| Rasmus, Pontus and Toker | Stig Olin | drama film | Sweden |
| Anu and Mikko | Ville Salminen | drama film | Finland |
| Toya | Eric Heed | children's film | Norway |
| Qivitoq | Erik Balling | romance film, drama film, family film | Denmark |
| Secrets of Life | James Algar | documentary film | United States |
| Stones, Castles, Men | István Szőts | — | — |
| Different Fortunes | Leonid Lukov | — | — |
| Women In Prison | Seiji Hisamatsu | — | Japan |
| Friederike von Barring | Rolf Thiele | drama film | Germany |
| Wings (1956 film) | Konstantin Zubov, Tatyana Lukashevich | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Great Locomotive Chase | Francis D. Lyon | Western film | United States |
| The First Echelon | Mikhail Kalatozov | — | — |
| The Creature Walks Among Us | John Sherwood | monster film, horror film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film | United States |
| Alejandra | Carlos Schlieper | — | — |
| Farewell to Dream | Keisuke Kinoshita | drama film | Japan |
| The Cat | Rafael María Torrecilla, Margarita Alexandre | drama film | France |
| Othello | Sergei Yutkevich | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Searchers | John Ford | drama film, Western film, war film | United States |
| Egen ingång | Hasse Ekman | drama film | Sweden |
| Hostile Whirlwinds | Mikhail Kalatozov | — | — |
| Roser til Monica | Bjarne Andersen | drama film | Norway |
| Other People's Relatives | Mikhail Schweitzer | — | — |
| Illegal | Lewis Allen | — | — |
| The White Poodle | Vladimir Shredel, Marianna Roshal-Stroyeva | children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Music in the Blood | Erik Ode | — | — |
| Aoi kajitsu | Nobuo Aoyagi | — | Japan |
| She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum | Keisuke Kinoshita | drama film | Japan |
| Lady Godiva of Coventry | Arthur Lubin | romance film, drama film, historical film | United States |
| Christ in Bronze | Minoru Shibuya | — | — |
| East of Eden | Elia Kazan | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Trouble with Harry | Alfred Hitchcock | crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, comedy thriller, crime thriller film, thriller film, black comedy film, crime film | United States |
| The Happy Village | Rudolf Schündler | comedy film | Germany |
| Meoto zenzai | Shirō Toyoda | drama film | Japan |
| Private Ivan | Ivan Lukinsky | — | — |
| Whoops! | Stig Olin | comedy film | Sweden |
| Hotel Adlon | Josef von Báky | drama film | Germany |
| Son | Yuri Ozerov | — | — |
| Untamed | Henry King | romance film, drama film, adventure film | United States |
| Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy | Charles Lamont | comedy film, crossover fiction, comedy horror, parody film | United States |
| The Grasshopper | Samson Samsonov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| This Island Earth | Jack Arnold, Joseph M. Newman | monster film, science fiction film | United States |
| Non-chan Kumo ni Noru | Fumindo Kurata | — | — |
| Suddenly | Lewis Allen | drama film, film noir, crime thriller film | United States |
| Black Tuesday | Hugo Fregonese | — | — |
| Mikhaylo Lomonosov | Aleksandr Ivanov | — | — |
| Arthurs forbrytelse | Sverre Bergli | drama film | Norway |
| Joseph of Ryysyranta | Roland af Hällström | drama film, historical film, social film | Finland |
| Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | psychological thriller film, crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, crime thriller film, thriller film, detective film, psychological drama film, crime film | United States |