| Ashamed | Esmail Koushan | — | Iran |
| Third from the Right | Géza von Cziffra | musical film | Germany |
| Harvey | Henry Koster | fantasy film, comedy film | United States |
| Over the Garden Wall | John E. Blakeley | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Where Danger Lives | John Farrow | — | — |
| Brave People | Konstantin Yudin | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Broken Arrow | Delmer Daves | — | — |
| Winchester '73 | Anthony Mann | Western film | United States |
| Destination Moon | Irving Pichel | drama film, speculative fiction film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Gunfighter | Henry King | Western film | United States |
| The Hasty Heart | Vincent Sherman | drama film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Kind Hearts and Coronets | Robert Hamer | crime film | United Kingdom |
| Panther's Moon | George Sherman | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Caged | John Cromwell | drama film, film noir, prison film | United States |
| House by the River | Fritz Lang | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Amor hoi! | Hannu Leminen | romantic comedy | Finland |
| Stage Fright | Alfred Hitchcock | — | — |
| The Blue Lamp | Basil Dearden | crime film | United Kingdom |
| Kon-Tiki | Thor Heyerdahl, Olle Nordemar | documentary film | Norway, Sweden |
| The Devil Is a Woman | Tito Davison | drama film | Mexico |
| Woman in Hiding | Michael Gordon | — | — |
| Abandoned | Joseph M. Newman | film noir, crime film | United States |
| Across the Badlands | Fred F. Sears | Western film | United States |
| Adam and Evelyne | Harold French | romance film, drama film | United Kingdom |
| Appreciating Our Parents | — | — | — |
| At War with the Army | Hal Walker | — | — |
| Ballerina | Ludwig Berger | comedy drama | France |
| Bandits of El Dorado | Ray Nazarro | Western film | United States |
| Cage of Gold | Basil Dearden | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Cairo Road | David MacDonald | romance film, drama film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Captain Carey | Mitchell Leisen | drama film | United States |
| Chain Lightning | Stuart Heisler | drama film, action film | United States |
| Cherokee Uprising | Lewis D. Collins | Western film | United States |
| Colt .45 | Edwin L. Marin | — | — |
| Comanche Territory | George Sherman | Western film | United States |
| Cordula | Gustav Ucicky | drama film | Austria |
| Crashing Thru | Ray Taylor | Western film | United States |
| Dakota Lil | Lesley Selander | Western film | United States |
| Death Valley Gunfighter | R. G. Springsteen | Western film | United States |
| Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute | Hans Heinrich | — | — |
| Devotion | Augusto Genina | drama film | Italy |
| Donne e briganti | Mario Soldati | historical film, adventure film | Italy |
| Down Dakota Way | William Witney | — | — |
| Duchess of Idaho | Robert Z. Leonard | romantic comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Easy Living | Jacques Tourneur | romance film, American football film, drama film | United States |
| Everybody Does It | Edmund Goulding | comedy film | United States |
| Follow Me Quietly | Richard Fleischer, Anthony Mann | mystery film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Four Men in Prison | Max Anderson | educational film, semidocumentary | United Kingdom |
| Frisco Tornado | R. G. Springsteen | Western film | United States |
| Girls' School | Lew Landers | — | — |
| Hills of Oklahoma | R. G. Springsteen | Western film | United States |
| Hoedown | Ray Nazarro | musical film | United States |
| I'm in the Revue | Mario Soldati | — | — |
| Il Conte di Sant'Elmo | Guido Brignone | drama film | Italy |
| Il Mulatto | Francesco De Robertis | war film | Italy |
| Jeevitham | A. V. Meiyappan | — | — |
| Jiggs and Maggie Out West | William Beaudine | comedy film | United States |
| Last of the Buccaneers | Lew Landers | pirate film, swashbuckler film, adventure film | United States |
| Law of the Panhandle | Lewis D. Collins | Western film | United States |
