| Odds Against Tomorrow | Robert Wise | drama film, film noir, heist film, crime film | United States |
| Third Man on the Mountain | Ken Annakin | coming-of-age film, adventure film | United States |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | Paul Wendkos | drama film, action film, war film | United States |
| Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | romantic comedy film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film, screwball comedy film, gangster film, musical film, crime film | United States |
| North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, action film, crime thriller film, spy film, thriller film, adventure film, crime film | United States |
| Imitation of Life | Douglas Sirk | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Bell, Book and Candle | Richard Quine | fantasy film, Christmas film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Tonka | Lewis R. Foster | drama film, Western film, adventure film | United States |
| The Buccaneer | Anthony Quinn | romance film, pirate film, adventure film | United States |
| The Blob | Irvin Yeaworth | monster film, horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| White Wilderness | James Algar | nature documentary, documentary film | United States |
| The Vikings | Richard Fleischer | drama film, action film, swashbuckler film, medieval film, epic film | United States |
| The Left Handed Gun | Arthur Penn | Western film, biographical film | United States |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Richard Brooks | drama film | United States |
| A Hatful of Rain | Fred Zinnemann | drama film | United States |
| Three Brave Men | Philip Dunne | drama film, trial film | United States |
| Spring Reunion | Robert Pirosh | drama film | United States |
| Moby Dick | John Huston | drama film, monster film, adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Great Locomotive Chase | Francis D. Lyon | Western film | United States |
| The Long Arm | Charles Frend | crime film | United Kingdom |
| The Harder They Fall | Mark Robson | drama film, boxing film | United States |
| The Creature Walks Among Us | John Sherwood | monster film, horror film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Man Who Never Was | Ronald Neame | drama film, war film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Caddy | Norman Taurog | comedy 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 Marauders | Gerald Mayer | Western film | United States |
| Women's Prison | Lewis Seiler | film noir, women in prison film, crime film | United States |
| Francis in the Navy | Arthur Lubin | fantasy film, comedy film | United States |
| Untamed | Henry King | romance film, drama film, adventure film | United States |
| Land of the Pharaohs | Howard Hawks, Paul Helmick | drama film | United States |
| Battle Cry | Raoul Walsh | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Catered Affair | Richard Brooks | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| White Christmas | Michael Curtiz | romantic comedy film, Christmas film, musical film | United States |
| On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | drama film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Ricochet Romance | Charles Lamont | Western film | United States |
| Carmen Jones | Otto Preminger | romance film, drama film, musical film | United States |
| A Star Is Born | George Cukor | romance film, drama film, musical film | United States |
| The Black Knight | Tay Garnett | adventure film, medieval film | United Kingdom |
| Hell and High Water | Samuel Fuller | drama film, action film | United States |
| How to Marry a Millionaire | Jean Negulesco | romance film, comedy film, musical film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| The Maggie | Alexander Mackendrick | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Knights of the Round Table | Richard Thorpe | action film, medieval film | United Kingdom, United States |
| South Pacific Playground | Ken G. Hall | documentary film | Australia |
| The Robe | Henry Koster | drama film, sword-and-sandal film, period drama film, epic film | United States |
| From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | romance film, drama film, war film | United States |
| The Man from the Alamo | Budd Boetticher | Western film | United States |
| The Sword and the Rose | Ken Annakin | swashbuckler film, adventure film, biographical film | United States |
| Melody | Ward Kimball, Charles August Nichols | musical film | United States |