| Knights of the Round Table | Richard Thorpe | action film, medieval film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Glass Mountain | Gustaf Molander | drama film | Sweden |
| South Pacific Playground | Ken G. Hall | documentary film | Australia |
| No Man's Woman | Lars-Eric Kjellgren | drama film | Sweden |
| A Fortress in the Mountains | Konstantin Yudin | spy film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| The Bereft | George Ovadiah | — | Iran |
| Admiral Ushakov | Mikhail Romm | drama film, war film, biographical film, historical drama | Soviet Union |
| Attack from the Sea | Mikhail Romm | — | — |
| The Robe | Henry Koster | drama film, sword-and-sandal film, period drama film, epic film | United States |
| City of Bad Men | Harmon Jones | — | — |
| The Return of Vasili Bortnikov | Vsevolod Pudovkin | — | — |
| From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | romance film, drama film, war film | United States |
| A Young Woman Missing | Edith Carlmar | drama film | Norway |
| 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 |
| Look Back! | T. R. Sundaram | — | — |
| It Came from Outer Space | Jack Arnold | — | — |
| Julius Caesar | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | — | — |
| Melody | Ward Kimball, Charles August Nichols | musical film | United States |
| Jambyl | Efim Dzigan | biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Thunder Bay | Anthony Mann | drama film | United States |
| Music in Our Schools | Ken G. Hall | documentary film | Australia |
| House of Wax | André de Toth | — | — |
| Code Two | Fred M. Wilcox | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Jamaica Run | Lewis R. Foster | drama film | United States |
| Naturen og eventyret | Per Høst | nature documentary | Norway |
| Den evige Eva | Rolf Randall | — | — |
| Dovolená s Andělem | Bořivoj Zeman | — | — |
| Great Mourning | Sergei Gerasimov, Ilya Kopalin, Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova, Irina Setkina-Nesterova, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikheil Chiaureli | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| The Hitch-Hiker | Ida Lupino | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Song of Warsaw | Matti Kassila | crime film | Finland |
| The Savage | George Marshall | Western film, action film | United States |
| I Confess | Alfred Hitchcock | — | — |
| Summer with Monika | Ingmar Bergman | — | — |
| Niagara | Henry Hathaway | drama film, film noir | United States |
| High Noon | Fred Zinnemann | Western film, revisionist Western | United States |
| La Poison | Sacha Guitry | drama film, comedy film, crime film | France |
| Moulin Rouge | John Huston | romance film, drama film, period drama film, biographical film, musical film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Flamenco | Édgar Neville | — | — |
| Dos tipos de cuidado | Ismael Rodríguez | — | — |
| May Nights | Alexander Rou | fantasy film, comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Forever My Love | Paul Sloane | romance film | Japan |
| Until We Meet Again | Gustav Ucicky | — | — |
| Omena putoaa... | Valentin Vaala | — | — |
| Apache War Smoke | Harold F. Kress | Western film | United States |
| 24 Hours of a Woman's Life | Victor Saville | — | — |
| Just for You | Elliott Nugent | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men | Ken Annakin | — | — |