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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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, ...

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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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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 - With Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, ...

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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, ...

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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, ...

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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, ...

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

Nazi Agent(1942)

| 1h 23min | Crime, Drama

3.3/5 (with 6 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

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, ...

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, ...

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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, ...

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The Big Street(1942)

1h 28min | Romance / Love, Drama

2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

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

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

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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, ...

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Native Land(1942)

1h 29min | Drama, History

3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage productions. Robeson committed his support to Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz’s political semidocumentary Native Land. With Robeson’s narration and songs, this beautifully shot and edited film exposes violations of Americans’ civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country. Scarcely shown since its debut, Native Land represents Robeson’s shift from narrative cinema to the leftist documentaries that would define the final chapter of his controversial film career.

Directed by Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand - With Paul Robeson, Robert Strauss

Joan of Paris(1942)

| 1h 31min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

An 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 arrest.

Directed by Robert Stevenson - With Michèle Morgan, Paul Henreid, Alan Ladd, Alexander Granach, Hans Conried, John Abbott, ...

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Sweater Girl(1942)

1h 17min | Comedy, Music, Mystery

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.

Directed by William Clemens - With Eddie Bracken

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, ...

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Tennessee Johnson(1942)

| 1h 43min | History, Drama

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.

Directed by William Dieterle - With Van Heflin, Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Hussey, Alec Craig, Carl Benton Reid, Charles Dingle, ...

Calling Dr. Gillespie(1942)

| 1h 29min | Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.

Directed by Harold S. Bucquet - With Lionel Barrymore, Donna Reed, Philip Dorn, Phil Brown, Nat Pendleton, Alma Kruger, ...

Submarine Raider(1942)

| 1h 4min | Drama, War

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and sinks an American yacht and the single survivor, Sue Curry, is rescued by an American submarine, the "Sea Serpent", commanded by Commander Chris Warren. He hears her story and attempts to radio a warning to Pearl Harbor. Yamanada, hearing the signals, orders the airlines jammed, and then sends his son into the air to sink the sub. The attack fails, after the sub makes a crash dive, but they fail in their warning attempts. The next morning, December 7th, the men on the sub hear the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and devise a desperate plan to sink the Japanese carrier by letting the carrier know their position. The carrier comes in search of the submarine.

Directed by Lew Landers - With Bruce Bennett, Forrest Tucker, John Howard, Larry Parks, Marguerite Chapman, Philip Ahn, ...

Wildcat(1942)

| 1h 10min | Drama

Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the outskirts but have to sell a share to a promoter who hires Johnny's old enemy.

Directed by Frank McDonald - With Richard Arlen

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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, ...

In This Our Life(1942)

| 1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 24 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, ...

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Underground Agent(1942)

1h 10min | Romance / Love, Action, Drama

In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a word scrambler which makes it difficult for the enemy agent.

Directed by Michael Gordon

The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland(1942)

1h 50min | History

3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain Allende that the flag of the insurgent movement be the banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Directed by Julio Bracho

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, ...

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, ...

Journey for Margaret(1942)

1h 21min | Drama, War

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her baby she returns to America. War weary, he is forced to do a story about war orphans, where he meets Margaret.

Directed by W. S. Van Dyke - With Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter, Nigel Bruce, Margaret O'Brien, Elisabeth Risdon, ...

General von Döbeln(1942)

1h 27min | Drama, History, War

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.

Directed by Olof Molander - With Edvin Adolphson

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1942 Drama Movies

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Bambi(1942)

In Which We Serve(1942)

The Talk of the Town(1942)

The Magnificent Ambersons(1942)

The Pride of the Yankees(1942)

Yankee Doodle Dandy(1942)

China Girl(1942)

There Was a Father(1942)

Nazi Agent(1942)

Desperate Journey(1942)

Across the Pacific(1942)

Once Upon a Honeymoon(1942)

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The Big Street(1942)

Keeper of the Flame(1943)

Native Land(1942)

Joan of Paris(1942)

Sweater Girl(1942)

Secret Mission(1942)

Tennessee Johnson(1942)

Calling Dr. Gillespie(1942)

Submarine Raider(1942)

Wildcat(1942)

White Cargo(1942)

In This Our Life(1942)

Underground Agent(1942)

The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland(1942)

The Moon and Sixpence(1942)

Tales of Manhattan(1942)

Journey for Margaret(1942)

General von Döbeln(1942)

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