| Return to Peyton Place | José Ferrer | drama film | United States |
| Rififi in Stockholm | Hasse Ekman | drama film | Sweden |
| Sail a Crooked Ship | Irving Brecher | heist film | United States |
| Sluttish | Ivan Kavaleridze | drama film | Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union |
| Summer and Smoke | Peter Glenville | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Sword of the Conqueror | Carlo Campogalliani | medieval film, biographical film | Italy |
| Taina zelyonogo bora | Oleg Nikolayevsky | family film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| The Big Gamble | Richard Fleischer, Elmo Williams | adventure film | United States |
| The End of Summer | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film | Japan |
| The Golden Yurt | Ravjaagiin Dorjpalam, Gottfried Kolditz | drama film | East Germany, Germany |
| The Last Sunset | Robert Aldrich | Western film | United States |
| The Man from Nowhere | Eldar Ryazanov | fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| The Monster of Highgate Ponds | Alberto Cavalcanti | fantasy film, comedy film, children's film, live-action/animated film | United Kingdom |
| The Rebel | Robert Day | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| The Secret of the Black Falcon | Domenico Paolella | adventure film | Italy |
| The Secret Partner | Basil Dearden | drama film, detective film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| The Skint | Siamak Yasemi | drama film, comedy film | Iran |
| The Tartars | Richard Thorpe, Ferdinando Baldi | drama film, sword-and-sandal film, historical film, action film, adventure film, medieval film | Yugoslavia, Italy |
| Two Gentlemen 'N' | Tadeusz Chmielewski | crime film | Poland |
| Two Half Times in Hell | Zoltán Fábri | drama film, association football film | Hungary |
| West Side Story | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | romance film, drama film, musical film, crime film | United States |
| Whistle Down the Wind | Bryan Forbes | drama film | United Kingdom |
| 12 to the Moon | David Bradley | science fiction film | United States |
| 20,000 Leagues Across the Land | Marcello Pagliero | drama film, road movie | France, Soviet Union |
| All the Fine Young Cannibals | Michael Anderson | romance film, drama film, musical film | United States |
| Angel and Devil | Kamal El Sheikh | drama film | Egypt |
| Arshin Mal Alan | Samad Sabahi | comedy film | Iran |
| Bad Luck | Andrzej Munk | comedy film, black comedy film | Poland |
| Beloved Augustin | Rolf Thiele | romance film, comedy film | Germany |
| Chelovek menyaet kozhu | Rafail Perelshtejn | historical film | Soviet Union |
| Clue of the Twisted Candle | Allan Davis | crime film | United Kingdom |
| Crossroads to Crime | Gerry Anderson | heist film | United Kingdom |
| Follow That Horse! | Alan Bromly | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Good for Nothing | Yoshishige Yoshida | drama film | Japan |
| Home from the Hill | Vincente Minnelli | romance film, drama film | United States |
| I Delfini | Francesco Maselli | drama film | France, Italy |
| I piaceri dello scapolo | Giulio Petroni | comedy film | Italy |
| Il bell'Antonio | Mauro Bolognini | drama film | France, Italy |
| India | Armando Bó | drama film | Argentina |
| Inherit the Wind | Stanley Kramer | drama film, trial film | United States |
| Interrupted Song | Frantisek Zácek, Nikoloz Sanishvili | romance film, war film | Georgian SSR, Czechoslovakia |
| It Started in Naples | Melville Shavelson | drama film, romantic comedy | United States, Italy |
| Jazz Boat | Ken Hughes | musical film | United Kingdom |
| Jigoku | Nobuo Nakagawa | horror film | Japan |
| Knight of 100 Faces | Pino Mercanti | adventure film | Italy |
| L'Avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | drama film | France, Italy |
| Late Autumn | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film | Japan |
| Lawful Money | Fereydon Ghovanlou | — | Iran |