| Badge 373 | Howard W. Koch | United States |
| Dillinger | John Milius | United States |
| The Offence | Sidney Lumet | United Kingdom |
| Prime Cut | Michael Ritchie | United States |
| Property of the Republic | Vladimir Bychkov | Soviet Union |
| I Know You Are a Murderer... | Petr Schulhoff | Czechoslovakia |
| Play Misty for Me | Clint Eastwood | United States |
| Operasjon V for vanvidd | Rolf Clemens | Norway |
| On the Trail of Blood | Petr Schulhoff | Czechoslovakia |
| The Split | Gordon Flemyng | United States |
| Adieu l'ami | Jean Vautrin | France, Italy |
| The Big Sleep | Howard Hawks | United States |
| Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show | Herbert Rappaport | Soviet Union |
| The Upper Hand | Denys de La Patellière | France, Italy |
| Emil and the Detectives | Peter Tewksbury | United States |
| Fantômas | André Hunebelle | France, Italy |
| The Secret of Dr. Mabuse | Hugo Fregonese | France, Germany, Italy |
| The Black Monocle | Georges Lautner | France |
| Anatomy of a Murder | Otto Preminger | United States |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Terence Fisher | United Kingdom |
| Pastor Jarman kommer hjem | Arne Skouen | Norway |
| Man in the River | Eugen York | Germany |
| The Defiant Ones | Paul Helmick, Stanley Kramer | United States |
| Thunder Road | Arthur Ripley | United States |
| På slaget åtte | Nils R. Müller | Norway |
| The Trouble with Harry | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
| Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
| On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | United States |
| Father Brown | Robert Hamer | United Kingdom |
| Code Two | Fred M. Wilcox | United States |
| The Hitch-Hiker | Ida Lupino | United States |
| Stolen Face | Terence Fisher | United Kingdom |
| Kind Hearts and Coronets | Robert Hamer | United Kingdom |
| Panther's Moon | George Sherman | United States |
| House by the River | Fritz Lang | United States |
| The Blue Lamp | Basil Dearden | United Kingdom |
| The Reckless Moment | Max Ophüls | United States |
| Call Northside 777 | Henry Hathaway | United States |
| Miroir | Raymond Lamy | France |
| The Two Mrs. Carrolls | Peter Godfrey | United States |
| The Falcon in Mexico | William Berke | United States |
| The Spider Woman | Roy William Neill | United States |
| Eyes of the Underworld | Roy William Neill | United States |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror | John Rawlins | United States |
| All Through the Night | Vincent Sherman | United States |
| The Lady Eve | Preston Sturges | United States |
| Each Dawn I Die | William Keighley | United States |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Sidney Lanfield | United States |