| Lady for a Night | Leigh Jason | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Larceny, Inc. | Lloyd Bacon | comedy film, Christmas film, heist film | United States |
| Malambo | Alberto de Zavalía | — | — |
| Manpower | — | — | — |
| Mexican Spitfire at Sea | Leslie Goodwins | comedy film | United States |
| Mrs. Miniver | William Wyler | — | — |
| My Sister Eileen | Alexander Hall | romance film, comedy film | United States |
| Nightmare | Tim Whelan | mystery film | United States |
| Now, Voyager | Irving Rapper | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Private Buckaroo | Edward F. Cline | — | — |
| Random Harvest | Mervyn LeRoy | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Rantasuon raatajat | Orvo Saarikivi | — | Finland |
| Reap the Wild Wind | Cecil B. DeMille | adventure film | United States |
| Riders of the Northland | William Berke | — | — |
| Roxie Hart | William A. Wellman | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Rubber Racketeers | Harold Young | — | — |
| Scattergood Rides High | Christy Cabanne | comedy film | United States |
| Secret Mission | Harold French | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Seven Days' Leave | Tim Whelan | — | — |
| Ship Ahoy | Edward Buzzell | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Silver Queen | Lloyd Bacon | Western film | United States |
| Smart Alecks | Wallace Fox | — | — |
| Star Spangled Rhythm | George Marshall, Paul Weatherwax, A. Edward Sutherland, Ralph Murphy, Lewis Allen | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Syncopation | William Dieterle | comedy film | United States |
| Take a Letter, Darling | Mitchell Leisen | romantic comedy film | United States |
| Tennessee Johnson | William Dieterle | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Terror on the Midway | Dave Fleischer | — | — |
| The Big Blockade | Charles Frend | — | — |
| The Black Swan | Henry King | — | — |
| The Early Bird Dood It! | Tex Avery | family film, comedy film | United States |
| The Falcon Takes Over | Irving Reis | — | — |
| The First of the Few | Leslie Howard | biographical film | United Kingdom |
| The Forest Rangers | George Marshall | adventure film | United States |
| The Gaucho War | Lucas Demare | — | — |
| The Great Man's Lady | William A. Wellman | Western film | United States |
| The Jester's Supper | Alessandro Blasetti | drama film | Italy |
| The Lady Has Plans | Sidney Lanfield | comedy drama | United States |
| The Lion of Damascus | Corrado D'Errico, Enrico Guazzoni | adventure film | Italy |
| The Mad Martindales | Alfred L. Werker | comedy film | United States |
| The Man Who Came to Dinner | William Keighley | comedy film, Christmas film, romantic comedy | United States |
| The Murderer Lives at Number 21 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | drama film, comedy thriller, crime film | France |
| The Navy Comes Through | A. Edward Sutherland | — | — |
| The Palm Beach Story | Preston Sturges | romantic comedy | United States |
| The Peterville Diamond | Walter Forde | — | — |
| The Phantom Plainsmen | John English | — | — |
| The Pride of the Yankees | Sam Wood | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| The Remarkable Andrew | Stuart Heisler | — | — |
| The Talk of the Town | George Stevens | romantic comedy film, drama film | United States |