| Three Violent People | Rudolph Maté | Western film | United States |
| Charlie Strap, Froggy Ball and Their Friends | Hasse Funck | children's film, adventure film, musical film | Sweden |
| Rasmus, Pontus and Toker | Stig Olin | drama film | Sweden |
| Anu and Mikko | Ville Salminen | drama film | Finland |
| Toya | Eric Heed | children's film | Norway |
| Qivitoq | Erik Balling | romance film, drama film, family film | Denmark |
| Secrets of Life | James Algar | documentary film | United States |
| Stones, Castles, Men | István Szőts | — | — |
| Different Fortunes | Leonid Lukov | — | — |
| Women In Prison | Seiji Hisamatsu | — | Japan |
| Friederike von Barring | Rolf Thiele | drama film | Germany |
| Wings (1956 film) | Konstantin Zubov, Tatyana Lukashevich | drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Great Locomotive Chase | Francis D. Lyon | Western film | United States |
| The First Echelon | Mikhail Kalatozov | — | — |
| The Creature Walks Among Us | John Sherwood | monster film, horror film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film | United States |
| Alejandra | Carlos Schlieper | — | — |
| Farewell to Dream | Keisuke Kinoshita | drama film | Japan |
| The Cat | Rafael María Torrecilla, Margarita Alexandre | drama film | France |
| Othello | Sergei Yutkevich | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| The Searchers | John Ford | drama film, Western film, war film | United States |
| Egen ingång | Hasse Ekman | drama film | Sweden |
| Hostile Whirlwinds | Mikhail Kalatozov | — | — |
| Roser til Monica | Bjarne Andersen | drama film | Norway |
| Other People's Relatives | Mikhail Schweitzer | — | — |
| Illegal | Lewis Allen | — | — |
| A Berlin Romance | Gerhard Klein | — | — |
| A Cry in the Night | Frank Tuttle | — | — |
| A Day of Fury | Harmon Jones | — | — |
| Anything Goes | Robert Lewis | musical film | United States |
| Backlash | John Sturges | Western film | United States |
| Behind the High Wall | Abner Biberman | drama film, film noir, prison film | United States |
| Bhowani Junction | George Cukor | — | — |
| Bigger Than Life | Nicholas Ray | drama film | United States |
| Bundle of Joy | Norman Taurog | — | — |
| Carousel | Henry King | fantasy film, musical film | United States |
| Chelkash | Fyodor Filippov | — | Soviet Union |
| Come Next Spring | R. G. Springsteen | — | — |
| Congo Crossing | Joseph Pevney | adventure film | United States |
| Diane | David Miller | drama film, historical film, biographical film | United States |
| Dry Rot | Maurice Elvey | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Early Joys | Vladimir Basov | — | — |
| Friendly Persuasion | William Wyler | drama film, war film | United States |
| Fury at Gunsight Pass | Fred F. Sears | Western film | United States |
| Gesshoku | Umetsugu Inoue | — | — |
| Good Luck! | Viktor Eisymont | — | — |
| Great Day in the Morning | Jacques Tourneur | Western film | United States |
| Guardia | Mauro Bolognini | comedy film | Italy |
| Ivan Franko | Timofei Levchuk | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Jeunesses musicales | Claude Jutra | — | Canada |
| Kean: Genius or Scoundrel | Francesco Rosi, Vittorio Gassman | biographical film | Italy |
| Koi Sugata Kitsune Goten | Nobuo Nakagawa | — | — |
| Lisbon | Ray Milland | drama film, spy film, crime film | United States |
| Migratory Birds of the Flowers | — | — | — |
| Never Say Goodbye | Jerry Hopper, Douglas Sirk | romance film, drama film | United States |
| On the Threshold of Space | Robert D. Webb | — | — |
| Precious Gift | Alexander Rou | — | — |
| Rätten att älska | Mimi Pollak | drama film | Sweden |
| Sailor Beware! | Gordon Parry | — | — |
| Secret of Treasure Mountain | Seymour Friedman | Western film | United States |
| Shūu | Mikio Naruse | drama film | Japan |
| Spy for Germany | Werner Klingler | spy film | Germany |
| Star in the Dust | Charles F. Haas | Western film | United States |
| Storm Center | Daniel Taradash | drama film | United States |
| Street of Shame | Yasuzō Masumura, Kenji Mizoguchi | drama film | Japan |
| Tale of A Taxi | — | — | — |
| Tarps Elin | Kenne Fant | — | Sweden |
| Teenage Rebel | Edmund Goulding | — | — |
| That Certain Feeling | Melvin Frank | comedy film | United States |
| The Bottom of the Bottle | Henry Hathaway | drama film | United States |
| The Fastest Gun Alive | Russell Rouse | drama film, Western film | United States |
| The Gamma People | John Gilling | — | — |
| The Girl Can't Help It | Frank Tashlin | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| The King and I | Walter Lang | romance film, drama film, musical film | United States |
| The Last Hunt | Richard Brooks | Western film | United States |
| The Opposite Sex | David Miller | romantic comedy film, musical film | United States |
| The Proud General | Te Wei | — | People's Republic of China |
| The Proud Ones | Robert D. Webb | Western film | United States |
| The Revolt of Mamie Stover | Raoul Walsh | romance film, drama film, war film | United States |
| The Unguarded Moment | Harry Keller | drama film, crime film | United States |
| The Vagabond King | Michael Curtiz | musical film | United States |
| The Wolves | Leopoldo Savona, Giuseppe De Santis | drama film | Italy |
| Thirteen at the Table | André Hunebelle | comedy film | France |
| Thomas Muentzer | Martin Hellberg | biographical film | East Germany, Germany |
| Torero | Carlos Velo | documentary film | Mexico |
| Totò lascia o raddoppia? | Camillo Mastrocinque | comedy film | Italy |
| Trapeze | Carol Reed | drama film | United States |
| Walk Into Paradise | Lee Robinson | — | — |
| What Obsticles Are Becoming for Us? | Ravjaagiin Dorjpalam | — | — |
| Women Without Men | Elmo Williams | — | — |
| Written on the Wind | Douglas Sirk | — | — |
| Yagyū Ren'yasai: Hiden Tsukikage-shō | Katsuhiko Tasaka | — | — |
| Yhteinen vaimomme | Valentin Vaala | comedy film | Finland |