| The Big Sleep | Howard Hawks | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | drama film, action film, biographical film, crime film | United States |
| King Kong Escapes | Ishirō Honda | kaiju, fantasy film, horror film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film | Japan, United States |
| Chuka | Gordon Douglas | Western film | United States |
| Deadlier Than the Male | Ralph Thomas | comedy film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Monkeys, Go Home! | Andrew V. McLaglen | comedy film | United States |
| Blowup | Michelangelo Antonioni | mystery film, drama film, thriller film | United Kingdom, Italy |
| Texas Across the River | Michael Gordon | comedy film, Western film, parody film | United States |
| Fantastic Voyage | Richard Fleischer | action film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming | Norman Jewison | comedy film | United States |
| Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks | screwball comedy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Born Free | James Hill | drama film, children's film, adventure film | United Kingdom |
| A Patch of Blue | Guy Green | coming-of-age film, romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Face of Fu Manchu | Don Sharp | crime thriller film, horror film, adventure film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, Germany |
| Mirage | Edward Dmytryk | mystery film | United States |
| Angels with Dirty Faces | Michael Curtiz | suspense film, crime drama film, drama film, film noir, action film, melodrama, crime thriller film, thriller film, war film, prison film, gangster film, crime film | United States |
| The Satan Bug | John Sturges | satanic film, spy film, science fiction film | United States |
| Love 65 | Bo Widerberg | drama film | Sweden |
| Emil and the Detectives | Peter Tewksbury | comedy film, comedy drama, crime film | United States |
| The Moon-Spinners | James Neilson | mystery film, neo-noir | United States |
| Walking the Streets of Moscow | Georgiy Daneliya | romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
| The Misadventures of Merlin Jones | Robert Stevenson | comedy film | United States |
| Captain Newman, M.D. | David Miller | drama film, comedy film, war film | United States |
| To Have and to Hold | Herbert Wise | — | United Kingdom |
| King Kong vs. Godzilla | Ishirō Honda | — | Japan, United States |
| Critic's Choice | Don Weis | comedy film | United States |
| The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | Tony Richardson | drama film, sport film | United Kingdom |
| Almost Angels | Steve Previn | — | United States |
| Birdman of Alcatraz | John Frankenheimer | drama film, prison film, biographical film | United States |
| Lonely Are the Brave | Kirk Douglas, David Miller | drama film, Western film | United States |
| Waltz of the Toreadors | John Guillermin | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| The African Lion | James Algar | nature documentary | United States |
| Hey, Let's Twist! | Greg Garrison | musical film | United States |
| Babes in Toyland | Jack Donohue | fantasy film, children's film, Christmas film, musical film | United States |
| Kiss Me Kate | George Sidney | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Swiss Family Robinson | Ken Annakin | pirate film, children's film, adventure film | United States |
| The Lady from Shanghai | Orson Welles | drama film, film noir | United States |
| The Alamo | John Wayne | drama film, Western film, war film | United States |
| The Great Dictator | Charlie Chaplin | drama film, comedy film, war film, anti-war film, comedy of error, parody film, slapstick, political satire, comedy drama | United States |
| Them! | Gordon Douglas | science fiction horror film, natural horror film, monster film, action film, horror film, B movie, science fiction film | United States |
| The Apartment | Billy Wilder | romantic comedy film, drama film, Christmas film | United States |
| The Sign of Zorro | Lewis R. Foster, Norman Foster | swashbuckler film | United States |
| Jungle Cat | James Algar | animals documentary, documentary film | United States |
| The Fugitive Kind | Sidney Lumet | drama film | United States |
| Watusi | Kurt Neumann | fantasy film | United States |
| Visit to a Small Planet | Norman Taurog | science fiction film | United States |
| Operation Petticoat | Blake Edwards | comedy film, war film | United States |
| Suddenly, Last Summer | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United States |