| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Calendar Girl | Allan Dwan | Jane Frazee, Gail Patrick | Comedy | Republic Pictures |
| Captain from Castile | Henry King | Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero | Historical | 20th Century Fox |
| Carnegie Hall | Edgar G. Ulmer | Marsha Hunt, William Prince | Musical | |
| Carnival in Costa Rica | Gregory Ratoff | Vera-Ellen, Dick Haymes | | 20th Century Fox |
| Cass Timberlane | George Sidney | Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner | Drama | MGM |
| Cat Fishin' | | | Animated | |
| Cheyenne | Raoul Walsh | Jane Wyman, Dennis Morgan | Western | Warner Bros. |
| Christmas Eve | Edwin L. Marin | George Raft, Randolph Scott, Joan Blondell | Comedy | United Artists |
| Code of the West | William A. Burke | Steve Brodie, James Warren | Western | |
| Crossfire | Edward Dmytryk | Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan | Film noir | RKO; 5 Academy Award nominations |
| Curley | Bernard Carr | Billy Gray | Comedy | |
| Daisy Kenyon | Otto Preminger | Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Dangerous Years | Arthur Pierson | Billy Halop | Comedy | |
| Dark Passage | Delmer Daves | Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall | Film noir | Warner Bros. |
| Dead Reckoning | John Cromwell | Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott | Film noir | Columbia |
| Deep Valley | Jean Negulesco | Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Fay Bainter | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Desert Fury | Lewis Allen | Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster | Drama | Paramount |
| Desperate | Anthony Mann | Steve Brodie, Raymond Burr | Drama | RKO |
| The Devil Thumbs a Ride | Felix E. Feist | Lawrence Tierney | Drama | |
| Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome | John Rawlins | Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne, Boris Karloff | Thriller | RKO; based on comic strip |
| Don't Be a Sucker! | | | Propaganda | |
| A Double Life | George Cukor | Ronald Colman, Shelley Winters | Drama | Universal |
| Down to Earth | Alexander Hall | Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks | Fantasy | Sequel to Here Comes Mr. Jordan |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse | | | Animated | |
| Dreams That Money Can Buy | Hans Richter | Jack Bittner | Experimental | |
| Easter Yeggs | | | Animated | |
| The Egg and I | Chester Erskine | Fred MacMurray, Claudette Colbert | Comedy | Universal |
| Escape Me Never | Peter Godfrey | Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| The Exile | Max Ophüls | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Maria Montez, Rita Corday | Adventure | Universal |
| The Fabulous Dorseys | Alfred E. Green | Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey | Biopic | |
| The Fabulous Joe | Harve Foster | Walter Abel, Marie Wilson | Comedy | United Artists |
| The Farmer's Daughter | H. C. Potter | Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten | Comedy | RKO; Oscar for Young |
| Fear in the Night | Maxwell Shane | DeForest Kelley, Paul Kelly | Drama | |
| Fireworks | Kenneth Anger | | Experimental | |
| For the Love of Rusty | John Sturges | Tom Powers, Ann Doran | Family | |
| Forever Amber | Otto Preminger | Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, George Sanders | Drama | 20th Century Fox; based on the novel |
| The Foxes of Harrow | John M. Stahl | Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara | Adventure | 20th Century Fox |
| Framed | Richard Wallace | Glenn Ford, Janis Carter | Suspense | Columbia |
| The Fugitive | John Ford | Henry Fonda, Dolores del Río, Pedro Armendáriz | Drama | RKO |
| Fun and Fancy Free | 4 directors | Edgar Bergen, Dinah Shore | Animated | |
| Gas House Kids Go West | William Beaudine | Emory Parnell, Vince Barnett | Comedy | PRC |
| Gas House Kids in Hollywood | Edward L. Cahn | Carl Switzer, Benny Bartlett | Comedy/Crime | PRC |
| Gentleman's Agreement | Elia Kazan | Gregory Peck, John Garfield, Dorothy McGuire, Celeste Holm, Jane Wyatt | Drama | Oscars for Kazan, Holm, Best Picture |
| The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison | Comedy | Fox; inspired TV series |
| Golden Earrings | Mitchell Leisen | Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich | Drama | |
| Good News | Charles Walters | June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Mel Tormé | Musical | MGM |
| Green Dolphin Street | Victor Saville | Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed | Drama | MGM |
| The Guilt of Janet Ames | Henry Levin | Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas | Drama | Columbia |
| The Guilty | John Reinhardt | Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Regis Toomey | Drama | Monogram |
| Half-Wits Holiday | Jules White | The Three Stooges | Comedy | |
| Hi-De-Ho | Josh Binney | Cab Calloway, Jeni Le Gon | Musical Drama | |
| High Barbaree | Jack Conway | Van Johnson, June Allyson | War | MGM |
| High Wall | Curtis Bernhardt | Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter | Crime drama | MGM |
