The best movies 1942 Pagina 4

A dramatised introduction to the 'Y Scheme', whereby potential young naval recruits could apply for the type of job they wanted before being called...

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess'...

US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local...

Nazi spies mistake Snuffy Smith's moonshine for a new secret rocket fuel and try to steal the "formula."

A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when...

A young Viennese actor is having much success on the stage; but intrigue and confusion in his love life are making his life a living Hell.

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

Andy and his brother-in-law plan a fishing trip but never get beyond the driveway.

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox...

An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.

Young Count Georg Wolkersheim is sent to the Congress of Vienna to represent the interests of his country, Reuss-Schleiz-Greiz. Tensions arise...

When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of...

The Two Curious Puppies get into mischief at the zoo.

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

In this short, members of the California Water Bugs club demonstrate new ways to get thrills when water skiing.

Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15...

To impress friends and family, Cristina pretends to be the fiancée of best-selling author Pablo Reyes. When Reyes shows up in town, he...

A meteorologist's wife hurts her sister so she won't reveal who the real mother of her child is.

Based on a play

A counterfeiting gang implicate a bank employee in their crimes, but their cover-story about a ghost in the house where they do their printing...

A Chilean spy pretends to love an Indian woman, the only one who knows a secret passage in the Andes mountain range.

Stories in a boarding house where an actress, a bank employee and a trickster live.

The pusillanimous architect Federico Solá is a thirty years man who life seems determined not to smile: no job, no girlfriend, no friends, one...

The troubled story of the Churruca family, a noble lineage of brave seamen, descendants of Cosme Damián Churruca, the Spanish hero of the...

First feature film by Chilean director Patricio Kaulen.

Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who...

The relationship of the young night school teacher with her students.

After losing all his fortune, a man assumes his poverty with dignity, confidence and effort. He faces all adversities and his nobility and...

The dream of Atenodoro is to be a professor at the Faculty of Law. The students show enthusiasm for Ana, the professor’s daughter. Atenodoro...

After a long absence, a man returns to his country, ruined. He meets and falls in love with a girl who is later revealed to be his daughter. After...

Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep...

The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.

The Story of a Woman's Redemption

A young couple pretends to have had a baby in order to get the girl's father's permission to get married.