |
| Bullet ScarsDr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also taken. Dillon tells Bishop that if Joe dies, he will be killed, but Bishop knows he will | 1942 | D. Ross Lederman | Drama | 6.1 (188 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Business is Business [Les affaires sont les affaires]Isidore Lechat is a ruthless self-made man whose money allows him to humiliate the others ,particularly a ruined noble:he wants his daughter to marry this marquis's son but the girl is in love with a young scientist . | 1942 | Jean Dréville | Drama | 6.6 (69 votes) | 82 | 20221116 |
| Butch Minds the BabyThe Broadway citizen Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan is known far and wide to be involved with criminal activities. Butch is motivated to pursue a life of crime in order to provide the lovely widow Susie O'Neill with the funds to support her | 1942 | Albert S. Rogell | Comedy | 6.1 (35 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Cactus Makes PerfectThe stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps wi... | 1942 | Del Lord | Comedy, Western, Short | 7.3 (487 votes) | 17 | 20240224 |
| Cadets on ParadeAustin Shannon, after showing cowardice in sports and unable to adjust to student life, decides he is a misfit at military school and runs away. He meets newsboy Joe Novak and they become friends. A $1000 reward is posted for Fred... | 1942 | Lew Landers | Drama | 5.3 (21 votes) | 66 | 20240316 |
| CairoReporter Homer Smith accidentally draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Convoys with robot-planes. | 1942 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.1 (439 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Call of the CanyonGene heads some cattlemen who have been swindled by McCoy. McCoy needed their money to pay off his gambling debt. | 1942 | Joseph Santley | Western | 6.6 (86 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Calling All GirlsThis Warner Bros. short film shows the process that studios use to select women for the chorus line in movie musicals. It then presents a few clips of chorus lines in Busby Berkeley production numbers from 1930s Warner Bros. musicals | 1942 | Jean Negulesco | Musical, Short | 6.7 (107 votes) | 19 | 20211228 |
| Calling Dr. GillespieDr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree. | 1942 | Harold S. Bucquet | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (373 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Canal ZoneA conceited, reckless society playboy, Harley Ames, arrives at Ginger Bar, a former banana-shipping depot on the edge of the Panama Canal, that has been converted to a training-and-relay station for U. S. Army bombers being flown bac | 1942 | Lew Landers | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 5.9 (40 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Captains of the CloudsInspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF but are deemed too old to be fliers. | 1942 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Action, Drama, War | 6.4 (1.5K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Careful, Soft ShouldersAt a December 7, 1941 Washington cocktail party, Connie Mathew is not amused by the romantic advances of playboy Tommy Aldrich, son of an important Navy consultant. The party is shocked by the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Har | 1942 | Oliver H.P. Garrett | Comedy, Romance, War | 6.3 (46 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| CasablancaA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco. | 1942 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 8.5 (558.2K votes) | 102 | 20220423 |
| Castle in the DesertCharlie Chan investigates apparent poisonings at a mystery mansion in the Mojave Desert. | 1942 | Harry Lachman | Mystery | 7.1 (1.3K votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Cat PeopleAn American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together. | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 7.3 (22K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Cena delle beffe, LaThis is an opera in four acts composed by Umberto Giordano . The story is set in Florence at the time of Lorenzo de'Medici recounts the rivalry between Gianneto Malespini and Neri Chiaramantesi for the affections of the beautiful Gin | 1942 | Alessandro Blasetti | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (215 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| che servono questi quattrini, AAfter squandering all his wealth for not caring about his finances, Marquis Eduardo Parascandolo spends his time professing to young people his philosophy of life. | 1942 | Esodo Pratelli | Comedy | 7.5 (54 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| China GirlWith America still neutral, an American news photographer on assignment in Burma is courted by both the Japanese and The Flying Tiger volunteers fighting for China to film the strategic Burma Road. | 1942 | Henry Hathaway | Drama, War | 6.2 (565 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Close Call for Ellery Queen, ATwo mysterious seamen come from Alan Rogers' past to blackmail him as he seeks to locate his missing daughters. Ellery Queen is called in by Stewart Cole, Rogers' secretary. Queen goes to the estate and finds one daughter already the | 1942 | James P. Hogan | Mystery | 5.8 (101 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Commandos Strike at DawnA gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors. | 1942 | John Farrow | Drama, History, War | 6.6 (875 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Corpse Vanishes, TheA scientist, aided by an old hag and her two sons, kills virginal brides, steals their bodies, and extracts gland fluid to keep his ancient wife alive and young. | 1942 | Wallace Fox | Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.5 (3.1K votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Count of Monte Cristo, The [El conde de Montecristo]Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned with an old man who, before dying, reveals the place where a treasure is buried. | 1942 | Chano Urueta | Adventure, Drama, History | 6.8 (73 votes) | 165 | 20240715 |
| Counter-Espionage [The Lone Wolf in Scotland Yard]The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing. | 1942 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Comedy, Mystery, Romance, War | 6.6 (310 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Courageous Mr. Penn [Penn of Pennsylvania]William Penn's heroic deeds, on the European and American continents, are told in this portrait of the founding father of both the Quakers and the Pennsylvania colony. Based on C.E. Vulliamy's biography ""William Penn."" | 1942 | Lance Comfort | Drama | 5.6 (159 votes) | 78 | 20231017 |
| Courtyard of the Ballads, The [O Pátio das Cantigas]This classic of Portuguese cinema depicts the friendships and rivalries of the inhabitants of a square in downtown Lisbon, where exists a spirit of familiarity between neighbors. | 1942 | Francisco Ribeiro | Comedy, Musical | 7.8 (1.2K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Criminal InvestigatorA reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire. | 1942 | Jean Yarbrough | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 5.1 (49 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| CrossroadsAn amnesiac French diplomat is blackmailed for crimes that he committed before he lost his memory. | 1942 | Jack Conway | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.7 (1.4K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Danger In The PacificBritish Intelligence agent Leo Marzell (Leo Carrillo) persuades scientist-explorer David Lynd (Don Terry) to postpone his wedding to wealthy sportswoman Jane Claymore (Louise Allbritton) to undertake an expedition to a south Pacif... | 1942 | Lewis D. Collins | Action, Adventure, Romance, War | 5.0 (39 votes) | 60 | 20230728 |
| Daring Young Man, TheAfter the military turns him down, a man proves himself a hero by cracking a Nazi spy ring. | 1942 | Frank R. Strayer | Comedy, Romance, War | 6.1 (73 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Date With The Falcon, AA scientist has discovered how to make synthetic diamonds and a criminal gang (closely pursued by the Falcon) are out to discover the formula. | 1942 | Irving Reis | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.5 (867 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Dawn Express, TheNazi spies in the USA try to rob the formula of synthetic oil and ship it to Germany by means of a night plane called the Dawn Express. | 1942 | Albert Herman | Action, Drama, Mystery | 4.5 (201 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Deep in the Heart of TexasJim Malloy (Johnny Mack Brown) returns from the Civil War to Texas to find his father, Colonel Malloy (William Franum), leading a band of land grabbers and carpet-baggers during the Reconstruction Era. | 1942 | Elmer Clifton | Western | 6.0 (75 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Derailed [Afsporet]An uptown girl loses her memory after getting a disturbing message from her doctor and ends up in the wrong part of town among criminals and prostitutes. | 1942 | Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen | Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 6.6 (111 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Dernier atoutA man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspector students, must solve this murder, but they don't know that dead guy is the USA public enemy No.1. | 1942 | Jacques Becker (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.0 (172 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen, ADetective Ellery Queen tries to find a missing man, and gets embroiled in a case of murder and embezzlement. | 1942 | James P. Hogan | Mystery | 5.6 (89 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Desperate JourneyWhen the crew of a downed British bomber escape from their Nazi captors with Top Secret intelligence, they make a desperate journey to get out of Germany alive. | 1942 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Drama, War | 6.9 (2.1K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Destination UnknownA beautiful Dutch girl finds herself in Peking being pursued by agents of the Japanese government. | 1942 | Ray Taylor | Drama, Romance, War | 6.6 (41 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Devil With Hitler, TheAdolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitl | 1942 | Gordon Douglas | Short, Comedy | 5.2 (223 votes) | 44 | 20211228 |
| Devil's HarvestAn investigator goes after the people who are corrupting the nation's youth by spreading the weed of Satan--MARIJUANA!!! | 1942 | Ray Test | Drama | 3.7 (74 votes) | 52 | 20231207 |
| Don Cesare di BazanIn Barcelona, in 1650, Count Don Cesare di Bazan tries to foil, with the help of an actress, a plot hatched against the king by the French ambassador. | 1942 | Riccardo Freda | Adventure, Comedy | 5.7 (64 votes) | 78 | 20230424 |
| Dr. BroadwayNew York City physician, Dr. Timothy Kane, knows Broadway, the Great White Way and all of its characters thoroughly, as does his receptionist, Connie Madigan. A man Kane had sent to prison is now dying, and asks Kane to locate a daug | 1942 | Anthony Mann (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.5 (96 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Gillespie's New AssistantDr. Gillespie's health is failing, and the hospital is urging him to get a new assistant that he doesn't want. So, he poses a stumper in class to discourage all the bright young students; unfortunately, he gets three smart-alecky you | 1942 | Willis Goldbeck | Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.2 (186 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Kildare's VictoryDr. Jimmy Kildare is back at work at Blair General hospital, though several people admit that he is not himself since suffering his loss. He's taken a liking to a young intern, Don Winthrop, and tries to help him out when he transpor | 1942 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (275 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Renault's SecretDr. Larry Forbes visits the château of Dr. Robert Renault, uncle of his fiancée Madelon, who is idolized by Renault's assistant, a strange émigré from Java. | 1942 | Harry Lachman | Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi | 6.2 (488 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Drums Of The CongoA safari sets out to find a meteorite that fell in the African jungle. | 1942 | Christy Cabanne | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 5.3 (60 votes) | 61 | 20230728 |
| Duke of the NavyTwo sailors go on shore leave, get mixed up with gangsters and buried treasure. | 1942 | William Beaudine | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 6.0 (32 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Eagle SquadronAn American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl. | 1942 | Arthur Lubin | Drama, War | 6.2 (132 votes) | 109 | 20220723 |
| Enemy Agents Meet Ellery QueenDetective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds. | 1942 | James P. Hogan | Mystery, Thriller, War | 6.2 (77 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Escape from CrimeEx-con Red O'Hara becomes a daring news photographer, but his old ways get him into trouble. | 1942 | D. Ross Lederman | Crime, Drama | 5.9 (260 votes) | 51 | 20211228 |
| Escape From Hong KongThree American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor. | 1942 | William Nigh | Adventure, War | 5.4 (28 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Even As IOUA destitute mother and child move into the stooge's vacant lot home and the boys decide to help them. They steal the kids piggy bank and sneak into the race track. They bet on a long shot that wins and then are gypped out of their... | 1942 | Del Lord | Comedy, Short | 6.9 (368 votes) | 16 | 20240224 |
