This is a list of the most notable films produced in the Cinema of Germany in 1942.
| width=29% | Title | width=16% | Director | width=18% | Cast | width=11% | Genre | width=26% | Notes |
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| 5 June | Fritz Kirchhoff | Carl Raddatz, Joachim Brennecke | War | Banned by Joseph Goebbels in November 1942 for unspecified reasons. | |||||
| Afrika Korps | Documentary | ||||||||
| Andreas Schlüter | Herbert Maisch | Heinrich George | A film about the sculptor Andreas Schlüter; subliminal Nazi propaganda throughout. | ||||||
| Anuschka | Helmut Käutner | Hilde Krahl, Siegfried Breuer, Friedl Czepa | Drama | ||||||
| Attack on Baku | Fritz Kirchhoff | Willy Fritsch, René Deltgen | Thriller | Anschlag auf Baku; anti-British propaganda. | |||||
| Aus eins mach' vier | Wolfgang Staudte | Documentary | |||||||
| Beloved World | Emil Burri | Brigitte Horney, Willy Fritsch | Musical/Comedy | ||||||
| Berlin – Wie es war | Documentary | Berlin the Way it Was; 87 min documentary about pre-war Berlin | |||||||
| Between Heaven and Earth | Harald Braun | Werner Krauss, Gisela Uhlen | Historical drama | ||||||
| The Big Game | Robert A. Stemmle | René Deltgen, Gustav Knuth | Sports | Das große Spiel Some sequences of the film are in Agfacolor | |||||
| Boote mit Flügeln | Nicholas Kaufmann | Documentary | 14 min documentary | ||||||
| Destiny | Géza von Bolváry | Heinrich George, Werner Hinz | Drama | ||||||
| Deutsche Soldaten in Afrika | Hermann Schwenninger | Documentary | |||||||
| Diesel | Gerhard Lamprecht | Willy Birgel, Hilde Weissner | Biopic | ||||||
| Doctor Crippen | Crime | ||||||||
| Die Entlassung | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Emil Jannings, Theodor Loos, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Werner Hinz, Werner Krauss | The Dismissal; Sequel to Bismarck (1940) | ||||||
| Die goldene Stadt | Veit Harlan | Kristina Söderbaum, Eugen Klöpfer, Kurt Meisel, Rudolf Prack, Paul Klinger | Drama | The Golden City; in Agfacolor | |||||
| Dr. Todt - Berufung und Werk | |||||||||
| Dasein ohne Leben | Hermann Schwenninger | Documentary | |||||||
| Eingeschneit in Lager IV | Ulrich K.T. Schultz | Documentary | |||||||
| Entdeckungsfahrt im Rohr | Ulrich K.T. Schultz | Documentary | |||||||
| Farne | Ulrich K.T. Schultz | Documentary | |||||||
| Feldzug im Osten | Ulrich K.T. Schultz | Documentary | |||||||
| Front am Himmel | Carl Otto Bartning, Karl-Ludwig Ruppel, Wilhelm Stöppler | Documentary | |||||||
| Front Theatre | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Heli Finkenzeller, René Deltgen, Lothar Firmans | Drama | ||||||
| Der Fuhrer und Sein Volk | Fritz Hippler | Documentary | |||||||
| Geheimnisvolle Moorwelt | Ulrich K.T. Schultz | Documentary | |||||||
| The Great King | Veit Harlan | Otto Gebühr, Gustav Fröhlich, Kristina Söderbaum, Paul Wegener | Historical Drama | Der große König; historical drama about King Frederick the Great of Prussia | |||||
| The Great Love | Rolf Hansen | Zarah Leander, Viktor Staal, Grethe Weiser | Drama | Highest-grossing film of the Nazi era. | |||||
| Heimliche Gäste in Wald und Flur | Ulrich K.T. Schultz | Documentary | |||||||
| Die Herrin des Hofes | Andrew Thorndike | Documentary | |||||||
| Heuzug im Allgäu | Wilhelm Prager | Documentary | |||||||
| Himmelhunde | Roger von Norman | Malte Jaeger, Erik Schumann | Sky Dogs; about a young glider pilot who becomes a military pilot; targeted toward youths. | ||||||
| Der Jäger als Heger | Ulrich K.T. Schultz | Documentary | |||||||
| John Bull in Nöten | animation | ||||||||
| The Little Residence | Hans H. Zerlett | Winnie Markus, Johannes Riemann, Fritz Odemar, Lil Dagover | Comedy | ||||||
| Love Me | Harald Braun | Musical | |||||||
| Männer, Meer und Stürme. Ein Film von der Romantik und dem Leben an Bord eines Segelschiffes | Heinrich Hauser and Hubert Schonger | Men, Sea and Storm: A Film of the Romance and the Life Onboard a Segelship; 18 min documentary about Kriegsmarine | |||||||
| Märkische Fahrt | Kurt Rupli | Documentary | |||||||
| Much Ado About Nixi | Erich Engel | Jenny Jugo, Albert Matterstock | Comedy | ||||||
| My Wife Theresa | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Comedy | |||||||
| Ostpreußens Küste am Meer | Ulrich K.T. Schultz | Documentary | |||||||
| Pirsch unter Wasser | Rudolf Schaad | Documentary | |||||||
| The Rainer Case | Paul Verhoeven | Drama | |||||||
| The Red Terror | Karl Ritter | Laura Solari, Will Quadflieg, Andrews Engelmann | GPU Anti-Communism propaganda. | ||||||
| Rembrandt | Hans Steinhoff | Ewald Balser, Hertha Feiler, Gisela Uhlen | |||||||
| Rund um die Freiheitsstatue -- Ein Spaziergang durch die USA | propaganda documentary | Round the Statue of Liberty - A Walk through America Available online here | |||||||
| Die See ruft | Documentary | ||||||||
| Seven Years of Good Luck | Ernst Marischka | Hans Moser, Wolf Albach-Retty | Comedy | ||||||
| Sky Hounds | Roger von Norman | Malte Jaeger, Waldemar Leitgeb, Albert Florath | War drama | ||||||
| The Sold Grandfather | Joe Stöckel | Josef Eichheim, Winnie Markus | Comedy | ||||||
| Sprung in den Feind | Wilhelm Stöppler | 22-minute propaganda film, showing the invasion of the Netherlands. The bridge of Moerdijk is taken with Fallschirmjäger. | |||||||
| Hubert Schonger | Hans Hessling | ||||||||
| The Thing About Styx | Karl Anton | Viktor de Kowa, Margit Symo, Laura Solari | Comedy/Crime | Die Sache mit Styx | |||||
| Two in a Big City | Volker von Collande | Claude Farell, Karl John | Romantic comedy | Zwei in einer großen Stadt | |||||
| Vienna Blood | Willi Forst | Willy Fritsch, Maria Holst, Hans Moser, Theo Lingen | Musical comedy | Wiener Blut | |||||
| Violanta | Paul May | Annelies Reinhold, Richard Häussler | Drama | ||||||
| We Make Music | Helmut Käutner | Ilse Werner, Viktor de Kowa | Musical comedy | Wir machen Musik | |||||
| Wedding in Barenhof | Hochzeit auf Bärenhof | ||||||||