| A Gathering of Eagles | Delbert Mann | romance film, drama film |
| America America | Elia Kazan | drama film |
| Captain Sindbad | Byron Haskin | fantasy film, children's film, adventure film |
| Charade | Stanley Donen | mystery film, comedy thriller, crime thriller film, treasure hunt film, romantic comedy |
| Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment | Robert Drew | documentary film |
| Donovan's Reef | John Ford | action film, adventure film, romantic comedy |
| In the Cool of the Day | Robert Stevens | drama film |
| Irma la Douce | Billy Wilder | comedy film, romantic comedy |
| Jason and the Argonauts | Don Chaffey | sword-and-sandal film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film |
| Just for Fun | Gordon Flemyng | — |
| Kings of the Sun | J. Lee Thompson | adventure film |
| McLintock! | Andrew V. McLaglen | comedy film, Western film |
| Shock Corridor | Samuel Fuller | drama film, film noir |
| Spencer's Mountain | Delmer Daves | drama film |
| The List of Adrian Messenger | John Huston | mystery film, crime film |
| The Prize | Mark Robson | drama film, spy film, crime film |
| The Stripper | Franklin J. Schaffner | drama film |
| The Victors | Carl Foreman | drama film, war film |
| The Yanks Are Coming | Marshall Flaum | documentary film |
| X | Roger Corman | science fiction horror film, horror film, science fiction film |
| 40 Pounds of Trouble | Norman Jewison | comedy film |
| Boys' Night Out | Michael Gordon | comedy film |
| Days of Wine and Roses | Blake Edwards | drama film |
| Escape from Zahrain | Ronald Neame | action film |
| Gypsy | Mervyn LeRoy | drama film, biographical film, musical film, comedy drama |
| How the West Was Won | George Marshall, Henry Hathaway, John Ford | drama film, Western film |
| If a Man Answers | Henry Levin | romance film, comedy film |
| Lad, A Dog | Leslie H. Martinson, Aram Avakian | drama film |
| Panic in Year Zero! | Ray Milland | post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, disaster film |
| Six Black Horses | Harry Keller | Western film |
| The 300 Spartans | Rudolph Maté | drama film, sword-and-sandal film, historical film, adventure film, war film, epic film |
| The Couch | Owen Crump | horror film |
| The Counterfeit Traitor | George Seaton | drama film, spy film, war film |
| The Crimebusters | Boris Sagal | drama film, crime film |
| Armored Command | Byron Haskin | drama film, war film |
| Atlantis, the Lost Continent | George Pal | fantasy film, adventure film, science fiction film |
| Gold of the Seven Saints | Gordon Douglas | Western film |
| Italia '61 | Jan Lenica | — |
| King of Kings | Nicholas Ray | drama film, sword-and-sandal film, biographical film, epic film |
| Master of the World | William Witney | science fiction film |
| Paris Blues | Martin Ritt | drama film |
| Return to Peyton Place | José Ferrer | drama film |
| Sail a Crooked Ship | Irving Brecher | heist film |
| Summer and Smoke | Peter Glenville | romance film, drama film |
| The Big Gamble | Richard Fleischer, Elmo Williams | adventure film |
| The Last Sunset | Robert Aldrich | Western film |
| West Side Story | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | romance film, drama film, musical film, crime film |
| 12 to the Moon | David Bradley | science fiction film |