| Peyton Place | Mark Robson | United States |
| The Lower Depths | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| The Wayward Bus | Victor Vicas | United States |
| Tip on a Dead Jockey | Richard Thorpe | United States |
| Untamed | Mikio Naruse | Japan |
| Behind the High Wall | Abner Biberman | United States |
| Bigger Than Life | Nicholas Ray | United States |
| Diane | David Miller | United States |
| Friendly Persuasion | William Wyler | United States |
| Ivan Franko | Timofei Levchuk | Soviet Union |
| Lisbon | Ray Milland | United States |
| Never Say Goodbye | Jerry Hopper, Douglas Sirk | United States |
| Rätten att älska | Mimi Pollak | Sweden |
| Shūu | Mikio Naruse | Japan |
| Storm Center | Daniel Taradash | United States |
| Street of Shame | Yasuzō Masumura, Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
| The Bottom of the Bottle | Henry Hathaway | United States |
| The Fastest Gun Alive | Russell Rouse | United States |
| The King and I | Walter Lang | United States |
| The Revolt of Mamie Stover | Raoul Walsh | United States |
| The Unguarded Moment | Harry Keller | United States |
| The Wolves | Leopoldo Savona, Giuseppe De Santis | Italy |
| Trapeze | Carol Reed | United States |
| Conquest of Space | Byron Haskin | United States |
| Il bidone | Federico Fellini | France, Italy |
| La Pointe Courte | Agnès Varda | France |
| Land and People | Stanislav Rostotsky | Soviet Union |
| Men of Blue Cross | Andrzej Munk | Poland |
| Picnic | Joshua Logan | United States |
| Target Zero | Harmon Jones | United States |
| The Cobweb | Vincente Minnelli | United States |
| The Girl and the Oak | Krešo Golik | Yugoslavia |
| The Kentuckian | Burt Lancaster | United States |
| The Night Holds Terror | Andrew L. Stone | United States |
| The Plot to Assassinate Hitler | Falk Harnack | Germany |
| The Shrike | José Ferrer | United States |
| The Virgin Queen | Henry Koster | United States |
| Violent Saturday | Richard Fleischer | United States |
| A Stranger Came Home | Terence Fisher | United Kingdom |
| Betrayed | Gottfried Reinhardt | United States |
| Demetrius and the Gladiators | Delmer Daves | United States |
| I dimma dold | Lars-Eric Kjellgren | Sweden |
| It Takes Two to Sin in Love | Vittorio Cottafavi | Italy |
| King Richard and the Crusaders | David Butler | United States |
| Night People | Nunnally Johnson | United States |
| Pietà per chi cade | Mario Costa | Italy |
| Prince Valiant | Henry Hathaway | United States |
| Pushover | Richard Quine | United States |