| A Man Called Peter | Henry Koster | drama film | United States |
| Drums Across the River | Nathan Juran | Western film, action film | United States |
| Heroes of Shipka | Sergei Vasilyev | drama film, historical film, war film | People's Republic of Bulgaria, Soviet Union |
| Galapagos | Thor Heyerdahl | — | — |
| The Second Son | Mitsuo Hirotsu | — | — |
| Trost i taklampa | Erik Borge | comedy film | Norway |
| Nero and the Burning of Rome | Primo Zeglio | drama film, historical film, biographical film | Italy |
| 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 |
| A Big Family | Iosif Kheifits | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Ulysses | Mario Camerini | — | — |
| Because You're Mine | Alexander Hall | — | — |
| Elephant Walk | William Dieterle | drama film, adventure film | United States |
| Did We Meet Somewhere Before | Andrey Tutyshkin | — | — |
| The Vanishing Prairie | James Algar | nature documentary | United States |
| Love is Forever | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | romance film, drama film | Germany |
| Sugam Enge | K. Ramnoth | romance film, drama film | India |
| Human Desire | Fritz Lang | — | — |
| The Blue Paradise | François Bankert | musical film | United States |
| Secret of the Incas | Jerry Hopper | — | — |
| The Anna Cross | Isidore Annenski | drama film, historical film | Soviet Union |
| Rose-Girl Resli | Harald Reinl | drama film | Germany |
| 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 |
| Pessi and Illusia | Jack Witikka | fantasy film, dance film, ballet film | Finland |
| The Glass Mountain | Gustaf Molander | drama film | Sweden |
| Heaven Is Ours | Dinos Dimopoulos | drama film | Greece |
| Blackbeard the Pirate | Raoul Walsh | pirate film, adventure film | United States |
| The Girl from Moon Bridge | Matti Kassila | drama film | Finland |
| The Portico of Glory | Rafael J. Salvia | drama film | Spain |
| Destiny in Trouble | Ernesto Remani | comedy film | Brazil |
| 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 |
| Mother or Woman | Ilmari Unho | drama film | Finland |
| Kvinnohuset | Hampe Faustman | drama film | Sweden |
| From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | romance film, drama film, war film | United States |
| Barbarians | Leonid Lukov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| It Came from Outer Space | Jack Arnold | — | — |
| Houdini | George Marshall | — | — |
| Julius Caesar | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | — | — |
| After the Fall of Man | Edvin Laine | drama film | Finland |
| Thunder Bay | Anthony Mann | drama film | United States |
| Vi vil skilles | Nils R. Müller | drama film | Norway |
| Code Two | Fred M. Wilcox | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Adam and Eve | Erik Balling | — | — |
| Great Mourning | Sergei Gerasimov, Ilya Kopalin, Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova, Irina Setkina-Nesterova, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikheil Chiaureli | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| The Hitch-Hiker | Ida Lupino | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |