| Death of a Salesman | László Benedek | drama film | United States |
| Derecho viejo | Manuel Romero | — | — |
| Detective Story | William Wyler | — | — |
| Divorced | Gustaf Molander | drama film | Sweden |
| Domani è un altro giorno | Léonide Moguy | drama film | Italy |
| El Hincha | Manuel Romero | — | — |
| En cuerpo y alma | Leopoldo Torres Ríos | — | — |
| Enam Djam di Jogja | Usmar Ismail | war film | Indonesia |
| Encore | Harold French | — | — |
| Especialista en señoras | Enrique Cahen Salaberry | — | — |
| Excuse My Dust | Roy Rowland | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Filumena Marturano | Eduardo De Filippo | comedy drama | Italy |
| Four Ways Out | Pietro Germi | drama film, heist film, crime film | Italy |
| Francis Goes to the Races | Arthur Lubin | comedy film | United States |
| Grounds for Marriage | Robert Z. Leonard | romantic comedy film, comedy of remarriage | United States |
| Here Comes the Groom | Frank Capra | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| I'll Get You for This | Joseph M. Newman | — | — |
| Iron Man | Joseph Pevney | drama film, film noir, boxing film | United States |
| Kvinnan bakom allt | Johan Jacobsen | — | — |
| La trinca del aire | Ramón Torrado | — | — |
| Last Meeting | Gianni Franciolini | drama film | Italy |
| Law of the Badlands | Lesley Selander | — | — |
| Lightning Strikes Twice | King Vidor | — | — |
| Mask of the Avenger | Phil Karlson | — | — |
| Murder Without Crime | J. Lee Thompson | — | — |
| My Forbidden Past | Robert Stevenson | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Native Son | Pierre Chenal | — | — |
| Night Riders of Montana | Fred C. Brannon | Western film | United States |
| Oh! Susanna | Joseph Kane | Western film | United States |
| On the Riviera | Walter Lang | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| One Good Turn | Arthur Maude | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Outcast of the Islands | Carol Reed | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Pandora and the Flying Dutchman | Albert Lewin | mystery film, drama film, fantasy film | United Kingdom |
| People Will Talk | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | — | — |
| Quo Vadis | Mervyn LeRoy | — | — |
| Raton Pass | Edwin L. Marin | — | — |
| Revenge of a Crazy Girl | Pino Mercanti | drama film | Italy |
| Rhythm Inn | Paul Landres | — | — |
| Rich, Young and Pretty | Norman Taurog | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Ridin' the Outlaw Trail | Fred F. Sears | Western film | United States |
| Rough Riders of Durango | Fred C. Brannon | Western film | United States |
| Skipper in Stormy Weather | Gunnar Olsson | — | Sweden |
| Soldiers Three | Tay Garnett | drama film, adventure film | United States |
| Strangers on a Train | Alfred Hitchcock | — | — |
| Suburb | León Klimovsky | — | — |
| Ten Tall Men | Willis Goldbeck | — | — |
| Teresa | Fred Zinnemann | drama film | United States |
| The Beautiful Image | Claude Heymann | drama film | France |