| The African Queen | John Huston | drama film, romantic comedy | United Kingdom, United States |
| Decision Before Dawn | Anatole Litvak | spy film, war film | United States |
| Malliswari | Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy | — | — |
| The Day the Earth Stood Still | Robert Wise | — | — |
| Skadeskutt | Edith Carlmar | drama film | Norway |
| The General's Fiancée | Ville Salminen | comedy film | Finland |
| Marmayogi | K. Ramnoth | — | — |
| This Can't Happen Here | Ingmar Bergman | drama film, thriller film | Sweden |
| Life in Her Hands | Philip Leacock | drama film | United Kingdom |
| The Black Crown | Luis Saslavsky | mystery film, drama film | France, Spain, Italy |
| The Miners of Donetsk | Leonid Lukov | — | — |
| The Dark Light | Vernon Sewell | thriller film | United Kingdom |
| Flesh and Blood | Anthony Kimmins | — | — |
| Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | Raoul Walsh | adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Generous Summer | Boris Barnet | — | — |
| Warszawska premiera | Jan Rybkowski | — | — |
| Adventures of Captain Fabian | Robert Florey | romance film, adventure film | France, United States |
| Along the Great Divide | Raoul Walsh | Western film | United States |
| Arizona Manhunt | Fred C. Brannon | Western film | United States |
| Arriba el Telón o el Patio de la Morocha | Manuel Romero | — | — |
| As Young as You Feel | Harmon Jones | — | — |
| Blooming Ukraine | Mikhail Slutsky | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| Bright Victory | Mark Robson | romance film, drama film, war film | United States |
| Carmen Comes Home | Zenzo Matsuyama, Keisuke Kinoshita, Masaki Kobayashi | musical film | Japan |
| Cattle Drive | Kurt Neumann | — | — |
| China Corsair | Ray Nazarro | adventure film | United States |
| David and Bathsheba | Henry King | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Dear Brat | William A. Seiter | comedy film | United States |
| 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 |
| The Browning Version | Anthony Asquith | drama film | United Kingdom |
| The Bullfighter and the Lady | Budd Boetticher | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Dakota Kid | Philip Ford | Western film | United States |
| The Fat Man | William Castle | — | — |
| The Great Caruso | Richard Thorpe | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| The Idiot | Akira Kurosawa | drama film | Japan |
| The Light Touch | Richard Brooks | romance film, heist film | United States |
| The Man from Planet X | Edgar G. Ulmer | science fiction film | United States |
| The Model and the Marriage Broker | George Cukor | romantic comedy | United States |
| The Redhead and the Cowboy | Leslie Fenton | Western film | United States |
| The Tanks Are Coming | D. Ross Lederman | — | — |
| Thunder in God's Country | George Blair | Western film | United States |
| Thunder on the Hill | Douglas Sirk | mystery film, drama film | United States |
| Too Young to Kiss | Robert Z. Leonard | romantic comedy | United States |
| Utah Wagon Train | Philip Ford | Western film | United States |
| Vain laulajapoikia | Ossi Elstelä | comedy film | Finland |
| Wells Fargo Gunmaster | Philip Ford | Western film | United States |
| When Worlds Collide | Rudolph Maté | fantasy film, comedy film, action film, horror film, thriller film, speculative fiction film, adventure film, science fiction film, disaster film | France, United States |