| Light Melody | Edvin Laine | musical film | Finland |
| Loviisa – Niskavuoren nuori emäntä | Valentin Vaala | drama film | Finland |
| Men of Two Worlds | Thorold Dickinson | — | — |
| My Pal Trigger | Frank McDonald | — | — |
| Night and Day | Michael Curtiz | — | — |
| Night Boat to Dublin | Lawrence Huntington | spy film | United Kingdom |
| No Regrets for Our Youth | Akira Kurosawa | drama film | Japan |
| Nuremberg Trials | Roman Karmen | — | — |
| One More Tomorrow | Peter Godfrey | comedy film | United States |
| Partners in Time | William Nigh | comedy film | United States |
| Peddlin' in Society | Gennaro Righelli | comedy film | Italy |
| Pokhozhdeniya Nasreddina | Nabi Gʻaniyev | — | — |
| Rainbow Over Texas | Frank McDonald | — | — |
| Road to Utopia | Hal Walker | buddy film, musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Roaring Rangers | Ray Nazarro | Western film | United States |
| San Quentin | Gordon Douglas | crime film | United States |
| Shadows Over Chinatown | Terry O. Morse | — | — |
| Step by Step | Phil Rosen | drama film | United States |
| Strange Triangle | Ray McCarey | film noir, crime film | United States |
| Tarzan and the Leopard Woman | Kurt Neumann | — | — |
| Terror Trail | Ray Nazarro | Western film | United States |
| The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler | — | — |
| The Kid from Brooklyn | Norman Z. McLeod | boxing film | United States |
| The Laughing Lady | Paul L. Stein | — | — |
| The Lovers | Giacomo Gentilomo | drama film | Italy |
| The Madonna's Secret | Wilhelm Thiele | mystery film | United States |
| The Magic Bow | Bernard Knowles | — | — |
| The Mysterious Mr. Valentine | Philip Ford | — | — |
| The Road Home | Aleksandr Ivanov | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| The Spiral Staircase | Robert Siodmak | — | — |
| The Unknown | Henry Levin | mystery film | United States |
| The Ways of Sin | Hannu Leminen | — | — |
| The Yearling | Clarence Brown | drama film, family film, children's film | United States |
| Three Strangers | Jean Negulesco | drama film, film noir | United States |
| Tokyo Rose | Lew Landers | thriller film, war film | United States |
| Two Guys from Milwaukee | David Butler | — | — |
| Under the Bridges | Helmut Käutner | drama film | Germany |
| Vacation in Reno | Leslie Goodwins | — | — |
| Wake Up and Dream | Lloyd Bacon | — | — |
| Without Family | Giorgio Ferroni | drama film | Italy |
| Without Reservations | Mervyn LeRoy | comedy film | United States |
| 29 Acacia Avenue | Henry Cass | — | — |
| A Game of Death | Robert Wise | horror film | United States |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Elia Kazan | drama film | United States |
| Anchors Aweigh | George Sidney | — | — |
| Bells of Rosarita | Frank McDonald | — | — |
| Betrayal from the East | William Berke | — | — |
| China's Little Devils | Monta Bell | drama film, war film | United States |