| Searchlight on Japan | Ken G. Hall | documentary film | Australia |
| A Foreign Affair | Billy Wilder | romantic comedy | United States |
| Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | Charles Barton | comedy film, crossover fiction, vampire film, comedy horror, werewolf film, parody film | United States |
| The Big Clock | John Farrow | drama film, film noir | United States |
| Song of Idaho | Ray Nazarro | musical film | United States |
| Call Northside 777 | Henry Hathaway | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Smart Politics | Will Jason | musical comedy, musical film | United States |
| Duel in the Sun | King Vidor | drama film, Western film | United States |
| Dark Passage | Delmer Daves | mystery film, drama film, film noir | United States |
| Miroir | Raymond Lamy | drama film, crime film | France |
| The Two Mrs. Carrolls | Peter Godfrey | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Song of the South | Wilfred Jackson, Harve Foster | drama film, family film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, musical film | United States |
| Black Angel | Roy William Neill | drama film, film noir | United States |
| Life with Blondie | Abby Berlin | comedy film | United States |
| The Lost Weekend | Billy Wilder | drama film, film noir, flashback film | United States |
| Don't Fence Me In | John English | Western film | United States |
| The Body Snatcher | Robert Wise | fantasy film, horror film | United States |
| A Bell for Adano | Henry King | drama film | France, United States |
| Objective, Burma! | Raoul Walsh | action film, war film | United States |
| Ziegfeld Follies | Robert Lewis, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, Merrill Pye, Roy Del Ruth, Norman Taurog, Charles Walters | musical film | United States |
| House of Frankenstein | Erle C. Kenton | horror film, crossover fiction, vampire film, science fiction film, werewolf film | United States |
| Three Sisters of the Moors | John Larkin | historical film | United States |
| The Falcon in Mexico | William Berke | drama film, crime film | United States |
| The Pearl of Death | Roy William Neill | mystery film | United States |
| The Scarlet Claw | Roy William Neill | mystery film | United States |
| San Demetrio London | Charles Frend, Robert Hamer | drama film, war film | United Kingdom |
| The Spider Woman | Roy William Neill | mystery film, crime film | United States |
| The Iron Major | Ray Enright | American football film, biographical film | United States |
| The Man in Grey | Leslie Arliss | drama film | United Kingdom |
| China | John Farrow | adventure film | United States |
| The Purple V | George Sherman | war film | United States |
| Cat People | Jacques Tourneur | fantasy film, film noir, horror film | United States |
| Eyes of the Underworld | Roy William Neill | crime film | United States |
| Desperate Journey | Raoul Walsh | drama film, war film | United States |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror | John Rawlins | mystery film, crime film | United States |
| Flying Fortress | Walter Forde | drama film | United Kingdom |
| We Were Dancing | Robert Z. Leonard | romantic comedy film | United States |
| The Land | Robert J. Flaherty, Frances H. Flaherty | documentary film | United States |
| Rio Rita | S. Sylvan Simon | romantic comedy film, comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Sullivan's Travels | Preston Sturges | drama film, romantic comedy | United States |
| All Through the Night | Vincent Sherman | drama film, comedy thriller, thriller film, war film, crime film | United States |
| The Lady Eve | Preston Sturges | romantic comedy film, comedy of remarriage, crime film | United States |
| Western Union | Fritz Lang, Darryl F. Zanuck, Otto Brower, Harry Joe Brown | Western film | United States |
| The Trial of Mary Dugan | Norman Z. McLeod | drama film, legal drama | United States |
| Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock | romance film, erotic thriller film, psychological thriller film, mystery film, drama film, melodrama, thriller film, psychological drama film | United States |
| The Westerner | William Wyler | drama film, Western film | United States |
| The Sea Hawk | Michael Curtiz | pirate film, swashbuckler film, adventure film | United States |
| One Crowded Night | Irving Reis | drama film | United States |