| # | Rank ▲ | Film | Year | Director | Country | Genre | Keywords | Votes | IMDb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 41 | Cat People | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur | USA | Mystery | Psychological Horror, Romance, Gothic, Supernatural, Film noir, German Expressionism | 207 | IMDb ↗ |
| 2 | 998 | The Ghost of Frankenstein | 1942 | Erle C. Kenton | USA | Science Fiction | Gothic, Legal Drama | 15 | IMDb ↗ |
| 3 | 1918 | The Mummy’s Tomb | 1942 | Harold Young | USA | Supernatural | — | 8 | IMDb ↗ |
| 4 | 1964 | The Undying Monster | 1942 | John Brahm | USA | Werewolf | Mystery, Gothic | 8 | IMDb ↗ |
| 5 | 2238 | Night Monster | 1942 | Ford Beebe | USA | Mystery | — | 6 | IMDb ↗ |
| 6 | 2614 | I Married a Witch | 1942 | René Clair | USA | Comedy | — | 5 | IMDb ↗ |
| 7 | 2623 | The Boogie Man Will Get You | 1942 | Lew Landers | USA | Comedy | — | 5 | IMDb ↗ |
| 8 | 2654 | The Mad Monster | 1942 | Sam Newfield | USA | Werewolf | Science Fiction | 5 | IMDb ↗ |
| 9 | 2920 | Bowery at Midnight | 1942 | Wallace Fox | USA | Thriller | — | 4 | IMDb ↗ |
| 10 | 3133 | Invisible Agent | 1942 | Edwin L. Marin | USA | Science Fiction | — | 4 | IMDb ↗ |
| 11 | 3509 | Dr. Renault’s Secret | 1942 | Harry Lachman | USA | Science Fiction | — | 3 | IMDb ↗ |
| 12 | 3575 | The Night Has Eyes | 1942 | Leslie Arliss | UK | Mystery | — | 3 | IMDb ↗ |
| 13 | 4175 | L’assassin habite… au 21 | 1942 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | France | Thriller | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 14 | 4246 | The Corpse Vanishes | 1942 | Wallace Fox | USA | Mystery | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 15 | 4268 | The Living Ghost | 1942 | William Beaudine | USA | Mystery | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 16 | 4686 | Mystery of Marie Roget | 1942 | Phil Rosen | USA | Mystery | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 17 | 4714 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | USA | Drama | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 18 | 5289 | Black Dragons | 1942 | William Nigh | USA | Mystery | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 19 | 5347 | Bambi | 1942 | Samuel Armstrong, Paul Satterfield, Graham Heid, James Algar, David Hand, Clyde Geronimi, Arthur Davis, Bill Roberts, Norman Wright | USA | Family | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 20 | 5751 | Lucky Ghost | 1942 | William X. Crowley | USA | Comedy | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 21 | 6574 | Tomorrow We Live | 1942 | Edgar G. Ulmer | USA | Crime | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 22 | 6575 | La nuit fantastique | 1942 | Marcel L'Herbier | France | Fantasy | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 23 | 6580 | Les visiteurs du soir | 1942 | Marcel Carné | France | Fantasy | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 24 | 6757 | La Gorgona | 1942 | Guido Brignone | Italy | Romance | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 25 | 7255 | Holiday Inn | 1942 | Mark Sandrich | USA | Musical | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 26 | 7461 | The Strange Case of Doctor Rx | 1942 | William Nigh | USA | Mystery | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 27 | 7462 | The Mad Doctor of Market Street | 1942 | Joseph H. Lewis | USA | Comedy | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 28 | 7475 | Man with Two Lives | 1942 | Phil Rosen | USA | Science Fiction | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 29 | 9552 | Fingers at the Window | 1942 | Charles Lederer | USA | Mystery | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
Keyword data is still being added, so some films have incomplete or missing keywords.