| Antosha Rybkin | Konstantin Yudin | comedy film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Arabian Nights | John Rawlins | — | — |
| After Casanova's Fashion | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | comedy film | Kingdom of Italy, Italy |
| Cat People | Jacques Tourneur | fantasy film, film noir, horror film | United States |
| The District Secretary | Ivan Pyryev | — | — |
| La rueda de la vida | Eusebio Fernández Ardavín | — | — |
| I Married a Witch | René Clair | — | — |
| En herre med bart | Alfred Maurstad | comedy film | Norway |
| A Day of War | Mikhail Slutsky | propaganda film, documentary film | Soviet Union |
| Eyes of the Underworld | Roy William Neill | crime film | United States |
| Desperate Journey | Raoul Walsh | drama film, war film | United States |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror | John Rawlins | mystery film, crime film | United States |
| The Dead Man Falls in Love | Ilmari Unho | — | Finland |
| Iceland | H. Bruce Humberstone | — | — |
| Rembrandt | Hans Steinhoff | biographical film | Germany |
| Flying Fortress | Walter Forde | drama film | United Kingdom |
| A Light in the Window | Manuel Romero | — | — |
| Giarabub | Goffredo Alessandrini | war film | Italy |
| We Were Dancing | Robert Z. Leonard | romantic comedy film | United States |
| Mashenka | Yuli Raizman | — | — |
| The Land | Robert J. Flaherty, Frances H. Flaherty | documentary film | United States |
| The Hired Husband | Gonzalo Delgrás | comedy film | Spain |
| Rio Rita | S. Sylvan Simon | romantic comedy film, comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Girl of the Golden West | Carl Koch | drama film, Western film | Italy |
| Sullivan's Travels | Preston Sturges | drama film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Two in a Big City | Volker von Collande | comedy film | Germany, Nazi Germany |
| All Through the Night | Vincent Sherman | drama film, comedy thriller, thriller film, war film, crime film | United States |
| A Man's World | Charles Barton | — | — |
| Across the Pacific | Vincent Sherman, John Huston | drama film, spy film, war film | United States |
| Andy Hardy's Double Life | George B. Seitz | romantic comedy | United States |
| Apache Trail | Richard Thorpe | Western film | United States |
| Avioliittoyhtiö | Hannu Leminen | comedy film | Finland |
| Bajó un ángel del cielo | Luis César Amadori | — | — |
| Bala Nagamma | C. Pullaiah | — | — |
| Burma Convoy | Noel M. Smith | adventure film | United States |
| Call Out the Marines | William Hamilton | — | — |
| Campus on the March | — | — | — |
| Castle in the Desert | Harry Lachman | — | — |
| Commandos Strike at Dawn | John Farrow | — | — |
| Document Z-3 | Alfredo Guarini | spy film | Italy |
| Fantasmas en Buenos Aires | Enrique Santos Discépolo | — | — |
| Footlight Serenade | Gregory Ratoff | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Headlights in the Fog | Marco Elter | — | — |
| Heart of the Golden West | Joseph Kane | — | — |
| In Old California | William C. McGann | Western film | United States |
| Jeevana Mukthi | — | — | — |
| Joan of Paris | Robert Stevenson | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Joe Smith, American | Richard Thorpe | drama film | United States |
| Johnny Doughboy | John H. Auer | musical film | United States |
| Keeper of the Flame | George Cukor | mystery film, drama film | United States |
| King Arthur Was a Gentleman | Marcel Varnel | — | — |
| La fausse maîtresse | André Cayatte | comedy drama | France |
| 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 |
| The Tuttles of Tahiti | Charles Vidor | — | — |
| The Vanishing Virginian | Frank Borzage | comedy drama | United States |
| The Wife Takes a Flyer | Richard Wallace | romantic comedy | United States |
| The Woman of Sin | Harry Hasso | drama film | Italy |
| They Flew Alone | Herbert Wilcox | — | — |
| This Gun for Hire | Frank Tuttle | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Thunder Birds | William A. Wellman | drama film | United States |
| Tortilla Flat | Victor Fleming | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Tragic Night | Mario Soldati | drama film | Italy |
| Varaventtiili | Valentin Vaala | — | — |
| We the Living | Goffredo Alessandrini | drama film | Italy |
| Wedding Day | Raffaello Matarazzo | comedy film | Italy |
| Whispering Ghosts | Alfred L. Werker | mystery film | United States |
| Woman of the Year | George Stevens | romantic comedy | United States |