| Eyes in the NightA blind detective and his seeing-eye dog investigate a murder and discover a Nazi plot. | 1942 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Crime, Mystery | 6.8 (1.6K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Eyes of the UnderworldBlackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring. | 1942 | Roy William Neill | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.2 (107 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Falcon Takes Over, TheThe Falcon and reporter Ann Riordan try to solve a string of murders after an ex-wrestler, released from jail, goes looking for his girl friend. | 1942 | Irving Reis | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (988 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Falcon's Brother, TheTom Lawrence, Gay's brother, takes over for his injured sibling in a case which involves Nazi espionage and political assassination. | 1942 | Stanley Logan | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.5 (842 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Fall InCaptain Gillis (Frank Faylen) puts Sergeant "Dodo" Doubleday (William Tracy), because of his photographic memory, on a candidates list for Officer's Training School ahead of Sergeant William Ames (Joe Sawyer), much to the dismay of t | 1942 | Kurt Neumann | Comedy | 5.7 (68 votes) | 45 | 20211228 |
| Fall of the House of Usher, TheTHE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER is the original film (made by Curtis Harrington when he was in high school) from which USHER is based. | 1942 | Curtis Harrington | Short, Horror | 5.4 (115 votes) | 10 | 20240727 |
| Fantastic Night [La nuit fantastique]Denis is distracted: he's studying all day for philosophy exams and working all night at the flower market; plus, whenever he closes his eyes, he dreams of a mysterious woman in white. His girlfriend Nina is annoyed at him for his in | 1942 | Marcel L'Herbier | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 6.8 (330 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Fari nella nebbiaNo need to waste time endlessly browsing?here's the entire lineup of new movies and TV shows streaming on Netflix this month. | 1942 | Gianni Franciolini | Drama | 6.8 (67 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Fingers at the WindowIn Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic. | 1942 | Charles Lederer | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (974 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Fleet's In, TheAfter a shy sailor is kissed by a female starlet as part of a publicity stunt, he becomes known as a stud; his friends then bet that he'll be able to defrost an icy nightclub singer. | 1942 | Victor Schertzinger | Musical, Romance | 6.6 (393 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Flight LieutenantA disgraced pilot determines to regain the respect of both his son, now a test pilot for the Army, and the men he once flew with. | 1942 | Sidney Salkow | Action, Drama, Romance, War | 5.8 (202 votes) | 80 | 20230619 |
| Fly-By-NightAfter being charged with the murder of a scientist, a young doctor must track down a Nazi spy ring to clear his name. | 1942 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Comedy, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.5 (297 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Flying FortressWartime drama of bomber crews based in England. | 1942 | Walter Forde | Drama, Romance, War | 5.3 (119 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Flying TigersCapt. Jim Gordon's command of the famed American volunteer fighter group in China is complicated by the recruitment of an old friend who is a reckless hotshot. | 1942 | David Miller | Action, Drama, Romance, War | 6.7 (4.3K votes) | 102 | 20240530 |
| Flying with MusicA man fleeing from a divorce and alimony payments gets a job as a tour guide for five wealthy young women, one of whom is looking to bag a Latin singer she believes is in love with. | 1942 | George Archainbaud | Adventure, Musical, Romance | 4.6 (102 votes) | 46 | 20220414 |
| Footlight SerenadeA boxing champ gets involved with a Broadway show and a shapely chorine...who's engaged to his new sparring partner. | 1942 | Gregory Ratoff | Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sport | 6.2 (246 votes) | 80 | 20230328 |
| For Me and My GalTwo vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI. | 1942 | Busby Berkeley (*) | Musical, Romance, War | 7.1 (3.4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Foreign AgentHollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure. | 1942 | William Beaudine | Drama, War | 4.6 (96 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Foreman Went to France, TheIn 1940, a British engineer goes to France to retrieve specialized armaments machinery, loaned to the French, before the invading Nazi armies can capture it. | 1942 | Charles Frend | Adventure, Drama, War | 6.9 (379 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Forest Rangers, TheRanger Don Stuart, pursuing a forest arsonist, finds time to romance a socialite. | 1942 | George Marshall (*) | Drama | 6.6 (297 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Fortuna Viene Del Cielo, LaUnforgettable drama starred by Anna Magnani. The merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from bankruptcy, Anna talks to the lawyer, trying to earn an extension. The lawyer | 1942 | Ákos Ráthonyi | Comedy, Romance | 5.4 (63 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Four Steps in the Clouds [Quattro passi fra le nuvole]A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to | 1942 | Alessandro Blasetti | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (437 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Freckles Comes HomeFreckles (Johnny Downs) comes home from college...and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane (Gale Storm), falls in love with a confidence man. | 1942 | Jean Yarbrough | Action, Comedy, Crime, Music, Romance | 5.0 (171 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Friendly EnemiesDuring World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has taken the US side against Germany regarding the war, while the other stays stubbornly | 1942 | Allan Dwan | Drama | 5.7 (96 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| G.P.U.Olga, a Russian refuge from Bolshevik terror has joined the Soviet secret police, the G.P.U. to find the man who killed her parents. Meanwhile a young Baltic couple are caught up in the schemes of the evil communists. Very obviously | 1942 | Karl Ritter | Action | 6.7 (60 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Gallant LadyA female doctor is sent to prison for a mercy killing. She manages to escape, get married and lead a model life, but one day her secret is exposed. | 1942 | William Beaudine | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 5.9 (31 votes) | 68 | 20240515 |
| Gambling Hell [Macao, l'enfer du jeu]A captain, who has rescued a woman from danger,sails with her to Macao to do an arms deal with the Asian proprietor of a gambling den.The proprietor,s daughter, whom a visiting journalist tries to help, doesn,t know the sordid busine | 1942 | Jean Delannoy | Adventure, Drama | 6.7 (159 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Gang BustersDetective lieutenant Bill Bannister is assigned to run down an unknown gang of terrorists who have spread a net of crime over the city. | 1942 | Noel M. Smith, Ray Taylor | Drama | 6.9 (130 votes) | 251 | 20240530 |
| Garibaldian in the Convent, A [Un garibaldino al convento]An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school: the happy moments, the sad ones and the tragic love for a Garibaldian. | 1942 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 (198 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Gaucho War, The [La guerra gaucha]The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence. | 1942 | Lucas Demare | Drama, History, Western | 7.3 (181 votes) | 90 | 20230830 |
| Gay Sisters, TheThree wealthy orphans attempt to defend their ownership of their family's property, but financial and romantic problems set in. | 1942 | Irving Rapper | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (767 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Gentleman After Dark, AA greedy woman turns in her husband, a jewel thief, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife | 1942 | Edwin L. Marin | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 6.4 (102 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Gentleman at Heart, AA bookie (Cesar Romero) takes over a bankrupt art gallery and falls in love with a beautiful blonde (Carole Landis) | 1942 | Ray McCarey | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 6.7 (129 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Gentleman JimAs bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert, Jim Corbett, uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world. | 1942 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Drama, Sport | 7.6 (3.4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| George Washington Slept HereWhen Bill and Connie Fuller are forced to move out of their Manhattan apartment because of their pet dog, Connie persuades Bill to buy a dilapidated old Pennsylvania house that George Washington allegedly slept in. | 1942 | William Keighley | Comedy | 6.9 (1.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Gert and Daisy's Week-endGert and Daisy volunteer to escort a group of evacuee children to the country, leaving a London of rationing and nights in Tube stations. But Maisie from next door somehow manages to get their suitcase muddled up with that of her sea | 1942 | Maclean Rogers | Comedy | 6.7 (101 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Get Hep to LoveOrphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her. | 1942 | Charles Lamont | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music | 6.8 (63 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Ghost of Frankenstein, TheDr. Frankenstein's plans to replace the brain of his monster are hijacked by his scheming and malevolent assistant Ygor. | 1942 | Erle C. Kenton | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.2 (6K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Girl TroubleA South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid. | 1942 | Harold D. Schuster | Comedy | 6.7 (117 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Girls TownA drama about a group of women living in a Hollywood boarding house including a former star and a self-centered beauty contest winner. | 1942 | Victor Halperin | Drama | 5.8 (58 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Give Out, SistersPeggy (Peggy Ryan)), a messenger, delivers a telegram to The Flamingo Club where the Andrews Sisters (The Andrews Sisters) and Bob Edwards' Orchestra are appearing. Peggy learns that the club's owner, Harrison (William Frawley), inte | 1942 | Edward F. Cline | Comedy, Music | 7.0 (55 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Glass Key, TheA crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign. | 1942 | Stuart Heisler | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (6.3K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Golden City [Die Goldene Stadt], TheAnna Jobst is the daughter of a rich, conservative farmer. Living on the bank of the Moldau, she wishes nothing more than follow the river to Prague, the "Golden City". | 1942 | Veit Harlan | Drama | 6.4 (225 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Goose Steps Out, TheA bumbling teacher turns out to be the double of a German general. He is flown into Germany to impersonate the general and cause chaos and hilarity in a Hitler Youth college. | 1942 | Basil Dearden, Will Hay | Comedy | 6.6 (469 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Grand Central MurderClassic whodunit mystery film about a gold-digging variety show actress who has many enemies and is found dead in her private railroad car at Grand Central Station in New York. | 1942 | S. Sylvan Simon | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.5 (879 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Great Gildersleeve, TheGildersleeve, a small town bachelor, has slapstick troubles with a husband-hunting woman and two helpful kids. | 1942 | Gordon Douglas | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 6.1 (357 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Great Impersonation, TheAn unconscious man is found in a boat which drifts to the landing of an isolated African outpost where Baron von Ragenstein, an enemy agent, recognizes the man as his exact double, Sir Edward Dominey, with whom von Ragenstein went to | 1942 | John Rawlins | Drama, Thriller, War | 6.1 (46 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Great King [Der große König], TheA story of Prussian king (from 1740 to 1786) Frederick II the Great. | 1942 | Veit Harlan | Drama, History, War | 7.0 (283 votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Great Love, The [Die große Liebe]During a leave in Berlin, Lieutenant Paul Wendlandt, a young Luftwaffe pilot, falls for Anna Holberg, a famous singer, who returns his love. But in time of war it is hard to live on love only. The lovers keep being separated on ac... | 1942 | Rolf Hansen | Drama, Romance, War | 6.3 (199 votes) | 102 | 20230126 |
