| Birdman of Alcatraz | John Frankenheimer | drama film, prison film, biographical film |
| Lonely Are the Brave | Kirk Douglas, David Miller | drama film, Western film |
| The African Lion | James Algar | nature documentary |
| Hey, Let's Twist! | Greg Garrison | musical film |
| Babes in Toyland | Jack Donohue | fantasy film, children's film, Christmas film, musical film |
| Kiss Me Kate | George Sidney | musical film, romantic comedy |
| Swiss Family Robinson | Ken Annakin | pirate film, children's film, adventure film |
| The Lady from Shanghai | Orson Welles | drama film, film noir |
| The Alamo | John Wayne | drama film, Western film, war film |
| The Great Dictator | Charlie Chaplin | drama film, comedy film, war film, anti-war film, comedy of error, parody film, slapstick, political satire, comedy drama |
| Them! | Gordon Douglas | science fiction horror film, natural horror film, monster film, action film, horror film, B movie, science fiction film |
| The Apartment | Billy Wilder | romantic comedy film, drama film, Christmas film |
| The Sign of Zorro | Lewis R. Foster, Norman Foster | swashbuckler film |
| Jungle Cat | James Algar | animals documentary, documentary film |
| The Fugitive Kind | Sidney Lumet | drama film |
| Watusi | Kurt Neumann | fantasy film |
| Visit to a Small Planet | Norman Taurog | science fiction film |
| Operation Petticoat | Blake Edwards | comedy film, war film |
| Suddenly, Last Summer | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | drama film, LGBTQ-related film |
| Odds Against Tomorrow | Robert Wise | drama film, film noir, heist film, crime film |
| Third Man on the Mountain | Ken Annakin | coming-of-age film, adventure film |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | Paul Wendkos | drama film, action film, war film |
| Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | romantic comedy film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film, screwball comedy film, gangster film, musical film, crime film |
| North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, action film, crime thriller film, spy film, thriller film, adventure film, crime film |
| Imitation of Life | Douglas Sirk | romance film, drama film |
| Bell, Book and Candle | Richard Quine | fantasy film, Christmas film, romantic comedy |
| Tonka | Lewis R. Foster | drama film, Western film, adventure film |
| The Buccaneer | Anthony Quinn | romance film, pirate film, adventure film |
| The Blob | Irvin Yeaworth | monster film, horror film, science fiction film |
| White Wilderness | James Algar | nature documentary, documentary film |
| The Vikings | Richard Fleischer | drama film, action film, swashbuckler film, medieval film, epic film |
| The Left Handed Gun | Arthur Penn | Western film, biographical film |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Richard Brooks | drama film |
| A Hatful of Rain | Fred Zinnemann | drama film |
| Three Brave Men | Philip Dunne | drama film, trial film |
| Spring Reunion | Robert Pirosh | drama film |
| Moby Dick | John Huston | drama film, monster film, adventure film |
| The Great Locomotive Chase | Francis D. Lyon | Western film |
| The Harder They Fall | Mark Robson | drama film, boxing film |
| The Creature Walks Among Us | John Sherwood | monster film, horror film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film |
| The Man Who Never Was | Ronald Neame | drama film, war film |
| The Caddy | Norman Taurog | comedy film |
| 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 |
| The Marauders | Gerald Mayer | Western film |
| Women's Prison | Lewis Seiler | film noir, women in prison film, crime film |
| Francis in the Navy | Arthur Lubin | fantasy film, comedy film |
| Untamed | Henry King | romance film, drama film, adventure film |
| Land of the Pharaohs | Howard Hawks, Paul Helmick | drama film |