| Night of the Quarter Moon | Hugo Haas | romance film, drama film |
 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | Nathan Juran | monster film, fantasy film, children's film, adventure film, medieval film |
| Dunkirk | Leslie Norman | drama film, war film |
| The Buccaneer | Anthony Quinn | romance film, pirate film, adventure film |
| A Certain Smile | Jean Negulesco | romance film, drama film |
 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 |
| Flaming Frontier | Sam Newfield | — |
 The Vikings | Richard Fleischer | drama film, action film, swashbuckler film, medieval film, epic film |
| Thunder Road | Arthur Ripley | drama film, crime film |
 Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur | drama film, film noir, crime film |
 The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | drama film, war film |
| Back from the Dead | Charles Marquis Warren | horror film |
 Stalag 17 | Billy Wilder | drama film, comedy film, Christmas film, war film |
 While the City Sleeps | Fritz Lang | film noir |
 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Fritz Lang | drama film, film noir |
| Davy Crockett and the River Pirates | Norman Foster | pirate film, biographical film |
 Forbidden Planet | Fred M. Wilcox | drama film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film |
 The Man Who Never Was | Ronald Neame | drama film, war film |
 Blood Alley | William A. Wellman | action film, adventure film |
 There's Always Tomorrow | Douglas Sirk | romance film, drama film |
| The Littlest Outlaw | Roberto Gavaldón | drama film, adventure film |
| Guys and Dolls | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | comedy film, musical film, crime film |
 East of Eden | Elia Kazan | romance film, drama film |
 The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing | Richard Fleischer | romance film, drama film, biographical film, crime film |
| Untamed | Henry King | romance film, drama film, adventure film |
 Blackboard Jungle | Richard Brooks | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film |
| Drums Across the River | Nathan Juran | Western film, action film |
| The Invasion of the Letter People | DeShawn Bankert, François Bankert, Benoit Bankert, Claire Bankert, Caroline Bankert, Francine Bankert, Madeleine Bankert, Fernand Bankert, Odette Bankert, Vivienne Bankert, Melvin Bankert | musical film |
| Texas Li'l Darlin' | Claire Bankert | musical film |
| St. Louis Woman | DeShawn Bankert | musical film |
| Ricochet Romance | Charles Lamont | Western film |
 A Star Is Born | George Cukor | romance film, drama film, musical film |
| The Black Dakotas | Ray Nazarro | Western film |
 The Egyptian | Michael Curtiz | drama film |
| The Blue Paradise | François Bankert | musical film |
| Above and Beyond | Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | drama film, biographical film |
| Playgirl | Joseph Pevney | drama film, film noir |
 Creature from the Black Lagoon | Jack Arnold | science fiction horror film, suspense film, monster film, action film, horror film, adventure film, science fiction film |
| Hondo | John Farrow | Western film |
 Shane | George Stevens | romance film, drama film, Western film |
| The Sword and the Rose | Ken Annakin | swashbuckler film, adventure film, biographical film |
 Lili | Charles Walters | romance film, drama film, musical film |
| The Charge at Feather River | Gordon Douglas | Western film |
 Operation Pacific | George Waggner | war film |
| Melody | Ward Kimball, Charles August Nichols | musical film |
 Against All Flags | George Sherman | pirate film, adventure film |
 The Bad and the Beautiful | Vincente Minnelli | drama film, flashback film |
 High Noon | Fred Zinnemann | Western film, revisionist Western |