| Great Mr. Handel, TheA lavish period drama produced in 1942 by Lord Rank's G.H.W. Productions Ltd. | 1942 | Norman Walker | Biography, Drama, Music | 6.7 (82 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Halfway to ShanghaiA murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II. | 1942 | John Rawlins | Adventure, Mystery | 6.1 (61 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Hatter's CastleJames Brodie (Robert Newton) is the only hatter in a small area in Scotland. Ruthless in business as well as at home, he is a tyrant to his family and intimidating to everyone he knows. But, when his mistress convinces him to give he | 1942 | Lance Comfort | Drama | 6.8 (333 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Hawk of the North, The [One-Eyed Dragon; Doku-ganryû Masamune]nan | 1942 | Hiroshi Inagaki | Biography, Drama, History | 6.5 (35 votes) | 83 | 20230126 |
| Heart Of The Golden WestLambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle. | 1942 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.2 (101 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Heart of the Rio GrandeGene and Smiley help an all-too-proper girl Connie in her attempt to run a cattle ranch. | 1942 | William Morgan | Western | 6.6 (104 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Heavenly Play, The [Himlaspelet]Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go ... | 1942 | Alf Sjöberg | Drama | 7.7 (61 votes) | 106 | 20231017 |
| Hello, AnnapolisBill Arden and Paul Herbert sign up at the titular Naval academy to win the affection of Doris Henley. Bill finds that he hates it. It is not until Bill is badly burned saving his rival Paul's life that he wins respect and changes... | 1942 | Charles Barton | Comedy | 5.5 (28 votes) | 62 | 20240826 |
| Henry Aldrich EditorHenry (James Lydon) gets into another jam when he becomes the editor of the Centerville Hish School newspaper. The Fire Chief suspects him when he covers fires. | 1942 | Hugh Bennett | Comedy, Drama, Family | 5.7 (138 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Henry Aldrich Henry and DizzyIn order to impress Phyllis Michael, Henry Aldrich takes a sales job. Soon he is involved with vacuum cleaners, motor boats and a father-son race at a picnic in which he hires a tramp to play his father. Don't ask. He also has to pay | 1942 | Hugh Bennett | Comedy, Family | 7.3 (55 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Her Cardboard LoverA wealthy woman, trying to discourage a former boyfriend from pursuing her, hires a young songwriter who needs money to pay off his gambling debts to pretend to be her boyfriend. The problem is that the "phony" boyfriend is actually | 1942 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Romance | 5.9 (715 votes) | 93 | 20220414 |
| Here We Go AgainIt's Fibber and Molly's 20th anniversary and they want to throw a big party. But when everyone declines their invitation, they decide to go on a second honeymoon instead. After one night at the broken down Ramble Inn, where they spen | 1942 | Allan Dwan | Comedy | 5.8 (267 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Hidden Hand, ThePeter Thorne (Craig Stevens)is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing (Cecil Cunningham), who uses her insane brother, John Channing (Milton Parsons), to frighten her other relatives because they are | 1942 | Benjamin Stoloff | Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi | 6.1 (547 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Highways by NightAn unworldly inventor finds romance and adventure. | 1942 | Peter Godfrey | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance | 6.6 (47 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Hitler - Dead Or AliveA team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them. | 1942 | Nick Grinde | Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War | 4.8 (338 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Holiday InnAt an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer. | 1942 | Mark Sandrich, Robert Allen | Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance | 7.4 (15.1K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| House of ErrorsBert and Alf are fired from their jobs as delivery "boys" for a newspaper. They decide to be reporters on their own and set out to get a story on the inventor of a new machine gun. The inventor hates reporters so the boys pose as a v | 1942 | Bernard B. Ray | Comedy | 5.2 (34 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| I Married A WitchA beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor. | 1942 | René Clair (*) | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 7.1 (7.9K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| I Married an AngelA count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up. | 1942 | W.S. Van Dyke, Roy Del Ruth | Fantasy, Musical, Romance, Comedy | 5.8 (516 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| I Was FramedA newspaperman out to get the goods on a crooked politician winds up in jail, framed for a killing he didn't commit. He and another prisoner attempt an escape, but although the newspaperman gets away, his colleague is caught and retu | 1942 | D. Ross Lederman | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama | 5.5 (151 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| IcelandMarine, James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic family take his actions as a proposal of marriage to Katina. Desperately wanting out, James gets his buddy to help him. Good Luck! | 1942 | H. Bruce Humberstone | Comedy | 5.8 (187 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| If I Were Honest [Se io fossi onesto]Explore popular movies available to rent or buy on Prime Video. | 1942 | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Comedy | 6.9 (37 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| In Old CaliforniaDuring the California Gold Rush, Boston pharmacist Tom Craig sets up shop in Sacramento where he clashes with local town crook Britt Dawson. | 1942 | William C. McGann | Western | 6.4 (1.3K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| In This Our LifeThe day before her wedding, a pampered young woman absconds with her sister's husband; in retaliation, her sister begins seeing the woman's former fiancé. | 1942 | John Huston, Raoul Walsh | Drama | 7.4 (4.8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| In Which We ServeThis "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft. | 1942 | Noël Coward, David Lean | Drama, War | 7.2 (5.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Invisible AgentThe Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany. | 1942 | Edwin L. Marin | Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi | 6.0 (2.1K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Isle of Missing MenA penal colony governor invites a ravishing blond vagabond to join him for a week on his island prison grounds, unaware that she has manipulated their meeting for ulterior motives. | 1942 | Richard Oswald | Drama, Romance | 5.8 (109 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| It Happened in FlatbushA washed up baseball player (Lloyd Nolan) returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but ends up clashing with the beautiful new owner (Carole Landis) | 1942 | Ray McCarey | Comedy, Romance, Sport | 6.1 (318 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Jackass MailTiny Tucker delivers mail and attracted to her, Just Baggot becomes her new carrier. When he kills a man in a gunfight, the man's son joins him in the deliveries and they become good friends. But Baggot has two problems, alcohol and | 1942 | Norman Z. McLeod (*) | Action, Adventure, Romance, Western | 6.2 (156 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Joan of OzarkDuring World War II, a yodeling hillbilly singer goes undercover to expose a ring of Nazi spies operating in the United States. | 1942 | Joseph Santley | Comedy | 6.0 (47 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Joan of ParisAn RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hidden and his wounds cared for. The Gestapo has already issued orders for their arres | 1942 | Robert Stevenson (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 6.8 (797 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Joe Smith, AmericanJoe Smith is an average American citizen, working in an aircraft factory. He has access to the plans for a new bomb-sight and is kidnapped by enemy agents who unsuccessfully torture him to get him to betray his country. He escapes an | 1942 | Richard Thorpe | Drama, Romance, War | 6.2 (282 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Johnny DoughboyAn arrogant young actress doesn't want to play "young" parts anymore, and runs off. The studio replaces her with the president of her fan club, who just happens to be a lookalike. Meanwhile, some other former child actors, trying to | 1942 | John H. Auer | Musical | 5.7 (97 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Journey for Margaret1940. For the better part of the war thus far, New York news correspondent John Davis and his wife Nora Davis have been in the hot spots of western Europe, including Rotterdam and much of France, which has just fallen to the Nazis. T | 1942 | W.S. Van Dyke, Herbert Kline | Drama, War | 7.2 (851 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Juke GirlDanny and Steve are migrant farm workers who wind up in Cat Tail, Florida. Cat Tail is run by Madden Packing and Danny works for Madden while Steve works for the underdog farmer named Nick. After the Tomato crop is destroyed by Madde | 1942 | Curtis Bernhardt | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.3 (499 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Jungle BookA boy raised by wild animals tries to adapt to human village life. | 1942 | Zoltan Korda | Action, Adventure, Family | 6.7 (4.2K votes) | 108 | 20220414 |
| Junior ArmyWell-bred young English refugee Freddie Hewlett (Freddie Bartholomew) saves the life of Jimmie Fletcher (Billy Halop), wild boy of the road, in a fight with juvenile gang leader Bushy Thomas (Huntz Hall). Freddie takes Jimmie with... | 1942 | Lew Landers | Action, Adventure, War | 6.1 (57 votes) | 70 | 20240316 |
| Junior G-Men of the AirA group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy. | 1942 | Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Action, Adventure, War | 6.0 (111 votes) | 225 | 20240820 |
| Just Off BroadwayPrivate detective Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) is serving on the jury trying Lillian Hubbard (Janis Carter) for the murder of Harley Forsythe. A witness with information that could clear Lillian is killed by a knife hurled from insid | 1942 | Herbert I. Leeds | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.2 (233 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| KatyiOn IMDb TV, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free! | 1942 | Ákos Ráthonyi | Comedy, Musical | 7.3 (137 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Keeper of the FlameJournalist Steve O'Malley wants to write a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge. Steve receives conflicting reports and tales that make him question what the truth about the hero is. | 1942 | George Cukor (*) | Drama, Mystery | 6.7 (2.7K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Kid Glove KillerCrime lab expert Gordon McKay uses the latest forensic techniques to solve murders in a city plagued by political corruption and mob rackets. | 1942 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| King Arthur Was A GentlemanArthur King joins the army, and soon starts fantasising about King Arthur and his knights. | 1942 | Marcel Varnel | Comedy | 5.6 (112 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| King of the MountiesThe chapter-crunched version of this 196 minutes, 12-episode serial from Republic finds Canada being bombed mercilessly by a mysterious-enemy plane (shaped like a boomerang) called the Falcon, under the supervision of Admiral Yama... | 1942 | William Witney | Action, Adventure, Western | 6.4 (56 votes) | 196 | 20240530 |
| King's RowThe dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn of the century. | 1942 | Sam Wood (*) | Drama | 7.5 (4.4K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Klondike FuryA neurosurgeon is thrown out of the medical profession after he performs a daring but unsuccessful surgery. He flees to Alaska, where his plane crashes in the frozen wilderness. | 1942 | William K. Howard | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 4.1 (79 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Lady for a NightGambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society. | 1942 | Leigh Jason | Drama | 6.0 (517 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Lady from ChungkingAfter the Japanese invade China in WW 2, a young woman leads a band of partisans against the occupying troops. | 1942 | William Nigh | Drama | 5.5 (204 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Lady GangsterDot Burton (Faye Emerson) has acted as a decoy in a bank robbery and fails to get away. Her arrest attracts the attention of Ken Phillips (Frank Wilcox), a former childhood sweetheart who believe her innocent until she confesses. But | 1942 | Robert Florey | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 5.8 (619 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Lady Has Plans, TheSome dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler goi | 1942 | Sidney Lanfield | Drama | 6.7 (168 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Lady in a JamA psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there. | 1942 | Gregory La Cava (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 (195 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Lady is Willing, TheIn order to adopt an abandoned baby, an actress arranges a marriage of convenience with a doctor. | 1942 | Mitchell Leisen | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 (673 votes) | 92 | 20220414 |
