| This Island Earth | Jack Arnold, Joseph M. Newman | monster film, science fiction film | United States |
| Suddenly | Lewis Allen | drama film, film noir, crime thriller film | United States |
| A Man Called Peter | Henry Koster | drama film | United States |
| Drums Across the River | Nathan Juran | Western film, action film | United States |
| On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | drama film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| St. Louis Woman | DeShawn Bankert | musical film | United States |
| Father Brown | Robert Hamer | mystery film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Elephant Walk | William Dieterle | drama film, adventure film | United States |
| The Vanishing Prairie | James Algar | nature documentary | United States |
| River of No Return | Jean Negulesco, Otto Preminger, Paul Helmick | Western film, action film | United States |
| How to Marry a Millionaire | Jean Negulesco | romance film, comedy film, musical film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Blackbeard the Pirate | Raoul Walsh | pirate film, adventure film | United States |
| The Big Heat | Fritz Lang | mystery film, drama film, film noir, vigilante film | United States |
| The Robe | Henry Koster | drama film, sword-and-sandal film, period drama film, epic film | United States |
| From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | romance film, drama film, war film | United States |
| Thunder Bay | Anthony Mann | drama film | United States |
| Code Two | Fred M. Wilcox | drama film, crime film | United States |
| The Hitch-Hiker | Ida Lupino | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| The Bad and the Beautiful | Vincente Minnelli | drama film, flashback film | United States |
| Sky Full of Moon | Norman Foster | Western film | United States |
| The Turning Point | William Dieterle | drama film, film noir, political drama | United States |
| Love's a Luxury | Francis Searle | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Stolen Face | Terence Fisher | drama film, film noir, horror film, science fiction film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Singin' in the Rain | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | romantic comedy film, comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Ace in the Hole | Billy Wilder | drama film, film noir | United States |
| The African Queen | John Huston | drama film, romantic comedy | United Kingdom, United States |
| Decision Before Dawn | Anatole Litvak | spy film, war film | United States |
| Life in Her Hands | Philip Leacock | drama film | United Kingdom |
| The Dark Light | Vernon Sewell | thriller film | United Kingdom |
| Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | Raoul Walsh | adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Harvey | Henry Koster | fantasy film, comedy film | United States |
| Over the Garden Wall | John E. Blakeley | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Winchester '73 | Anthony Mann | Western film | United States |
| Destination Moon | Irving Pichel | drama film, speculative fiction film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Gunfighter | Henry King | Western film | United States |
| The Hasty Heart | Vincent Sherman | drama film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Kind Hearts and Coronets | Robert Hamer | crime film | United Kingdom |
| Panther's Moon | George Sherman | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Caged | John Cromwell | drama film, film noir, prison film | United States |
| House by the River | Fritz Lang | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| The Blue Lamp | Basil Dearden | crime film | United Kingdom |
| The Reckless Moment | Max Ophüls | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Twelve O'Clock High | Henry King | drama film, war film | United States |
| Celia | Francis Searle | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Gun Law Justice | Lambert Hillyer | Western film | United States |
| Blondie's Big Deal | Edward Bernds | comedy film | United States |
| The Paleface | Norman Z. McLeod | comedy film, Western film | United States |
| The Three Musketeers | George Sidney | romance film, drama film, action film, swashbuckler film | United States |