| Hey, Let's Twist! | Greg Garrison | musical film | United States |
| Amphibian Man | Gennady Kazansky, Vladimir Chebotaryov | romance film, drama film, adventure film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| Babes in Toyland | Jack Donohue | fantasy film, children's film, Christmas film, musical film | United States |
| The Downhill | Giannis Dalianidis | drama film | Greece |
| Pesnya zovet | Shaken Ajmanov | — | Soviet Union |
| Short by a Million | Toivo Särkkä | comedy film | Finland |
| Ogniomistrz Kaleń | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | drama film | Poland |
| The Hour in Which You're Happy | Rudolf Jugert | romance film, drama film | Germany |
| Greyfriars Bobby | Don Chaffey | — | United States |
| Yojimbo | Akira Kurosawa | drama film | Japan |
| The Black Monocle | Georges Lautner | crime film | France |
| Peace to Him Who Enters | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Oss atomforskere i mellom | Titus Vibe-Müller | crime comedy film | Norway |
| An Urban Affair | Seiji Hisamatsu | — | Japan |
| Nikki, Wild Dog of the North | Jack Couffer, Don Haldane | drama film | United States |
| I Love You, Life! | Mikhail Yershov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Battle at Bloody Beach | Herbert Coleman | war film | United States |
| Green Corn | Václav Krška | drama film | Czechoslovakia |
| Blind Musician | Tatyana Lukashevich, Gleb Komarovsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Five Days, Five Nights | Heinz Thiel, Lev Arnshtam | historical film, war film | Soviet Union, East Germany, Germany |
| A Noisy Day | Anatoly Efros, Georgi Natanson | teen film, romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| A Day for Lionhearts | Nanni Loy | drama film, war film | Italy |
| A Man Has Returned from Space | Yekaterina Vermisheva | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| A Taste of Honey | Tony Richardson | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United Kingdom |
| A Weekend with Lulu | John Paddy Carstairs | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Amor dan Humor | Usmar Ismail | drama film | Indonesia |
| Armored Command | Byron Haskin | drama film, war film | United States |
| Atlantis, the Lost Continent | George Pal | fantasy film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Banditi a Orgosolo | Vittorio De Seta | drama film | Italy |
| Don Camillo: Monsignor | Carmine Gallone | comedy film | Italy |
| First Flight to the Stars | Ilya Kopalin, Dmitry Bogolepov, Grigori Kosenko | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| Forest Song | Viktor Ivchenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Ganga Jamna | Nitin Bose | drama film, crime film | India |
| Girls of the Night | Kinuyo Tanaka | drama film | Japan |
| Gold of the Seven Saints | Gordon Douglas | Western film | United States |
| How Robinson Was Created | Eldar Ryazanov | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Italia '61 | Jan Lenica | — | United States, Italy |
| King of Kings | Nicholas Ray | drama film, sword-and-sandal film, biographical film, epic film | United States |
| Les Lions sont lâchés | Henri Verneuil | comedy film | France, Italy |
| Manger | Louis Portugais, Gilles Carle | documentary film | Canada |
| Master of the World | William Witney | science fiction film | United States |
| Me | Toivo Särkkä | — | Finland |
| Mother Joan of the Angels | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | drama film | Poland |
| O thanatos tha xanarthi | Errikos Thalassinos | drama film | Greece |
| Paris Blues | Martin Ritt | drama film | United States |
| Prom: It's A Pleasure!, The | — | — | — |
| Return to Peyton Place | José Ferrer | drama film | United States |
| Rififi in Stockholm | Hasse Ekman | drama film | Sweden |
| Sail a Crooked Ship | Irving Brecher | heist film | United States |
| Sluttish | Ivan Kavaleridze | drama film | Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union |
| Summer and Smoke | Peter Glenville | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Sword of the Conqueror | Carlo Campogalliani | medieval film, biographical film | Italy |
| Taina zelyonogo bora | Oleg Nikolayevsky | family film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| The Big Gamble | Richard Fleischer, Elmo Williams | adventure film | United States |
| The End of Summer | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film | Japan |
| The Golden Yurt | Ravjaagiin Dorjpalam, Gottfried Kolditz | drama film | East Germany, Germany |
| The Last Sunset | Robert Aldrich | Western film | United States |
| The Man from Nowhere | Eldar Ryazanov | fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| The Monster of Highgate Ponds | Alberto Cavalcanti | fantasy film, comedy film, children's film, live-action/animated film | United Kingdom |
| The Rebel | Robert Day | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| The Secret of the Black Falcon | Domenico Paolella | adventure film | Italy |
| The Secret Partner | Basil Dearden | drama film, detective film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| The Skint | Siamak Yasemi | drama film, comedy film | Iran |
| The Tartars | Richard Thorpe, Ferdinando Baldi | drama film, sword-and-sandal film, historical film, action film, adventure film, medieval film | Yugoslavia, Italy |
| Two Gentlemen 'N' | Tadeusz Chmielewski | crime film | Poland |
| Two Half Times in Hell | Zoltán Fábri | drama film, association football film | Hungary |
| West Side Story | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | romance film, drama film, musical film, crime film | United States |
| Whistle Down the Wind | Bryan Forbes | drama film | United Kingdom |