| Jai-Alai | Ricardo Rodríguez Quintana | — | — |
| Second Chorus | H. C. Potter | — | — |
| South of Suez | Lewis Seiler | — | — |
| The Girl from Barnhelm | Hans Schweikart | comedy film | Germany |
| Honeymoon in Rio | Manuel Romero | — | — |
| Tanya | Grigori Aleksandrov | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock | romance film, erotic thriller film, psychological thriller film, mystery film, drama film, melodrama, thriller film, psychological drama film | United States |
| The Westerner | William Wyler | drama film, Western film | United States |
| The Beloved | Ivan Pyryev | — | — |
| The Crazy Family | Ivar Johansson | comedy film | Sweden |
| The Sea Hawk | Michael Curtiz | pirate film, swashbuckler film, adventure film | United States |
| One Crowded Night | Irving Reis | drama film | United States |
| The Law of Life | Boris Ivanov, Aleksandr Stolper | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Die Deutsche Wochenschau 570/1941 | — | newsreel, sound film | Nazi Germany |
| Kedok Ketawa | Jo An Djan | — | — |
| Die Deutsche Wochenschau 514/1940 | — | newsreel, sound film | Nazi Germany |
| My Favorite Wife | Garson Kanin | — | — |
| Podnyataya tselina | Yuli Raizman | — | — |
| Curtain Call | Frank Woodruff | romantic comedy film | United States |
| My universities | Mark Donskoy | drama film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Member of the Government | Aleksandr Zarkhi | — | — |
| The Marines Fly High | Benjamin Stoloff, George Nicholls, Jr. | adventure film | United States |
| Bastard | Gösta Stevens, Helge Lunde | drama film, adventure film | Norway, Sweden |
| The Tango Star | Luis Bayón Herrera | musical film | Argentina |
| A Chump at Oxford | Alfred J. Goulding | comedy film, buddy film | United States |
| A Fugitive from Justice | Terry O. Morse | — | — |
| A romantic adventure | Mario Camerini | drama film | Italy |
| Abe Lincoln in Illinois | John Cromwell | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Arise, My Love | Mitchell Leisen | romantic comedy | United States |
| Bandhan | N. R. Acharya | — | — |
| Blondie Has Servant Trouble | Frank R. Strayer | — | — |
| Boccaccio | Marcello Albani | musical film | Italy |
| Brigham Young | Henry Hathaway | romance film, drama film, Western film, biographical film | United States |
| British Intelligence | Terry O. Morse | — | — |
| Broadway Melody of 1940 | Norman Taurog | musical film | United States |
| Brother of a Hero | Yuri Vasilchikov | family film, children's film | Soviet Union |
| Charter Pilot | Eugene Forde | drama film | United States |
| Chingolo | Lucas Demare | — | — |
| Clothes Make the Man | Helmut Käutner, Paul Verhoeven | comedy film | Germany |
| Cross-Country Romance | Frank Woodruff | — | — |
| Dark Command | Raoul Walsh | — | — |
| Doomed to Die | William Nigh | — | — |
| Dr. O'Dowd | Herbert Mason | — | — |
| Dreaming Out Loud | Harold Young | comedy film | United States |
| Dulcy | S. Sylvan Simon | comedy film | United States |
| Escape to Glory | John Brahm | war film | United States |
| Eternal Melodies | Carmine Gallone | drama film | Italy |
| Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe | Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor | action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Flight Command | Frank Borzage | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Go West | Edward Buzzell | — | — |
| Gold Rush Maisie | J. Walter Ruben | — | — |
| Hanna in Society | Gunnar Olsson | comedy film | Sweden |
| Heritage for Victory | — | — | — |
| Heroes of the Saddle | William Witney | — | — |
| Hi-Yo Silver | William Witney | — | — |
| High School | George Nicholls, Jr. | drama film | United States |
| Hired Wife | William A. Seiter | romantic comedy film | United States |
| Ice-Capades | Joseph Santley | romance film, comedy film, musical film | United States |
| If I Had My Way | David Butler | musical film | United States |
| Isle of Destiny | Elmer Clifton | — | — |
| It's a Date | William A. Seiter, Joe Pasternak, Frederick Kohner, Ralph Block, Norman Krasna | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Kiddie Kure | Edward L. Cahn | — | — |
| Kitty Foyle | Sam Wood | drama film | United States |
| La Comédie du bonheur | Marcel L'Herbier | comedy film | France, Italy |
| Laddie | Jack Hively | drama film | United States |
| Lapseni on minun | Jorma Nortimo | drama film | Finland |
| Let George Do It! | Marcel Varnel | propaganda film, spy film, musical film | United Kingdom |
| Li'l Abner | Albert S. Rogell | — | — |
| Lone Star Raiders | George Sherman | — | — |
| Lucky Cisco Kid | H. Bruce Humberstone | — | — |
| Lucrezia Borgia | Hans Hinrich | drama film | Italy |
| Moyuru ōzora | Yutaka Abe | — | — |
| Murder in the Air | Lewis Seiler | drama film, comedy drama | United States |
| My Son, My Son! | Charles Vidor | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Night Train to Munich | Carol Reed | drama film, spy film, war film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Old Mother Riley Joins Up | Maclean Rogers | — | — |
| One Night in the Tropics | A. Edward Sutherland | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Passion | Walter Janssen | drama film | Germany |
| Pioneers of the West | Lester Orlebeck | — | — |
| Rhythm on the River | Victor Schertzinger | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride | Frank McDonald | — | — |
| Sailors Three | Walter Forde | — | — |
| Sandy Gets Her Man | Otis Garrett | — | — |
| Seven Sinners | Tay Garnett, Phil Karlson | romantic comedy | United States |
| Siberians | Lev Kuleshov | — | — |
| Somewhere in England | John E. Blakeley | — | — |
| Son of the Navy | William Nigh | — | — |
| Spare a Copper | John Paddy Carstairs | — | — |
| Swanee River | Sidney Lanfield | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Tavaratalo Lapatossu & Vinski | Toivo Särkkä | comedy film | Finland |
| The Blue Bird | Walter Lang | fantasy film, children's film | United States |
| The Border Legion | Joseph Kane | Western film | United States |
| The Courageous Dr. Christian | Bernard Vorhaus | — | — |
| The Doctor Takes a Wife | Alexander Hall | romantic comedy film | United States |
| The Durango Kid | Lambert Hillyer | — | — |
| The Fatal Hour | William Nigh | — | — |
| The Foundling | Tatyana Lukashevich | — | — |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Ford | — | — |
| The Invisible Woman | A. Edward Sutherland | horror film, comedy horror, thriller film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| The Letter | William Wyler | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| The Man with Nine Lives | Nick Grinde | — | — |
| The Mortal Storm | Frank Borzage | drama film | United States |
| The New Pupil | Edward L. Cahn | — | — |
| The Return of Frank James | Fritz Lang | — | — |
| The Rothschilds | Erich Waschneck | — | — |
| They Knew What They Wanted | Garson Kanin | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Three Faces West | Bernard Vorhaus | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Typhoon | Louis King | comedy film, adventure film | United States |
| Under Your Hat | Maurice Elvey | — | — |
| Viva Cisco Kid | Norman Foster | — | United States |
| You'll Find Out | David Butler | — | — |
| Young Bill Hickok | Joseph Kane | — | — |
| Young People | Allan Dwan | — | — |