| Variety Time | Hal Yates | — | United States |
| When My Baby Smiles at Me | Walter Lang | musical film | United States |
| Whirlwind Raiders | Vernon Keays | Western film | United States |
| Without Pity | Alberto Lattuada | drama film | Italy |
| Women of the Night | Kenji Mizoguchi | drama film | Japan |
| Yellow Sky | William A. Wellman | Western film | United States |
| Anahit | Hamo Beknazarian | adventure film | Soviet Union |
| Blaze of Noon | John Farrow | — | — |
| Blue Roads | Vladimir Braun | — | — |
| Body and Soul | Robert Rossen | drama film, film noir, boxing film | United States |
| Born to Kill | Robert Wise | romance film, drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Buckaroo from Powder River | Ray Nazarro | Western film | United States |
| Calcutta | John Farrow | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| California | John Farrow | Western film | United States |
| Captain from Castile | Henry King | drama film, historical film, adventure film | United States |
| Dead Reckoning | John Cromwell | mystery film, film noir | United States |
| Design for Death | Richard Fleischer | documentary film | United States |
| Desire Me | Mervyn LeRoy, Jack Conway, George Cukor, Victor Saville | romance film, drama film, melodrama | United States |
| Don Quixote | Rafael Gil | — | Spain |
| Good News | Charles Walters | American football film, musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Gunfighters | George Waggner | Western film, action film | United States |
| I'll Be Yours | William A. Seiter | — | — |
| It Had to Be You | Don Hartman, Rudolph Maté | romantic comedy | United States |
| It Happened in Brooklyn | Richard Whorf | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Johnny O'Clock | Robert Rossen | film noir, crime film | United States |
| Killer McCoy | Roy Rowland | drama film, boxing film | United States |
| Life in the Citadel | Herbert Rappaport | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Lost in the Dark | Camillo Mastrocinque | drama film | Italy |
| Marriage in the Shadows | Kurt Maetzig | — | — |
| Meteority | Pavel Klushantsev | popular science film, mockumentary | Soviet Union |
| Mine Own Executioner | Anthony Kimmins | — | — |
| My Favorite Brunette | Elliott Nugent | film noir, romantic comedy | United States |
| New house (film) | Vladimir Korsh-Sablin | commedia lirica | Soviet Union |
| Night Inn | Huang Zuolin | — | — |
| Nora Prentiss | Vincent Sherman | — | — |
| On the Old Spanish Trail | William Witney | — | — |
| Prairie Raiders | Derwin Abrahams | Western film | United States |
| Red Hot Rangers | Tex Avery | family film, comedy film | United States |
| Shy Guy | — | — | — |
| Silver Darlings | Clarence Elder | — | — |
| Sinbad the Sailor | Richard Wallace | fantasy film, medieval film | United States |
| Song of Love | Clarence Brown | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| South of the Chisholm Trail | Derwin Abrahams | Western film | United States |
| That Hagen Girl | Peter Godfrey | drama film | United States |
| That Way with Women | Fred de Cordova | comedy film | United States |
| That's My Man | Frank Borzage | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Beginning or the End | Norman Taurog | drama film, war film, biographical film | United States |
| The Brasher Doubloon | John Brahm | — | — |