| Battle Cry | Raoul Walsh | romance film, drama film |
| The Catered Affair | Richard Brooks | drama film, comedy film |
| White Christmas | Michael Curtiz | romantic comedy film, Christmas film, musical film |
| On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | drama film, thriller film, crime film |
| Shovel, Shovel, Toil and Trouble | Chuck Waltz | — |
| Ricochet Romance | Charles Lamont | Western film |
| Carmen Jones | Otto Preminger | romance film, drama film, musical film |
| A Star Is Born | George Cukor | romance film, drama film, musical film |
| Hell and High Water | Samuel Fuller | drama film, action film |
| How to Marry a Millionaire | Jean Negulesco | romance film, comedy film, musical film, comedy drama, romantic comedy |
| Knights of the Round Table | Richard Thorpe | action film, medieval film |
| The Robe | Henry Koster | drama film, sword-and-sandal film, period drama film, epic film |
| From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | romance film, drama film, war film |
| The Man from the Alamo | Budd Boetticher | Western film |
| The Sword and the Rose | Ken Annakin | swashbuckler film, adventure film, biographical film |
| Melody | Ward Kimball, Charles August Nichols | musical film |
| Thunder Bay | Anthony Mann | drama film |
| Code Two | Fred M. Wilcox | drama film, crime film |
| Jamaica Run | Lewis R. Foster | drama film |
| The Hitch-Hiker | Ida Lupino | drama film, film noir, crime film |
| The Savage | George Marshall | Western film, action film |
| Niagara | Henry Hathaway | drama film, film noir |
| High Noon | Fred Zinnemann | Western film, revisionist Western |
| Moulin Rouge | John Huston | romance film, drama film, period drama film, biographical film, musical film |
| Apache War Smoke | Harold F. Kress | Western film |
| Just for You | Elliott Nugent | comedy film, musical film |
| Pat and Mike | George Cukor | romantic comedy |
| Thunder in the East | Charles Vidor | drama film |
| The African Queen | John Huston | drama film, romantic comedy |
| Love Nest | Joseph M. Newman | drama film, comedy film, comedy drama, romantic comedy |
| Meet Me After the Show | Richard Sale | romantic comedy film |
| Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | Raoul Walsh | adventure film |
| Captain Caution | Richard Wallace | adventure film |
| Harvey | Henry Koster | fantasy film, comedy film |
| Treasure Island | Byron Haskin | pirate film, children's film |
| Joan of Arc | Victor Fleming | drama film, biographical film |
| Surrender | Allan Dwan | Western film |
| When You're Smiling | Joseph Santley | musical film |
| My Foolish Heart | Mark Robson | romance film, drama film |
| The Desert Hawk | Fred de Cordova | fantasy film |
| The Gunfighter | Henry King | Western film |
| Prince of Foxes | Henry King | drama film, swashbuckler film, adventure film |
| The Outriders | Roy Rowland | Western film |
| The Reckless Moment | Max Ophüls | drama film, film noir, crime film |
| Holiday Affair | Don Hartman | Christmas film, romantic comedy |
| Thieves' Highway | Jules Dassin | drama film, film noir, crime film |
| Blondie's Big Deal | Edward Bernds | comedy film |
| Little Women | Mervyn LeRoy | coming-of-age film, romance film, drama film, children's film |