| The White Poodle | Vladimir Shredel, Marianna Roshal-Stroyeva | children's film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Music in the Blood | Erik Ode | — | — |
| Aoi kajitsu | Nobuo Aoyagi | — | Japan |
| She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum | Keisuke Kinoshita | drama film | Japan |
| Lady Godiva of Coventry | Arthur Lubin | romance film, drama film, historical film | United States |
| Christ in Bronze | Minoru Shibuya | — | — |
| East of Eden | Elia Kazan | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Trouble with Harry | Alfred Hitchcock | crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, comedy thriller, crime thriller film, thriller film, black comedy film, crime film | United States |
| The Happy Village | Rudolf Schündler | comedy film | Germany |
| Meoto zenzai | Shirō Toyoda | drama film | Japan |
| Private Ivan | Ivan Lukinsky | — | — |
| Whoops! | Stig Olin | comedy film | Sweden |
| Hotel Adlon | Josef von Báky | drama film | Germany |
| Son | Yuri Ozerov | — | — |
| Untamed | Henry King | romance film, drama film, adventure film | United States |
| Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy | Charles Lamont | comedy film, crossover fiction, comedy horror, parody film | United States |
| The Grasshopper | Samson Samsonov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| This Island Earth | Jack Arnold, Joseph M. Newman | monster film, science fiction film | United States |
| Non-chan Kumo ni Noru | Fumindo Kurata | — | — |
| Suddenly | Lewis Allen | drama film, film noir, crime thriller film | United States |
| Black Tuesday | Hugo Fregonese | — | — |
| Mikhaylo Lomonosov | Aleksandr Ivanov | — | — |
| Arthurs forbrytelse | Sverre Bergli | drama film | Norway |
| Joseph of Ryysyranta | Roland af Hällström | drama film, historical film, social film | Finland |
| Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | psychological thriller film, crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, crime thriller film, thriller film, detective film, psychological drama film, crime film | United States |
| A Man Called Peter | Henry Koster | drama film | United States |
| Drums Across the River | Nathan Juran | Western film, action film | United States |
| Heroes of Shipka | Sergei Vasilyev | drama film, historical film, war film | People's Republic of Bulgaria, Soviet Union |
| Galapagos | Thor Heyerdahl | — | — |
| The Second Son | Mitsuo Hirotsu | — | — |
| Trost i taklampa | Erik Borge | comedy film | Norway |
| 24-Hour Alert | Robert M. Leeds | — | United States |
| Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops | Charles Lamont | comedy film, crossover fiction, parody film | United States |
| Ain't Misbehavin' | Edward Buzzell | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Azaad | S. M. Sriramulu Naidu | — | — |
| Buonanotte... avvocato! | Giorgio Bianchi | comedy film | Italy |
| Carioca Symphony | Watson Macedo | comedy film, musical film | Brazil |
| Caroline and the Rebels | Jean Devaivre | period drama film | France |
| Caught and Held Fast... | Armand Lohikoski | — | Finland |
| Cindy Goes To A Party | Herk Harvey | — | — |
| Confession | Ken Hughes | — | — |
| Conquest of Space | Byron Haskin | drama film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film | United States |
| Don Camillo's Last Round | Carmine Gallone | comedy film | France, Italy |
| El guardián del paraíso | Arturo Ruiz Castillo | — | — |
| Golden Bull Calf | Moko Hakobyan | — | — |
| Good Times, Money and Love | Nikos Tsiforos | comedy film | Greece |
| Headline Hunters | William Witney | thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Hit the Deck | Roy Rowland | musical film | United States |
| Il bidone | Federico Fellini | drama film, crime film | France, Italy |
| La cruz de mayo | Florián Rey | — | — |
| La Pointe Courte | Agnès Varda | drama film | France |
| Land and People | Stanislav Rostotsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Le ragazze di San Frediano | Valerio Zurlini | romantic comedy | Italy |
| Le vacanze del sor Clemente | Camillo Mastrocinque | comedy film | Italy |
| Little Red Monkey | Ken Hughes | — | — |
| Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | Henry King | — | — |
| Love Makeup | Ishirō Honda | — | — |
| Magic Fire | William Dieterle | — | — |
| Men of Blue Cross | Andrzej Munk | drama film | Poland |
| Neiti Talonmies | William Markus | — | — |
| Onni etsii asuntoa | Thure Bahne | comedy film | Finland |
| Picnic | Joshua Logan | romance film, drama film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Shotgun | Lesley Selander | Western film | United States |
| So This Is Paris | Richard Quine | — | — |
| Spring Voices | Eldar Ryazanov | — | — |
| Storm Over the Nile | Zoltan Korda | — | — |
| Swamp Women | Roger Corman | exploitation film, horror film, crime film | United States |
| Tall Man Riding | Lesley Selander | — | — |
| Target Zero | Harmon Jones | drama film | United States |
| Ten Wanted Men | H. Bruce Humberstone | Western film | United States |
| The Americano | William Castle | — | — |
| The Cobweb | Vincente Minnelli | romantic comedy film, drama film | United States |
| The Doll Merchant | Jack Witikka | — | — |
| The Eternal Sea | John H. Auer | war film | United States |
| The Far Horizons | Rudolph Maté | adventure film | United States |
| The French, They Are a Funny Race | Preston Sturges | comedy film | France |
| The Girl and the Oak | Krešo Golik | drama film | Yugoslavia |
| The Glass Cage | Montgomery Tully | — | — |
| The Indian Fighter | André de Toth | — | — |
| The Kentuckian | Burt Lancaster | drama film, Western film | United States |
| The Last Frontier | Anthony Mann | Western film, action film | United States |
| The Left Hand of God | Edward Dmytryk | — | — |
| The Magical Warrior | Bin Katō | — | — |
| The Night Holds Terror | Andrew L. Stone | drama film, film noir | United States |
| The Plot to Assassinate Hitler | Falk Harnack | drama film, war film, biographical film | Germany |
| The Prodigal | Richard Thorpe | — | — |
| The Ship That Died of Shame | Basil Dearden | — | — |
| The Shrike | José Ferrer | drama film | United States |
| The Tender Trap | Charles Walters | — | — |
| The Three from the Filling Station | Hans Wolff | — | — |
| The Vanishing American | Joseph Kane | Western film | United States |
| The Virgin Queen | Henry Koster | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| The Widow | Lewis Milestone | — | — |
| Thunderstorm | John Guillermin | — | — |
| Tight Spot | Phil Karlson | — | — |
| Two Captains | Vladimir Vengerov | — | — |
| Underwater! | John Sturges | — | — |
| Violent Saturday | Richard Fleischer | drama film, melodrama, thriller film, heist film, crime film | United States |
| Where There's a Will | Vernon Sewell | — | — |
| Wichita | Jacques Tourneur | Western film | United States |
| Åsa-Nisse ordnar allt | Ragnar Frisk | comedy film | Sweden |