| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Scheming Schemers | Jules White | Three Stooges | Short | Columbia |
| Screaming Eagles | Charles F. Haas | Tom Tryon, Martin Milner | War | Allied Artists |
| The Searchers | John Ford | John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Ken Curtis, Natalie Wood | Western | Warner Bros.; voted best American western |
| Serenade | Anthony Mann | Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sara Montiel | Musical | Warner Bros. |
| Seven Men from Now | Budd Boetticher | Randolph Scott, Lee Marvin | Western | Warner Bros. |
| Seven Wonders of the World | Tay Garnett & others | Lowell Thomas | Documentary | |
| Shake, Rattle & Rock! | Edward L. Cahn | Mike Connors, Lisa Gaye | Musical | A.I.P. |
| The She-Creature | Edward L. Cahn | Marla English, Chester Morris | Sci-fi | A.I.P. |
| Singing in the Dark | Max Nosseck | Moishe Oysher, Joey Adams | Drama | |
| Slander | Roy Rowland | Van Johnson, Ann Blyth | Drama | MGM |
| Slightly Scarlet | Allan Dwan | John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl | Film noir | RKO |
| The Solid Gold Cadillac | Richard Quine | Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas | Comedy | Columbia |
| Somebody Up There Likes Me | Robert Wise | Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Sal Mineo | Drama, Biography | story of Rocky Graziano; won two Oscars |
| The Square Jungle | Jerry Hopper | Tony Curtis, Patricia Crowley, Ernest Borgnine | Sports drama | Universal |
| Star in the Dust | Charles F. Haas | John Agar, Mamie Van Doren, Richard Boone | Western | Universal |
| Storm Center | Daniel Taradash | Bette Davis, Brian Keith, Kim Hunter | Drama | Columbia |
| Strange Intruder | Irving Rapper | Ida Lupino, Edmund Purdom | Drama | |
| The Swan | Charles Vidor | Grace Kelly, Louis Jourdan, Alec Guinness | Romance | MGM; remake of 1925 film |
| Tea and Sympathy | Vincente Minnelli | Deborah Kerr, John Kerr | Drama | MGM; based on the play |
| The Teahouse of the August Moon | Daniel Mann | Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford | Comedy | MGM; based on the play |
| Teenage Rebel | Edmund Goulding | Ginger Rogers, Michael Rennie | Drama | 2 Oscar nominations |
| The Ten Commandments | Cecil B. DeMille | Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Edward G. Robinson, Anne Baxter, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Vincent Price, Nina Foch | Biblical epic | remake of 1923 film; 7 Oscar nominations; DeMille's final film; 219 minutes |
| Tension at Table Rock | Charles Marquis Warren | Dorothy Malone, Richard Egan | Western | |
| That Certain Feeling | Melvin Frank | Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, Pearl Bailey, George Sanders, Jerry Mathers | Comedy | Paramount |
| There's Always Tomorrow | Douglas Sirk | Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, Patricia Crowley | Melodrama | Universal |
| These Wilder Years | Roy Rowland | James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck | Drama | |
| Three Brave Men | Philip Dunne | Ray Milland, Ernest Borgnine, Nina Foch | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Time Table | Mark Stevens | Mark Stevens, Felicia Farr | Film noir | United Artists |
| Timid Tabby | Hanna-Barbera | Tom and Jerry | Animation | MGM |
| Tom's Photo Finish | Hanna-Barbera | Tom and Jerry | Animation | MGM |
| Toward the Unknown | Mervyn LeRoy | William Holden, Virginia Leith | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| The Toy Tiger | Jerry Hopper | Laraine Day | Comedy | Universal |
| Trapeze | Carol Reed | Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez | Drama | United Artists; Silver Bear award for Lancaster |
| Tribute to a Bad Man | Robert Wise | James Cagney, Stephen McNally, Irene Papas | Western | MGM |
| Uranium Boom | William Castle | Dennis Morgan, William Talman | Drama | |
| The Violent Years | William Morgan | Jean Moorhead | Crime | |
| War and Peace | King Vidor | Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom | Drama | Paramount; based on Leo Tolstoy novel |
| The Werewolf | Fred F. Sears | Steven Ritch | Horror | Columbia |
| Westward Ho the Wagons! | William Beaudine | Fess Parker | Western | Disney |
| While the City Sleeps | Fritz Lang | Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Ida Lupino, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders | Film noir | RKO Pictures |
| Wideo Wabbit | | Bugs Bunny | Animation | |
| A Woman's Devotion | Paul Henreid | Janice Rule, Ralph Meeker | Film noir | Republic |
| World Without End | Edward Bernds | Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates | Science fiction | Universal |
| Written on the Wind | Douglas Sirk | Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone | Drama | Universal; Oscar for Malone |
| The Wrong Man | Alfred Hitchcock | Henry Fonda, Vera Miles | Film noir | Warner Bros. |
| X the Unknown | Leslie Norman | Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman | Sci-fi | |
| You Can't Run Away from It | Dick Powell | June Allyson, Jack Lemmon, Charles Bickford | Musical | Columbia |