| Hold That Lion! | Jules White | The Three Stooges | Comedy Short | |
| Honeymoon | William Keighley | Shirley Temple, Franchot Tone, Guy Madison | Melodrama | RKO |
| The Hucksters | Jack Conway | Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr | Drama | MGM |
| If Winter Comes | Victor Saville | Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr, Angela Lansbury | Drama | MGM |
| I'll Be Yours | William A. Seiter | Deanna Durbin, Tom Drake, William Bendix, Adolphe Menjou | Musical comedy | Universal |
| The Imperfect Lady | Lewis Allen | Ray Milland, Teresa Wright | Drama | Paramount |
| The Invisible Mouse | Hanna Barbera | | Animated | |
| It Had to Be You | Rudolph Maté | Ginger Rogers, Cornel Wilde | Comedy | Columbia |
| It Happened in Brooklyn | Richard Whorf | Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante | Comedy | MGM |
| It Happened on 5th Avenue | Roy Del Ruth | Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles | Comedy | Allied Artists |
| Jesse James Rides Again | F. Brannon, T. Carr | Clayton Moore | Western | Serial |
| Johnny O'Clock | Robert Rossen | Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb | Mystery | Columbia |
| Keeper of the Bees | John Sturges | Jane Darwell | Drama | |
| Killer Dill | Lewis D. Collins | Stuart Erwin, Anne Gwynne, Mike Mazurki | Crime comedy | Screen Guild |
| King-Size Canary | | | Animation | |
| Kiss of Death | Henry Hathaway | Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Richard Widmark | Film noir | 20th Century Fox; 2 Oscar nominations |
| The Lady from Shanghai | Orson Welles | Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles | Film noir | Columbia |
| Lady in the Lake | Robert Montgomery | Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter | Film noir | MGM; based on book by Raymond Chandler |
| The Late George Apley | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Ronald Colman | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| Law of the Lash | Ray Taylor | Lash LaRue, Al St. John, Lee Roberts | Western | |
| Life with Father | Michael Curtiz | William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor | Comedy | Warner Bros.; based on the book |
| A Likely Story | H. C. Potter | Barbara Hale, Bill Williams, Sam Levene | Comedy | RKO |
| Living in a Big Way | Gregory LaCava | Gene Kelly, Marie McDonald, Charles Winninger | Musical | MGM |
| The Long Night | Anatole Litvak | Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes | Film noir | RKO |
| Lost Honeymoon | Leigh Jason | Franchot Tone, Ann Richards | Comedy | Eagle-Lion |
| The Lost Moment | Martin Gabel | Susan Hayward, Robert Cummings | Drama | Universal |
| Love from a Stranger | Richard Whorf | John Hodiak, Sylvia Sidney | Drama | Eagle-Lion |
| Lured | Douglas Sirk | Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff | Film noir | United Artists |
| The Macomber Affair | Zoltan Korda | Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston | Drama | United Artists |
| Magic Town | William Wellman | James Stewart, Jane Wyman | Drama | RKO |
| The Man I Love | Raoul Walsh | Ida Lupino, Robert Alda | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| The Mighty McGurk | John Waters | Wallace Beery, Dean Stockwell | Drama | MGM |
| Miracle on 34th Street | George Seaton | Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood | Romantic comedy | 20th Century Fox; Oscars for Gwenn, screenplay |
| Monsieur Verdoux | Charles Chaplin | Charles Chaplin, Martha Raye, William Frawley | Comedy | United Artists |
| Moss Rose | Gregory Ratoff | Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore | Thriller | 20th Century Fox |
| Mother Wore Tights | Walter Lang | Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman | Musical | 20th Century Fox |
| Motion Painting No. 1 | | | Animation | |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | Dudley Nichols | Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave | Drama | RKO |
| A Mouse in the House | | | Animated | |
| My Favorite Brunette | Elliott Nugent | Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre | Comedy | Paramount |
| My Wild Irish Rose | David Butler | Dennis Morgan, Arlene Dahl, Andrea King | Musical | Warner Bros. |
| Nightmare Alley | Edmond Goulding | Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray | Film noir | 20th Century Fox; based on the book |
| Nora Prentiss | Vincent Sherman | Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Robert Alda | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Northwest Outpost | Allan Dwan | Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey | Musical | |
| Out of the Blue | Leigh Jason | Virginia Mayo, Ann Dvorak | Comedy | Eagle-Lion Films |
| Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur | Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Steve Brodie | Film noir | RKO |
| The Paradine Case | Alfred Hitchcock | Gregory Peck, Charles Laughton, Alida Valli, Ann Todd, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan | Drama | Selznick |
| Part Time Pal | | | Animation | |
| The Perils of Pauline | George Marshall | Betty Hutton, John Lund | Comedy | Paramount; based on Pearl White |
