| Thunder in the East | Charles Vidor | drama film | United States |
| The African Queen | John Huston | drama film, romantic comedy | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Stranger | Astrid Henning-Jensen | drama film, crime film | Norway |
| The Grand Concert | Vera Stroyeva | — | — |
| The Heath Is Green | Hans Deppe | drama film | Germany |
| Storfolk og småfolk | Tancred Ibsen | comedy film, anthology film | Norway |
| Flukten fra Dakar | Titus Vibe-Müller | drama film | Norway |
| One Night in Heaven | — | — | Greece |
| Love Nest | Joseph M. Newman | drama film, comedy film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Dei svarte hestane | Sigval Maartmann-Moe | — | — |
| Drunk with Love | Esmail Koushan | drama film | Iran |
| The Day the Earth Stood Still | Robert Wise | — | — |
| Skadeskutt | Edith Carlmar | drama film | Norway |
| Det var en gång en sjöman | Ragnar Frisk | comedy film, adventure film | Sweden |
| Meet Me After the Show | Richard Sale | romantic comedy film | United States |
| Young Partisans | — | war film | North Korea |
| This Can't Happen Here | Ingmar Bergman | drama film, thriller film | Sweden |
| Life in Her Hands | Philip Leacock | drama film | United Kingdom |
| The Miners of Donetsk | Leonid Lukov | — | — |
| Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | Raoul Walsh | adventure film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Captain Caution | Richard Wallace | adventure film | United States |
| Royal Wedding | Stanley Donen | — | — |
| Miracle in Milan | Vittorio De Sica | drama film, fantasy film, comedy film, cinematic fairy tale | Italy |
| Hue and Cry | Charles Crichton | — | — |
| A Night in Rio | Ville Salminen | comedy film | Finland |
| A Place in the Sun | George Stevens | — | — |
| Adventures of Captain Fabian | Robert Florey | romance film, adventure film | France, United States |
| Appointment for Murder | Baccio Bandini | — | — |
| Arizona Manhunt | Fred C. Brannon | Western film | United States |
| Arriba el Telón o el Patio de la Morocha | Manuel Romero | — | — |
| Bright Victory | Mark Robson | romance film, drama film, war film | United States |
| Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas | Philip Ford | — | — |
| Call Me Mister | Lloyd Bacon | — | — |
| Cave of Outlaws | William Castle | Western film | United States |
| Close to My Heart | William Keighley | drama film | United States |
| Come Fill the Cup | Gordon Douglas | — | — |
| Enam Djam di Jogja | Usmar Ismail | war film | Indonesia |
| Excuse My Dust | Roy Rowland | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Father's Little Dividend | Vincente Minnelli | romantic comedy | United States |
| Filumena Marturano | Eduardo De Filippo | comedy drama | Italy |
| Flight to Mars | Lesley Selander | science fiction film | United States |
| Go for Broke! | Robert Pirosh | — | — |
| It's a Big Country | Don Hartman, Charles Vidor, Richard Thorpe, William A. Wellman, Don Weis, John Sturges, Clarence Brown | drama film | United States |
| Jungle Headhunters | — | documentary film | United States |
| Lady Godiva Rides Again | Frank Launder | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Maria Theresa | Emil-Edwin Reinert | drama film | Austria |
| Mask of the Avenger | Phil Karlson | — | — |
| Mr. Imperium | Don Hartman | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Northwest Territory | Frank McDonald | Western film, crime film | United States |
| On the Loose | Charles Lederer | — | — |
| On the Riviera | Walter Lang | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
| One Good Turn | Arthur Maude | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Out of Scale | Jack Hannah | — | United States |
| Pals of the Golden West | William Witney | — | — |
| Payment on Demand | Curtis Bernhardt | drama film | United States |
| Pecos River | Fred F. Sears | Western film | United States |
| People Will Talk | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | — | — |
| Prairie Roundup | Fred F. Sears | Western film | United States |
| Rough Riders of Durango | Fred C. Brannon | Western film | United States |
| Santa Fe | Irving Pichel | — | — |
| Shangrao Concentration Camp | Sha Meng | war drama, historical film | People's Republic of China |
| Silver City Bonanza | George Blair | Western film | United States |
| Slaughter Trail | Irving Allen | — | — |
| Soldiers Three | Tay Garnett | drama film, adventure film | United States |
| Submarine Command | John Farrow | — | — |
| Summer Interlude | Ingmar Bergman | — | — |
| Talk of a Million | John Paddy Carstairs | — | — |
| Taras Shevchenko | Igor Savchenko | — | — |
| Tarzan's Peril | Byron Haskin | fantasy film, action film | United States |
| Ten Tall Men | Willis Goldbeck | — | — |
| Teresa | Fred Zinnemann | drama film | United States |
| Texas Carnival | Charles Walters | musical film | United States |
| The Axe of Wandsbek | Falk Harnack | drama film | East Germany, Germany |
| The Beautiful Image | Claude Heymann | drama film | France |
| The Browning Version | Anthony Asquith | drama film | United Kingdom |
| The Dakota Kid | Philip Ford | Western film | United States |
| The Fat Man | William Castle | — | — |
| The Kid from Amarillo | Ray Nazarro | Western film | United States |
| The Model and the Marriage Broker | George Cukor | romantic comedy | United States |
| The People Against O'Hara | John Sturges | film noir, thriller film, trial film | United States |
| The Prowler | Joseph Losey | drama film, film noir | United States |
| The Raging Tide | George Sherman | — | — |
| The Red Badge of Courage | John Huston | drama film, war film | United States |
| The Redhead and the Cowboy | Leslie Fenton | Western film | United States |
| Thunder in God's Country | George Blair | Western film | United States |
| Under the Gun | Ted Tetzlaff | film noir, crime film | United States |
| Westward the Women | William A. Wellman | Western film, action film | United States |
| When Worlds Collide | Rudolph Maté | fantasy film, comedy film, action film, horror film, thriller film, speculative fiction film, adventure film, science fiction film, disaster film | France, United States |
| You're in the Navy Now | Lewis Seiler, Henry Hathaway | comedy film | United States |
| Yukon Manhunt | Frank McDonald | Western film, crime film | United States |