| Behind the High Wall | Abner Biberman | United States |
| The Night Holds Terror | Andrew L. Stone | United States |
| A Stranger Came Home | Terence Fisher | United Kingdom |
| Pushover | Richard Quine | United States |
| Cry of the Hunted | Joseph H. Lewis | United States |
| Split Second | Dick Powell | United States |
| The Glass Wall | Maxwell Shane | United States |
| Beware, My Lovely | Harry Horner | United States |
| Hoodlum Empire | Joseph Kane | United States |
| The Las Vegas Story | Robert Stevenson | United States |
| Iron Man | Joseph Pevney | United States |
| Abandoned | Joseph M. Newman | United States |
| Follow Me Quietly | Richard Fleischer, Anthony Mann | United States |
| Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | United States |
| The Breaking Point | Michael Curtiz | United States |
| The Bribe | Robert Z. Leonard | United States |
| The Damned Don't Cry | Vincent Sherman | United States |
| A Woman's Secret | Nicholas Ray | United States |
| Beyond the Forest | King Vidor | United States |
| Impact | Arthur Lubin | United States |
| I Love Trouble | S. Sylvan Simon | United States |
| I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes | William Nigh | United States |
| No Minor Vices | Lewis Milestone | United States |
| Moss Rose | Gregory Ratoff | United States |
| Singapore | John Brahm | United States |
| The Devil Thumbs a Ride | Felix E. Feist | United States |
| The Macomber Affair | Zoltan Korda | United States |
| The Unsuspected | Michael Curtiz | United States |
| Deadline at Dawn | Harold Clurman | United States |
| The Mask of Diijon | Lew Landers | United States |
| The Strange Woman | Edgar G. Ulmer | United States |
| Hangover Square | John Brahm | United States |
| Jealousy | Gustav Machatý | United States |
| Strangers in the Night | Anthony Mann | United States |
| The Mask of Dimitrios | Jean Negulesco | United States |
| The Suspect | Robert Siodmak | United States |
| The Fallen Sparrow | Richard Wallace | United States |
| This Gun for Hire | Frank Tuttle | United States |
| Rage in Heaven | W. S. Van Dyke | United States |
| The Letter | William Wyler | United States |
| The Public Enemy | William A. Wellman | United States |