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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scheming Schemers | Jules White | Three Stooges | Comedy | Columbia Pictures |
| The Searchers | John Ford | John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles | Western | Warner Bros. |
| 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. |
| Singing in the Dark | Max Nosseck | Moyshe Oysher, Joey Adams | Drama | |
| Slightly Scarlet | Allan Dwan | John Payne, Arlene Dahl | Film Noir | RKO Pictures |
| The Solid Gold Cadillac | Richard Quine | Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas | Comedy | |
| Somebody Up There Likes Me | Robert Wise | Paul Newman | Drama, Biopic | story of Rocky Graziano |
| Star in the Dust | Charles F. Haas | John Agar, Mamie Van Doren, Richard Boone | Western | |
| The Swan | Charles Vidor | Grace Kelly, Louis Jourdan, Alec Guinness | Romance | MGM |
| Tea and Sympathy | Vincente Minnelli | Deborah Kerr, John Kerr | Drama | MGM |
| The Teahouse of the August Moon | Daniel Mann | Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford | War | MGM |
| 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 |
| That Certain Feeling | Melvin Frank | Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, Pearl Bailey | Comedy | Paramount |
| There's Always Tomorrow | Douglas Sirk | Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett | Melodrama | |
| 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, Lloyd Nolan | Drama | |
| Trapeze | Carol Reed | Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez | Drama | |
| The Violent Years | William Morgan | Jean Moorhead | Crime | |
| War and Peace | King Vidor | Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer | Drama | based on Leo Tolstoy novel |
| The Werewolf | Fred F. Sears | Steven Ritch | Horror | Columbia Pictures |
| While the City Sleeps | Fritz Lang | Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Ida Lupino | Film Noir | RKO Pictures |
| Wideo Wabbit | Bugs Bunny | Animation | ||
| World Without End | Edward Bernds | Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates | Science Fiction | Universal Pictures |
| Written on the Wind | Douglas Sirk | Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall | Drama | Universal Pictures |
| The Wrong Man | Alfred Hitchcock | Henry Fonda, Vera Miles | Film noir | Warner Bros. |
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