| The Rest Is Silence | Helmut Käutner | drama film | Germany |
| Lend Me Your Wife | Arne Mattsson | comedy film | Sweden |
| Life in Your Hands | Nikolai Rozantsev | — | — |
| Farewell to Spring | Keisuke Kinoshita | drama film | Japan |
| Time of Taiga Snowdrop | Yaropolk Lapshin | drama film, historical film | Soviet Union |
| The Magpie | Naum Trakhtenberg | — | — |
| Imitation of Life | Douglas Sirk | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Diary of Anne Frank | George Stevens | — | — |
| The Master and His Servants | Arne Skouen | — | — |
| The Eagle | Leonard Buczkowski | historical film, war film | Poland |
| Bell, Book and Candle | Richard Quine | fantasy film, Christmas film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Appu Chesi Pappu Koodu | L. V. Prasad | — | — |
| Manjal Mahimai | Adurthi Subba Rao | drama film | India |
| The Hidden Fortress | Akira Kurosawa | drama film, adventure film | Japan |
| The Magician | Ingmar Bergman | drama film, fantasy film | Sweden |
| Tonka | Lewis R. Foster | drama film, Western film, adventure film | United States |
| A Night to Remember | Roy Ward Baker | — | — |
| The Buccaneer | Anthony Quinn | romance film, pirate film, adventure film | United States |
| Make Way for Lila | Rolf Husberg | romance film, drama film | Germany, Sweden |
| Kiev Resident | Timofei Levchuk | historical film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Hard Happiness | Aleksandr Stolper | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Volunteers | Yuri Yegorov | — | — |
| Jazzgossen | Hasse Ekman | — | — |
| Otaraant Kvrivi | Mikheil Chiaureli | — | — |
| The Blob | Irvin Yeaworth | monster film, horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| A Girl with Guitar | Aleksandr Faintsimmer | — | — |
| Escape from the Soviet Union: Female Military Doctor and Fake Madman | Morihei Magatani | — | Japan |
| Pastor Jarman kommer hjem | Arne Skouen | drama film, crime film | Norway |
| Sotapojan heilat | Aarne Tarkas | military farce film, comedy film | Finland |
| 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 |
| Mister Iks | Yuly Khmelnitsky | — | — |
| The Left Handed Gun | Arthur Penn | Western film, biographical film | United States |
| You Are My Adventure | Stig Olin | comedy film | Sweden |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Richard Brooks | drama film | United States |
| The Communist | Yuli Raizman | — | — |
| The Spessart Inn | Kurt Hoffmann | — | — |
| Makeraremasen katsumadewa | Shirō Toyoda | essay film, comedy film | Japan |
| Old Khottabych | Gennady Kazansky | — | — |
| I Speak the Truth | Levan Khotivari | drama film, detective film | Soviet Union |
| 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 |
| Toya og Heidi | Eric Heed | children's film | Norway |
| Miriam | William Markus | — | — |
| The Real End of the Great War | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | — | — |
| Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | Frank Tashlin | — | — |
| Oeil pour oeil | André Cayatte | drama film | France, Italy |
| Northern Elegy | Heinosuke Gosho | drama film | Japan |