# List of British films of 1942

A list of British films released in 1942.

## 1942

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1942 |||||||
| Alibi | Brian Desmond Hurst | James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Raymond Lovell | Thriller | |
| Asking for Trouble | Oswald Mitchell | Max Miller, Carole Lynne, Wilfrid Hyde-White | Comedy | |
| Back-Room Boy | Herbert Mason | Arthur Askey, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt | Comedy | |
| The Balloon Goes Up | Redd Davis | Ethel Revnell, Gracie West | Musical comedy | |
| Banana Ridge | Walter C. Mycroft | Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton | Comedy | |
| The Big Blockade | Charles Frend | Leslie Banks, John Mills | World War II | |
| The Black Sheep of Whitehall | Basil Dearden | Will Hay, John Mills | Comedy | |
| Bob's Your Uncle | Oswald Mitchell | Albert Modley, Jean Colin | Comedy | |
| Breach of Promise | Harold Huth | Clive Brook, Judy Campbell | Comedy | |
| Coastal Command | J. B. Holmes | Roger Hunter, Charles Norman Lewis | World War II | |
| The Day Will Dawn | Harold French | Hugh Williams, Griffiths Jones | World War II | |
| The First of the Few | Leslie Howard | Leslie Howard, David Niven | World War II | |
| Flying Fortress | Walter Forde | Richard Greene, Carla Lehmann, Betty Stockfeld | War | |
| The Foreman Went to France | Charles Frend | Clifford Evans, Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings | War | |
| Front Line Kids | Maclean Rogers | Leslie Fuller, Anthony Holles | Comedy | |
| Gert and Daisy Clean Up | Maclean Rogers | Elsie Waters, Doris Waters | Comedy | |
| Gert and Daisy's Weekend | Maclean Rogers | Elsie Waters, Doris Waters | Comedy | |
| Go to Blazes | Walter Forde | Will Hay, Thora Hird | Comedy | Short film |
| The Goose Steps Out | Basil Dearden | Will Hay, Frank Pettingell | Comedy | |
| The Great Mr. Handel | Norman Walker | Wilfrid Lawson, Elizabeth Allan | Biopic | |
| Hard Steel | Norman Walker | Wilfrid Lawson, Betty Stockfeld | Drama | |
| Hatter's Castle | Lance Comfort | Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, James Mason | Drama | |
| In Which We Serve | David Lean | Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles | World War II | Number 92 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |
| King Arthur Was a Gentleman | Marcel Varnel | Arthur Askey, Evelyn Dall | Comedy | |
| Lady from Lisbon | Leslie S. Hiscott | Francis L. Sullivan, Jane Carr | Comedy | |
| Let the People Sing | John Baxter | Alastair Sim, Fred Emney | Comedy | |
| Listen to Britain | Humphrey Jennings | Chesney Allen, Bud Flanagan | Propaganda short | |
| The Missing Million | Philip Brandon | Linden Travers, John Warwick | Crime | |
| Much Too Shy | Marcel Varnel | George Formby, Kathleen Harrison | Comedy | |
| The Next of Kin | Thorold Dickinson | Mervyn Johns, John Chandos | War/drama | |
| The Night Has Eyes | Leslie Arliss | James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson | Thriller | |
| One of Our Aircraft Is Missing | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Googie Withers | World War II | |
| The Peterville Diamond | Walter Forde | Anne Crawford, Donald Stewart | Comedy | |
| Rose of Tralee | Germain Burger | John Longden, Lesley Brook | Musical | |
| Sabotage at Sea | Leslie S. Hiscott | David Hutcheson, Margaretta Scott, Jane Carr | War | |
| Salute John Citizen | Maurice Elvey | Edward Rigby, Mabel Constanduros, Jimmy Hanley | Drama | |
| Secret Mission | Harold French | James Mason, Hugh Williams | World War II | |
| Somewhere in Camp | John E. Blakeley | Frank Randle, Dan Young | Comedy | |
| Suspected Person | Lawrence Huntington | Clifford Evans, Patricia Roc | Thriller | |
| Talk About Jacqueline | Harold French, Paul L. Stein | Hugh Williams, Carla Lehmann | Comedy | |
| They Flew Alone | Herbert Wilcox | Anna Neagle, Robert Newton | Biopic | |
| This Was Paris | John Harlow | Ann Dvorak, Ben Lyon | War | |
| Those Kids from Town | Lance Comfort | George Cole, Harry Fowler | Drama | |
| Thunder Rock | Roy Boulting | Michael Redgrave, Lilli Palmer, James Mason | Drama | |
| Uncensored | Anthony Asquith | Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert | World War II | |
| Unpublished Story | Harold French | Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson, Basil Radford | World War II/drama | |
| We'll Smile Again | John Baxter | Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen | Comedy | |
| Went the Day Well? | Alberto Cavalcanti | Leslie Banks, Mervyn Johns, Basil Sydney | World War II | |
| The Young Mr. Pitt | Carol Reed | Robert Donat, Robert Morley | Drama | |