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Best Movies of 1942, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
83 films from 1942 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is To Be or Not to Be ('1942), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.4. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Bambi, 7.3 on IMDb against 91 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To Be or Not to Be '1942 | Comedy / War / Romance | 8.1 | 96% | 86 | 7.8 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 2 | Now, Voyager '1942 | Romance / Drama | 7.8 | 91% | 70 | 7.4 | Irving Rapper |
| 3 | Random Harvest '1942 | Romance / Drama | 7.9 | 91% | 62 | 7.3 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 4 | The Magnificent Ambersons '1942 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 89% | 93 | 7.3 | Orson Welles |
| 5 | Mrs. Miniver '1942 | Drama / Romance / War | 7.6 | 93% | 77 | 7.1 | William Wyler |
| 6 | Yankee Doodle Dandy '1942 | Drama / Musical | 7.6 | 91% | 89 | 7.0 | Michael Curtiz |
| 7 | The Pride of the Yankees '1942 | Drama | 7.6 | 94% | - | 7.3 | Sam Wood |
| 8 | The Palm Beach Story '1942 | Comedy / Romance | 7.5 | 94% | - | 7.0 | Preston Sturges |
| 9 | The Talk of the Town '1942 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 89% | - | 7.4 | George Stevens |
| 10 | Donald's Snow Fight '1942 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.2 | Jack King |
| 11 | This Gun for Hire '1942 | Crime / Thriller / Mystery | 7.4 | 94% | - | 7.0 | Frank Tuttle |
| 12 | Kings Row '1942 | Romance / Drama / Mystery | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.4 | Sam Wood |
| 13 | Bambi '1942 | Animation / Drama | 7.3 | 91% | 91 | 7.0 | David Hand |
| 14 | Went the Day Well? '1942 | War / Thriller | 7.5 | 93% | - | 7.1 | Alberto Cavalcanti |
| 15 | The Major and the Minor '1942 | Comedy / Romance | 7.4 | 100% | 73 | 7.1 | Billy Wilder |
| 16 | Gentleman Jim '1942 | Drama / Comedy | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Raoul Walsh |
| 17 | Holiday Inn '1942 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 100% | 70 | 7.0 | Mark Sandrich |
| 18 | There Was a Father '1942 | Drama | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 19 | The Bowling Alley-Cat '1942 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.5 | William Hanna |
| 20 | Dog Trouble '1942 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.1 | William Hanna |
| 21 | The Courtyard of the Ballads '1942 | Musical / Comedy | 7.8 | - | - | 8.7 | Francisco Ribeiro |
| 22 | Aniki-Bóbó '1942 | Drama | 7.6 | - | - | 7.6 | Manoel de Oliveira |
| 23 | In This Our Life '1942 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | - | - | 6.9 | John Huston |
| 24 | Cat People '1942 | Mystery / Horror / Romance | 7.2 | 92% | 85 | 6.9 | Jacques Tourneur |
| 25 | The Murderer Lives at Number 21 '1942 | Comedy / Mystery / Thriller | 7.3 | 80% | - | 7.2 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 26 | Fine Feathered Friend '1942 | Animation / Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 7.2 | William Hanna |
| 27 | In Which We Serve '1942 | Drama / War | 7.2 | 90% | - | 6.7 | Noël Coward |
| 28 | Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid '1942 | Animation / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 6.9 | Robert Clampett |
| 29 | Who Done It? '1942 | Comedy / Mystery | 7.3 | - | - | 7.0 | Erle C. Kenton |
| 30 | Fraidy Cat '1942 | Animation / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.3 | Joseph Barbera |
| 31 | You Were Never Lovelier '1942 | Romance / Comedy | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | William A. Seiter |
| 32 | Saboteur '1942 | Thriller / Mystery | 7.1 | 81% | 64 | 6.9 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 33 | Puss n' Toots '1942 | Comedy / Animation | 7.3 | - | - | 6.9 | Joseph Barbera |
| 34 | The Devil's Envoys '1942 | Romance / Fantasy / Drama | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Marcel Carné |
| 35 | Woman of the Year '1942 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.1 | 86% | 74 | 7.0 | George Stevens |
| 36 | I Married a Witch '1942 | Romance / Fantasy / Comedy | 7.1 | 95% | - | 6.9 | René Clair |
| 37 | All Through the Night '1942 | Comedy / Action / Thriller | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Vincent Sherman |
| 38 | Symphony Hour '1942 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 7.4 | - | - | 6.9 | Riley Thomson |
| 39 | A Tale of Two Kitties '1942 | Animation / Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.8 | Robert Clampett |
| 40 | The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall '1942 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.8 | Chuck Jones |
| 41 | How to Play Baseball '1942 | Comedy / Animation / Fantasy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.9 | Jack Kinney |
| 42 | The Wabbit Who Came to Supper '1942 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Friz Freleng |
| 43 | The Glass Key '1942 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.0 | 88% | - | 6.7 | Stuart Heisler |
| 44 | Road to Morocco '1942 | Comedy / Musical / Romance | 7.0 | 79% | 75 | 6.9 | David Butler |
| 45 | For Me and My Gal '1942 | Romance / War | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.5 | Busby Berkeley |
| 46 | One of Our Aircraft Is Missing '1942 | War / Drama | 7.0 | 100% | 74 | 6.6 | Emeric Pressburger |
| 47 | Why We Fight: Prelude to War '1942 | Documentary / War | 7.0 | - | - | 6.4 | Frank Capra |
| 48 | Blitz Wolf '1942 | Animation / Comedy / War | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | Tex Avery |
| 49 | Billion Dollar Limited '1942 | Animation / Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi | 7.0 | - | - | 7.0 | Dave Fleischer |
| 50 | The Magnetic Telescope '1942 | Animation / Fantasy / Action / Sci-Fi | 7.0 | - | - | 6.9 | Dave Fleischer |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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