| The Glass Mountain | Gustaf Molander | drama film | Sweden |
| South Pacific Playground | Ken G. Hall | documentary film | Australia |
| No Man's Woman | Lars-Eric Kjellgren | drama film | Sweden |
| A Fortress in the Mountains | Konstantin Yudin | spy film, adventure film | Soviet Union |
| The Bereft | George Ovadiah | — | Iran |
| Admiral Ushakov | Mikhail Romm | drama film, war film, biographical film, historical drama | Soviet Union |
| Attack from the Sea | Mikhail Romm | — | — |
| The Robe | Henry Koster | drama film, sword-and-sandal film, period drama film, epic film | United States |
| City of Bad Men | Harmon Jones | — | — |
| The Return of Vasili Bortnikov | Vsevolod Pudovkin | — | — |
| From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | romance film, drama film, war film | United States |
| A Young Woman Missing | Edith Carlmar | drama film | Norway |
| The Man from the Alamo | Budd Boetticher | Western film | United States |
| The Sword and the Rose | Ken Annakin | swashbuckler film, adventure film, biographical film | United States |
| Look Back! | T. R. Sundaram | — | — |
| It Came from Outer Space | Jack Arnold | — | — |
| Julius Caesar | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | — | — |
| Melody | Ward Kimball, Charles August Nichols | musical film | United States |
| Jambyl | Efim Dzigan | biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Thunder Bay | Anthony Mann | drama film | United States |
| Music in Our Schools | Ken G. Hall | documentary film | Australia |
| House of Wax | André de Toth | — | — |
| Code Two | Fred M. Wilcox | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Jamaica Run | Lewis R. Foster | drama film | United States |
| Naturen og eventyret | Per Høst | nature documentary | Norway |
| Den evige Eva | Rolf Randall | — | — |
| Dovolená s Andělem | Bořivoj Zeman | — | — |
| Great Mourning | Sergei Gerasimov, Ilya Kopalin, Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova, Irina Setkina-Nesterova, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikheil Chiaureli | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| The Hitch-Hiker | Ida Lupino | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Song of Warsaw | Matti Kassila | crime film | Finland |
| The Savage | George Marshall | Western film, action film | United States |
| I Confess | Alfred Hitchcock | — | — |
| Summer with Monika | Ingmar Bergman | — | — |
| Niagara | Henry Hathaway | drama film, film noir | United States |
| High Noon | Fred Zinnemann | Western film, revisionist Western | United States |
| La Poison | Sacha Guitry | drama film, comedy film, crime film | France |
| A Blueprint for Murder | Andrew L. Stone | — | — |
| Aah | Raja Nawathe | drama film | India |
| Adolescence Part II | Ishirō Honda | — | — |
| All I Desire | Douglas Sirk | romance film, drama film | United States |
| All the Brothers Were Valiant | Richard Thorpe | romance film, drama film, treasure hunt film | United States |
| Anna Louise and Anton | Thomas Engel | drama film, comedy film | Germany, Austria |
| Avvaiyyar | Kothamangalam Subbu | — | — |
| Back to God's Country | Joseph Pevney | — | — |
| Bandits of the West | Harry Keller | Western film | United States |
| Battle Circus | Richard Brooks | — | — |
| Below the Sahara | Armand Denis | documentary film | United States |
| Cavalleria rusticana | Carmine Gallone | drama film, musical film | Italy |
| Conquest of Cochise | William Castle | Western film | United States |
| Cosh Boy | Lewis Gilbert | — | — |
| Cow Country | Lesley Selander | Western film | United States |
| Cry of the Hunted | Joseph H. Lewis | film noir, crime film | United States |
| Dangerous Crossing | Joseph M. Newman | mystery film, drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Destination Gobi | Robert Wise | drama film, adventure film, war film | United States |
| El Alamein | Fred F. Sears | — | — |
