| Nero and the Burning of Rome | Primo Zeglio | drama film, historical film, biographical film | Italy |
| On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | drama film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| St. Louis Woman | DeShawn Bankert | musical film | United States |
| Father Brown | Robert Hamer | mystery film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| A Big Family | Iosif Kheifits | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Ulysses | Mario Camerini | — | — |
| Because You're Mine | Alexander Hall | — | — |
| Elephant Walk | William Dieterle | drama film, adventure film | United States |
| Did We Meet Somewhere Before | Andrey Tutyshkin | — | — |
| The Vanishing Prairie | James Algar | nature documentary | United States |
| Love is Forever | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | romance film, drama film | Germany |
| Sugam Enge | K. Ramnoth | romance film, drama film | India |
| Human Desire | Fritz Lang | — | — |
| The Blue Paradise | François Bankert | musical film | United States |
| Secret of the Incas | Jerry Hopper | — | — |
| The Anna Cross | Isidore Annenski | drama film, historical film | Soviet Union |
| Rose-Girl Resli | Harald Reinl | drama film | Germany |
| River of No Return | Jean Negulesco, Otto Preminger, Paul Helmick | Western film, action film | United States |
| How to Marry a Millionaire | Jean Negulesco | romance film, comedy film, musical film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Pessi and Illusia | Jack Witikka | fantasy film, dance film, ballet film | Finland |
| A Stranger Came Home | Terence Fisher | drama film, film noir, crime film | United Kingdom |
| A Tale of the Forest Giant | Aleksandr Zguridi | — | — |
| Betrayed | Gottfried Reinhardt | romance film, drama film, action film, war film | United States |
| Bread, Love and Jealousy | Luigi Comencini | romantic comedy | Italy |
| Cattle Queen of Montana | Allan Dwan | Western film | United States |
| Cento anni d'amore | Lionello De Felice | — | — |
| Chandraharam | Kamalakara Kameshwara Rao | — | — |
| Children of the Partisan | Nikolai Figurovsky | — | — |
| Demetrius and the Gladiators | Delmer Daves | drama film, sword-and-sandal film, action film | United States |
| Duel in the Jungle | George Marshall | — | — |
| Gakusei Shinjū | — | — | — |
| Guacho | Lucas Demare | — | — |
| Hei, rillumarei! | Armand Lohikoski | comedy film | Finland |
| I dimma dold | Lars-Eric Kjellgren | drama film, thriller film, crime film | Sweden |
| Il seduttore | Franco Rossi | comedy film | Italy |
| Impulse | Cy Endfield | — | — |
| It Takes Two to Sin in Love | Vittorio Cottafavi | drama film | Italy |
| King Richard and the Crusaders | David Butler | drama film, medieval film | United States |
| Kortik | Mikhail Schweitzer | — | — |
| Kutsukake Tokijirō | Kiyoshi Saeki | — | — |
| La Calle del pecado | Ernesto Arancibia | — | — |
| Legends of Anika | Vladimir Pogačić | — | — |
| Make Haste to Live | William A. Seiter | — | — |
| Masterson of Kansas | William Castle | Western film | United States |
| Murder by Proxy | Terence Fisher | — | — |
| Naked Sea | Allen H. Miner | documentary film | United States |
| Nazar Stodolya | Viktor Ivchenko | — | — |
| Neapolitan Carousel | Ettore Giannini | comedy film, musical film | Italy |
| New Year | Tseveeny Zandraa | — | — |
| Night People | Nunnally Johnson | drama film, spy film, crime film | United States |
| Passion | Allan Dwan | Western film | United States |
| Pietà per chi cade | Mario Costa | drama film | Italy |
| Prince Valiant | Henry Hathaway | romance film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film, fantasy film, action film, swashbuckler film, adventure film, medieval film, period drama film | United States |
| Pushover | Richard Quine | drama film, film noir, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Rails Into Laramie | Jesse Hibbs | Western film | United States |
| Red Garters | George Marshall | musical film | United States |
| River Beat | Guy Green | crime film | United Kingdom |
| Saskatchewan | Raoul Walsh | Western film | United States |
| Siam | Ralph Wright | documentary film | United States |
| Southwest Passage | Ray Nazarro | — | — |
| Taikayö | William Markus | romance film | Finland |
| The Battle of Rogue River | William Castle | — | — |
| The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters | Edward Bernds | — | — |
| The Boy from Oklahoma | Michael Curtiz | Western film | United States |
| The Caine Mutiny | Edward Dmytryk | — | — |
| The Daughter of the Regiment | Aarne Laine | comedy film, farce, military comedy film | Finland |
| The Far Country | Anthony Mann | Western film | United States |
| The Gypsy Baron | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | romance film, comedy film | Germany |
| The Law vs. Billy the Kid | William Castle | Western film | United States |
| The Little Czar | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | musical film | France, Germany |
| The Love Lottery | Charles Crichton | — | — |
| The Red Beret | Terence Young | drama film, war film | United Kingdom |
| The Saint's Return | Seymour Friedman | crime film | United Kingdom |
| The Secret of Mountain Lake | Alexander Rou | — | — |
| The Song of the Rivers | Robert Ménégoz, Joris Ivens, Joop Huisken | documentary film | East Germany, Germany |
| The Stratford Adventure | Morten Parker | documentary film | Canada |
| The Student Prince | Richard Thorpe | — | — |
| The Woman in the Rumor | Kenji Mizoguchi | drama film | Japan |
| Vipra Narayana | P. S. Ramakrishna Rao | — | — |
| Visiting the Groom | Laert Vagharshyan | — | Soviet Union |
| West of Zanzibar | Harry Watt | — | — |
| Woman's World | Jean Negulesco | drama film | United States |