| The Mysterians | Ishirō Honda | kaiju, horror film, science fiction film | Japan |
| The House I Live In | Yakov Segel | — | — |
| The Heart of St. Pauli | Eugen York | musical film | Germany |
| The Wrestler and the Clown | Boris Barnet, Konstantin Yudin | drama film, sport film | Soviet Union |
| På slaget åtte | Nils R. Müller | film noir, crime film | Norway |
| Kapelusz pana Anatola | Jan Rybkowski | — | — |
| Aaravalli | — | fantasy film | India |
| Forty Guns | Samuel Fuller | — | — |
| Nine Lives | Arne Skouen | drama film, war film, biographical film | Norway |
| Bakuon to daichi | Hideo Sekigawa | — | — |
| The Sisters | Grigori Roshal | — | — |
| Oeil pour oeil | André Cayatte | drama film | France, Italy |
| Goodbye, Franziska | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | — | — |
| A Man Escaped | Robert Bresson | drama film, war film, prison film, docudrama | France |
| Fools in the Mountains | Edith Carlmar | comedy film | Norway |
| Back from the Dead | Charles Marquis Warren | horror film | United States |
| Krutye Stupeni | Zihismund Navrotsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Guerrillas in the Plain | Zhaodi Wu | — | — |
| Stalag 17 | Billy Wilder | drama film, comedy film, Christmas film, war film | United States |
| Slalåm under himmelen | Edith Carlmar | drama film | Norway |
| The Crucible | Raymond Rouleau | — | — |
| The Girl and the Crocodile | Isaak Menaker | — | — |
| Lapland Calendar | Per Høst | — | — |
| Fear Strikes Out | Robert Mulligan | drama film, sport film, biographical film | United States |
| Action immédiate | Maurice Labro | spy film | France |
| Affair in Havana | László Benedek | drama film, film noir, crime thriller film | United States |
| After the Ball | Compton Bennett | — | — |
| At Great Cost | Mark Donskoy | — | — |
| Band of Angels | Raoul Walsh | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Bez vesti propavshiy | Isaak Shmaruk | — | — |
| Boy on a Dolphin | Jean Negulesco | — | — |
| Campbell's Kingdom | Ralph Thomas | adventure film | United Kingdom |
| Das einfache Mädchen | Werner Jacobs | musical film | Germany |
| Desk Set | Walter Lang | romantic comedy | United States |
| Fanouris and His Clan | Dimitris Ioannopoulos | comedy film | Greece |
| Florenc 13,30 | Josef Mach | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Funny Face | Stanley Donen | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | John Sturges | Western film | United States |
| Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke | P. L. Santoshi | children's film | India |
| I colpevoli | Turi Vasile | drama film | France, Italy |
| I Met a Girl | Rafail Perelshtejn | — | — |
| Jazz Musume Tanjō | Masahisa Sunohara | — | — |
| Joe Dakota | Richard Bartlett | Western film | United States |
| Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi | Nobuo Nakagawa | — | — |
| Kenpei to barabara shibijin | Kyōtarō Namiki | — | — |
| Ladder of Progress | Parviz Khatibi | — | Iran |
| Little Ilona and Her Lambkin | Jorma Nortimo | drama film | Finland |
| Love in the Afternoon | Billy Wilder | — | — |
| Matros soshyol na bereg | Lev Danilov, Grigori Aronov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Night Doings | Alekos Sakellarios | — | — |
| Nochnoy patrul | Vladimir Sukhobokov | — | — |
| Omar Khayyam | William Dieterle | biographical film | United States |
| Peyton Place | Mark Robson | drama film | United States |
| Quatermass 2 | Val Guest | horror film, alien invasion, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Raintree County | Edward Dmytryk | — | — |
| Robbery Under Arms | Jack Lee | — | — |
| Rockabilly Baby | William F. Claxton | musical film | United States |
| Run of the Arrow | Samuel Fuller | Western film | United States |
| Saint Joan | Otto Preminger | — | — |
| Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend | Richard L. Bare | — | — |
| Shori-sha | Umetsugu Inoue | — | — |
| Short Cut to Hell | James Cagney | film noir, crime film | United States |
| Silk Stockings | Rouben Mamoulian | — | — |
| Slim Carter | Richard Bartlett | Western film | United States |
| Stepan Kolchugin | — | — | Soviet Union |
| Stories About Lenin | Sergei Yutkevich | — | — |
| Suvarna Sundari | Vedantam Raghavaiah | — | — |
| The Birthday Present | Pat Jackson | — | — |
| The Fisherman's Son | Varis Krūmiņš | — | Soviet Union |
| The Garment Jungle | Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich | film noir, crime film | United States |
| The Girl in the Kremlin | Russell Birdwell | — | — |
| The Kurnell Story | Ken G. Hall | documentary film | Australia |
| The Lower Depths | Akira Kurosawa | drama film | Japan |
| The Phantom Stagecoach | Ray Nazarro | Western film | United States |
| The Pride and the Passion | Stanley Kramer | — | — |
| The Scrapper | Nikoloz Sanishvili | — | — |
| The Traitor | Michael McCarthy | — | — |
| The Vintage | Jeffrey Hayden | — | — |
| The Wayward Bus | Victor Vicas | drama film | United States |
| Thodi Kodallu | Adurthi Subba Rao | — | — |
| Tip on a Dead Jockey | Richard Thorpe | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Untamed | Mikio Naruse | drama film | Japan |
| Vsego dorozhe | — | — | — |
| Yagyu Secret Scrolls | Hiroshi Inagaki | — | — |
| Åsa-Nisse i full fart | Ragnar Frisk | comedy film | Sweden |