| El Paso Stampede | Harry Keller | — | — |
| Escape from Fort Bravo | John Sturges | Western film | United States |
| Fair Wind to Java | Joseph Kane | drama film, pirate film, disaster film | United States |
| Forbidden | Rudolph Maté | — | — |
| Four Sided Triangle | Terence Fisher | — | — |
| Gun Fury | Raoul Walsh | Western film | United States |
| Hot News | Edward Bernds | drama film, crime film | United States |
| It Began in the Rain | Eddie Stenberg, Thure Bahne | thriller film | Finland |
| Jack Slade | Harold D. Schuster | Western film | United States |
| Kimi no Na wa | Hideo Ōba | drama fiction | Japan |
| Last of the Pony Riders | George Archainbaud | Western film | United States |
| Law and Order | Nathan Juran | Western film | United States |
| Let's Do It Again | Alexander Hall | romantic comedy film, comedy of remarriage, musical film | United States |
| Little Boy Lost | William Perlberg, George Seaton, Marghanita Laski | drama film | United States |
| London to Brighton in Four Minutes | — | — | — |
| Love Letter | Kinuyo Tanaka | — | — |
| Mask in Blue | Georg Jacoby | comedy film | Germany |
| Noi peccatori | Guido Brignone | drama film | Italy |
| Old Overland Trail | William Witney | Western film | United States |
| Pekka Puupää kesälaitumilla | Armand Lohikoski | — | Finland |
| Planet Outlaws | Ford Beebe | fantasy film, science fiction film | United States |
| Pony Express | Jerry Hopper | Western film | United States |
| Powder River | Louis King | — | — |
| Puccini | Glauco Pellegrini, Carmine Gallone | drama film, musical film | France, Italy |
| Return | Samuel Khachikian | — | — |
| San Antone | Joseph Kane | Western film | United States |
| Scandal at Scourie | Jean Negulesco | drama film | United States |
| Single-Handed | Roy Boulting | war film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Small Town Girl | László Kardos | musical film | United States |
| Sombrero | Norman Foster | musical film | United States |
| Southern Nights | Robert A. Stemmle | romance film | Germany |
| Sunday Heroes | Mario Camerini | drama film, association football film | Italy |
| Sword of Venus | Harold Daniels | adventure film | United States |
| Teen Batti Char Raasta | V. Shantaram | — | India |
| The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. | Roy Rowland | fantasy film, comedy film, musical film | United States |
| The Clown | Robert Z. Leonard | drama film | United States |
| The Desert Song | H. Bruce Humberstone | — | — |
| The Devil Plays the Flute | José María Forqué | comedy film | Spain |
| The Fake | Godfrey Grayson | — | — |
| The Girl Who Had Everything | Richard Thorpe | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Glass Wall | Maxwell Shane | drama film, film noir | United States |
| The Harvest | Sha Meng | — | People's Republic of China |
| The Lady Without Camelias | Michelangelo Antonioni | drama film | France, Italy |
| The Last Posse | Alfred L. Werker | Western film | United States |
| The Lone Hand | George Sherman | Western film | United States |
| The Master of Ballantrae | William Keighley | — | — |
| The Maze | William Cameron Menzies | horror film, science fiction film | United States |
| The Moon Is Blue | Otto Preminger | — | — |
| The Redhead from Wyoming | Lee Sholem | Western film | United States |
| The Wild One | László Benedek | teen film, drama film | United States |
| The World Condemns Them | Gianni Franciolini | drama film | France, Italy |
| The Yellow Balloon | J. Lee Thompson | — | — |
| Those People Next Door | John Harlow | — | — |
| Trouble Along the Way | Michael Curtiz | — | — |
| Tumbleweed | Nathan Juran | Western film | United States |
| Will Any Gentleman...? | Michael Anderson | — | — |
| Wings of the Hawk | Budd Boetticher | Western film | United States |
| Woman They Almost Lynched | Allan Dwan | drama film, Western film | United States |