| The Big Heat | Fritz Lang | mystery film, drama film, film noir, vigilante film |
| The Robe | Henry Koster | drama film, sword-and-sandal film, period drama film, epic film |
| From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | romance film, drama film, war film |
| Thunder Bay | Anthony Mann | drama film |
| Code Two | Fred M. Wilcox | drama film, crime film |
| The Hitch-Hiker | Ida Lupino | drama film, film noir, crime film |
| The Bad and the Beautiful | Vincente Minnelli | drama film, flashback film |
| Sky Full of Moon | Norman Foster | Western film |
| The Turning Point | William Dieterle | drama film, film noir, political drama |
| Singin' in the Rain | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | romantic comedy film, comedy film, musical film |
| Ace in the Hole | Billy Wilder | drama film, film noir |
| The African Queen | John Huston | drama film, romantic comedy |
| Decision Before Dawn | Anatole Litvak | spy film, war film |
| Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | Raoul Walsh | adventure film |
| Harvey | Henry Koster | fantasy film, comedy film |
| Winchester '73 | Anthony Mann | Western film |
| Destination Moon | Irving Pichel | drama film, speculative fiction film, adventure film, science fiction film |
| The Gunfighter | Henry King | Western film |
| The Hasty Heart | Vincent Sherman | drama film |
| Panther's Moon | George Sherman | drama film, crime film |
| Caged | John Cromwell | drama film, film noir, prison film |
| House by the River | Fritz Lang | drama film, film noir, crime film |
| The Reckless Moment | Max Ophüls | drama film, film noir, crime film |
| Twelve O'Clock High | Henry King | drama film, war film |
| Gun Law Justice | Lambert Hillyer | Western film |
| Blondie's Big Deal | Edward Bernds | comedy film |
| The Paleface | Norman Z. McLeod | comedy film, Western film |
| The Three Musketeers | George Sidney | romance film, drama film, action film, swashbuckler film |
| A Foreign Affair | Billy Wilder | romantic comedy |
| Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | Charles Barton | comedy film, crossover fiction, vampire film, comedy horror, werewolf film, parody film |
| The Big Clock | John Farrow | drama film, film noir |
| Song of Idaho | Ray Nazarro | musical film |
| Call Northside 777 | Henry Hathaway | drama film, film noir, crime film |
| Smart Politics | Will Jason | musical comedy, musical film |
| Duel in the Sun | King Vidor | drama film, Western film |
| Dark Passage | Delmer Daves | mystery film, drama film, film noir |
| The Two Mrs. Carrolls | Peter Godfrey | drama film, film noir, crime film |
| Song of the South | Wilfred Jackson, Harve Foster | drama film, family film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, musical film |
| Black Angel | Roy William Neill | drama film, film noir |
| Life with Blondie | Abby Berlin | comedy film |
| The Lost Weekend | Billy Wilder | drama film, film noir, flashback film |
| Don't Fence Me In | John English | Western film |
| The Body Snatcher | Robert Wise | fantasy film, horror film |
| A Bell for Adano | Henry King | drama film |
| Objective, Burma! | Raoul Walsh | action film, war film |
| Ziegfeld Follies | Robert Lewis, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, Merrill Pye, Roy Del Ruth, Norman Taurog, Charles Walters | musical film |
| House of Frankenstein | Erle C. Kenton | horror film, crossover fiction, vampire film, science fiction film, werewolf film |
| Three Sisters of the Moors | John Larkin | historical film |