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| 1 |  | Casablanca (1942) |  3.9536 166 reviews | PG | Drama, Romance |
$8.04
| Expatriate and nightclub owner Rick Blaine is faced with the decision to help an old girlfriend's ...more about Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman |
| 2 |  | Bambi (1942) |  3.2938 81 reviews | G | Drama, Family, Animation, Disney |
$9.99
| Hailed as "the Prince of the forest" we follow Bambi from birth to adulthood. We see his ...more about Bambi starring Hardie Albright and Tim Davis |
| 3 |  | Road to Morocco (1942) | 3.2560 12 reviews | NA | Adventure, Comedy, Family |
$5.70
| Jeff and Turkey, two wild and crazy guys adrift on a raft in the Mediterranean, are cast away on a ...more about Road to Morocco starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope |
| 4 |  | To Be or Not to Be (1942) |  3.1971 29 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Comedy |
$8.68
| In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife ...more about To Be or Not to Be starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny |
| 5 |  | Holiday Inn (1942) | 3.1839 31 reviews | NA | Christmas, Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$4.99
| One half of a night club duo decides to open an inn in the country that is only open on holidays. ...more about Holiday Inn starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire |
| 6 |  | Woman of the Year (1942) | 3.1373 15 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$8.68
| Tess and Sam work on the same newspaper and don't like each other very much. At least the first ...more about Woman of the Year starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn |
| 7 |  | Cat People (1942) | 3.0924 51 reviews | PG | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Romance |
$12.71
| Irena Dubrovna, a beautiful and mysterious Serbian-born fashion artist living in New York City, ...more about Cat People starring Simone Simon and Kent Smith |
| 8 |  | This Gun for Hire (1942) | 3.0875 15 reviews | NA | Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir |
$5.95
| Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by ...more about This Gun for Hire starring Veronica Lake and Robert Preston |
| 9 |  | Talk of the Town, The (1942) | 3.0063 16 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Romance, Comedy |
$15.34
| When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson (and ...more about Talk of the Town starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur |
| 10 |  | Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) | 3.0031 22 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography, Music |
$15.52
| A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star ...more about Yankee Doodle Dandy starring James Cagney and Joan Leslie |
| 11 |  | Black Swan, The (1942) | 3.0014 18 reviews | NA | Adventure, Romance, Family |
$6.88
| When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his ...more about Black Swan starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara |
| 12 |  | Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942) | 2.9887 34 reviews | NA | Drama |
$4.89
| The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a ...more about Magnificent Ambersons starring Joseph Cotten and Dolores Costello |
| 13 |  | My Favorite Blonde (1942) | 2.9730 13 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$8.89
| Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train bound for Los Angeles. Is Hollywood ...more about My Favorite Blonde starring Bob Hope and Madeleine Carroll |
| 14 |  | Kings Row (1942) | 2.9725 13 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$12.71
| Five children in an apparently ideal American small town find their lives changing as the years ...more about Kings Row starring Ann Sheridan and Robert Cummings |
| 15 |  | Pride of the Yankees, The (1942) | 2.9706 21 reviews | NA | Drama, Biography, Family, Sports |
$8.99
| Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games ...more about Pride of the Yankees starring Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright |
| 16 |  | Now, Voyager (1942) | 2.9679 31 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$8.68
| Charlotte Vale suffers under the domination of her Boston matron mother until Dr. Jaquith gets her ...more about Now starring Bette Davis and Paul Henreid |
| 17 |  | I Married a Witch (1942) | 2.9588 16 reviews | NA | Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Comedy | N/A | After a ancestor of Wallace Wooley has burned Jennifer, a witch and her father, they cursed his ...more about I Married a Witch starring Veronica Lake and Robert Benchley |
| 18 |  | Orchestra Wives (1942) | 2.9487 14 reviews | NA | Musical |
$8.99
| Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her ...more about Orchestra Wives starring Ann Rutherford |
| 19 |  | Jungle Book (1942) | 2.9222 6 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Fantasy |
$2.95
| Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. ...more about Jungle Book starring Sabu (I) and Joseph Calleia |
| 20 |  | Palm Beach Story, The (1942) | 2.9208 28 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy |
$4.08
| Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is ...more about Palm Beach Story starring Claudette Colbert and Franklin Pangborn |
| 21 |  | Mrs. Miniver (1942) | 2.8713 31 reviews | NA | Drama, War, Romance |
$7.99
| The Minivers, an English "middle-class" family experience life in the first months of World War II. ...more about Mrs. Miniver starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon |
| 22 |  | Major and the Minor, The (1942) | 2.8609 14 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy | N/A | New York working girl Ginger Rogers is desparate to go home to Iowa but does not have the railway ...more about Major and the Minor starring Ginger Rogers and Rita Johnson |
| 23 |  | Tales of Manhattan (1942) | 2.8469 6 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy | N/A | An actor, Paul Orman, is accidentally told that his new, custom made tail coat has been cursed and ...more about Tales of Manhattan starring Charles Boyer and Rita Hayworth |
| 24 |  | Corpse Vanishes, The (1942) | 2.8045 9 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi |
$4.99
| Dr. Lorenz, a mad scientist, wants to keep his elderly wife young. He does this by kidnapping young ...more about Corpse Vanishes starring Bela Lugosi and Luana Walters |
| 25 |  | Man Who Came to Dinner, The (1942) | 2.7952 16 reviews | NA | Comedy |
