| The Lady from Shanghai | Orson Welles | United States |
| Gentle | Aleksandr Borisov | Soviet Union |
| A Simple Story | Yuri Yegorov | Soviet Union |
| Surrounded | Arne Skouen | Norway |
| Baltic Skies | Vladimir Vengerov | Soviet Union |
| Spoilers of the Forest | Joseph Kane | United States |
| Too Late to Love | Henri Decoin | France |
| Daughters, Wives and a Mother | Mikio Naruse | Japan |
| Far from the Motherland | Aleksei Shvachko | Soviet Union |
| Ivanna | Viktor Ivchenko | Soviet Union |
| Sweetheart of the Gods | Gottfried Reinhardt | Germany |
| The Cranes Are Flying | Mikhail Kalatozov | Soviet Union |
| Veien tilbake | Eric Heed | Norway |
| The Virgin Spring | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| The Overcoat | Aleksey Batalov | Soviet Union |
| The Lady with the Dog | Semyon Derevyansky, Iosif Kheifits | Soviet Union |
| Our Man in Havana | Carol Reed | United Kingdom, United States |
| Great Solitude | Ladislav Helge | Czechoslovakia |
| Anatomy of a Murder | Otto Preminger | United States |
| A Man of Straw | Pietro Germi | Italy |
| Suddenly, Last Summer | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| On the Beach | Stanley Kramer | United States, Australia |
| A Summer Place | Delmer Daves | United States |
| The Restless and the Damned | Yves Allégret | France, Italy, Australia |
| World of Miracles | Luigi Capuano | Italy |
| Too Much, Too Soon | Art Napoleon | United States |
| The Magician | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| Tempest | Alberto Lattuada | France, Italy |
| Revenge of the Creature | Jack Arnold | United States |
| Woman in a Fur Coat | Jan Molander | Sweden |
| The Child Writers | Seiji Hisamatsu | Japan |
| Pastor Jarman kommer hjem | Arne Skouen | Norway |
| Man in the River | Eugen York | Germany |
| Melancholic Autumn | Raffaello Matarazzo | Spain, Italy |
| The Defiant Ones | Paul Helmick, Stanley Kramer | United States |
| The Vikings | Richard Fleischer | United States |
| Thunder Road | Arthur Ripley | United States |
| The Long, Hot Summer | Martin Ritt | United States |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Richard Brooks | United States |
| The Wrestler and the Clown | Boris Barnet, Konstantin Yudin | Soviet Union |
| Nine Lives | Arne Skouen | Norway |
| Oeil pour oeil | André Cayatte | France, Italy |
| A Man Escaped | Robert Bresson | France |
| Krutye Stupeni | Zihismund Navrotsky | Soviet Union |
| Stalag 17 | Billy Wilder | United States |
| Slalåm under himmelen | Edith Carlmar | Norway |
| Fear Strikes Out | Robert Mulligan | United States |
| Rasmus, Pontus and Toker | Stig Olin | Sweden |