| Manjal Mahimai | Adurthi Subba Rao | India |
| The Hidden Fortress | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| The Magician | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| Tonka | Lewis R. Foster | United States |
| Make Way for Lila | Rolf Husberg | Germany, Sweden |
| Hard Happiness | Aleksandr Stolper | Soviet Union |
| Pastor Jarman kommer hjem | Arne Skouen | Norway |
| The Vikings | Richard Fleischer | United States |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Richard Brooks | United States |
| I Speak the Truth | Levan Khotivari | Soviet Union |
| The Wrestler and the Clown | Boris Barnet, Konstantin Yudin | Soviet Union |
| Oeil pour oeil | André Cayatte | France, Italy |
| Northern Elegy | Heinosuke Gosho | Japan |
| A Hatful of Rain | Fred Zinnemann | United States |
| Three Brave Men | Philip Dunne | United States |
| Barrel Piano, Poverty and Carnations | Alekos Sakellarios | Greece |
| Rasmus, Pontus and Toker | Stig Olin | Sweden |
| Spring Reunion | Robert Pirosh | United States |
| Love Along a River | Toivo Särkkä | Finland |
| Qivitoq | Erik Balling | Denmark |
| The Forty-First | Grigori Chukhrai | Soviet Union |
| Moby Dick | John Huston | United Kingdom, United States |
| They Were the First | Yuri Yegorov | Soviet Union |
| The Harder They Fall | Mark Robson | United States |
| Farewell to Dream | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan |
| The Man Who Never Was | Ronald Neame | United Kingdom, United States |
| As Long as You Live | Harald Reinl | Germany |
| The Trouble with Harry | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
| Meoto zenzai | Shirō Toyoda | Japan |
| Shree 420 | Raj Kapoor | India |
| The Dance Hall | Börje Larsson | Sweden |
| Untamed | Henry King | United States |
| Land of the Pharaohs | Howard Hawks, Paul Helmick | United States |
| The Grasshopper | Samson Samsonov | Soviet Union |
| Battle Cry | Raoul Walsh | United States |
| The Catered Affair | Richard Brooks | United States |
| Nadezhda | Sergei Gerasimov | Soviet Union |
| Crossroad of Events | Samuel Khachikian | Iran |
| Savnet siden mandag | Sigval Maartmann-Moe, Tancred Ibsen | Norway |
| Floating Clouds | Mikio Naruse | Japan |
| Gabrielle | Hasse Ekman | Sweden |
| Nero and the Burning of Rome | Primo Zeglio | Italy |
| On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | United States |
| The Great Warrior Skanderbeg | Sergei Yutkevich | Soviet Union, Albania |
| Suicide Mission | Michael Forlong | United Kingdom, Norway |
| Carmen Jones | Otto Preminger | United States |
| A Lesson in Love | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| A Star Is Born | George Cukor | United States |