| Lady Luck [Lucky Ghost]Two down-on-their luck friends suddenly hit the "jackpot" when they win the clothes, car and chauffeur of a rich man in a game of dice. | 1942 | William Beaudine | Comedy, Thriller | 6.1 (179 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Larceny, Inc.Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers... | 1942 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy | 7.3 (2.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| L'arlésienneFrédéri is a very handsome young man in love with a girl he met once in Arles (we will never know her name :she is always referred to as ""l'Arlésienne"" ). | 1942 | Marc Allégret | Drama | 6.5 (38 votes) | 105 | 20241019 |
| L'assassin a peur la nuitA thief hides out in the South and gets involved with the sister of a friendly fellow employee on an outdoor work site. But circumstances draw him back to the city, to another woman, and to murder. | 1942 | Jean Delannoy | Crime, Drama | 6.2 (87 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Law of the JungleNona Brooks, former member of a stranded theatrical troupe, earns a temporary living singing in a cafe in Duakwa, British Rhodesia, Africa. | 1942 | Jean Yarbrough | Adventure | 5.1 (198 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Les Visiteurs du SoirIn medieval France, the Devil intervenes when one of his two envoys, sent to seduce and deceive mortals, falls instead for a victim. | 1942 | Marcel Carné (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.3 (2.1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Let the People SingA Czech political exile and a washed-up music hall comedian form an unlikely partnership to try and save a town's concert hall from the planners, businessmen, and bureaucrats. | 1942 | John Baxter | Comedy | 6.8 (60 votes) | 105 | 20220414 |
| Let's Get ToughThe East Side Kids take on a gang of Japanese spies. | 1942 | Wallace Fox | Comedy | 5.3 (520 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Life Begins at Eight-ThirtyKathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant R | 1942 | Irving Pichel | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (212 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The [Wen die Götter lieben]A film relating to the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. [This is from the US copyright record, which is public domain.] | 1942 | Karl Hartl | Biography, Drama, History, Music | 7.6 (68 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Listen to BritainA depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration. | 1942 | Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister | Documentary, Short | 6.6 (1.7K votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| Living Ghost, TheA retired detective, Nick Trayne, is hired to look for a missing banker. During the investigation, the aforementioned banker returns in a zombie-like state. Trayne must track down the madman responsible for the banker's state. | 1942 | William Beaudine | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.3 (574 votes) | 61 | 20220414 |
| Loco Boy Makes GoodThe stooges decide to get some easy money by having Curly slip on a bar of soap in a hotel lobby so they can sue the owner. Curly slips as planned but the hotel turns out to be run by an old lady who is about to lose her lease to ... | 1942 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 7.5 (458 votes) | 18 | 20240224 |
| Lost CanyonJohnny is accused of robbing and bank and runs off into the hills. Hoppy tries to prove his innocence and get the real bad guys. | 1942 | Lesley Selander | Western | 6.6 (141 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Love Letters [Lettres d'amour]France, 1855. Zélie Fontaine, a twenty-odd-year-old widow and the post mistress of the small provincial town of Argenson, has accepted to receive love letters to Hortense de la Jacquerie, the prefect's wife, under her name. But Horte | 1942 | Claude Autant-Lara | Drama | 6.8 (85 votes) | 110 | 20220414 |
| Love Story [Una storia d'amore]A simple and honest working class man marries a woman with a troubled past.When another man who knows her past confronts her, she decides to commit murder. | 1942 | Mario Camerini | Drama | 6.3 (30 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Loves of Edgar Allan Poe, TheEdgar Allan Poe led an unhappy childhood, broken only by the unceasing devotion of his foster mother, Mrs. Frances Allan, whose loving ministrations gave him courage to carry out his desire to write. His first love was Elmira Royster | 1942 | Harry Lachman | Biography, Drama | 5.6 (214 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Lucky JordanA New York gangster is unwillingly drafted into the army and deserts but becomes patriotic when he stumbles upon foreign spies bent on stealing American military secrets. | 1942 | Frank Tuttle | Drama | 6.4 (343 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Mad Doctor of Market Street, TheA mad scientist is forced to leave San Francisco when his experiments become known. He lands on a tropical island, takes control and terrorizes the local populace. The survivor of a shipwreck washes ashore on the island, sees what is | 1942 | Joseph H. Lewis (*) | Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 5.2 (419 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Mad Martindales, TheIn 1900 San Francisco, two sisters, one responsible and one flighty, deal with their love interests and the late mortgage payments of their squandering father who only wants to pursue his bungalow development project. | 1942 | Alfred L. Werker | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (28 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Mad Monster, TheA mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge. | 1942 | Sam Newfield | Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi | 3.5 (1.7K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Madame SpyA war correspondent's new wife is suspected by his colleagues of being a Nazi spy. | 1942 | Roy William Neill | Action, Drama, Romance, War | 5.9 (53 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Magnificent Ambersons , TheThe spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. | 1942 | Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (24.3K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Magnificent Dope, TheDwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and thre | 1942 | Walter Lang | Comedy | 6.9 (415 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Maisie Gets Her ManParting company with her on-stage partner Professor Orco partly due to the job being potentially hazardous to her health, streetwise but kind-hearted vaudeville performer Maisie Ravier, in Chicago, goes on a search for another job. T | 1942 | Roy Del Ruth | Comedy | 6.2 (413 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Major and The Minor, TheA frustrated city girl disguises herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with a handsome Major. | 1942 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.4 (6.8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Male Animal, TheIt's Homecoming weekend at Midwestern University, the weekend which will culminate with the big game between Midwestern and Michigan. Homecoming marks the return for the first time in six years of alumnus All-American Joe Ferguson, w | 1942 | Elliott Nugent | Comedy, Romance | 6.6 (1.3K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| MalombraA nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor. | 1942 | Mario Soldati | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (170 votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Man from CheyenneRoy is a government man sent to solve a novel crime problem: a woman flirts with unsuspecting ranchers in order to get information from them which she passes on to her cattle-rustling gang. | 1942 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.7 (82 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Came to Dinner, TheAn acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family. | 1942 | William Keighley | Comedy, Romance | 7.6 (7.7K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Wouldn't Die, TheA man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge. | 1942 | Herbert I. Leeds | Comedy, Crime, Mystery | 6.6 (586 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Manila CallingDuring the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, a few Americans and a Filipino guerrilla unit seize a Japanese jungle base and use the radio transmitter to broadcast anti-Japanese propaganda, prompting retaliatory Japanese attacks. | 1942 | Herbert I. Leeds | Drama, War | 6.8 (145 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Marriage of Chiffon, The [Le mariage de Chiffon]"Chiffon" is an eccentric young aristocratic girl, who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. | 1942 | Claude Autant-Lara, Pierre Guerlais | Comedy | 6.4 (185 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| MashenkaIn 1939, as the air raid sirens sound over Moscow, a young man, Alyosha, falls in love with a telegraph operator called Mashenka. | 1942 | Yuli Raizman | Drama, Romance, War | 7.4 (248 votes) | 66 | 20220315 |
| Matri-PhonyThe stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful red-headed women to be brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a pretty red-head, seeks refuge wi... | 1942 | Harry Edwards, Del Lord | Short, Comedy | 7.2 (428 votes) | 17 | 20240224 |
| Mayor of 44th Street, TheJoe Jonathan tries to keep his business on the level after some shady dealings but will his cronies let him? | 1942 | Alfred E. Green | Drama | 5.7 (157 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Meet the StewartsA young newlywed couple learns to make their new marriage work; trying to impress family, stay on budget, and remain as diplomatic towards each other as possible. | 1942 | Alfred E. Green | Comedy | 6.2 (278 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Melodies Old and NewNeeding money for football uniforms, the Our Gang decides to put on a minstrel show. | 1942 | Edward L. Cahn | Family, Short, Comedy | 6.5 (70 votes) | 11 | 20211228 |
| Mexican Spitfire at SeaA married couple, on an ocean voyage honeymoon, quarrel and she shoves him out of their cabin and into the neighboring cabin, coincidentally of his old girlfriend, triggering an escalation of mistaken identities and chaos. | 1942 | Leslie Goodwins | Comedy | 6.2 (236 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Mexican Spitfire Sees a GhostCarmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb. | 1942 | Leslie Goodwins | Comedy | 5.8 (224 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Mexican Spitfire's ElephantDizzy Carmelita and Uncle Matt inadvertently become involved with thieves smuggling jewels inside a ceramic elephant. | 1942 | Leslie Goodwins | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 (210 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Midnight in Paris [Monsieur La Souris]On a rainy night, eccentric tramp Mr La Souris finds a corpse. But the body soon vanishes in his car leaving only his wallet. While the police start investigating a missing person report, La Souris concocts a plan to secure his find. | 1942 | Georges Lacombe | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (169 votes) | 90 | 20220806 |
| Miss Annie RooneyA poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress. | 1942 | Edwin L. Marin | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (523 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Miss Swing [En trallande jänta]Inger Jansson is a 17 year old girl who yodels in the mountains. Her biggest dream is to be a singer in Stockolm. | 1942 | Börje Larsson | Musical | 3.8 (27 votes) | 99 | 20220723 |
| Miss V From MoscowVera Marova is a Russian spy impersonating a dead German spy whom she closely resembles. Her ally is Steve Worth, an American serving in the British armed services, and the two work with the Free French underground agents in Paris to | 1942 | Albert Herman | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War | 5.2 (88 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Missing Million, TheA millionaire disappears after a blackmail attempt by criminal, The Panda. His sister tries to help the police find him and deal with an aftermath of murder and mystery. | 1942 | Philip Brandon | Crime, Thriller | 5.4 (80 votes) | 84 | 20220806 |
| Mississippi GamblerA journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery. | 1942 | John Rawlins | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 7.1 (32 votes) | 60 | 20220414 |
| Mlle. Desiree [Le destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary]Historical romance, made under the Nazi occupation, centering on a woman, played by two different actresses, who influenced the life of Napoleon. | 1942 | Sacha Guitry (*) | Comedy, Drama, History | 6.4 (120 votes) | 95 | 20240303 |
| MokeyMokey is an eight-year-old boy whose father gives him too little attention and whose stepmother misunderstands him. His misdeeds are due to neglect and misunderstanding on the part of his elders. | 1942 | Wells Root | Adventure, Drama | 5.1 (181 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Moon and Sixpence, TheLoosely inspired by Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-class life, his family, and his duties to start painting, as he has always wanted to do. He is from then on a awf | 1942 | Albert Lewin | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (792 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Moonlight MasqueradeBusiness partners plan to gift a third of share to their children, if they marry, the offspring refusing to the marriage loses the portion. The children have other ideas. | 1942 | John H. Auer | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.2 (18 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| MoontideIn California, Bobo and his mooching 'pal' Tiny are doing odd jobs and getting drunk and they hide a secret about the unsolved murder of sailor Pop Kelly but suicidal waitress Anna, saved by Bobo, unravels the mystery. | 1942 | Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.9 (1.7K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Mother Never Dies [Haha wa shinazu]The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son. | 1942 | Mikio Naruse (*) | Drama | 6.2 (43 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Mr. and Mrs. NorthJerry North (William Post Jr.) and his wife, Pam (Gracie Allen)return home after a night away in a holiday spirit. The spirit soon vanishes when the body of a man falls out of the liquor closet. The corpse is identified as Stanley Br | 1942 | Robert B. Sinclair | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance | 6.1 (314 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Mr. Vampire Saga [Geung see suk suk]nan | 1942 | Johannes Meyer | Unknown | 7.0 (10 votes) | 90 | 20230424 |
