| Thunder Bay | Anthony Mann | drama film | United States |
| Music in Our Schools | Ken G. Hall | documentary film | Australia |
| Code Two | Fred M. Wilcox | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Jamaica Run | Lewis R. Foster | drama film | United States |
| The Hitch-Hiker | Ida Lupino | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| The Savage | George Marshall | Western film, action film | United States |
| Niagara | Henry Hathaway | drama film, film noir | United States |
| High Noon | Fred Zinnemann | Western film, revisionist Western | United States |
| Moulin Rouge | John Huston | romance film, drama film, period drama film, biographical film, musical film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Apache War Smoke | Harold F. Kress | Western film | United States |
| Just for You | Elliott Nugent | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Pat and Mike | George Cukor | romantic comedy | United States |
| Stolen Face | Terence Fisher | drama film, film noir, horror film, science fiction film, crime film | United Kingdom |
| Thunder in the East | Charles Vidor | drama film | United States |
| The African Queen | John Huston | drama film, romantic comedy | United Kingdom, United States |
| Love Nest | Joseph M. Newman | drama film, comedy film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Meet Me After the Show | Richard Sale | romantic comedy film | United States |
| Life in Her Hands | Philip Leacock | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | Raoul Walsh | adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Captain Caution | Richard Wallace | adventure film | United States |
| Harvey | Henry Koster | fantasy film, comedy film | United States |
| Treasure Island | Byron Haskin | pirate film, children's film | United States |
| Joan of Arc | Victor Fleming | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Surrender | Allan Dwan | Western film | United States |
| When You're Smiling | Joseph Santley | musical film | United States |
| My Foolish Heart | Mark Robson | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Desert Hawk | Fred de Cordova | fantasy film | United States |
| The Gunfighter | Henry King | Western film | United States |
| Prince of Foxes | Henry King | drama film, swashbuckler film, adventure film | United States, Italy |
| The Outriders | Roy Rowland | Western film | United States |
| The Reckless Moment | Max Ophüls | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Holiday Affair | Don Hartman | Christmas film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Thieves' Highway | Jules Dassin | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Blondie's Big Deal | Edward Bernds | comedy film | United States |
| Little Women | Mervyn LeRoy | coming-of-age film, romance film, drama film, children's film | United States |
| Shockproof | Douglas Sirk | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Cry of the City | Robert Siodmak | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| The Creeper | Jean Yarbrough | horror film | United States |
| Thunderhoof | Phil Karlson | Western film | United States |
| Tycoon | Richard Wallace | romance film, drama film, adventure film | United States |
| Dark Passage | Delmer Daves | mystery film, drama film, film noir | United States |
| Lured | Douglas Sirk | comedy film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| The Other Love | André de Toth | romance film, drama film, melodrama | United States |
| Sister Kenny | Jack Gage, Dudley Nichols | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Blondie's Lucky Day | Abby Berlin | comedy film | United States |
| House of Dracula | Erle C. Kenton | horror film, crossover fiction, vampire film, science fiction film, werewolf film | United States |
| Dead of Night | Robert Hamer, Charles Crichton, Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden | horror film, flashback film, anthology film | United Kingdom |
| The War Is Over | — | documentary film | Canada |