| Trapeze | Carol Reed | drama film |
| 24-Hour Alert | Robert M. Leeds | — |
| Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops | Charles Lamont | comedy film, crossover fiction, parody film |
| Ain't Misbehavin' | Edward Buzzell | musical film, romantic comedy |
| Conquest of Space | Byron Haskin | drama film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film |
| Headline Hunters | William Witney | thriller film, crime film |
| Hit the Deck | Roy Rowland | musical film |
| Picnic | Joshua Logan | romance film, drama film, comedy drama, romantic comedy |
| Shotgun | Lesley Selander | Western film |
| Swamp Women | Roger Corman | exploitation film, horror film, crime film |
| Target Zero | Harmon Jones | drama film |
| Ten Wanted Men | H. Bruce Humberstone | Western film |
| The Cobweb | Vincente Minnelli | romantic comedy film, drama film |
| The Eternal Sea | John H. Auer | war film |
| The Far Horizons | Rudolph Maté | adventure film |
| The Kentuckian | Burt Lancaster | drama film, Western film |
| The Last Frontier | Anthony Mann | Western film, action film |
| The Night Holds Terror | Andrew L. Stone | drama film, film noir |
| The Shrike | José Ferrer | drama film |
| The Vanishing American | Joseph Kane | Western film |
| The Virgin Queen | Henry Koster | drama film, biographical film |
| Violent Saturday | Richard Fleischer | drama film, melodrama, thriller film, heist film, crime film |
| Wichita | Jacques Tourneur | Western film |
| Betrayed | Gottfried Reinhardt | romance film, drama film, action film, war film |
| Cattle Queen of Montana | Allan Dwan | Western film |
| Demetrius and the Gladiators | Delmer Daves | drama film, sword-and-sandal film, action film |
| King Richard and the Crusaders | David Butler | drama film, medieval film |
| Masterson of Kansas | William Castle | Western film |
| Naked Sea | Allen H. Miner | documentary film |
| Night People | Nunnally Johnson | drama film, spy film, crime film |
| Passion | Allan Dwan | Western film |
| Prince Valiant | Henry Hathaway | romance film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film, fantasy film, action film, swashbuckler film, adventure film, medieval film, period drama film |
| Pushover | Richard Quine | drama film, film noir, thriller film, crime film |
| Rails Into Laramie | Jesse Hibbs | Western film |
| Red Garters | George Marshall | musical film |
| Saskatchewan | Raoul Walsh | Western film |
| Siam | Ralph Wright | documentary film |
| The Boy from Oklahoma | Michael Curtiz | Western film |
| The Far Country | Anthony Mann | Western film |
| The Law vs. Billy the Kid | William Castle | Western film |
| Woman's World | Jean Negulesco | drama film |
| Arena | Richard Fleischer | drama film |
| Beat the Devil | John Huston | satanic film, action film, adventure film, parody film, crime film |
| Below the Sahara | Armand Denis | documentary film |
| Conquest of Cochise | William Castle | Western film |
| Cow Country | Lesley Selander | Western film |
| Cry of the Hunted | Joseph H. Lewis | film noir, crime film |
| Destination Gobi | Robert Wise | drama film, adventure film, war film |