| Mr. Wise GuyMr. Wise Guy (the eighth in the East Side Kids series) finds the gang sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins (Douglas Fowley), brother of co-leader Danny (Bobby Jordan), b | 1942 | William Nigh | Comedy | 5.8 (507 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Mrs. MiniverA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II. | 1942 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.6 (17.2K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Much too shyA handyman and amateur artist gets into trouble when nude female bodies are added to the heads he has drawn of prominent ladies, and are sold as soap adverts. | 1942 | Marcel Varnel | Comedy | 6.2 (179 votes) | 92 | 20220414 |
| Mug TownNeighborhood kids take on racketeers. | 1942 | Ray Taylor | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 (35 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Mummy's Tomb, TheThe ancient Egypt Mummy, Kharis, is transported from his homeland with the high priest Mehemet to wreak vengeance on the family who has defiled the sacred tomb of his beloved Princess Ananka. | 1942 | Harold Young | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.7 (3.2K votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Murder in the Big HouseA Death Row inmate vows to reveal damaging information about corrupt politicians on the day of his electric chair execution but he is found dead in his cell, prompting an investigation by a local reporter. | 1942 | B. Reeves Eason | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (251 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Murderer Lives at Number 21, The [L'assassin habite... au 21]Inspector Wens moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer. | 1942 | Henri-Georges Clouzot (*) | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (3.1K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| My Favorite BlondeKaren Bentley, an English secret agent, links up with Larry Haines and his star penguin Percy in an attempt to outwit German spies. | 1942 | Sidney Lanfield | Comedy | 7.1 (1.4K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| My Favorite SpyKay Kyser is late to his wedding. He is taking a short cut through Central Park when he finds out that he is in the army and is due to check in that afternoon. It turns out that the army wants him as an undercover agent because a spy | 1942 | Tay Garnett | Comedy, Musical | 5.8 (266 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| My Gal SalChronicles the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after another. Despite his egotistical behavior, he manages | 1942 | Irving Cummings | Drama | 6.2 (761 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| My Heart Belongs to DaddyA distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life topsy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow. | 1942 | Robert Siodmak, Cullen Tate | Comedy, Romance | 6.1 (45 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| My Sister EileenTwo sisters move from Ohio to New York with hopes of stardom. | 1942 | Alexander Hall | Comedy | 7.0 (1.4K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Mystery of Marie RogetA detective tries to unravel the strange circumstances surrounding the death of a young actress. | 1942 | Phil Rosen (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 5.9 (194 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Native LandPaul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill of rights being under attack during the 1930s by union busting corporations, their spies and contractors. In dramatizations, we see a Michigan farmer b | 1942 | Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand | Drama, History | 6.4 (349 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Navy Comes Through, TheA U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis. | 1942 | A. Edward Sutherland | Drama, War | 6.0 (300 votes) | 82 | 20220414 |
| Nazi AgentA story of German-born identical twins (both played by Veidt), one a loyal American and the other, a Nazi official. | 1942 | Jules Dassin | Crime, Drama | 6.8 (674 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| 'Neath the Brooklyn BridgeThe East Side Kids uncover the body of a murder victim, but must protect the innocent girl accused of the crime. | 1942 | Wallace Fox | Comedy, Drama, Romance, War | 5.8 (657 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Next of Kin, TheWartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy. | 1942 | Thorold Dickinson | Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War | 6.8 (256 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Night Before the Divorce, TheGeorge Nordyke is married to Lynn, the perfect wife, but is unhappy about it; his wife is so competent that poor George's masculine ego never gets exercised. But along comes a spider with a coy approach, Lola May Wayne, and Mr. Defla | 1942 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.8 (94 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Night Has Eyes, TheTwo teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shellshocked in th | 1942 | Leslie Arliss | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (671 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Night in New OrleansThe police lieutenant Steve Abbott is engrossed in a baffling murder case. As Steve pieces the clues together, he comes to the sobering conclusion that his own wife Ethel Abbott may be intimately involved in the murder. It even gets | 1942 | William Clemens | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 5.8 (82 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Night MonsterKurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths. | 1942 | Ford Beebe | Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (1.4K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Night to Remember, AA mystery writer and his newlywed wife move into a Greenwich Village apartment and find themselves with a corpse and a half dozen red herrings. | 1942 | Richard Wallace | Comedy | 6.7 (1.1K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| NightmareAn ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs. | 1942 | Tim Whelan | Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.3 (149 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Non ti pago!Get the IMDb AppView Full SiteHelpSite IndexIMDbProIMDb TVBox Office MojoIMDb DeveloperPress RoomAdvertisingJobsConditions of UsePrivacy PolicyInterest-Based Ads? 1990-2021 by IMDb.com, Inc. | 1942 | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Comedy | 7.1 (133 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| North to the KlondikeTwo friends in the Klondike come to the aid of settlers who are being terrorized by an outlaw gang. | 1942 | Erle C. Kenton | Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western | 6.3 (51 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Nothing But NervesAfter some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so bad he can't hold his cup still enough to drink his coffee, and he thinks the arrival of some plumbers is just a giant conspiracy to | 1942 | Leslie M. Roush | Comedy, Short | 5.8 (54 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
| Now, VoyagerA frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman. | 1942 | Irving Rapper | Drama, Romance | 7.9 (16.5K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Obliging Young LadyLinda Norton is instructed by her employer attorney to take young Bridget Potter, whose wealthy parents are engaged in a divorce suit, to an isolated country resort, to shelter the girl from newspaper reporters and publicity. | 1942 | Richard Wallace | Comedy, Romance | 5.8 (254 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| On the Sunny SideBecause of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy when his school-friends do the same. But his | 1942 | Harold D. Schuster | Drama, War | 6.2 (158 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Once Upon a HoneymoonIn Europe at the start of World War II, a woman notices that wherever her husband goes, the Nazis seem to follow. Meanwhile, a charming reporter is following them. | 1942 | Leo McCarey (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance, War | 6.5 (2.9K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| One Dangerous NightA "Lone Wolf" advenure. The Lone Wolf tries to clear himself of a charge of murdering a blackmailer. | 1942 | Michael Gordon | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (108 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| One of Our Aircraft Is MissingDuring a raid on Germany a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians. | 1942 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Action, Adventure, Drama, War | 7.0 (2.2K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Orchestra WivesConnie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the ca | 1942 | Archie Mayo | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.9 (977 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Over My Dead BodyJason Cordry is a none-too-bright mystery writer with a big failing: he can't think up solutions to his plots. When he accidentally frames himself for murder, he realizes he hasn't got a solution to this story either. | 1942 | Malcolm St. Clair | Unknown | 6.3 (54 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Ox-Bow Incident, TheWhen a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men. | 1942 | William A. Wellman (*) | Drama, Western | 8.0 (22.7K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Palm Beach Story, TheA New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister. | 1942 | Preston Sturges (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.5 (11.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Panama HattieHattie Maloney runs a saloon in Panama where assorted characters congregate where they frequently sing and dance Cole Porter numbers. An upper class gentleman arrives and sparks fly between him and Hattie. They try and overcome compl | 1942 | Norman Z. McLeod, Roy Del Ruth, Vincente Minnelli | Comedy, Musical | 5.9 (450 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Panther's Claw, TheThe police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not th... | 1942 | William Beaudine | Crime, Mystery | 5.8 (295 votes) | 70 | 20231013 |
| Pardon My SarongA pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans fo | 1942 | Erle C. Kenton | Comedy | 6.9 (2.3K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Pardon My StripesFootball player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of "Dope of the Year" award. Gambler Big George Kilraine (Harold H | 1942 | John H. Auer | Comedy, Crime, Sport | 6.7 (13 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Pay Off, TheThe city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be. | 1942 | Arthur Dreifuss | Action, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 5.5 (267 votes) | 74 | 20240515 |
| People on the Alps [Emberek a havason]A woodcutter moves his wife and son onto a mountain for an attempt at a better life but tragedy soon sets in. | 1942 | István Szöts | Drama | 7.4 (705 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Perils of NyokaIt's intrepid Nyoka and her friends versus Vultura, Queen of the Desert, on a quest for the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates. | 1942 | William Witney | Drama | 7.3 (181 votes) | 261 | 20240530 |
| Pied Piper, TheWhile traveling in France during the Nazi invasion of 1940, an Englishman is entrusted with the care of a group of refugee children. | 1942 | Irving Pichel | Drama, War | 7.1 (598 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Pierre of the PlainsIn 1940's Moose Hill, Saskatchewan, outdoorsman Pierre is attracted to saloon-owner Daisy. Hearing of her impending marriage to 'Jap' Durkin, a law officer and rival, Pierre arranges things so the wedding won't occur. Later, Daisy's | 1942 | George B. Seitz | Drama | 5.1 (102 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Pilot Returns, A [Un pilota ritorna]A young Italian pilot is interned in a British prison camp after his plane is shot down during the war against Greece. He falls in love with a doctor's daughter and manages to escape during a bombardment. He reaches home, wounded, ju | 1942 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Drama, War | 5.6 (249 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Pistol Shot, A [Un colpo di pistola]Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Sergei can't bring himself to kill his friend. He fires only after taking the bullet | 1942 | Renato Castellani | Drama, History | 6.9 (81 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| PittsburghCharles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash come | 1942 | Lewis Seiler | Action, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (1.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Police BulletsA gangster running a protection racket gets information that he's about to be prosecuted on income-tax-evasion charges. He hires a man with a photographic memory to memorize his books, then destroys them all so the police won't ha... | 1942 | Jean Yarbrough | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.2 (19 votes) | 61 | 20231001 |
