| Shockproof | Douglas Sirk | United States |
| Cry of the City | Robert Siodmak | United States |
| The Party Goes On | Enrique Gómez | Spain |
| Anchor Button | Ramón Torrado | Spain |
| Tycoon | Richard Wallace | United States |
| Dark Passage | Delmer Daves | United States |
| The Record of a Tenement Gentleman | Yasujirō Ozu | Japan |
| The Other Love | André de Toth | United States |
| The Stone Flower | Aleksandr Ptushko | Soviet Union |
| In the Mountains of Yugoslavia | Abram Room, Eduard Tisse | Soviet Union |
| Sister Kenny | Jack Gage, Dudley Nichols | United States |
| The Great Glinka | Lev Arnshtam | Soviet Union |
| Count Only the Happy Moments | Rune Carlsten | Sweden |
| Vandring med månen | Hasse Ekman | Sweden |
| Castanet | Ramón Torrado | Spain |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Albert Lewin | United States |
| The Great Sacrifice | Veit Harlan | Germany |
| The Ural Front | Sergei Gerasimov | Soviet Union |
| The Falcon in Mexico | William Berke | United States |
| 3 Men in White | Willis Goldbeck | United States |
| Nora | Harald Braun | Germany |
| None Shall Escape | André de Toth | United States |
| Lifeboat | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
| Yrjänän emännän synti | Edvin Laine | Finland |
| The Man in Grey | Leslie Arliss | United Kingdom |
| The Ox-Bow Incident | William A. Wellman, James Tinling | United States |
| Il treno crociato | Carlo Campogalliani | Italy |
| Back Then | Rolf Hansen | Germany |
| Air Force | Howard Hawks | United States |
| Jealousy | Ferdinando Maria Poggioli | Italy |
| In Which We Serve | Noël Coward, David Lean | United Kingdom |
| The Gorgon | Guido Brignone | Italy |
| Desperate Journey | Raoul Walsh | United States |
| A Pistol Shot | Renato Castellani | Italy |
| Jeg drepte! | Toralf Sandø | Norway |
| Flying Fortress | Walter Forde | United Kingdom |
| Girl of the Golden West | Carl Koch | Italy |
| The Maltese Falcon | John Huston | United States |
| Who Killed Santa Claus? | Christian-Jaque | France |
| Masquerade | Sergei Gerasimov | Soviet Union |
| The Girl from Leningrad | Viktor Eisymont | Soviet Union |
| That Hamilton Woman | Alexander Korda | United Kingdom, United States |
| High Sierra | Raoul Walsh | United States |
| The Law of Life | Boris Ivanov, Aleksandr Stolper | Soviet Union |
| His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | United States |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | William Dieterle | United States |
| Woman in the River | Gerhard Lamprecht | Germany, Austria |
| Gryr i Norden | Olav Dalgard | Norway |