1942 Drama Movies

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Bambi(1942)

1h 5min | Animation, Drama, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 2,574 votes)

Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.

Directed by David Hand, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Norman Wright, Samuel Armstrong, Paul Satterfield, ...

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The Magnificent Ambersons(1942)

1h 28min | Drama, Romance / Love, History

3.7/5 (with 173 votes)

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

Directed by Orson Welles, Robert Wise - With Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, ...

The Pride of the Yankees(1942)

2h 8min | Drama, Kids & Family

3.7/5 (with 49 votes)

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

Directed by Sam Wood - With Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Walter Brennan, Babe Ruth, Dan Duryea, Ludwig Stössel, ...

Yankee Doodle Dandy(1942)

2h 6min | Drama, Music

3.6/5 (with 87 votes)

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp, ...

In Which We Serve(1942)

1h 55min | Drama, War

3.5/5 (with 35 votes)

The story of the HMS Torrin, from it's construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.

Directed by Noël Coward, David Lean - With John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, Noël Coward, Michael Wilding, James Donald, ...

There Was a Father(1942)

1h 34min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 25 votes)

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Mitsuko Mito, Chishū Ryū, Shin Saburi

Once Upon a Honeymoon(1942)

1h 57min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Mystery

3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

Directed by Leo McCarey - With Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker, Albert Bassermann, Ferike Boros, ...

The Talk of the Town(1942)

1h 58min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 37 votes)

When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.

Directed by George Stevens - With Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Rex Ingram, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell, ...

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Tales of Manhattan(1942)

1h 58min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.

Directed by Julien Duvivier - With Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson, ...

Secret Mission(1942)

1h 34min | Drama, War

2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis.

Directed by Harold French - With Hugh Williams, James Mason, Carla Lehmann, Roland Culver, Fritz Wendhausen, Karel Štěpánek, ...

Across the Pacific(1942)

1h 37min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.3/5 (with 30 votes)

Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.

Directed by John Huston, Vincent Sherman - With Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Richard Loo, Monte Blue, Victor Sen Yung, ...

White Cargo(1942)

1h 28min | Adventure, Drama

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.

Directed by Richard Thorpe - With Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Bramwell Fletcher, Clyde Cook, Frank Morgan, Henry O'Neill, ...

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Keeper of the Flame(1943)

1h 40min | Drama, Mystery

3.4/5 (with 16 votes)

Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.

Directed by George Cukor - With Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker, Darryl Hickman, ...

In This Our Life(1942)

1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.

Directed by John Huston - With Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Charles Coburn, George Brent, Dennis Morgan, Billie Burke, ...

The Big Street(1942)

1h 28min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.

Directed by Irving Reis - With Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton MacLane, Eugene Pallette, Agnes Moorehead, George Cleveland, ...

China Girl(1942)

1h 35min | Drama, War

2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic 'China Girl' Miss Young. The two arduously make their way back to friendly lines so that Johnny can deliver the vital military information he's managed to glean from his captors.

Directed by Henry Hathaway - With Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Sig Ruman, Robert Blake, ...

Desperate Journey(1942)

1h 47min | Action, Drama, War, Adventure

3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Raymond Massey, Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Coleman, Ronald Sinclair, ...

You Can't Escape Forever(1942)

1h 17min | Thriller

2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.

Directed by Jo Graham - With George Brent, Bud Jamison, Creighton Hale, Leo White, Harry Tenbrook, Fred Kelsey, ...

Johnny Eager(1941)

1h 47min | Drama, Crime, Thriller

2.9/5 (with 16 votes)

A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin, Paul Stewart, Glenda Farrell, ...

Aniki-Bóbó(1942)

1h 11min | Drama, Kids & Family

3.8/5 (with 17 votes)

Two schoolboys, Carlitos and Eduardo, fight for the affection of a girl, Terezhina.

Directed by Manoel de Oliveira

The Jester's Supper(1942)

1h 27min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and harmless Giannetto. Even though determined to not react to the cruel pranks of the brothers, Giannetto is forced to take a stand when Ginevra, a beautiful girl that works in the Chiaramantesi household, is dragged into the game. To defend his honor and protect the girl, Giannetto works out a fiendish plot that will end in blood and madness.

Directed by Alessandro Blasetti - With Amedeo Nazzari, Osvaldo Valenti, Clara Calamai, Valentina Cortese, Memo Benassi, Piero Carnabuci, ...

The Moon and Sixpence(1942)

1h 29min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.

Directed by Albert Lewin - With George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Eric Blore, Albert Bassermann, Florence Bates, Mike Mazurki, ...

Nazi Agent(1942)

1h 23min | Crime, Drama

3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.

Directed by Jules Dassin - With Conrad Veidt, Frank Reicher

Carmen(1944)

2h 4min | Drama, Music

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Christian-Jaque - With Viviane Romance, Jean Marais, Bernard Blier, Elli Parvo, Adriano Rimoldi, Liliana Laine, ...

Ride Tonight!(1942)

1h 46min | History, Drama

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.

Directed by Gustaf Molander - With Oscar Ljung, Eva Dahlbeck, Hilda Borgström, Gerd Hagman

War Dogs(1942)

1h 4min | Adventure, War

2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A young boy donates his pet, a police dog, to the army to be trained as a war dog.

Directed by S. Roy Luby

Hatter's Castle(1942)

1h 42min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie, the man who built it. Brodie is a hatter who keeps the members of the family in fear and submission; he is brutal, arrogant, selfish and cruel. His wife, who has long been ailing, and his daughter Mary, are in awe of him. His son Angus, aged 15, alone dear to his heart, suffers under his love as the others suffer under his sternness.

Directed by Lance Comfort - With Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Emlyn Williams, Henry Oscar, George Merritt, ...

Miss Annie Rooney(1942)

1h 22min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

A 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.

Directed by Edwin L. Marin - With Shirley Temple, Dickie Moore, William Gargan, Guy Kibbee

On the Sunny Side(1942)

1h 9min | Drama, War

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Because 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 isn't so happy when things begin to change when his father fore-goes their evening game of Chinese Checkers to play chess with Hugh, and Hugh shows himself to be a formidable scholar, and impresses Don's girlfriend Betty, and becomes more popular with the boys than Don was...and Don is beginning to think that Hugh is too much of a good thing. Don gets downright depressed and decides to run away. Uh, oh, here comes Hugh.

Directed by Harold D. Schuster - With Roddy McDowall

La vírgen morena(1942)

1h 38min

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous visitations of The Virgin Mary to two of the downtrodden and conquered indigenous peons.

Directed by Gabriel Soria - With Antonio Bravo, Arturo Soto Rangel, Luis Alcoriza, Abel Salazar, Tito Junco, María Luisa Zea, ...