| China | John Farrow | adventure film | United States |
| Il treno crociato | Carlo Campogalliani | drama film | Italy |
| Aerial Gunner | William H. Pine | — | — |
| The Purple V | George Sherman | war film | United States |
| Back Then | Rolf Hansen | drama film | Germany |
| Picpus | Richard Pottier | crime film | France |
| Air Force | Howard Hawks | drama film, action film, war film | United States |
| Jealousy | Ferdinando Maria Poggioli | drama film | Italy |
| In Which We Serve | Noël Coward, David Lean | drama film, flashback film, war film | United Kingdom |
| Malombra | Mario Soldati | — | — |
| China Girl (1942 film) | Henry Hathaway | — | — |
| The District Secretary | Ivan Pyryev | — | — |
| The Gorgon | Guido Brignone | drama film, historical film | Italy |
| Eyes of the Underworld | Roy William Neill | crime film | United States |
| Desperate Journey | Raoul Walsh | drama film, war film | United States |
| A Pistol Shot | Renato Castellani | drama film | Italy |
| Jeg drepte! | Toralf Sandø | drama film | Norway |
| A-Haunting We Will Go | Alfred L. Werker | comedy film, buddy film | United States |
| Rembrandt | Hans Steinhoff | biographical film | Germany |
| Flying Fortress | Walter Forde | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Saboteur | Alfred Hitchcock | — | — |
| We Were Dancing | Robert Z. Leonard | romantic comedy film | United States |
| Hello, Annapolis | Lew Landers | — | — |
| Mashenka | Yuli Raizman | — | — |
| Too Many Women | Bernard B. Ray | — | — |
| Girl of the Golden West | Carl Koch | drama film, Western film | Italy |
| Whirlwind | Luis Marquina | comedy film | Spain |
| They Met in Moscow | Ivan Pyryev | — | — |
| The Maltese Falcon | John Huston | mystery film, drama film, film noir, treasure hunt film, crime film | United States |
| Who Killed Santa Claus? | Christian-Jaque | drama film, Christmas film, crime film | France |
| The Artamonov Business | Grigori Roshal | — | — |
| 24 Horas de Sonho | Chianca de Garcia | — | — |
| Masquerade | Sergei Gerasimov | drama film, historical film | Soviet Union |
| Mother Gloria | Richard Harlan | — | — |
| Die Deutsche Wochenschau 566/29/1941 | — | newsreel, sound film | Nazi Germany |
| The Girl from Leningrad | Viktor Eisymont | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| That Hamilton Woman | Alexander Korda | drama film, biographical film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Goodbye, Franziska | Helmut Käutner | — | — |
| The New Teacher | Sergei Gerasimov | comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| The Lady Eve | Preston Sturges | romantic comedy film, comedy of remarriage, crime film | United States |
| Incident on a Volcano | — | — | Soviet Union |
| High Sierra | Raoul Walsh | drama film, film noir, heist film, crime film | United States |
| The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | — | — |
| Disappearance of 'The Eagle' | Vasily Zhuravlyov | — | — |
| Timur and His Team | Aleksandr Razumny | — | — |
| South of Suez | Lewis Seiler | — | — |
| Christmas in July | Preston Sturges | Christmas film, romantic comedy | United States |
| King of the Royal Mounted | William Witney | — | — |