| Kitten with a Whip | Douglas Heyes | United States |
| Pale Flower | Masahiro Shinoda | Japan |
| Séance on a Wet Afternoon | Bryan Forbes | United Kingdom |
| The Curse of the Hidden Vault | Franz Josef Gottlieb | Germany |
| Topkapi | Jules Dassin | United States |
| The List of Adrian Messenger | John Huston | United States |
| The Prize | Mark Robson | United States |
| The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle | Harald Reinl | Germany |
| Totuus on armoton | Valentin Vaala | Finland |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace | Terence Fisher | France, Italy, West Germany |
| The Crimebusters | Boris Sagal | United States |
| The Door with Seven Locks | Alfred Vohrer | France, Germany |
| The Puzzle of the Red Orchid | Helmut Ashley | Germany |
| Ganga Jamna | Nitin Bose | India |
| The Secret Partner | Basil Dearden | United Kingdom |
| Two Gentlemen 'N' | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Poland |
| West Side Story | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | United States |
| Clue of the Twisted Candle | Allan Davis | United Kingdom |
| Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
| City of Fear | Irving Lerner | United States |
| Compulsion | Richard Fleischer | United States |
| The FBI Story | Mervyn LeRoy | United States |
| Damn Citizen | Robert Gordon | United States |
| I Want to Live! | Robert Wise | United States |
| Murder at Site 3 | Francis Searle | United Kingdom |
| The True Story of Lynn Stuart | Lewis Seiler | United States |
| Short Cut to Hell | James Cagney | United States |
| The Garment Jungle | Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich | United States |
| Tip on a Dead Jockey | Richard Thorpe | United States |
| Lisbon | Ray Milland | United States |
| The Unguarded Moment | Harry Keller | United States |
| Headline Hunters | William Witney | United States |
| Il bidone | Federico Fellini | France, Italy |
| Swamp Women | Roger Corman | United States |
| Violent Saturday | Richard Fleischer | United States |
| A Stranger Came Home | Terence Fisher | United Kingdom |
| I dimma dold | Lars-Eric Kjellgren | Sweden |
| Night People | Nunnally Johnson | United States |
| Pushover | Richard Quine | United States |
| River Beat | Guy Green | United Kingdom |
| The Saint's Return | Seymour Friedman | United Kingdom |
| Beat the Devil | John Huston | United Kingdom, United States, Italy |
| Cry of the Hunted | Joseph H. Lewis | United States |
| Hoodlum Empire | Joseph Kane | United States |
| The Las Vegas Story | Robert Stevenson | United States |
| Four Ways Out | Pietro Germi | Italy |
| Abandoned | Joseph M. Newman | United States |
| Cairo Road | David MacDonald | United Kingdom |