| Powder TownAn absent minded research scientist takes a job at a munitions factory | 1942 | Rowland V. Lee | Comedy, Drama | 5.5 (200 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Pride of the Yankees, TheThe story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig. | 1942 | Sam Wood (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport | 7.7 (10.7K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Private BuckarooA Universal Army enlistment promotion, produced as a musical showcase for Harry James, the Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Lewis, and Donald O'Connor & Peggy Ryan. The film's thin plot has James drafted, and joining him is the band's lead vo | 1942 | Edward F. Cline | Comedy | 5.9 (460 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Private Snuffy SmithSnuffy Smith, moonshining hillbilly, grows tired of dodging revenue agents, headed by Cooper, and decides to take the army up on their offer of free clothes, food and $21.00 a month. Once enlisted, he finds that revenue agent Cooper | 1942 | Edward F. Cline | Comedy, Romance, War | 4.6 (150 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Quiet Please, MurderBook thief/forger sells a fake book to a Nazi through a female agent. A detective tries to uncover who the forger is and gets in the middle of a three way struggle for rare books and revenge in a public library. | 1942 | John Francis Larkin | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 6.4 (347 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Random HarvestAn amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life. | 1942 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (7.5K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Reap the Wild WindFlorida ship salvager, Loxi, falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor. | 1942 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (3.2K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Remarkable Andrew, TheWhen Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his troub | 1942 | Stuart Heisler | Comedy, Fantasy | 6.4 (169 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Rembrandtnan | 1942 | Hans Steinhoff | Biography, Drama | 5.4 (50 votes) | 99 | 20230806 |
| Remember Pearl HarborOn 16 November, 1941 at the La Dessa U. S. army post in the Philippines, a Japanese carrier ship off the coast transmits a coded message to the contraband radio of Nazi spies. The spies then stick the message, which states that a Tok | 1942 | Joseph Santley | Drama, Romance, War | 6.0 (63 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Reunion in FranceIn German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers. | 1942 | Jules Dassin | Drama, Romance, War | 6.2 (1.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Rhythm ParadeA nightclub performer, jealous about the talents of an aspiring singer, tries to sabotage her chances at a professional career. | 1942 | Howard Bretherton, Dave Gould | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.1 (27 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Ride 'Em CowboyTwo peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or | 1942 | Arthur Lubin | Comedy, Western | 6.6 (1.6K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Ride Tonight! [Rid i natt!]In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count. | 1942 | Gustaf Molander | Drama, History | 6.4 (119 votes) | 106 | 20221212 |
| Ridin' Down the CanyonThose who might write about this film without seeing it might also question why the government needed horses during WW II (if that is all they knew about it from a short synopsis read somewhere), but viewing it one can learn that Jim | 1942 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.7 (89 votes) | 55 | 20211228 |
| Rings on Her FingersTwo con artists take a shopgirl under their wing, but complications arise when she begins to fall for a mathematician, disrupting their marrying-for-money scheme. | 1942 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 6.6 (822 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Rio RitaDoc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel. | 1942 | S. Sylvan Simon | Comedy, Music, War | 6.0 (1.3K votes) | 91 | 20220806 |
| Road to MoroccoTwo carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar. | 1942 | David Butler | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music, Romance | 7.1 (5.3K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Romance on the RangeThe town of Granville has been shaken by a series of fur pelt thefts from a trading post, and a murder. | 1942 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.7 (107 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| RossiniThe famous composer's life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his operas up to the unfortunate day she lost her voice. | 1942 | Mario Bonnard | Biography, Musical | 5.9 (17 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Roxie HartRoxie Hart signs a murder confession in order to attract publicity for her dancing career as dames don't swing in Cook County. Will everything go as planned? | 1942 | William A. Wellman (*) | Comedy | 6.9 (1.7K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| SaboteurA young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence. | 1942 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Thriller, War | 7.2 (25.2K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Saludos AmigosDisney animators tour South America and present four animated shorts inspired by their trip. | 1942 | Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Norman Ferguson | Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 6.1 (6.4K votes) | 42 | 20211228 |
| Scattergood Rides HighWhen Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he will send him to college if he forgets about taking over his father's business, which | 1942 | Christy Cabanne | Comedy, Drama | 5.2 (31 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Scattergood Survives a MurderScattergood meets the new owner of the local newspaper, Dunker Gillson. One of Gillson's first tasks is to interview the wealthy but reclusive Quentin sisters, Lydia and Cynthia, who have stayed in their old musty house for years. Th | 1942 | Christy Cabanne | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.6 (35 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Sealed LipsA detective begins to suspect that a man may be in prison for a crime he didn't commit. | 1942 | George Waggner | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.3 (76 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Secret Agent of JapanKay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen, and is referred to Roy Bonnell (Preston Foster), the manager of this combination bar | 1942 | Irving Pichel | Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War | 6.9 (92 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Secret EnemiesA lawyer becomes a government secret agent after an agent-friend of his is murdered, and discovers a nest of Nazi spies operating out of a former client's hotel. | 1942 | Benjamin Stoloff | Drama, Thriller | 6.1 (216 votes) | 57 | 20211228 |
| Secret MissionThree British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather information about the German forces for a planned invasion. | 1942 | Harold French | Drama, Thriller, War | 5.5 (430 votes) | 94 | 20231001 |
| Secrets of a Co-EdA free-spirited college girl insists on carrying on her romance with a young mobster, scandalizing the town and going against the wishes of her father, the town's most prominent attorney--and who has his own reasons for not wanting t | 1942 | Joseph H. Lewis (*) | Crime, Drama | 5.4 (49 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Seven Days' LeaveSoldier Johnny Grey is engaged to marry singer Mapy Cortes, but his plans go awry when he learns that he is the heir to $100,000 from his great-grandfather -- a bequest that comes with a catch: before claiming the money, Johnny must | 1942 | Tim Whelan | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 5.9 (354 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Seven Miles from AlcatrazAfter Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse island, where they take over. The five inhabitan | 1942 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.7 (301 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Seven Seas - Virginity Chapter [Nanatsu no umi - Zenpen - Shojo-hen]nan | 1942 | Hiromasa Nomura | Drama | nan | 88 | 20220414 |
| Seven SweetheartsHenry falls in love with Billie, one of seven daughters of an eccentric hotel owner. Billie loves him back but refuses marriage because family tradition demands that the eldest daughter must marry first. | 1942 | Frank Borzage (*) | Musical, Romance | 6.5 (458 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Seventh Survivor, TheSurvivors from a torpedoed passenger vessel are rescued by a lighthouse crew. Ironically, the German captain responsible for the attack is also rescued and held prisoner, but a spy among the survivors plans to help him escape. | 1942 | Leslie S. Hiscott | Drama, Mystery, War | 6.2 (107 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Sherlock Holmes And The Secret WeaponSherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must protect a Swiss inventor of an advanced bomb sight from falling into German hands. | 1942 | Roy William Neill | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (5.9K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of TerrorWhen a Nazi saboteur jeeringly predicts to the nation new depredations, via their radio 'Voice of Terror', the Intellegence Inner Council summons Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to help in the crisis. | 1942 | John Rawlins | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (4.5K votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Ship AhoyMiss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved. T | 1942 | Edward Buzzell | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.4 (612 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Shut My Big MouthWellington Holmes, a timid and very shy horticulturist, heads for Big Bluff. When the stagecoach is held up by Buckskin Bill and his men, he coincidentally knocks out three of them earning himself the unwanted job, as Marshal of Big | 1942 | Charles Barton | Comedy, Western | 6.1 (124 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Sideral Cruises [Croisières sidérales]It may be the first time they have used the theory of relativity in a story. | 1942 | André Zwoboda | Sci-Fi | 5.5 (84 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Silver Bullet, TheA cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible. | 1942 | Joseph H. Lewis (*) | Western | 5.7 (84 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Silver QueenA well-known and confident young woman from the Barbary Coast decides to give up her chance at love in order to succeed in card games. | 1942 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Western | 5.8 (159 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Sin TownTwo con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get swindled themselves. | 1942 | Ray Enright | Action, Drama, Western | 6.2 (49 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Sing Your Worries AwayThis package for comedy and the musical numbers has Luke Brown being drugged by the gangster operators of the swank Boathouse Inn; most notably Roxie a sexy pickpocket. Brown has information that Chow Brewster and his cousin have inh | 1942 | A. Edward Sutherland | Comedy, Musical | 5.9 (164 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Sleepytime GalBessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure in an elaborate scheme by Chick Patterson, bell captain, who believes he can not only enrich Bessie, but himself, his fiancée, and th | 1942 | Albert S. Rogell | Comedy | 7.5 (41 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Small Town DebThe youngest in a family of five is fed up with receiving the short end of the stick--so she spends the summer trying to get on her siblings' good sides in order to finally work things to her own advantage. | 1942 | Harold D. Schuster | Comedy | 6.7 (10 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Smart AlecksDanny helps to capture a wanted criminal and receives a $200 reward. However, he has a falling out with the gang when they believe he should share the money with them. Complications ensue when the crook that Danny helped capture esca | 1942 | Wallace Fox | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.7 (504 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Sock-A-Bye BabyThe stooges mistakenly kidnap a baby they find on their doorstep. When the cops and the baby's mother come looking for the baby, the boys panic and flee into the country with the cops (one of them is the baby's father) pursuing th... | 1942 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 7.1 (457 votes) | 18 | 20240224 |
