| A Hatful of Rain | Fred Zinnemann | drama film | United States |
| Tammy and the Bachelor | Joseph Pevney | — | — |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Don Siegel | — | — |
| The Deadly Mantis | Nathan Juran | — | — |
| Faustina | José Luis Sáenz de Heredia | — | — |
| Three Brave Men | Philip Dunne | drama film, trial film | United States |
| Barrel Piano, Poverty and Carnations | Alekos Sakellarios | drama film, comedy film | Greece |
| Wild Generation | Matti Kassila | comedy film | Finland |
| The Girl and the Crocodile | Isaak Menaker | — | — |
| Here We Live | Shaken Ajmanov | — | — |
| Charlie Strap, Froggy Ball and Their Friends | Hasse Funck | children's film, adventure film, musical film | Sweden |
| Rasmus, Pontus and Toker | Stig Olin | drama film | Sweden |
| A Weary Road | Leonid Gaidai | — | — |
| Spring Reunion | Robert Pirosh | drama film | United States |
| Onna Keirin-ō | Kiyoshi Komori | — | — |
| Love Along a River | Toivo Särkkä | drama film, historical film | Finland |
| Qivitoq | Erik Balling | romance film, drama film, family film | Denmark |
| The Forty-First | Grigori Chukhrai | romance film, drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| "Bogatyr" Goes to Marto | Zihismund Navrotsky, Yevhen Bryunchuhin | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Tea and Sympathy | Vincente Minnelli | — | — |
| Women In Prison | Seiji Hisamatsu | — | Japan |
| For the Power of the Soviets | Boriss Bunejev | — | — |
| Warszawska syrena | Tadeusz Makarczyński | — | — |
| A Crazy Day | Andrey Tutyshkin | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Behind the Footlights | Konstantin Yudin | — | — |
| 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 |
| They Were the First | Yuri Yegorov | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| 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 |
| Farewell to Dream | Keisuke Kinoshita | drama film | Japan |
| The Mexican | Vladimir Kaplunovskiy | — | — |
| The Man Who Never Was | Ronald Neame | drama film, war film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Havråtunet | Sigurd Agnell | documentary film | Norway |
| Other People's Relatives | Mikhail Schweitzer | — | — |
| The Caddy | Norman Taurog | comedy film | United States |
| The Unknown Soldier | Edvin Laine | war film | Finland |
| The Hurdy-Gurdy | Alekos Sakellarios | comedy film | Greece |
| Karius og Baktus | Ivo Caprino | — | Norway |
| Rebel Without a Cause | Nicholas Ray | — | — |
| Barn av solen | Arne Skouen | — | — |
| As Long as You Live | Harald Reinl | drama film | Germany |
| Christ in Bronze | Minoru Shibuya | — | — |
| 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 |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Richard Fleischer | — | — |
| The Happy Village | Rudolf Schündler | comedy film | Germany |