| That Certain Age | Edward Ludwig | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Anatole Litvak | comedy film, comedy drama, crime film | United States |
| The Baroness and the Butler | Walter Lang | romantic comedy | United States |
| The Big Broadcast of 1938 | Mitchell Leisen | comedy film, Christmas film, musical film | United States |
| The Blue Fox | Victor Tourjansky | romance film, drama film, comedy film | Germany |
| The Dawn Patrol | Edmund Goulding | drama film | United States |
| The First Hundred Years | Richard Thorpe | — | — |
| The Girl of the Golden West | Robert Z. Leonard | romance film, drama film, Western film, musical film | United States |
| The Jury's Secret | Edward Sloman | trial film | United States |
| The Masseurs and a Woman | Hiroshi Shimizu | — | — |
| The Purple Vigilantes | George Sherman | — | — |
| The Rage of Paris | Henry Koster | comedy film, romantic comedy | France, United States |
| The Shopworn Angel | H. C. Potter | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Singing Outlaw | Joseph H. Lewis | — | — |
| The Sisters | Anatole Litvak, Irving Rapper | drama film | United States |
| This Marriage Business | Christy Cabanne | comedy film | United States |
| Thistledown | Arthur B. Woods | — | — |
| Thunder and Lightning | Anders Henrikson | comedy film | Sweden |
| Topper Takes a Trip | Norman Z. McLeod | — | — |
| Torchy Blane in Panama | William Clemens | comedy film | United States |
| Trade Tattoo | Len Lye | audio-visual advertisement, live-action/animated film, experimental film | United Kingdom |
| Western Jamboree | Ralph Staub | — | — |
| Wives Under Suspicion | James Whale | — | — |
| Young Fugitives | John Rawlins | — | — |
| A Damsel in Distress | George Stevens | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| A Day at the Races | Sam Wood | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| A Star Is Born | William A. Wellman | — | — |
| Angel | Ernst Lubitsch | — | — |
| Artists and Models | Raoul Walsh | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Avalanche | Mikio Naruse | romance film, drama film | Japan |
| Blazing Sixes | Noel M. Smith | Western film | United States |
| Boss of Lonely Valley | Ray Taylor | — | — |
| California Straight Ahead! | Arthur Lubin | romance film, drama film, action film | United States |
| Charlie Chan at the Olympics | H. Bruce Humberstone | mystery film, drama film, crime film | United States |
| China Passage | Edward Killy | mystery film | United States |
| Conquest | Gustav Machatý, Clarence Brown | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Crossroads | Shen Xiling | — | — |
| Danger – Love at Work | Otto Preminger | romantic comedy | United States |
| Dark Journey | Alexander Korda, Victor Saville | romance film, spy film, war film | United Kingdom |
| Dick Tracy | Alan James, Ray Taylor | crime film | United States |
| Double or Nothing | Theodore Reed | — | — |
| Ever Since Eve | Lloyd Bacon | — | — |
| Exclusive | Alexander Hall | drama film | United States |
| Fermo con le mani | Gero Zambuto | comedy film | Italy |
| Heart of the Rockies | Joseph Kane | — | — |
| Heidi | Allan Dwan | drama film | United States |
| Hollywood Cowboy | George Sherman | Western film, action film | United States |
| Hoosier Schoolboy | William Nigh | — | — |