| The Glass Mountain | Gustaf Molander | drama film | Sweden |
| Heaven Is Ours | Dinos Dimopoulos | drama film | Greece |
| Blackbeard the Pirate | Raoul Walsh | pirate film, adventure film | United States |
| The Girl from Moon Bridge | Matti Kassila | drama film | Finland |
| The Portico of Glory | Rafael J. Salvia | drama film | Spain |
| Destiny in Trouble | Ernesto Remani | comedy film | Brazil |
| The Big Heat | Fritz Lang | mystery film, drama film, film noir, vigilante film | United States |
| The Robe | Henry Koster | drama film, sword-and-sandal film, period drama film, epic film | United States |
| Mother or Woman | Ilmari Unho | drama film | Finland |
| Kvinnohuset | Hampe Faustman | drama film | Sweden |
| From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | romance film, drama film, war film | United States |
| Barbarians | Leonid Lukov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| It Came from Outer Space | Jack Arnold | — | — |
| Houdini | George Marshall | — | — |
| Julius Caesar | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | — | — |
| After the Fall of Man | Edvin Laine | drama film | Finland |
| Thunder Bay | Anthony Mann | drama film | United States |
| Vi vil skilles | Nils R. Müller | drama film | Norway |
| Code Two | Fred M. Wilcox | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Adam and Eve | Erik Balling | — | — |
| Great Mourning | Sergei Gerasimov, Ilya Kopalin, Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova, Irina Setkina-Nesterova, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikheil Chiaureli | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| The Hitch-Hiker | Ida Lupino | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Summer with Monika | Ingmar Bergman | — | — |
| Storms | Guido Brignone | romance film, drama film | France, Italy |
| The Bad and the Beautiful | Vincente Minnelli | drama film, flashback film | United States |
| A Blueprint for Murder | Andrew L. Stone | — | — |
| Aah | Raja Nawathe | drama film | India |
| An Ardent Heart | Gennady Kazansky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Arena | Richard Fleischer | drama film | United States |
| Armiño Negro | Carlos Hugo Christensen | drama film | Argentina |
| As Long as You're Near Me | Harald Braun | drama film | Germany |
| Avvaiyyar | Kothamangalam Subbu | — | — |
| Beat the Devil | John Huston | satanic film, action film, adventure film, parody film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States, Italy |
| Below the Sahara | Armand Denis | documentary film | United States |
| Cavalleria rusticana | Carmine Gallone | drama film, musical film | Italy |
| Condannatelo! | Luigi Capuano | — | Italy |
| Conquest of Cochise | William Castle | Western film | United States |
| Count the Hours | Don Siegel | — | — |
| Cow Country | Lesley Selander | Western film | United States |
| Cry of the Hunted | Joseph H. Lewis | film noir, crime film | United States |
| Destination Gobi | Robert Wise | drama film, adventure film, war film | United States |
| Devil's Canyon | Alfred L. Werker | — | — |
| Dream Wife | Sidney Sheldon | — | — |
| El Conde de Montecristo | León Klimovsky | — | — |
| El Paso Stampede | Harry Keller | — | — |
| El Vampiro negro | Román Viñoly Barreto | — | — |
| Empty Eyes | Antonio Pietrangeli | — | — |
| Escape from Fort Bravo | John Sturges | Western film | United States |
| Four Sided Triangle | Terence Fisher | — | — |
| Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace | Ryohei Arai | — | — |
| Gun Fury | Raoul Walsh | Western film | United States |
| Hit Parade | Erik Ode | musical film | Germany |
| Incident in the Taiga | Yuri Yegorov | — | — |
| Jack Slade | Harold D. Schuster | Western film | United States |
| Kimi no Na wa | Hideo Ōba | drama fiction | Japan |
| Last of the Comanches | André de Toth | Western film | United States |
| Latin Lovers | Mervyn LeRoy | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Marshal of Cedar Rock | Harry Keller | Western film | United States |
| Money from Home | George Marshall | comedy film | United States |
| Old Overland Trail | William Witney | Western film | United States |
| Personal Affair | Anthony Pelissier | — | — |
| Port Sinister | Harold Daniels | — | — |
| Powder River | Louis King | — | — |
| Recoil | John Gilling | — | — |
| Red River Shore | Harry Keller | Western film | United States |
| Sea Devils | Raoul Walsh | satanic film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| She's Back on Broadway | Gordon Douglas | — | — |
| Sheriyo Thetto | Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair | — | — |
| Siltalan pehtoori | Valentin Vaala | — | — |
| Single-Handed | Roy Boulting | war film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Southern Nights | Robert A. Stemmle | romance film | Germany |
| Split Second | Dick Powell | film noir | United States |
| Take Me to Town | Douglas Sirk | — | — |
| Tarzan and the She-Devil | Kurt Neumann | action film, adventure film | United States |
| Teen Batti Char Raasta | V. Shantaram | — | India |
| The Captain's Paradise | Anthony Kimmins | — | — |
| The Clown | Robert Z. Leonard | drama film | United States |
| The Devil Plays the Flute | José María Forqué | comedy film | Spain |
| The Fake | Godfrey Grayson | — | — |
| The Forest | Vladimir Vengerov, Semyon Timoshenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Glass Wall | Maxwell Shane | drama film, film noir | United States |
| The Last Posse | Alfred L. Werker | Western film | United States |
| The Last Waltz | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | musical film | Germany |
| The Lawless Breed | Raoul Walsh | Western film, thriller film | United States |
| The Nebraskan | Fred F. Sears | Western film | United States |
| The Oracle | C. M. Pennington-Richards | — | — |
| The Silver Whip | Harmon Jones | — | — |
| The Story of Three Loves | Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt | romance film, drama film, fantasy film | United States |
| The Sun Shines Bright | John Ford | drama film | United States |
| Those People Next Door | John Harlow | — | — |
| Three Steps to the Gallows | John Gilling | — | — |
| Thérèse Raquin | Marcel Carné | — | — |
| Torch Song | Charles Walters | romance film, drama film, musical film | United States |
| Tumbleweed | Nathan Juran | Western film | United States |
| Voice of Silence | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | — | — |
| We, the Women | Luchino Visconti, Gianni Franciolini, Alfredo Guarini, Roberto Rossellini, Luigi Zampa | drama film, comedy film | Italy |
| What Is Your Name? Part II | Hideo Ōba | romance film, drama film | Japan |
| Will Any Gentleman...? | Michael Anderson | — | — |
| Working for Peanuts | Jack Hannah | — | — |
| Åsa-Nisse on Holiday | Ragnar Frisk | comedy film | Sweden |