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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Confidential | Phil Karlson | John Payne, Coleen Gray | Film noir | United Artists |
| Kid Monk Baroni | Harold D. Schuster | Bruce Cabot, Leonard Nimoy | Drama | |
| The Las Vegas Story | Robert Stevenson | Jane Russell, Vincent Price | Film noir | RKO Pictures |
| Limelight | Charles Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom | Comedy | United Artists |
| Little Runaway | Hanna Barbera | Tom and Jerry | Animated short | MGM |
| Lone Star | Vincent Sherman | Clark Gable, Ava Gardner | Western | MGM |
| Lost in Alaska | Jean Yarbrough | Abbott and Costello | Comedy | Universal Pictures |
| The Lusty Men | Nicholas Ray, Robert Parrish | Robert Mitchum, Susan Hayward | Western | RKO Pictures |
| Macao | Josef von Sternberg, Nicholas Ray | Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Gloria Grahame | Film noir | RKO Pictures |
| Madeline | Animated short | from United Productions of America | ||
| Magical Maestro | Tex Avery | Animated short | MGM | |
| The Marrying Kind | George Cukor | Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray | Comedy | Columbia Pictures |
| The Member of the Wedding | Fred Zinnemann | Julie Harris, Ethel Waters | Drama | Based on 1946 novel |
| The Merry Widow | Curtis Bernhardt | Fernando Lamas, Lana Turner | Musical | MGM |
| Million Dollar Mermaid | Mervyn LeRoy | Victor Mature, Esther Williams | Biopic, musical | Based on life of Annette Kellerman |
| The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima | John Brahm | Gilbert Roland | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Les Misérables | Lewis Milestone | Michael Rennie, Robert Newton | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Monkey Business | Howard Hawks | Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe | Screwball comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| Montana Belle | Allan Dwan | Jane Russell, George Brent | Western | |
| My Cousin Rachel | Henry Koster | Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton | Mystery | 20th Century Fox |
| My Pal Gus | Robert Parrish | Richard Widmark, Joanne Dru | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| My Six Convicts | Hugo Fregonese | Gilbert Roland, Millard Mitchell | Comedy | |
| The Narrow Margin | Richard Fleischer | Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor | Film noir | RKO Pictures |
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