| Somewhere I'll Find YouTwo brother, rival correspondents, find themselves fighting their conservative editor over stories and each other of over the affections of a pretty blonde journalist. | 1942 | Wesley Ruggles | Drama, War | 6.1 (840 votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Son of Fury - The Story of Benjamin BlakeCheated out of his estate by his sadistic uncle, young Benjamin Blake goes to the South Seas to make his fortune so he can return to claim his birthright. | 1942 | John Cromwell | Drama | 7.1 (1.6K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Song of the IslandsWith his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But Jeff falls in love with O'Brien's daughter, | 1942 | Walter Lang | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.2 (237 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Sons of the PioneersNight raiders are burning down the ranchers' barns and poisoning their cattle. Sheriff Gabby, unable to cope, goes east to get help from Roy, descendant of two famous sheriffs. Roy is a young entomologist who would rather study bugs | 1942 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.4 (118 votes) | 55 | 20211228 |
| So's Your Aunt Emma!A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders as is falsely accused of being notorious murderer "Ma Parker." | 1942 | Jean Yarbrough | Action, Comedy, Crime | 5.9 (213 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| South of Santa FeNew Mexico is the scene of undeveloped gold mines and kidnapping. Modern elements include tommy guns, an airplane, two-way radios, fast cars, and big city gangsters. | 1942 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.4 (106 votes) | 55 | 20211228 |
| Spirit of Stanford, TheThe Spirit of Stanford finds high school quarterback Frankie Albert, cocky because of his football abilities, heading for Stanford while his teammate, Cliff Bernard, opts for the University of California, which in those days requi... | 1942 | Charles Barton | Drama, Romance, Sport | 3.2 (46 votes) | 73 | 20230619 |
| Spitfire [The First of the Few]Aircraft designer/patriot R. J. Mitchell, alarmed at growing German militarism, works to perfect a defense against the German Messerschmidt at the cost of his health. | 1942 | Leslie Howard | Adventure, Biography, Drama, War | 7.0 (1.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Spoilers, TheIn Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry Malotte, fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara. | 1942 | Ray Enright | Drama, Western | 6.7 (2.8K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Springtime in the RockiesBroadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their rom | 1942 | Irving Cummings | Musical | 6.7 (659 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Spy ShipA radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang. | 1942 | B. Reeves Eason | Drama | 6.0 (75 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Spy SmasherAlan Armstrong, aka Spy Smasher, battles a Nazi villain known as The Mask, who heads a gang of saboteurs determined to spread destruction across America. | 1942 | William Witney | Action, Adventure, Family | 7.0 (415 votes) | 215 | 20240530 |
| Stand by for ActionDuring WW2, two Navy officers take command of an obsolete, World War I-vintage, destroyer that is assigned to convoy-escort duty in the Japanese-controlled waters of the South Pacific. | 1942 | Robert Z. Leonard | War | 6.5 (679 votes) | 109 | 20220414 |
| Star Spangled RhythmA Paramount Studios security guard who was a major actor during the silent film era must carry out the illusion that he is still a big deal when his sailor son comes to visit. | 1942 | George Marshall, A. Edward Sutherland | Comedy, Musical | 6.6 (593 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Story of a Great Love [Historia de un gran amor]Manuel Venegas regresa a su pueblo para conquistar al amor de su vida, Soledad. Pero para su sorpresa la encuentra casada con otro hombre. Sin importarles nada, ni las diferencias socials, ambos están dispuestos a luchar por su amor. | 1942 | Julio Bracho | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (94 votes) | 155 | 20230715 |
| Strange Case of Doctor Rx, TheA mysterious vigilante known as "Dr. Rx" strikes again. Assigned to the case is private detective Jerry Church but the crimes are baffling and involve strangulation and a possible attempt to implant a gorilla's brain into a human bod | 1942 | William Nigh | Horror, Mystery | 5.3 (463 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Strangers in the HouseHector Loursat, attorney at law, lives with his daughter Nicole in a vast and shabby mansion in this provincial town. They dont talk to each other much, somehow holding the other one responsible for the situation: Hector Loursat used | 1942 | Henri Decoin | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (367 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Street of ChanceAfter an accident, a New York man with amnesia finds out the ugly truth about his real identity and past by interacting with people who seem to know him well. | 1942 | Jack Hively | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.3 (434 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Sunday PunchThe routine of a group of fledgling boxers all living in Ma Galestrum's boarding house is interrupted when Ma allows her roving niece, beautiful Judy Galestrum, to move in. Especially interested is ex-college boy Ken Burke who is try | 1942 | David Miller | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.8 (211 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Sunset on the DesertRoy is mistaken for a bad guy expected by the local outlaw gang. He goes undercover to pin the goods on the bad guys. Just as he is about to do so, the real bad guy shows up. | 1942 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.3 (98 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Sunset SerenadeBad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. | 1942 | Joseph Kane | Western | 6.4 (105 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Suspected PersonAn innocent man discovers the money stolen from an American bank and is then chased by the robbers and by the Police. | 1942 | Lawrence Huntington | Crime, Thriller, Drama | 5.8 (106 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Sweater Girl.College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show. | 1942 | William Clemens | Comedy, Musical, Mystery | 7.0 (42 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Symphonie fantastique, LaBiographical romance about the great composer Hector Berlioz, someone whom the French, during their WWII occupation by the Nazis, could look back proudly on. | 1942 | Christian-Jaque | Biography, Drama | 5.9 (123 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| SyncopationCovering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie)from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock-market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII. A romance between singer Ki | 1942 | William Dieterle (*) | Comedy, History, Music, Romance | 6.3 (227 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Take a Letter, DarlingA struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love. | 1942 | Mitchell Leisen | Comedy, Romance | 6.7 (539 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Tales of ManhattanA formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way. | 1942 | Julien Duvivier (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (2.3K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Talk Of The Town, TheAn escaped prisoner has to prove his innocence to a stuffy law professor with the help of a spirited school teacher. | 1942 | George Stevens (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.5 (8.1K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Tarzan's New York AdventureTarzan and Jane go to New York to rescue Boy after he is kidnapped into a circus. | 1942 | Richard Thorpe | Action, Adventure | 6.6 (3.3K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Ten Gentlemen from West PointIn the early 19th century, Congress mulls the idea of re-opening the West Point military training academy that formed officers for the American Revolutionary War. | 1942 | Henry Hathaway | Adventure, Drama, History, Western | 6.4 (291 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Tennessee JohnsonBiography of Andrew Johnson, who followed Abraham Lincoln into office and became the first President of the United States ever to be impeached. | 1942 | William Dieterle (*) | Biography, Drama | 6.6 (586 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| That Other WomanSecretary Emily Borden is in love with her boss, Henry Summers, but he is too involved with Constance Powell to notice. Ralph is interested in Emily, but she has no interest in him. Emily's grandmother gives her some advice, and a co | 1942 | Ray McCarey | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 (43 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| There Was a Father [Chichi ariki]A school-teacher struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite having neither money nor prospects. | 1942 | Yasujirô Ozu (*) | Drama | 7.6 (2.7K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| They All Kissed the BrideDivine Crawford who gives all - in this really funny comedy , she donated all her salary from this movie to the Red Cross after Carole Lombard's plane crashed . | 1942 | Alexander Hall | Comedy, Romance | 6.1 (718 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| They Raid by NightThe British Commandos send Bob Owen (Lyle Talbot) to Norway to prepare for a raid. His mission also includes freeing General Heden (Paul Baratoff) who is being held by the Nazis. His aides include Eric Falken (George Nesie) and Harry | 1942 | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Drama, War | 4.4 (260 votes) | 73 | 20220315 |
| This Above AllAlthough she comes from an aristocratic family, beautiful Prudence Cathaway defies convention by joining the WAAFs and becoming romantically involved with an AWOL soldier. | 1942 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 6.8 (1.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| This Gun For HireWhen assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies. | 1942 | Frank Tuttle | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.4 (9.1K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| This Time for KeepsLee White, recently married to Katherine Bryant, eyes a vacation from marital responsibilities when Katherine goes out of town to attend a friend's wedding. But he soon becomes bored and accepts the hospitality of his in-laws, and so | 1942 | Charles Reisner | Comedy, Romance | 5.8 (166 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| This Was ParisOn the eve of the Nazi occupation, spies in Paris try to outguess each other | 1942 | John Harlow | War, Drama | 5.8 (96 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Three Musketeers, The [Los Tres Mosqueteroes]A beautiful actress invites Cantinflas to work at a film studio, where he falls asleep and dreams he is D'Artagnan. | 1942 | Miguel M. Delgado | Adventure, Comedy | 6.6 (255 votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Three Pilots, The [I 3 aquilotti]Marco, Mario and Filippo are friends have a great passion in common, flying. They attend the Air Force Academy of Caserta to become pilots, with the ongoing war and the risk of being called into action. | 1942 | Mario Mattoli | Romance, War | 5.5 (68 votes) | 80 | 20230619 |
| Three Smart SapsWeddings are paused for the stooges who are engaged to the daughters of a prison warden. He has been framed by criminals and convicted. They make entry to the prison and find the crooks running a casino. They need photos to expose... | 1942 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 7.5 (471 votes) | 17 | 20240224 |
| Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the AirA veteran American flyer trains new recruits, including the acrophobic son of his dead war buddy. Complications arise when the younger man falls in love with his mentor's girl. | 1942 | William A. Wellman (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 6.2 (463 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Thunder RockCynical, embittered newspaperman David Charleston (Sir Michael Redgrave) is tormented, then inspired, by visions he keeps having of people who have drowned. | 1942 | Roy Boulting | Drama, Fantasy, War | 6.6 (729 votes) | 90 | 20220731 |
| Time to KillA private detective is hired to retrieve a valuable antique coin that was stolen from its owner by her son, who used it to pay off a blackmailer. The private eye soon finds himself up to his ears in fights, more blackmail, hysterical | 1942 | Herbert I. Leeds | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.5 (250 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| TishLetitia "Tish" Carberry, an eccentric New England spinster, lives with her nephew, Charlie Sands, and her two cronies, Aggie Pilkington and Lizzie Wilkins, live in a near-by boarding house. Cora Edwards also lives at the boarding hou | 1942 | S. Sylvan Simon | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (232 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| To Be or Not to BeDuring the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy. | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Romance, War | 8.2 (35.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| To the Shores of TripoliLife at the Marine Training Base in San Diego on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. | 1942 | H. Bruce Humberstone | Drama | 6.0 (840 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Tombstone [The Town Too Tough to Die]Wyatt Earp cleans up Tombstone and faces the Clanton gang at the O.K. Corral. | 1942 | William C. McGann | Western | 6.0 (156 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Tomorrow We LiveJulie Bronson (Jean Parker), whose father, "Pop" Bronson (Emmett Lynn) operates a desert café, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-crazed gangster known as The Ghost (Ricardo Cortez) who runs a desert night club several mi | 1942 | Edgar G. Ulmer (*) | Action, Crime, Drama | 4.5 (178 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Too Many WomenRichard Sutton and Linda Pearson are secretly engaged but unable to marry because of financial problems. Crooked promoter Gibbons offers Richard a deal but, in order to get rid of him, Richard says a rich uncle in Brazil has died and | 1942 | Bernard B. Ray | Comedy | 4.8 (80 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Top SergeantAn army sergeant recognises a young recruit as the man responsible for his brother's death, while attempting a robbery. | 1942 | Christy Cabanne | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.6 (26 votes) | 64 | 20240826 |
