| På en bänk i en park | Hasse Ekman | drama film, crime film | Sweden |
| Petter fra Ruskøy | Nils R. Müller | children's film | Norway |
| The Queen of Spades | Roman Tikhomirov | drama film, opera film, historical drama | Soviet Union |
| Ten Who Dared | William Beaudine | Western film | United States |
 Spartacus | Stanley Kubrick | romance film, historical drama film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film, historical film, action film, war film, biographical film, epic film | United States |
| A Simple Story | Yuri Yegorov | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Baltic Skies | Vladimir Vengerov | drama film, historical film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Of Things Supernatural | Jaroslav Mach, Miloš Makovec, Jiří Krejčík | comedy film, anthology film | Czechoslovakia |
| 13 Ghosts | William Castle | mystery film, horror film, ghost film, supernatural horror film | United States |
| Take a Giant Step | Philip Leacock | coming-of-age film, drama film, film based on a literary work | United States |
 Bells Are Ringing | Vincente Minnelli | musical film, romantic comedy | United States |
 House of Usher | Roger Corman | gothic horror film, horror film, Gothic film | United States |
| Village of the Damned | Wolf Rilla | horror film, science fiction film | United Kingdom |
| The Sign of Zorro | Lewis R. Foster, Norman Foster | swashbuckler film | United States |
| Crane Song | Nina Aleksandrovna Anisimova, Oleg Nikolayevsky, Eduard Pentslin | drama film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Daughters, Wives and a Mother | Mikio Naruse | drama film | Japan |
| Pollyanna | David Swift | romance film, drama film, comedy film, children's film, comedy drama | United States |
| Dead Souls | Leonid Trauberg | comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Ballad of a Soldier | Grigori Chukhrai | romance film, drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
 The Fugitive Kind | Sidney Lumet | drama film | United States |
 Sweetheart of the Gods | Gottfried Reinhardt | drama film, biographical film, musical film | Germany |
| Watusi | Kurt Neumann | fantasy film | United States |
 Violent Summer | Valerio Zurlini | romance film, drama film, war film | France, Italy |
| Visit to a Small Planet | Norman Taurog | science fiction film | United States |
| Struggle for Eagle Peak | Tancred Ibsen | drama film, crime film | Norway |
 The Nun's Story | Fred Zinnemann | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| The Wandering Princess | Kinuyo Tanaka | romance film, drama film | Japan |
 All the Fine Young Cannibals | Michael Anderson | romance film, drama film, musical film | United States |
| Beloved Augustin | Rolf Thiele | romance film, comedy film | Germany |
| Bonchi | Kon Ichikawa | drama film | Japan |
| Calm Before the Storm | Khosrow Parvizi | — | Iran |
| Cheshmehe oshaq | Samad Sabahi | — | Iran |
 Cimarron | Anthony Mann, Charles Walters | Western film | United States |
| Conspiracy of Hearts | Ralph Thomas | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Dos tipos con suerte | Miguel Morayta | comedy film | Argentina |
| Farewell, Doves | Yakov Segel | romance film, teen film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Husband of His Wife | Jakub Goldberg, Stanisław Bareja | comedy film | Poland |
| Interrupted Song | Frantisek Zácek, Nikoloz Sanishvili | romance film, war film | Georgian SSR, Czechoslovakia |
| Irumbu Thirai | S. S. Vasan | — | India |
| Jagannatakam | — | — | India |
| Jazz Boat | Ken Hughes | musical film | United Kingdom |
| Kala Bazar | Vijay Anand | musical film | India |
| Kalathur Kannamma | A. Bhimsingh | romance film, drama film | India |
 L'Avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | drama film | France, Italy |
 Liu Sanjie | Su Li | — | People's Republic of China |
| Mahallada duv-duv gap | Shuhrat Abbosov | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Majeraye Parvin | Mehdi Besharatian | — | Iran |
| Make Mine Mink | Robert Asher | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Never Take Sweets from a Stranger | Cyril Frankel | drama film | United Kingdom |
 Night and Fog in Japan | Nagisa Ōshima | drama film | Japan |
| Paranoiac | Freddie Francis | horror film | United Kingdom |
| Roman i Francheska | Volodymyr Denysenko | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Sands of the Desert | John Paddy Carstairs | adventure film | United Kingdom |
| Seven Ways from Sundown | Harry Keller | Western film | United States |
| Shoot the Piano Player | François Truffaut | drama film, film noir, neo-noir, comedy drama, crime film | France |
| Song Without End | Charles Vidor, George Cukor | romance film, drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Take Aim at the Police Van | Seijun Suzuki | — | Japan |
| The Hole | Jacques Becker | drama film, prison film, crime film | France, Italy |
| The Last Desire | Mehdi AmirGhasem Khani | — | Iran |
| The Last Voyage | Andrew L. Stone | drama film, disaster film | United States |
 The Little Shop of Horrors | Roger Corman | science fiction horror film, comedy horror film, natural horror film, monster film, comedy film, horror film, independent film, science fiction film, black comedy film | United States |
| The Millionairess | Anthony Asquith | romantic comedy | United Kingdom |
| The Moor of Venice | Vakhtang Chabukiani | ballet film | Soviet Union |
 The Passionate Thief | Mario Monicelli | comedy film | Italy |
 Two Women | Vittorio De Sica | drama film, war film | France, Italy |
| Uncle Martino | — | — | Australia |
| Vyšší princip | Jiří Krejčík | drama film, war film | Czechoslovakia |
| Černá sobota | Miroslav Hubáček | drama film, crime film | Czechoslovakia |