| Escape from the Soviet Union: Female Military Doctor and Fake Madman | Morihei Magatani | — | Japan |
| The Child Writers | Seiji Hisamatsu | drama film | Japan |
| Pastor Jarman kommer hjem | Arne Skouen | drama film, crime film | Norway |
| The Bonnie Parker Story | William Witney | — | — |
| Man in the River | Eugen York | drama film, crime film | Germany |
| White Wilderness | James Algar | nature documentary, documentary film | United States |
| Melancholic Autumn | Raffaello Matarazzo | drama film | Spain, Italy |
| The City Turns the Lights On | Vladimir Vengerov | — | — |
| The Light in the Forest | Herschel Daugherty | — | United States |
| The Defiant Ones | Paul Helmick, Stanley Kramer | drama film, action film, thriller film, buddy film, crime film | United States |
| The Bravados | Henry King | — | — |
| The Vikings | Richard Fleischer | drama film, action film, swashbuckler film, medieval film, epic film | United States |
| The New Adventures of Puss in Boots | Alexander Rou | family film, cinematic fairy tale | Soviet Union |
| Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | — | — |
| Thunder Road | Arthur Ripley | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Mister Iks | Yuly Khmelnitsky | — | — |
| You Are My Adventure | Stig Olin | comedy film | Sweden |
| The Long, Hot Summer | Martin Ritt | drama film | United States |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Richard Brooks | drama film | United States |
| The Communist | Yuli Raizman | — | — |
| The Spessart Inn | Kurt Hoffmann | — | — |
| Old Khottabych | Gennady Kazansky | — | — |
| The Mysterians | Ishirō Honda | kaiju, horror film, science fiction film | Japan |
| The House I Live In | Yakov Segel | — | — |
| The Heart of St. Pauli | Eugen York | musical film | Germany |
| The Wrestler and the Clown | Boris Barnet, Konstantin Yudin | drama film, sport film | Soviet Union |
| På slaget åtte | Nils R. Müller | film noir, crime film | Norway |
| Kapelusz pana Anatola | Jan Rybkowski | — | — |
| Aaravalli | — | fantasy film | India |
| Forty Guns | Samuel Fuller | — | — |
| Nine Lives | Arne Skouen | drama film, war film, biographical film | Norway |
| Bakuon to daichi | Hideo Sekigawa | — | — |
| The Sisters | Grigori Roshal | — | — |
| Oeil pour oeil | André Cayatte | drama film | France, Italy |
| Goodbye, Franziska | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | — | — |
| A Man Escaped | Robert Bresson | drama film, war film, prison film, docudrama | France |
| Fools in the Mountains | Edith Carlmar | comedy film | Norway |
| Back from the Dead | Charles Marquis Warren | horror film | United States |
| Krutye Stupeni | Zihismund Navrotsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Guerrillas in the Plain | Zhaodi Wu | — | — |
| Stalag 17 | Billy Wilder | drama film, comedy film, Christmas film, war film | United States |
| Slalåm under himmelen | Edith Carlmar | drama film | Norway |
| The Crucible | Raymond Rouleau | — | — |
| The Girl and the Crocodile | Isaak Menaker | — | — |
| Lapland Calendar | Per Høst | — | — |
| Fear Strikes Out | Robert Mulligan | drama film, sport film, biographical film | United States |
| Three Violent People | Rudolph Maté | Western film | United States |
| Charlie Strap, Froggy Ball and Their Friends | Hasse Funck | children's film, adventure film, musical film | Sweden |