| Two Fyodors | Marlen Khutsiev | — | — |
 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | Nathan Juran | monster film, fantasy film, children's film, adventure film, medieval film | United States |
| Lake of the Dead | Kåre Bergstrøm | horror film, ghost film | Norway |
 A Night to Remember | Roy Ward Baker | — | — |
| Dunkirk | Leslie Norman | drama film, war film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Mrs. Midwife | Alekos Sakellarios | comedy film | Greece |
| The Buccaneer | Anthony Quinn | romance film, pirate film, adventure film | United States |
| Arms and the Man | Franz Peter Wirth | romantic comedy film | Germany |
| Poem of the Sea | Yuliya Solntseva | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Kiev Resident | Timofei Levchuk | historical film, war film | Soviet Union |
| A Certain Smile | Jean Negulesco | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Otaraant Kvrivi | Mikheil Chiaureli | — | — |
| Pather Panchali | Satyajit Ray | — | — |
| Kadan Vaangi Kalyaanam | L. V. Prasad | comedy film | India |
 Revenge of the Creature | Jack Arnold | romance film, science fiction horror film, romantic horror film, drama film, monster film, action film, horror film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Richard Brooks | — | — |
 The Bonnie Parker Story | William Witney | — | — |
| Man in the River | Eugen York | drama film, crime film | Germany |
| Flaming Frontier | Sam Newfield | — | United States |
| The Inn in Front of the Train Station | Shirō Toyoda | — | Japan |
 The Vikings | Richard Fleischer | drama film, action film, swashbuckler film, medieval film, epic film | United States |
 Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | — | — |
| Thunder Road | Arthur Ripley | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Mister Iks | Yuly Khmelnitsky | — | — |
 Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur | drama film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Pazukhin's Death | Grigori Nikulin | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Les Misérables | Jean-Paul Le Chanois | drama film | France, East Germany, Italy |
| The Girl Without an Address | Eldar Ryazanov | romantic comedy film | Soviet Union |
 The Communist | Yuli Raizman | — | — |
| Elias rekefisker | Jan Erik Düring | — | — |
| Eroica | Andrzej Munk | — | — |
| A sablazo limpio | Fernando Cortés | — | — |
| A Slope in the Sun | Tomotaka Tasaka | — | — |
| A Woman Who Knows What She Wants | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | — | — |
 Attack of the 50 Foot Woman | Nathan Juran | — | — |
| Behind a Long Wall | Lucas Demare | drama film | Argentina |
| Bonjour Tristesse | Otto Preminger | — | — |
| Carve Her Name with Pride | Lewis Gilbert | drama film, spy film | United Kingdom |
 Damn Yankees | George Abbott | — | — |
| Day of the Badman | Harry Keller | Western film | United States |
| Driver Involuntarily | Nadezhda Kosheverova | — | — |
| Fiend Without a Face | Arthur Crabtree | monster film, horror film, science fiction film | United Kingdom |
 Invention for Destruction | Karel Zeman | fantasy film, pirate film, live-action/animated film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States, Czechoslovakia |
| Kurenai no tsubasa | Kō Nakahira | — | — |
| Kyōen Kobanzame | Nobuo Nakagawa | — | — |
| La mina | Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Giuseppe Bennati | drama film | Italy |
| La nipote Sabella | Giorgio Bianchi | comedy film | Italy |
| Le Dos au mur | Édouard Molinaro | comedy drama | France |
| Los legionarios | Agustín P. Delgado | — | — |
 Man of the West | Anthony Mann | Western film | United States |
| Murder at Site 3 | Francis Searle | crime film | United Kingdom |
| Música de siempre | Tito Davison | musical film | Mexico |
| Na dorogakh vojny | Lev Saakov | — | — |
| Nichiren to Mōko Daishūrai | Kunio Watanabe | war film | Japan |
| Občan Brych | Otakar Vávra | — | — |
| Oleko Dundich | Leonid Lukov | — | — |
| Once Upon a Horse... | Hal Kanter | Western film | United States |
| Playing on the Rainbow | Lars-Eric Kjellgren | — | Sweden |
| Resurrection | Rolf Hansen | drama film | France, Germany, Italy |
| Ride a Crooked Trail | Jesse Hibbs | Western film | United States |
| Rock-A-Bye Baby | Frank Tashlin | musical film | United States |
| Rusty Knife | Toshio Masuda | — | — |
 Schmutziger Engel | Alfred Vohrer | drama film | Germany |
| Separate Tables | Delbert Mann | romance film, drama film, film noir | United States |
 Sheba and the Gladiator | Guido Brignone, Michelangelo Antonioni, Riccardo Freda | historical film | France, Italy |
| Soldiers' Girls | Kiyoshi Komori | — | — |
| South of the City | Farrokh Ghaffari | — | Iran |
| Stage Struck | Sidney Lumet | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Stefanie | Josef von Báky | romance film, comedy film | Germany |
 Teacher's Pet | George Seaton | romantic comedy film | United States |
| The Badlanders | Delmer Daves | heist film | United States |
| The Ballad of Narayama | Keisuke Kinoshita | drama film | Japan |
| The Barbarian and the Geisha | John Huston | drama film, adventure film | United States |
| The Boss | Fernando Ayala | — | — |
| The Day the Sky Exploded | Paolo Heusch | — | — |
| The Deep Six | Rudolph Maté | drama film, war film | United States |
| The Flame Barrier | Paul Landres | science fiction film | United States |
| The H-Man | Ishirō Honda | horror film, science fiction film | Japan |
| The High Cost of Loving | José Ferrer | comedy film | United States |
 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness | Mark Robson | drama film, war film, biographical film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Kidnapper | Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | drama film | Argentina |
| The Last of the Fast Guns | George Sherman | Western film | United States |
 The Law | Jules Dassin | drama film | France, United States, Italy |
| The Law and Jake Wade | John Sturges | Western film | United States |
| The Man Inside | John Gilling | — | — |
| The Man Who Couldn't Say No | Kurt Früh | comedy film | Denmark, Switzerland |
| The Man Who Rode the Typhoon | Koreyoshi Kurahara | — | — |
| The Motherless Ones | Jack Witikka | comedy film | Finland |
 The Reluctant Debutante | Vincente Minnelli | romantic comedy | United States |
 The Roots of Heaven | John Huston | drama film, adventure film | United States |
| The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw | Raoul Walsh | — | — |
| The Snowy Heron | Teinosuke Kinugasa | — | — |
| The Space Children | Jack Arnold, Bernard C. Schoenfeld, William Alland | science fiction film | United States |
| The Stowaway | Ralph Habib, Lee Robinson | drama film | France, Australia |
 The Young Lions | Edward Dmytryk | drama film, war film | United States |
| Torpedo Run | Joseph Pevney | — | — |
| Twilight for the Gods | Joseph Pevney | — | — |
| Villa!! | James B. Clark | Western film | United States |
| Voennaya tayna | Mechislava Mayevskaya | — | Soviet Union |
| Voice in the Mirror | Harry Keller | drama film, film noir | United States |
| We Have Only One Life | Giorgos Tzavellas | comedy film | Greece |
| Zesshō | Eisuke Takizawa | — | — |
| Åsa-Nisse i kronans kläder | Ragnar Frisk | comedy film | Sweden |