| Scandal Sheet | Phil Karlson | United States |
| This Woman Is Dangerous | Felix E. Feist | United States |
| Yhden yön hinta | Edvin Laine | Finland |
| Northwest Territory | Frank McDonald | United States |
| Under the Gun | Ted Tetzlaff | United States |
| Yukon Manhunt | Frank McDonald | United States |
| Dark City | William Dieterle | United States |
| Double Deal | Abby Berlin | United States |
| East Side, West Side | Mervyn LeRoy | United States |
| Follow Me Quietly | Richard Fleischer, Anthony Mann | United States |
| Mr. Soft Touch | Gordon Douglas, Henry Levin | United States |
| Outside the Wall | Crane Wilbur | United States |
| The Big Steal | Don Siegel | United States |
| The Bribe | Robert Z. Leonard | United States |
| Union Station | Rudolph Maté | United States |
| Homicide for Three | George Blair | United States |
| Race Street | Edwin L. Marin | United States |
| Sorry, Wrong Number | Anatole Litvak | United States |
| The Street with No Name | William Keighley | United States |
| To the Ends of the Earth | Robert Stevenson | United States |
| Born to Kill | Robert Wise | United States |
| Calcutta | John Farrow | United States |
| Johnny O'Clock | Robert Rossen | United States |
| The Gangster | Gordon Wiles | United States |
| They Won't Believe Me | Irving Pichel | United States |
| Behind the Mask | Phil Karlson | United States |
| Criminal Court | Robert Wise | United States |
| San Quentin | Gordon Douglas | United States |
| Strange Triangle | Ray McCarey | United States |
| Dillinger | Max Nosseck | United States |
| A Night of Adventure | Gordon Douglas | United States |
| Sherlock Holmes Faces Death | Roy William Neill | United States |
| Eyes in the Night | Fred Zinnemann | United States |
| Night in New Orleans | William Clemens | United States |
| This Gun for Hire | Frank Tuttle | United States |
| A Man Betrayed | John H. Auer | United States |
| Doctors Don't Tell | Jacques Tourneur | United States |
| Johnny Eager | Mervyn LeRoy | United States |
| Manpower | Raoul Walsh | United States |
| Mercy Island | William Morgan | United States |
| Shadow of the Thin Man | W. S. Van Dyke | United States |
| The Monster and the Girl | Stuart Heisler | United States |
| Johnny Apollo | Henry Hathaway | United States |
| Let Us Live | John Brahm | United States |
| Raffles | Sam Wood | United States |
| Blondes at Work | Frank McDonald | United States |
| Crackerjack | Albert de Courville | United Kingdom |
| Crime Ring | Leslie Goodwins | United States |