| A Pest in the House | | | Animation | |
| Pirates of Monterey | Alfred L. Werker | Maria Montez, Rod Cameron, Gilbert Roland | Adventure | Universal |
| Possessed | Curtis Bernhardt | Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey | Film noir | Warner Bros. |
| The Private Affairs of Bel Ami | Albert Lewin | George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak | Drama | United Artists |
| Pursued | Raoul Walsh | Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Queen of the Amazons | Edward Finney | Patricia Morison | Adventure | Screen Guild |
| Railroaded! | Anthony Mann | John Ireland, Hugh Beaumont | Drama | Eagle-Lion |
| Ramrod | André de Toth | Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Donald Crisp | Western | United Artists |
| The Red House | Delmer Daves | Edward G. Robinson | Thriller | United Artists |
| Repeat Performance | Alfred L. Werker | Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie | Drama | Eagle-Lion Films |
| Ride the Pink Horse | Robert Montgomery | Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix | Film noir | Universal |
| Riffraff | Ted Tetzlaff | Pat O'Brien, Walter Slezak | Film noir | RKO |
| Road to Rio | Norman Z. McLeod | Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour | Comedy | Paramount; 5th of series |
| The Romance of Rosy Ridge | Roy Rowland | Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh | Drama | MGM |
| Salt Water Tabby | | | Animated | |
| Scared to Death | Christy Cabanne | Bela Lugosi, George Zucco | Horror | |
| Scent-imental Over You | | | Animated | |
| The Sea of Grass | Elia Kazan | Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn | Western | MGM |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Norman Z. McLeod | Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo | Comedy | RKO; remade in 2013 |
| Seven Were Saved | William H. Pine | Richard Denning, Catherine Craig | Drama | |
| The Shocking Miss Pilgrim | George Seaton | Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Anne Revere | Musical | Fox |
| The Sin of Harold Diddlebock | Preston Sturges | Harold Lloyd | Comedy | Universal/RKO |
| Sinbad the Sailor | Richard Wallace | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Maureen O'Hara | Fantasy | RKO |
| Sing a Song of Six Pants | Jules White | The Three Stooges | Comedy Short | |
| Slick Hare | | | Animated | |
| Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman | Stuart Heisler | Susan Hayward, Eddie Albert | Drama | Universal; 2 Oscar nominations |
| Something in the Wind | Irving Pichel | Deanna Durbin, Donald O'Connor | Musical | Universal |
| Son of Zorro | | George Turner, Peggy Stewart | Serial | |
| Song of Scheherazade | Walter Reisch | Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden | Fantasy | Universal |
| Song of the Thin Man | Edward Buzzell | William Powell, Myrna Loy, Patricia Morison | Mystery | last of Thin Man series |
| Tarzan and the Huntress | Kurt Neumann | Johnny Weissmuller, Patricia Morison | Adventure | RKO |
| T-Men | Anthony Mann | Dennis O'Keefe | Crime drama | Eagle-Lion |
| That Hagen Girl | Peter Godfrey | Ronald Reagan, Shirley Temple | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| They Won't Believe Me | Irving Pichel | Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer | Drama | RKO |
| This Time for Keeps | Richard Thorpe | Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante | Comedy | MGM |
| Thunderbolt! | John Sturges, William Wyler | James Stewart | War documentary | Monogram |
| Trail Street | Ray Enright | Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan | Western | RKO |
| Tubby the Tuba | George Pal | | Animated | |
| Tweetie Pie | | | Animated | Warner Bros. |
| The Two Mrs. Carrolls | Peter Godfrey | Barbara Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Unconquered | Cecil B. DeMille | Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva | Adventure | Paramount |
| The Unfaithful | Vincent Sherman | Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| The Unsuspected | Michael Curtiz | Claude Rains, Audrey Totter | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Variety Girl | George Marshall | Various artists | Musical | Paramount |
| The Velvet Touch | Jack Gage | Rosalind Russell, Claire Trevor | Drama | RKO |
| The Vigilante | Wallace Fox | Ralph Byrd | Action | Serial |
| The Voice of the Turtle | Irving Rapper | Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| The Web | Michael Gordon | Vincent Price, Edmond O'Brien | Drama | Universal |
| Welcome Stranger | Elliott Nugent | Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield | Drama | Paramount |
| Whispering City | Fyodor Ostep | Paul Lukas, Helmut Dantine | Drama | Eagle-Lion |
| The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap | Charles Barton | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello | Comedy | Universal |
| The Woman on the Beach | Jean Renoir | Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford | Film noir | RKO |
| Wyoming | Joseph Kane | Wild Bill Elliott, Vera Ralston | Western | Republic |