| Quatermass 2 | Val Guest | horror film, alien invasion, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Raintree County | Edward Dmytryk | — | — |
| Robbery Under Arms | Jack Lee | — | — |
| Rockabilly Baby | William F. Claxton | musical film | United States |
| Run of the Arrow | Samuel Fuller | Western film | United States |
| Saint Joan | Otto Preminger | — | — |
| Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend | Richard L. Bare | — | — |
| Shori-sha | Umetsugu Inoue | — | — |
| Short Cut to Hell | James Cagney | film noir, crime film | United States |
| Silk Stockings | Rouben Mamoulian | — | — |
| Slim Carter | Richard Bartlett | Western film | United States |
| Stepan Kolchugin | — | — | Soviet Union |
| Stories About Lenin | Sergei Yutkevich | — | — |
| Suvarna Sundari | Vedantam Raghavaiah | — | — |
| The Birthday Present | Pat Jackson | — | — |
| The Fisherman's Son | Varis Krūmiņš | — | Soviet Union |
| The Garment Jungle | Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich | film noir, crime film | United States |
| The Girl in the Kremlin | Russell Birdwell | — | — |
| The Kurnell Story | Ken G. Hall | documentary film | Australia |
| The Lower Depths | Akira Kurosawa | drama film | Japan |
| The Phantom Stagecoach | Ray Nazarro | Western film | United States |
| The Pride and the Passion | Stanley Kramer | — | — |
| The Scrapper | Nikoloz Sanishvili | — | — |
| The Traitor | Michael McCarthy | — | — |
| The Vintage | Jeffrey Hayden | — | — |
| The Wayward Bus | Victor Vicas | drama film | United States |
| Thodi Kodallu | Adurthi Subba Rao | — | — |
| Tip on a Dead Jockey | Richard Thorpe | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Untamed | Mikio Naruse | drama film | Japan |
| Vsego dorozhe | — | — | — |
| Yagyu Secret Scrolls | Hiroshi Inagaki | — | — |
| Åsa-Nisse i full fart | Ragnar Frisk | comedy film | Sweden |
| A Berlin Romance | Gerhard Klein | — | — |
| A Cry in the Night | Frank Tuttle | — | — |
| A Day of Fury | Harmon Jones | — | — |
| Anything Goes | Robert Lewis | musical film | United States |
| Backlash | John Sturges | Western film | United States |
| Behind the High Wall | Abner Biberman | drama film, film noir, prison film | United States |
| Bhowani Junction | George Cukor | — | — |
| Bigger Than Life | Nicholas Ray | drama film | United States |
| Bundle of Joy | Norman Taurog | — | — |
| Carousel | Henry King | fantasy film, musical film | United States |
| Chelkash | Fyodor Filippov | — | Soviet Union |
| Come Next Spring | R. G. Springsteen | — | — |
| Congo Crossing | Joseph Pevney | adventure film | United States |
| Diane | David Miller | drama film, historical film, biographical film | United States |
| Dry Rot | Maurice Elvey | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Early Joys | Vladimir Basov | — | — |