| The Caddy | Norman Taurog | comedy film | United States |
| The Unknown Soldier | Edvin Laine | war film | Finland |
| The Hurdy-Gurdy | Alekos Sakellarios | comedy film | Greece |
| Karius og Baktus | Ivo Caprino | — | Norway |
| Rebel Without a Cause | Nicholas Ray | — | — |
| Barn av solen | Arne Skouen | — | — |
| As Long as You Live | Harald Reinl | drama film | Germany |
| Christ in Bronze | Minoru Shibuya | — | — |
| The Trouble with Harry | Alfred Hitchcock | crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, comedy thriller, crime thriller film, thriller film, black comedy film, crime film | United States |
| The Marauders | Gerald Mayer | Western film | United States |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Richard Fleischer | — | — |
| The Happy Village | Rudolf Schündler | comedy film | Germany |
| Women's Prison | Lewis Seiler | film noir, women in prison film, crime film | United States |
| Meoto zenzai | Shirō Toyoda | drama film | Japan |
| Shree 420 | Raj Kapoor | romance film, drama film, comedy film | India |
| Francis in the Navy | Arthur Lubin | fantasy film, comedy film | United States |
| Princess Mary | Isidore Annenski | — | — |
| The Dance Hall | Börje Larsson | music-themed film, drama film | Sweden |
| Untamed | Henry King | romance film, drama film, adventure film | United States |
| Land of the Pharaohs | Howard Hawks, Paul Helmick | drama film | United States |
| The Grasshopper | Samson Samsonov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Non-chan Kumo ni Noru | Fumindo Kurata | — | — |
| Battle Cry | Raoul Walsh | romance film, drama film | United States |
| The Catered Affair | Richard Brooks | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Nadezhda | Sergei Gerasimov | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Crossroad of Events | Samuel Khachikian | drama film | Iran |
| Der kom en dag | Sven Methling | war film | Denmark |
| Savnet siden mandag | Sigval Maartmann-Moe, Tancred Ibsen | drama film, crime film | Norway |
| Trost i taklampa | Erik Borge | comedy film | Norway |
| Floating Clouds | Mikio Naruse | drama film | Japan |
| 24-Hour Alert | Robert M. Leeds | — | United States |
| A Hero of Our Times | Mario Monicelli | comedy film | Italy |
| A Hole of My Own Making | Tomu Uchida | — | — |
| A Prize of Gold | Mark Robson | drama film, heist film | United Kingdom |
| Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops | Charles Lamont | comedy film, crossover fiction, parody film | United States |
| Anarkali | Vedantam Raghavaiah | — | — |
| Apache Ambush | Fred F. Sears | — | — |
| Azaad | S. M. Sriramulu Naidu | — | — |
| Caught and Held Fast... | Armand Lohikoski | — | Finland |
| Chico Viola Não Morreu | Román Viñoly Barreto | — | — |
| Cindy Goes To A Party | Herk Harvey | — | — |
| City of Shadows | William Witney | crime film | United States |
| Conquest of Space | Byron Haskin | drama film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film | United States |
| Das Fräulein von Scuderi | Eugen York | mystery film, drama film | East Germany, Germany, Sweden |
| Der Teufel vom Mühlenberg | Herbert Ballmann | cinematic fairy tale, children's film | East Germany, Germany |
| Don Camillo's Last Round | Carmine Gallone | comedy film | France, Italy |
| Duel on the Mississippi | William Castle | adventure film | United States |
| Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse | Kurt Maetzig | war film, biographical film | East Germany, Germany |
| Female on the Beach | Joseph Pevney | — | — |
| Five Guns West | Roger Corman | Western film | United States |
| Foxfire | Joseph Pevney | comedy drama | United States |
| Good Times, Money and Love | Nikos Tsiforos | comedy film | Greece |
| Harishchandra | Antony Mitradas | — | — |
| House No. 44 | M.K. Burman | crime film | India |
| I Cover the Underworld | R. G. Springsteen | detective film, crime film | United States |
| Josephine and Men | Roy Boulting | — | — |
| Keisatsu Nikki | Seiji Hisamatsu | drama film | Japan |
| Khoon va sharaf | Samuel Khachikian | drama film, war film, crime film | Iran |
| Killer's Kiss | Stanley Kubrick | — | — |
| La rossa | Luigi Capuano | drama film | Italy |
| Le ragazze di San Frediano | Valerio Zurlini | romantic comedy | Italy |
| Les Hussards | Alex Joffé | comedy film | France |
| Little Jole | Nikša Fulgosi | comedy film | Yugoslavia |
| Little Red Monkey | Ken Hughes | — | — |
| Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | Henry King | — | — |
| Love Makeup | Ishirō Honda | — | — |
| Love Never Dies | Luis César Amadori | — | — |
| Lucy Gallant | Robert Parrish | — | — |
| Magic Fire | William Dieterle | — | — |
| Man Without a Star | King Vidor | Western film | United States |
| Men of Blue Cross | Andrzej Munk | drama film | Poland |
| Odoru ryū kyūjō | Yasushi Sasaki | — | — |
| Oklahoma! | Fred Zinnemann | musical film | United States |
| One Desire | Jerry Hopper | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Pearl of the South Pacific | Allan Dwan | adventure film | United States |
| Raising a Riot | Wendy Toye | — | — |
| Rakas lurjus | Toivo Särkkä | comedy film | Finland |
| Rififi | Jules Dassin | drama film, film noir, thriller film, heist film, crime film | France |
| Road to Life | Oleksiy Maslyukov | — | — |
| Springtime Frost | Pavel Armand | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Storm Over the Nile | Zoltan Korda | — | — |
| Switzerland | Ben Sharpsteen | documentary film | United States |
| The Adventures of Quentin Durward | Richard Thorpe | swashbuckler film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Belle of Rome | Luigi Comencini | comedy film | Italy |
| The Cockleshell Heroes | José Ferrer | war film | United Kingdom |
| The Drummer's Fate | Viktor Eisymont | — | — |
| The Gilded Cage | John Gilling | — | — |
| The Glass Cage | Montgomery Tully | — | — |
| The Glass Slipper | Charles Walters | romance film, fantasy film, musical film | United States |
| The Looters | Abner Biberman | adventure film | United States |
| The Lyons in Paris | Val Guest | — | — |
| The McConnell Story | Gordon Douglas | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| The Miller's Beautiful Wife | Mario Camerini | comedy film, romantic comedy | Italy |
| The Night Holds Terror | Andrew L. Stone | drama film, film noir | United States |
| The Prodigal | Richard Thorpe | — | — |
| The renowned Prince Arsalan | Shapur Yasemi | — | — |
| The Scarlet Coat | John Sturges | drama film, action film, adventure film, war film | United States |
| The Sea Chase | John Farrow | — | — |
| The Seven Year Itch | Billy Wilder | comedy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| The Ship That Died of Shame | Basil Dearden | — | — |
| The Shrike | José Ferrer | drama film | United States |
| The Sign of Venus | Dino Risi | romantic comedy | Italy |
| The White Angel | Raffaello Matarazzo | drama film | Italy |
| Thunderstorm | John Guillermin | — | — |
| To a New Shore | Leonid Lukov | — | Soviet Union |
| To Paris with Love | Robert Hamer | romantic comedy | United Kingdom |
| Toto in Hell | Camillo Mastrocinque | comedy film | Italy |
| We're No Angels | Michael Curtiz | comedy film, Christmas film, crime film | United States |
| Why Vandalism? | — | — | — |
| Åsa-Nisse ordnar allt | Ragnar Frisk | comedy film | Sweden |