| Tortilla FlatDanny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends. | 1942 | Victor Fleming (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (1.9K votes) | 105 | 20220806 |
| Tough as They ComeThe 'Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities. | 1942 | William Nigh | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.5 (42 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Tragedy at Midnight, AThis Republic murder mystery starts with a radio broadcast by Greg Sherman who solves cases on the air that the local police cannot solve. As he names the perpetrator of a recent murder we see the criminal, who is listening to the sh | 1942 | Joseph Santley | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (149 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Tragic Night [Tragica notte]Released from jail, Nanni punches prison guard Stefano who has denounced him. In order to take revenge, Stefano suggests the suspicion that, during his absence, his wife has had business with the Count Paolo. A few days later, at ... | 1942 | Mario Soldati | Drama | 6.8 (84 votes) | 80 | 20240515 |
| Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!A pair of barbers are driven out of business because most of the men in their small town are drafted into the army. When their attempts to also enlist fail, they decide to form a Home Defense Force, and wind up getting involved with | 1942 | Charles Barton | Comedy, Romance, War | 5.5 (38 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Tree in a Test TubeLaurel and Hardy demonstrate the uses of wood in this World War II propaganda film. | 1942 | Charles McDonald | Short | 4.6 (444 votes) | 6 | 20211228 |
| True to the ArmyWhile doing her tight-rope act in a local circus, Daisy Hawkins (Judy Canova), sees the owner shot by gangsters. The gangsters are after her to eliminate the only eye witness and the police chase her to testify against the gangsters. | 1942 | Albert S. Rogell | Comedy, Music | 6.7 (40 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Tulips Shall GrowA carefree boy and a young girl find their idyllic countryside invaded by an army of mindlessly destructive robots. | 1942 | George Pal | Animation, Short, Family, Romance | 6.8 (583 votes) | 7 | 20231001 |
| Tuttles of Tahiti, TheAfter a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the | 1942 | Charles Vidor (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 6.0 (362 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Twin BedsMike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes. | 1942 | Tim Whelan | Comedy | 5.1 (113 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Two Yanks in TrinidadTim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy) are partners in petty crime who fall out with each other. To escape the wrath of Barrows, Reardon enlists in the U.S. Army and so does Barrows and his two bodyguards Joe ... | 1942 | Gregory Ratoff | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 5.7 (36 votes) | 84 | 20230619 |
| Undercover ManA bandit who robs both Americans and Mexicans is causing each side of the border to blame the other. Hoppy has to settle matters. | 1942 | Lesley Selander | Western | 6.6 (160 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Undying Monster, TheSurviving members of an aristocratic English family are threatened by a legendary monster when they venture out on chilly, foggy nights. | 1942 | John Brahm | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (1.3K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Valley of the SunIn the Arizona Territory of 1868, a fugitive army scout and a crooked Indian Agent lock horns over the treatment of the cheated Natives and over the affections of a local beauty. | 1942 | George Marshall (*) | Western | 5.9 (366 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Vanishing Virginian, TheBiography of Robert Yancey, long-term district attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia. | 1942 | Frank Borzage (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music | 6.8 (298 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Vienna Blood [Wiener Blut]Count Wolkersheim attends the 1815 Vienna Congress to negotiate,to the Countess joy. Political concerns and music mix in a waltzing city, their apparently opposite attitudes testing their love. Will she behave or will he learn to wal | 1942 | Willi Forst | Comedy, Music | 6.5 (148 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Violette nei capellinan | 1942 | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 (18 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Wake IslandDecember, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base. | 1942 | John Farrow | Action, Drama, War | 6.8 (2K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| War Against Mrs. HadleyA Washington official courts a society matron who is trying to ignore the effects of World War II. | 1942 | Harold S. Bucquet | Drama | 6.6 (394 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Warsaw GhettoA documentary consisting of World War II footage of the Warsaw ghetto. | 1942 | Unknown | Documentary | 5.6 (70 votes) | 52 | 20230126 |
| We Do It Because-This short explores the origins of various customs such as shaking hands, kissing, and why ships are christened. | 1942 | Basil Wrangell | Short | 6.4 (100 votes) | 10 | 20240605 |
| We the Living [Noi vivi - Addio Kira!]The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear - the midnight knock at the door, the bread hidden against famine, the haunted eyes of the fleeing, the grublike fat of the appeasers and oppressors. In a | 1942 | Goffredo Alessandrini | Adventure, Drama, Romance, War | 7.0 (370 votes) | 170 | 20211228 |
| We Were DancingTwo titled aristocrats support themselves by being professional house guests in the homes of star-struck American nouveau riche. | 1942 | Robert Z. Leonard | Comedy, Romance | 6.1 (437 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Went The Day WellAn English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion. | 1942 | Alberto Cavalcanti | Thriller, War | 7.5 (3.6K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| What's Cookin'A group of entertainers visit a radio singer's home to try to get her to book them on her show. | 1942 | Edward F. Cline | Comedy, Music | 7.0 (65 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| What's the MatadorThe stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. ... | 1942 | Jules White | Comedy, Short | 7.5 (437 votes) | 17 | 20240224 |
| When Johnny Comes Marching HomeWar hero Johnny Kovacs works with his superiors to hide from a star crossed lover while on leave and falls in love while living at a boarding house. | 1942 | Charles Lamont | Comedy, Musical | 6.8 (61 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Whispering GhostsAn actor who plays a detective on a radio show and his sidekick get it into their heads to try to solve a murder that had been committed several years previously. | 1942 | Alfred L. Werker | Comedy, Mystery | 6.1 (140 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Whistling in DixieRadio sleuth Wally "The Fox" Benton forgoes his honeymoon to help his wife's old friend solve a murder and hunt for Civil War gold inside a spooky mansion and fort. | 1942 | S. Sylvan Simon | Comedy, Mystery, Crime | 6.7 (623 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| White CargoThe story takes place at a British plantation in Africa where Tondelayo entices all the Brits, especially Harry Witzel. | 1942 | Richard Thorpe | Adventure, Drama | 6.0 (712 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Who Done ItTwo dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast. | 1942 | Erle C. Kenton | Comedy, Mystery | 7.4 (2.5K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Who Is Hope SchuylerA girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solv | 1942 | Thomas Z. Loring | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance | 5.5 (40 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Whom the Gods Love [Wen die Götter lieben]A film relating to the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. [This is from the US copyright record, which is public domain.] | 1942 | Karl Hartl | Biography, Drama, History, Music | 7.6 (67 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Wife Takes a Flyer, TheChristopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces | 1942 | Richard Wallace | Comedy | 6.3 (136 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Wild Bill Hickok RidesIn 1870s Montana, Wild Bill Hickok fights against injustices brought upon the settlers by a crooked land-developer aided by a dishonest sheriff and illegal land-grabbers. | 1942 | Ray Enright | Western | 6.0 (142 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| WildcatA wildcatter, broke but slick, manages to acquire a lease for oil-rich land but ruthless competitors sabotage his oil company any way they can. | 1942 | Frank McDonald | Adventure, Drama, Film-Noir | 5.6 (136 votes) | 70 | 20240622 |
| Wings and the Woman [They Flew Alone]The story of flyer Amy Johnson who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy. | 1942 | Herbert Wilcox | Biography, Drama | 6.2 (236 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Wings for the EagleAircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle. | 1942 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 5.8 (282 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Wir machen MusikCaught at the window just before an air-raid warning (WWII) composer Paul tells how he met his wive Anni, a revue star and song writer, how he handled the courtship and the early years of his marriage, inspite of some professional co | 1942 | Helmut Käutner | Comedy, Musical | 6.8 (159 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Woman of the YearRival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle. | 1942 | George Stevens (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport | 7.2 (9.9K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| X Marks the SpotIn 1942, rubber is a valuable commodity during WWII. Eddie Delaney is a second lieutenant in the Army, but also a private detective. Eddie swings into action, when his father, police-sergeant Timothy J. Delaney, is gunned down by ... | 1942 | George Sherman | Action, Crime, Mystery | 5.2 (292 votes) | 55 | 20240614 |
| Yank at Eton, ADuring World War II, an American boy named Timothy Dennis is unwillingly sent to Eton College in the UK where he is frequently confused by the many differences between the two cultures. | 1942 | Norman Taurog | Comedy, Family | 6.2 (415 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Yank on the Burma Road, AA hero New York cabbie accepts a job to lead a convoy of trucks up the Burma Road from Rangoon to Chungking. Along the way he crosses paths with a beautiful yet mysterious American woman and he ends up fighting the Japanese. | 1942 | George B. Seitz | Adventure, Drama, War | 5.5 (181 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Yankee Doodle DandyThe life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan. | 1942 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Biography, Drama, Family, Music, Musical | 7.7 (15.2K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Yokel BoyPerfect Movie Fan"" Joe Ruddy is brought to Hollywood as a publicity stunt and put in charge of a production company as a gag, but everybody isn't in on the gag, and Joe imports a notorious gangster, ""Buggsy"" Malone, to play ""hims... | 1942 | Joseph Santley | Comedy, Crime, Music, Romance | 5.4 (40 votes) | 69 | 20230619 |
| You Can't Escape ForeverWhen Laurie goes to the execution of Varney and faints, she does not know that Varney gets a full pardon minutes before he fries. She calls in a story about his death and gets transferred to the Bewildered Heart Column of Prudence Ma | 1942 | Jo Graham | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.1 (235 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| You Were Never LovelierIn Buenos Aires, a man who has decreed that his daughters must marry in order of age allows an American dancer to perform at his club under the condition that he play suitor to his second-oldest daughter. | 1942 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.2 (3.6K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Young AmericaSpoiled city girl Jane Campbell is furious when her widower father sends her to the rural town of Button Willow Valley to live with her grandmother, Nora Campbell. Jane and her black servant, Abraham, loathe their new surroundings, a | 1942 | Louis King | Adventure, Drama | 5.5 (20 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Young Mr. PittThis biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of twenty-four. | 1942 | Carol Reed (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance, War | 6.7 (376 votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| You're Telling MeOther than the title, this film has no connection at all to the 1934 W.C. Fields film of the same title even though some sources give the plot of the Fields' film as the plot of this film. Hubert Abercrombie Gumm (Hugh Herbert), a fl | 1942 | Charles Lamont | Comedy | 6.2 (27 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Zug fährt ab, Einnan | 1942 | Johannes Meyer | Unknown | 7.0 (10 votes) | 90 | 20230619 |