| Stories of the Revolution | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba |
| Sunrise at Campobello | Vincent J. Donehue | United States |
| Taxi for Tobruk | Denys de La Patellière | France, Germany, Spain |
| The Dark at the Top of the Stairs | Delbert Mann | United States |
| The Story of Ruth | Henry Koster | United States |
| The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll | Terence Fisher | United Kingdom |
| The Unforgiven | John Huston | United States |
| Two Women | Vittorio De Sica | France, Italy |
| Umma | Kunchacko | India |
| Under Ten Flags | Duilio Coletti, Carlo Lizzani | United States, Italy |
| Warriors for Freedom | Usmar Ismail | Indonesia |
| A Dog of Flanders | James B. Clark | United States |
| City of Fear | Irving Lerner | United States |
| Compulsion | Richard Fleischer | United States |
| Crime After School | Alfred Vohrer | Germany |
| Five Minutes of Paradise | Igor Pretnar | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Green Mansions | Mel Ferrer | United States |
| Jack the Ripper | Monty Berman | United Kingdom |
| Ji Gong’s Cricket Fighting | — | People's Republic of China |
| Night Train | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Poland |
| Solomon and Sheba | King Vidor | United States |
| Summer of the Seventeenth Doll | Leslie Norman | United Kingdom, United States, Australia |
| The FBI Story | Mervyn LeRoy | United States |
| The Magistrate | Luigi Zampa | France, Italy |
| The Sound and the Fury | Martin Ritt | United States |
| These Thousand Hills | Richard Fleischer | United States |
| Verboten! | Samuel Fuller | United States |
| Battle of the V-1 | Vernon Sewell | United Kingdom |
| Carve Her Name with Pride | Lewis Gilbert | United Kingdom |
| I Want to Live! | Robert Wise | United States |
| One Street Organ, One Life | Sokrates Kapsaskis | Greece |
| Separate Tables | Delbert Mann | United States |
| Some Came Running | Vincente Minnelli | United States |
| South Pacific | Joshua Logan | United States |
| The Barbarian and the Geisha | John Huston | United States |
| The Camp on Blood Island | Val Guest | United Kingdom |
| The Girl from the Marsh Croft | Gustav Ucicky | Germany |
| The Hot Angel | Joe Parker | United States |
| The Law | Jules Dassin | France, United States, Italy |
| The Old Man and the Sea | John Sturges | United States |
| The Stowaway | Ralph Habib, Lee Robinson | France, Australia |
| The True Story of Lynn Stuart | Lewis Seiler | United States |
| Voice in the Mirror | Harry Keller | United States |
| Affair in Havana | László Benedek | United States |
| Band of Angels | Raoul Walsh | United States |
| I colpevoli | Turi Vasile | France, Italy |
| Little Ilona and Her Lambkin | Jorma Nortimo | Finland |
| Matros soshyol na bereg | Lev Danilov, Grigori Aronov | Soviet Union |