$8.68
| Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside slips on the ice on his way into the home of a prominent Ohio family. ...more about Man Who Came to Dinner starring Bette Davis and Ann Sheridan |
| 26 |  | Ghost of Frankenstein, The (1942) | 2.7913 19 reviews | NA | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$8.89
| Ygor resurrects Frankenstein's monster and brings him to the original doctor's son, Ludwig, for ...more about Ghost of Frankenstein starring Cedric Hardwicke and Lon Chaney Jr. |
| 27 |  | Keeper of the Flame (1942) | 2.7670 6 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | Journalist Steve O'Malley is writing a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a ...more about Keeper of the Flame starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn |
| 28 |  | You Were Never Lovelier (1942) |  2.7264 17 reviews | PG | Musical, Romance, Comedy |
$10.23
| The Acunas, a rich Argentine family, have the tradition that the daughters have to get married in ...more about You Were Never Lovelier starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth |
| 29 |  | Big Street, The (1942) | 2.7213 4 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance | N/A | Little Pinks is in love with a nightclub singer named Gloria. But it is a unrequited love as she ...more about Big Street starring Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball |
| 30 |  | Invisible Agent (1942) | 2.7031 5 reviews | NA | Adventure, War, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$19.60
| Frank Raymond, grandson of the original Invisible Man, still has the old formula but considers it ...more about Invisible Agent starring Peter Lorre and Cedric Hardwicke |
| 31 |  | In Which We Serve (1942) | 2.6939 12 reviews | NA | Drama, War |
$7.99
| ...more about In Which We Serve starring Noel Coward and Celia Johnson |
| 32 |  | Kid Glove Killer (1942) | 2.6921 5 reviews | PG | Drama, Crime, Mystery | N/A | First feature film from director Fred Zinneman is a snappy little "B" feature that features Van ...more about Kid Glove Killer starring Van Heflin and Marsha Hunt |
| 33 |  | For Me and My Gal (1942) | 2.6777 10 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical, Romance |
$13.79
| Set during WW I, Palmer and Hayden team up as vaudeville artists. Harry Palmer deliberately injures ...more about For Me and My Gal starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly |
| 34 |  | Wake Island (1942) | 2.6711 9 reviews | NA | Drama, War |
$8.89
| In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His ...more about Wake Island starring Brian Donlevy and Robert Preston |
| 35 |  | Male Animal, The (1942) | 2.6574 2 reviews | NA | Romance, Comedy | N/A | The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being ...more about Male Animal starring Henry Fonda and Eugene Pallette |
| 36 |  | Across the Pacific (1942) | 2.6468 9 reviews | NA | Adventure, War, Romance |
$39.98
| Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is ...more about Across the Pacific starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor |
| 37 |  | Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942) | 2.6118 1 reviews | NA | N/A | ...more about Andy Hardy's Double Life starring Lewis Stone and Mickey Rooney | |
| 38 |  | Saboteur (1942) | 2.6111 13 reviews | NA | Thriller, Romance |
$5.99
| When sabotage destroys part of an aircraft plant, plant worker Barry Kane is falsely blamed for the ...more about Saboteur starring Priscilla Lane and Robert Cummings |
| 39 |  | Magnificent Dope, The (1942) | 2.6026 2 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest ...more about Magnificent Dope starring Henry Fonda and Lynn Bari |
| 40 | | Tuttles of Tahiti, The (1942) | 2.5889 2 reviews | NA | Comedy | N/A | After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has ...more about Tuttles of Tahiti starring Curt Bois and Jon Hall |
| 41 |  | Bowery at Midnight (1942) | 2.5817 11 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi, Crime |
$4.99
| Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Bela Lugosi uses his soup kitchen as a ...more about Bowery at Midnight starring Bela Lugosi and John Archer |
| 42 | | Always in My Heart (1942) | 2.5752 1 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical | N/A | After many years, MacKenzie Scott is pardoned from prison, but his wife is already involved with ...more about Always in My Heart starring Kay Francis and Walter Huston |
| 43 | | Dr. Renault's Secret (1942) | 2.5661 6 reviews | NA | N/A | A young man visits his fiancée in a remote French villa where her scientist father (George Zucco) ...more about Dr. Renault's Secret starring Lynne Roberts and George Zucco | |
| 44 | | Song of the Islands (1942) | 2.5570 3 reviews | NA | Musical, Comedy | N/A | With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on ...more about Song of the Islands starring Betty Grable and Victor Mature |
| 45 |  | Somewhere I'll Find You (1942) | 2.5341 3 reviews | NA | N/A | Two brothers, both war correspondents, vie for the affection of the same girl at the beginning of ...more about Somewhere I'll Find You starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner | |
| 46 |  | To the Shores of Tripoli (1942) | 2.5296 4 reviews | NA | Action, Drama |
$9.99
| Sergeant Dixie Smith has more raw recruits to turn into Marines, if he can. Among them is cocky ...more about To the Shores of Tripoli starring John Payne and Maureen O'Hara |
| 47 |  | Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) | 2.5204 5 reviews | NA | Drama |
$25.99
| Erik Toresen, widower and fishery observer, leads a quiet life in a small Norwegian town; but after ...more about Commandos Strike at Dawn starring Lillian Gish and Anna Lee |
| 48 |  | Fingers at the Window (1942) | 2.5113 3 reviews | NA | Thriller, Mystery, Comedy, Film-Noir | N/A | The City of Chicago is gripped by an Axe Murderer. The streets are empty at night as there has been ...more about Fingers at the Window starring Lew Ayres and Laraine Day |
| 49 | | Grand Central Murder (1942) | 2.5113 3 reviews | NA | Mystery, Film-Noir | N/A | A convict being escorted in for retrial escapes at Grand Central and threatens his old girlfriend ...more about Grand Central Murder starring Van Heflin and Patricia Dane |
| 50 | | Penn of Pennsylvania (1942) | 2.4839 1 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | ...more about Penn of Pennsylvania starring Clifford Evans and Deborah Kerr |
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