Drama Movies
Gentleman Jim (1942)

Gentleman Jim (1942)

Gentleman Jim (1942)
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104

As 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 boxing world.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Great Mr Handel (1942)

The Great Mr Handel (1942)

The Great Mr Handel (1942)
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89

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah.

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Genre: Drama, Music
Dr. Gillespie’s New Assistant (1942)

Dr. Gillespie’s New Assistant (1942)

Dr. Gillespie’s New Assistant (1942)
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87

The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
The Moon and Sixpence (1942)

The Moon and Sixpence (1942)

The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
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89

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…

Genre: Drama
Manila Calling (1942)

Manila Calling (1942)

Manila Calling (1942)
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81

During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.

Genre: Drama, War
The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)

The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)

The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)
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86

In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately, the local gang…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Midnight in Paris (1942)

Midnight in Paris (1942)

Midnight in Paris (1942)
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90

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…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Street of Chance (1942)

Street of Chance (1942)

Street of Chance (1942)
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74

In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man’s memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a year-long lapse, he returns to his old life and discovers a…

The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)

The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)

The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
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118

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

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Genre: Drama, History
The First of the Few (1942)

The First of the Few (1942)

The First of the Few (1942)
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118

This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history – visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey…

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Genre: Drama, War
Orchestra Wives (1942)

Orchestra Wives (1942)

Orchestra Wives (1942)
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98

Connie 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 band’s…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Across the Pacific (1942)

Across the Pacific (1942)

Across the Pacific (1942)
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97

Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for…

The Trump Card (1942)

The Trump Card (1942)

The Trump Card (1942)
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105

A 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…

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Somewhere I’ll Find You (1942)

Somewhere I’ll Find You (1942)

Somewhere I’ll Find You (1942)
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108

Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Berlin Correspondent (1942)

Berlin Correspondent (1942)

Berlin Correspondent (1942)
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70

Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities first hand, Roberts hopes to alert his listeners…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Cairo (1942)

Cairo (1942)

Cairo (1942)
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101

Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
The Big Street (1942)

The Big Street (1942)

The Big Street (1942)
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88

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

Genre: Drama, Romance
Wake Island (1942)

Wake Island (1942)

Wake Island (1942)
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87

In late 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.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
The Gay Sisters (1942)

The Gay Sisters (1942)

The Gay Sisters (1942)
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110

The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Crossroads (1942)

Crossroads (1942)

Crossroads (1942)
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83

A French diplomat who’s recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember.

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Wings for the Eagle (1942)

Wings for the Eagle (1942)

Wings for the Eagle (1942)
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84

Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.

The Foreman Went to France (1942)

The Foreman Went to France (1942)

The Foreman Went to France (1942)
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87

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

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Genre: Drama, War
They Raid by Night (1942)

They Raid by Night (1942)

They Raid by Night (1942)
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73

The British Commandos send Bob Owen to Norway to prepare for a raid. His mission also includes freeing General Heden who is being held by the Nazis. His aides include…

Genre: Drama, War
The Next of Kin (1942)

The Next of Kin (1942)

The Next of Kin (1942)
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102

Lots of slogans such as “Be like Dad, Keep Mum” and “Keep it under your Hat” are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this…

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The Day Will Dawn (1942)

The Day Will Dawn (1942)

The Day Will Dawn (1942)
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98

Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German…

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Genre: Drama, War
Suspected Person (1942)

Suspected Person (1942)

Suspected Person (1942)
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73

After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of the…

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)

Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)

Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)
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85

Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton’s lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Juke Girl (1942)

Juke Girl (1942)

Juke Girl (1942)
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90

During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers and pickers struggle under the buyer who rules…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
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126

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

Genre: Drama, Music
Miss Annie Rooney (1942)

Miss Annie Rooney (1942)

Miss Annie Rooney (1942)
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82

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…

Genre: Drama
Moontide (1942)

Moontide (1942)

Moontide (1942)
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94

After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.

Strangers in the House (1942)

Strangers in the House (1942)

Strangers in the House (1942)
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95

Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
This Above All (1942)

This Above All (1942)

This Above All (1942)
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110

In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Native Land (1942)

Native Land (1942)

Native Land (1942)
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89

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…

Genre: Drama, History
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
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102

On its way back from a raid on the city of Stuttgart, Germany, a British bomber is shot down over Nazi-held Holland. Parachuting into Dutch farmlands under cover of darkness,…

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Genre: Drama, War
Kid Glove Killer (1942)

Kid Glove Killer (1942)

Kid Glove Killer (1942)
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74

Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
There Was a Father (1942)

There Was a Father (1942)

There Was a Father (1942)
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93

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

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Genre: Drama
Lady Gangster (1942)

Lady Gangster (1942)

Lady Gangster (1942)
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62

An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Mokey (1942)

Mokey (1942)

Mokey (1942)
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88

A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.

Genre: Drama
Wicked Duchess (1942)

Wicked Duchess (1942)

Wicked Duchess (1942)
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99

Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli’s adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is…

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Genre: Drama