Top Movies of 1942


The top movies of 1942 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

1. Casablanca

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Dooley Wilson
Plot: Set in Africa during the 1940s, Humphrey Bogart stars as a man with a past trying to hide the past. He meets his former lover at his own bar as things begin to complicate.

2. Bambi

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: David Hand
Actors: John Sutherland, Tim Davis, Margaret Lee, Thelma Boardman, Hardie Albright, Sam Edwards
Plot: A year in the life of a deer named Bambi.

3. To Be or Not to Be

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Actors: Robert Stack, Jack Benny, Carole Lombard, Sig Ruman, Halliwell Hobbes, Henry Victor
Plot: In WWII occupied Poland, comedy stage actors use thier skills to imperonate Nazi generals to gain information to rid themselves from teh Nazis.

4. The Magnificent Ambersons

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Orson Welles
Actors: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins
Plot: The story of a rich family in the early twentieth century unfolds over many decades. As a young man, Eugene wishes to marry Isabel, but is too wild. Years later, having achieved success in business, he returns and seeks to marry the widowed Isabel, but not all of Isabel's family is happy with this development.

5. Now, Voyager

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Irving Rapper
Actors: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville, John Loder
Plot: A young woman is dominated by her overbearing mother and has a nervous breakdown, only to recover and triumphantly overcome her overwhelming mother.

6. The Pride of the Yankees

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sport/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sam Wood
Actors: Gary Cooper, Babe Ruth, Walter Brennan, Teresa Wright, Dan Duryea, Elsa Janssen
Plot: The story of the life of famous baseball player for the New York Yankees, Lou Gehrig.

7. Yankee Doodle Dandy

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning, George Tobias, Walter Huston
Plot: A biography portraying the life of George Cohan as it follows him through his beginning singing and acting career to further down the line when he writes and dances in his own plays.

8. Saboteur

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans, Norman Lloyd
Plot: A factory worker (Robert Cummings) is blamed for an act of sabotage at an airplane factory. The fugitive then attempts to track down the man who framed him, uncovering a wealthy network of domestic terrorists along the way.

9. Woman of the Year

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson, William Bendix
Plot: A pair of rival reporters find themselves drawn together - and eventually marry - but things aren't perfect - especially as Tess, one of the most recognizable feminists in the country - begins to neglect the relationship.

10. Larceny, Inc.

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford, Jack Carson, Anthony Quinn, Harry Davenport
Plot: A gangster buys a luggage store to break into the bank next door but decides not to after the store starts making a profit

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