| The Curse of the Hidden Vault | Franz Josef Gottlieb | mystery film, crime film | Germany |
| Topkapi | Jules Dassin | comedy film, heist film, crime film | United States |
| Scotland Yard vs. Dr. Mabuse | Paul May | drama film, science fiction film | Germany |
| The Prize | Mark Robson | drama film, spy film, crime film | United States |
| The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle | Harald Reinl | crime film | Germany |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace | Terence Fisher | mystery film, crime film | France, Italy, West Germany |
| The Door with Seven Locks | Alfred Vohrer | mystery film, horror film, crime film | France, Germany |
| The Gypsy Baron | Kurt Wilhelm | romance film, comedy film | France, Germany |
| The Puzzle of the Red Orchid | Helmut Ashley | mystery film, crime film | Germany |
| Wedding Night in Paradise | Paul Martin | comedy film | Austria |
| The Golden Yurt | Ravjaagiin Dorjpalam, Gottfried Kolditz | drama film | East Germany, Germany |
| Two Gentlemen 'N' | Tadeusz Chmielewski | crime film | Poland |
| Two Half Times in Hell | Zoltán Fábri | drama film, association football film | Hungary |
| Beloved Augustin | Rolf Thiele | romance film, comedy film | Germany |
| No Trouble with Cleopatra | Helmut Schneider | comedy film | East Germany, Germany |
| Sink the Bismarck! | Lewis Gilbert | war film | United Kingdom |
| Two Women | Vittorio De Sica | drama film, war film | France, Italy |
| Crime After School | Alfred Vohrer | drama film | Germany |
| Five Minutes of Paradise | Igor Pretnar | drama film, war film | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Here I Am, Here I Stay | Werner Jacobs | comedy film, musical film | Germany |
| Rommel Calls Cairo | Wolfgang Schleif | war film | Germany |
| The Girl from the Marsh Croft | Gustav Ucicky | drama film | Germany |
| The Man Who Couldn't Say No | Kurt Früh | comedy film | Denmark, Switzerland |
| Das einfache Mädchen | Werner Jacobs | musical film | Germany |
| Spy for Germany | Werner Klingler | spy film | Germany |
| Thomas Muentzer | Martin Hellberg | biographical film | East Germany, Germany |
| The Plot to Assassinate Hitler | Falk Harnack | drama film, war film, biographical film | Germany |
| The Gypsy Baron | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | romance film, comedy film | Germany |
| The Little Czar | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | musical film | France, Germany |
| As Long as You're Near Me | Harald Braun | drama film | Germany |
| Hit Parade | Erik Ode | musical film | Germany |
| Southern Nights | Robert A. Stemmle | romance film | Germany |
| The Last Waltz | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | musical film | Germany |
| The Condemned Village | Martin Hellberg | propaganda film | East Germany, Germany |
| Cordula | Gustav Ucicky | drama film | Austria |
| How Do We Tell Our Children? | Hans Deppe | drama film, comedy film | Germany |
| The Beaverskin | Kurt Maetzig | drama film | Germany |
| The Court Concert | Paul Verhoeven | romance film, comedy film | East Germany |
| The Cuckoos | Hans Deppe | comedy film | East Germany, Germany |
| Life in the Citadel | Herbert Rappaport | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Cloak and Dagger | Fritz Lang | romance film, spy film | United States |
| Paracelsus | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | drama film | Germany |
| Romance in a Minor Key | Helmut Käutner | drama film | Germany |
| Stukas | Karl Ritter | propaganda film | Germany |
| The Swedish Nightingale | Peter Paul Brauer | drama film, musical film | Germany, Nazi Germany |
| Clothes Make the Man | Helmut Käutner, Paul Verhoeven | comedy film | Germany |
| Passion | Walter Janssen | drama film | Germany |
| Hello Janine! | Carl Boese | musical film | Germany |