| Lawless Code | Oliver Drake | Western film | United States |
| Look for the Silver Lining | David Butler | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Lust for Gold | S. Sylvan Simon | mystery film, crime film | United States |
| Marechiaro | Giorgio Ferroni | drama film | Italy |
| Margaret of Cortona | Mario Bonnard | drama film | Italy |
| Masked Raiders | Lesley Selander | Western film | United States |
| Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone | Norman Taurog | — | — |
| Neptune's Daughter | Edward Buzzell | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Pact with the Devil | Luigi Chiarini | drama film | Italy |
| Peggy | Fred de Cordova | — | — |
| Persiane chiuse | Luigi Comencini | drama film, melodrama | Italy |
| Please Believe Me | Norman Taurog | romantic comedy | United States |
| Range Justice | Ray Taylor | Western film | United States |
| Rider from Tucson | Lesley Selander | Western film | United States |
| Right Cross | John Sturges | drama film, boxing film | United States |
| Samson and Delilah | Cecil B. DeMille | — | — |
| September Affair | William Dieterle | romance film, drama film | United States |
| South of Death Valley | Ray Nazarro | Western film | United States |
| Sri Jagannath | — | — | — |
| Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | drama film, film noir, flashback film | United States |
| Susanna Pass | William Witney | — | — |
| Take Me Out to the Ball Game | Busby Berkeley | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Tarzan and the Slave Girl | Lee Sholem | — | — |
| That Forsyte Woman | Compton Bennett | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Arizona Cowboy | R. G. Springsteen | Western film | United States |
| The Breaking Point | Michael Curtiz | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| The Bribe | Robert Z. Leonard | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| The Damned Don't Cry | Vincent Sherman | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| The Dynamite Brothers | Nino Pagot, Toni Pagot | fiction film | Italy |
| The Flame and the Arrow | Jacques Tourneur | swashbuckler film, adventure film, medieval film | United States |
| The Fuller Brush Girl | Lloyd Bacon | comedy film | United States |
| The Golden Twenties | — | documentary film | United States |
| The Inspector General | Henry Koster | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| The Lady Takes a Sailor | Michael Curtiz | comedy film | United States |
| The Last Bandit | Joseph Kane | Western film | United States |
| The Life of Riley | Irving Brecher | comedy film | United States |
| The Lights of Baku | Rza Tahmasib | — | — |
| The Magnet | Charles Frend | — | — |
| The Magnificent Yankee | John Sturges | — | — |
| The Men | Fred Zinnemann | romance film, drama film, war film | United States |
| The Peachy Cobbler | Tex Avery | family film, comedy film | United States |
| The Rocking Horse Winner | Anthony Pelissier | — | — |
| The Showdown | Dorrell McGowan | Western film | United States |
| The Stratton Story | Sam Wood | romance film, drama film, biographical film | United States |
| The Sun Comes Up | Richard Thorpe | drama film | United States |
| The Texan Meets Calamity Jane | Ande Lamb | — | — |
| The West Point Story | Roy Del Ruth | musical film | United States |
| They Were Not Divided | Terence Young | — | — |
| Three Came Home | Jean Negulesco | drama film, war film | United States |
| Trail of the Rustlers | Ray Nazarro | Western film | United States |
| Trigger, Jr. | William Witney | — | — |
| Two Flags West | Robert Wise | drama film, Western film | United States |
| Una voce nel tuo cuore | Alberto D'Aversa | drama film | Italy |
| Until We Meet Again | Tadashi Imai | — | — |
| Vento d'Africa | Anton Giulio Majano | drama film | Italy |
| Vertigine d'amore | Luigi Capuano | drama film | France, Italy |
| Vigilante Hideout | Fred C. Brannon | Western film | United States |
| Western Renegades | Wallace Fox | Western film | United States |
| When Willie Comes Marching Home | John Ford | comedy film, war film | United States |
| Yvonne of the Night | Giuseppe Amato | drama film | Italy |